This year's edition of De Warmste Week is all about initiatives where we have to be there for each other, especially when the going gets tough. After an internal survey among our colleagues, we arrived at Baby Nest.

"These last months, I'm living by the minute." When we speak to Marc Hofman in full corona crisis, every time slot in his virtual calendar is fully booked. Nevertheless, he gladly takes time to look back on the collaboration with Myreas over the past year, as it has been so decisive for the evolution of enterprise architecture within Colruyt Group.

Enterprise Architecture is part of Colruyt Group's DNA. But where does that strategic choice come from? And how did it ultimately lead to the foundation of Myreas? We went looking for answers in the history of EA within Colruyt Group. In a first episode, we look back on the 80s and 90s. The years of the first automations and strategic takeovers and acquisitions.

Information management, business intelligence and analytics are entirely Koen’s area of expertise. At the start of 2019, he received a vacancy of Enterprise Business Architect through an acquaintance from his network. The job title did not tell him much, but the description intrigued him immediately. It felt like that missing piece of the puzzle he had been looking for professionally, without realizing it.

If you ask us what do we pay attention to at Myreas when recruiting enterprise architects, we could go on for a few days. We’ve asked our Head of Enterprise Business Architecture, Marc Vandeperre to summarise it and guide people in their path towards a job at Myreas.

If you are active on a number of fronts in the same organisation, you will benefit greatly from doing that based on a standard architecture methodology. And that's exactly what has happened in recent years within the Colruyt Group. Now it’s time for the next phase.