Crisp DNA
A Home for IT Consultants who Value Community, Freedom, Competence, Good Citizenship, Professionalism.
What we're about
Crisp is a consulting company based in Stockholm, Sweden. But we aren’t a very typical consulting company. For example:
- None of the 35+ consultants are actually employed by Crisp (although we do have a few employed office staff).
- We have no managers, not even a CEO. Instead we rely on self-organization and transparency. Almost everything is bottom-up, and anyone can drive any decision.
- Crisp’s main purpose is to enable consultants to be happy, and Crisp Happiness Index is our driving metric. Strong revenue and delighted customers are a side effect, not a goal.
- Crisp doesn’t want to earn money from it’s consultants. It is in practice a non-profit company (although not formally so). Consultants keep most of what they earn.
- Our ownership model is designed to keep our stock financially worthless. There is no incentive to “cash in”.
- Consultants are 100% autonomous. They can do whatever they want (as long as they don’t hurt the brand or our house), and work as much or as little as they want.
Basically, we’re trying to find the magic balance between being an independent consultant (full freedom, no support), and being an employee (little freedom, lots of support).
In geek-terms, Crisp is a “runtime environment for consultants” :o)
- None of the 35+ consultants are actually employed by Crisp (although we do have a few employed office staff).
- We have no managers, not even a CEO. Instead we rely on self-organization and transparency. Almost everything is bottom-up, and anyone can drive any decision.
- Crisp’s main purpose is to enable consultants to be happy, and Crisp Happiness Index is our driving metric. Strong revenue and delighted customers are a side effect, not a goal.
- Crisp doesn’t want to earn money from it’s consultants. It is in practice a non-profit company (although not formally so). Consultants keep most of what they earn.
- Our ownership model is designed to keep our stock financially worthless. There is no incentive to “cash in”.
- Consultants are 100% autonomous. They can do whatever they want (as long as they don’t hurt the brand or our house), and work as much or as little as they want.
Basically, we’re trying to find the magic balance between being an independent consultant (full freedom, no support), and being an employee (little freedom, lots of support).
In geek-terms, Crisp is a “runtime environment for consultants” :o)
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