About Fynydd Design company in King Of Prussia, United States
We are a software development & hosting company. Our clients have asked us to help them achieve marketing goals, better operate their business, create learning opportunities, improve sales and engagement, and everything in between. We solve problems throu
When a client brings us in to build their next big app one of the first questions we ask them is What will define success for you? Thats because were laser-focused on that one core goal. The details may change along the way. Thats OK. Were not building toward details.
Fynydd was founded in 2010 by engineers with decades of user interface design and software development experience. Owning separate companies they decided to come together to form a new single entity where they could combine their expertise to make something even better.
Today Fynydd has a passionate talented team of project managers designers developers and strategists working on a wide range of projects for all kinds of clients. Basically we bring ideas to life on a daily basis.
Michael directs all aspects of design and marketing. But unlike most design professionals he is also a software developer. Over the years his work has been featured in publications like USA Today and Smart Computing Magazine. And he#39;s worked for an eclectic range of clients ranging from Food Network Iron Chef Bobby Flay Comcast SportsNet and Intel Corporation to large enterprise clients in retail pharmaceutical and finance as well as ad agencies restaurants non-profits tech firms and more.
Chris directs operations and assists with the management of our QA and development teams. He also draws on his customer-centric philosophy and wide range of experience to drive and facilitate our technical solutions. Chris is adept in management and information solutions design process design education (he is a certified Carnegie Technology Instructor) communications and customer satisfaction. Chris is committed to ensuring the efficiency and success of our customers through technology.
To wow someone you must differentiate yourself by exceeding their expectations which often means doing something unconventional and innovative. What you do must have a positive emotional impact. We are not an average company. Our products and services are not average and we don#39;t want our people to be average. Consequently we expect every employee to deliver an exceptional experience.
Whether internally with co-workers or externally with our clients and partners delivering an exceptional experience results in word of mouth. It also creates and reinforces our reputation within every relationship we have including our clients our co-workers our vendors our partners and in the long run our investors.
For some people especially those who come from bigger companies constant change can be somewhat unsettling at first. If you are not prepared to deal with constant change then you probably are not a good fit for the company.
We must all learn to not fear change and to embrace it enthusiastically and perhaps even more importantly to encourage and drive it. We must always plan for and be prepared for constant change.
Although change can and will come from all directions it#39;s important that most of the changes in the company are driven from the bottom up — from the people who are on the front lines and closest to the clients and production pipeline.
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo because historically the companies that get into trouble are the ones that aren#39;t able to respond quickly enough and adapt to change.
We are ever evolving. If we want to continue to stay ahead of our competition we must continually change and keep them guessing. They can copy many aspects of our company and our marketing approach but they cannot copy our people our culture or our products and services. As long as embracing constant change is a part of our culture they will not be able to evolve as fast as we can.
One of the things that make Fynydd different from a lot of other companies is that we value being fun and being a little weird. We don#39;t want to become one of those big companies that feel corporate and boring. We want to be able to laugh at ourselves. We look for both fun and humor in our daily work.
This means that many things we do might be a little unconventional — or else it wouldn#39;t be a little weird. We#39;re not looking for crazy or extreme weirdness though. We want just a touch of weirdness to make life more interesting and fun for everyone. We want the company to have a unique and memorable personality.
Our company culture is what makes us successful and in our culture we celebrate and embrace our diversity and each person#39;s individuality. We want people to express their personality in their work. To outsiders that might come across as inconsistent or unprofessional but the consistency is in our belief that we function best when we can be ourselves. We want the weirdness in each of us to be expressed in our interactions with each other and in our work.
One of the side effects of encouraging weirdness is that it encourages people to think outside the box and be more innovative. When you combine a little weirdness with making sure everyone is also having fun at work it ends up being a win-win for everyone: employees are more engaged in the work that they do and the company as a whole becomes more innovative.
We do not want people to be afraid to take risks and make mistakes. We believe if people aren#39;t making mistakes they#39;re not taking enough risks. Over time we want everyone to develop his/her gut regarding business decisions. We want people to develop and improve their decision-making skills. We encourage people to make mistakes as long as they learn from them.
We never want to become complacent and accept the status quo just because that#39;s the way things have always been done. We should always be seeking adventure and having fun exploring new possibilities. By having the freedom to be creative in our solutions we end up making our own luck. We approach situations and challenges with an open mind.
Sometimes our sense of adventure and creativity causes us to be unconventional in our solutions (because we have the freedom to think outside the box) but that#39;s what allows us to rise above and stay ahead of the competition.
It#39;s important to constantly challenge and stretch yourself and not be stuck in a job where you don#39;t feel like you are growing or learning.
We believe that inside every employee is more potential than even the employee himself/herself realizes. Our goal is to help employees unlock that potential. But it has to be a joint effort: you have to want to challenge and stretch yourself in order for it to happen.
If you#39;ve been at Fynydd for more than a few months then one thing is clear: Fynydd is growing. We grow because we take on new challenges and we face even more new challenges because we#39;re growing. It#39;s an endless cycle and it#39;s a good thing: it#39;s the only way for a company to survive. But it can also feel risky stressful and confusing at times.
Sometimes it may seem that new problems crop up as fast as we solve the old ones (sometimes faster!) but that just means that we#39;re moving — that we#39;re getting better and stronger. Anyone who wants to compete with us has to learn the same things so problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we#39;ve grown and gotten better.
