Bartek Liszkowski · GoIDEA

I used to sit in the very chair you are sitting in today.

My name is Bartek Liszkowski. For 30 years I built and ran IT and automotive companies in Poland — from a few people to a hundred. Today I work on my own, as a consultant and developer for companies facing problems much like the ones I once solved from the boardroom side.

I know what a Friday evening looks like when an order is stuck between the office and the shop floor and an audit arrives on Monday. I know what a shop floor looks like when the shift supervisor cannot understand why the system asks him for something he has never needed. And I know what a management board looks like when it has just bought a big ERP and discovered that the employees refuse to use it.

That is why today I build the solutions I would have built for myself back then.

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Bartek Liszkowski, GoIDEA
Four concrete proof points

Why you can trust me.

Four real proof points from four different companies. All the numbers come from my CV — they can be verified.

Graphcom — my first company. Operating continuously since 1996 and one of the largest Comarch partners in Poland.

Graphcom Sp. z o.o. — my first company, founded in 1996 and co-managed for ten years. We turned a hardware supplier into a Comarch implementation partner. Today Graphcom holds the status of Comarch Gold Partner and has the largest team of certified Comarch consultants in the Wielkopolska region. Comarch awarded Graphcom the title of Partner of the Decade and, twice, Partner of the Year (2018 and 2019). That is the achievement of the team that has run the company since I left in 2006 — but it is the team we started building together.

Ziebart Poland — the US headquarters copied my ideas to other locations worldwide.

I built the Polish subsidiary of the US corporation Ziebart International from scratch and ran it for five years — a franchise network in the automotive market. I opened five locations in Poland, prepared an expansion strategy for forty more and raised 5 million PLN in capital for the market entry. During that time I designed branding and store-operations solutions that the US headquarters found effective enough to copy to other Ziebart locations worldwide. To this day that remains the strongest external signal that what I build also works in organisations larger than the ones I run myself.

X-Partner — my own company, B2B contracts worth tens of millions of PLN, the first application built for myself.

This is where I built an application for myself for the first time — because my development department was busy with client work and had nobody to spare for internal tools. Four modules: a sales pipeline, service prediction from the counters of printing machines, marketing campaigns with effectiveness tracking, IT budget control. That first application, written for myself, is today the foundation of what I build for GoIDEA clients.

I needed it not for the metrics, but to simplify management and gain knowledge of the processes inside my company — which, at that scale, had begun to slip out of my control.— Bartek Liszkowski, X-Partner

inLAND Systems — another company of my own, 4 million in EU grants, rollouts for thousands of users, a hundred employees.

From 2008 to 2013 I founded and ran inLAND Systems — a producer of software for archiving, managing, recognising and routing documents.

  • 4 million PLN in EU grants for the development of proprietary software.

That company taught me that custom software wins through a precise fit to the client's process — a big ERP competes on scale and configuration, I chose precision.

30 years in brief

Career path — 30 years of IT and business.

A plain timeline. Each entry: years, company, one sentence.

  1. 1996–2006
    Graphcom Sp. z o.o.

    Founder and co-managing director. My first company — IT for mid-sized businesses in the Wielkopolska region, Comarch partner. Operating continuously to this day. (Full story in the section above.)

  2. 2000–2008
    X-Partner Sp. z o.o.

    Founder and executive director. Monobrand Xerox dealer in Poland, contracts worth tens of millions of PLN.

  3. 2008–2013
    inLAND Systems Sp. z o.o.

    Owner and managing director. Document management software, 4 million PLN in EU grants, a company of a hundred people.

  4. 2013–2018
    Ziebart Poland Sp. z o.o.

    General director. Built the Polish subsidiary of a US automotive corporation, exported ideas to the US headquarters.

  5. 2018–today
    GoIDEA

    Consultant and developer for companies of 20–250 people — manufacturing, B2B trade, specialised services.

Philosophy

Why I work on my own today.

After Ziebart I had two paths: another executive role in a large company — or building something that brings joy and genuine fulfilment, rather than business success alone. I like helping. I like watching ideas I helped shape being put into practice (hence the brand name — go-idea). I have experience I can share instead of locking it inside a single organisation that I run myself.

Today I run GoIDEA on my own. In practice I do 90 % of the work personally — from the first conversation with the owner, through the design, to the rollout and ongoing support. Sometimes I bring in external developers for specific tasks, but the person responsible for every project is me.

I build on the Claris FileMaker platform — I am a certified developer (FileMaker Certified Developer). I chose it deliberately: it lets me deliver a working module in 4–8 weeks, your data stays with you in the EU, and any other certified Claris partner can take over the maintenance later. I spent 30 years watching how big ERP systems are built by corporate teams and how much every change in them costs. I chose a different path — faster, closer to the decision-maker, with smaller scope and greater precision.

In the entire history of GoIDEA I have lost one client — by my own decision. The oldest ones have been with me for well over a decade. Without maintenance contracts. They come back when they have a new problem — and only then.

Education

My educational path.

  • Executive MBA — Business School of the Poznań University of Economics and Business in partnership with Nottingham Trent University.
  • MSc in Engineering — Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Automation and Robotics. The engineering foundation explains why I can bring order to processes and, at the same time, build the systems that support those processes.
  • FileMaker Certified Developer — certification by Claris.
  • Strategyzer — Mastering Business Models, Mastering Value Propositions.
  • PRINCE2 — project management.
  • Numerous business management courses as well as Xerox product and sales training in Poland and abroad.
Beyond work

What I value beyond work.

Sailing.

I hold a yacht skipper's licence. With friends I won the BlueCup regatta in Greece — first place among 50 international crews. I crossed the Atlantic in a small sailing yacht, from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. The Atlantic teaches you that once you start, you finish — there is no other way. And the vastness of the sea at night makes you realise how small our earthly problems are against the scale of the world — and that everything can be solved.

Motorcycles.

A certified road riding expert — the Alpen Masters course in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. These are decisions made in hundredths of a second, under conditions you never fully control. Good training for conversations with clients when something goes differently than planned.

First step

Book 30 minutes. I answer every email myself.

The first call is a calm conversation to get to know each other. I check whether I can help at all. No slides, no sales pressure. If I see it is a poor fit, I say so directly.

Would you rather talk than write? Pick a slot in the calendar — we will meet on Zoom:
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Phone +48 601 789 966 — you can call, I pick up myself.

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