Spade has implemented a methodological and technological solution called Minotaure. This enables us to envisage an economic ecosystem that stimulates innovation, growth and the development of skills, both internally (our employees) and externally (our customers, who benefit).

More concretely, having already tested this approach for several years, we can see the following benefits:

• The versioning of our tools means we can keep a tight rein on our various investments. Optimisation of resources in line with reality, but above all with a view to long-term development (we’re not developing an approach for a project today, but for projects today and tomorrow).
• Calibrate customer and market needs against a timeline of evolving methodological and technological solutions. More concretely: how do you frame a specific customer request? Should we reinvent the wheel? Should we adapt a feature? Create a new one, or put it on the Spade tools application development roadmap? These are just some of the questions that drive our internal thinking in terms of resources and development.
• Developing skills around the tool: the team is now capable of developing a tool, its documentation, its design system and its knowledge base. All new employees and/or trainees follow a skills development cycle.

Spade has always applied the basic ethical concepts of transparency and responsibility to its canvassing. This can’t always be done in a short, simple way, with a quotation quickly turning into an exhaustive explanation of the scope of intervention (rights and duties).

It’s in our DNA: to make things clear, to explain, to make people aware of their responsibilities. And above all, to develop, together, long-term collaborations that can only be based on a high level of trust, and therefore on transparency and reciprocity.