Yet no matter how much better we get we#39;ll always have hard work to do we#39;ll never be done and we#39;ll never get it right. That may seem negative but it#39;s not: we#39;ll do our best to get it right and then do it again when we find out that things have changed. That is the cycle of growth and like it or not that cycle won#39;t stop.
It#39;s hard... but if we weren#39;t doing something hard then we#39;d have no business. The only reason were growing is because what we do is hard and we do it better than most. If it ever gets too easy then start looking for a tidal wave of competition to wash us away.
It may seem sometimes like we don#39;t know what we#39;re doing. And it#39;s true: we don#39;t. That#39;s a bit scary but you can take comfort in knowing that others in our situation dont know either. If they did then wed be struggling to stay in business alongside them. We do things others refuse to do because all they care about is the bottom line: they take any work they can get they outsource most of their labor overseas to unproven resources they dont advocate for their people and their culture when necessary and they dont care about their clients like we do. This is where we break new ground in our industry.
We are becoming experts as we do this. And for anyone we bring on board the best expertise they can bring is expertise at learning and adapting and figuring out new things — helping the company grow and in the process they will also be growing themselves.
We value strong relationships in all areas: with managers direct reports clients (internal and external) vendors business partners team members and co-workers. Strong positive relationships that are open and honest are a big part of what differentiates Fynydd from most other companies. Strong relationships allow us to accomplish much more than we would be able to otherwise.
A key ingredient in strong relationships is to develop emotional connections. It#39;s important to always act with integrity in your relationships to be compassionate friendly loyal and to make sure that you do the right thing and treat your relationships well. The hardest thing to do is to build trust and confidence. But if the trust and confidence exists you can accomplish so much more.
In any relationship it#39;s important to be a good listener as well as a good communicator. Open honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship but remember that at the end of the day it#39;s not what you say or what you do but how you make people feel that matters the most. In order for someone to feel good about a relationship he or she must know that the other person truly cares about him or her both personally and professionally.
At Fynydd we embrace diversity in thoughts opinions and backgrounds. The more widespread and diverse your relationships are the bigger the positive impact you can make on the company and the more valuable you will be to the company. It is critical for relationship building to have effective open and honest communication.
As the company grows communication becomes more and more important because everyone needs to understand how his/her team connects to the big picture of what we#39;re trying to accomplish. Ironically communication is always one of the weakest aspects of any organization. We want everyone to always try to go the extra mile in encouraging thorough complete and effective communication.
We want to create an environment that is friendly warm and exciting. We encourage diversity in ideas opinions and points of view.
The best leaders are those who lead by example and are both team followers as well as team leaders. We believe that in general the best ideas and decisions are made from the bottom up; by those who are on the front lines and closest to the production pipeline and/or the clients. The role of a manager is to remove obstacles and enable his/her direct reports to succeed. This means the best leaders are servant-leaders. They serve those they lead.
The best team members take initiative when they notice issues so that the team and the company can succeed. The best team members take ownership of issues and collaborate with other team members whenever challenges arise.
The best team members have a positive influence on one another and everyone they encounter. They strive to eliminate any kind of cynicism and negative interactions. They strive to create harmony with each other and everyone else with which they come into contact.
We believe that the best teams are those that not only work with each other but also interact with each other outside the work environment. Many of the company#39;s best ideas have been the direct result of informal interactions outside of work.
We are more than just a team though — we are a family. We watch out for each other care for each other and go above and beyond for each other because we believe in and trust each other. We work together but we also play together. Our bonds go far beyond the typical co-worker relationships found at most other companies.
While we may be casual in our interactions with each other we are focused and serious about the operations of our business. We believe in working hard and putting in the extra effort to get things done. One example of this mantra is the fact that we are self-funded debt-free and growing.
We believe in operational excellence and realize that there is always room for improvement in everything we do. This means that our work is never done. In order to stay ahead of the competition (or would-be competition) we need to continuously innovate as well as make incremental improvements to our operations always striving to make ourselves more efficient always trying to figure out how to do something better. We use mistakes as learning opportunities.
We must never lose our sense of urgency in making improvements. We must never settle for good enough because good is the enemy of great. While our goal is to become a great company we also want to become the greatest products and services company in the world. We set and exceed our own high standards constantly raising the bar for competitors and for ourselves.
We value passion determination perseverance and the sense of urgency.
We are inspired because we believe in what we are doing and where we are going. We don#39;t take no or that#39;ll never work for an answer because if we had then Fynydd would have never started in the first place.
Passion and determination are contagious. We believe in having a positive and optimistic (but realistic) attitude about everything we do because we realize that this inspires others to have the same attitude.
There is excitement in knowing that everyone you work with has a tremendous impact on a larger dream and vision and you can see that impact day in and day out.
We believe that no matter the situation we should always be respectful of everyone.
While we celebrate our individual and team successes we are not arrogant nor do we treat others differently from how we would want to be treated. Instead we carry ourselves with a quiet confidence because we believe that in the long run our character will speak for itself.
And as we always seek to learn and grow personally and professionally were provided a firm reminder that there is always someone more knowledgeable a company more successful a problem to overcome and a higher mountain to climb.
When you really get to know your clients business and goals youre able to anticipate understand and execute with surprising efficiency.
Fynydd has experience building great apps for a wide range of industries and we bring that knowledge to every project. But were always learning. Thats why were in it for the long haul.
If you have a question or want to get your next project underway just reach out using one of the methods below and one of our experts will get back to you ASAP.
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630 Freedom Business Center Drive
King of Prussia Pennsylvania 19406
United States
+1 855-439-6933 / [email protected]
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