About MANDARINE Project Parters

We are a 15-person consulting organization specializing in Project Management.

We help companies deliver their projects on time and within budget. The foundation for our work is a combination of openPM 3.0 (our proprietary project management approach) and Critical Chain Project Management method developed by the late dr. Eliyahu Goldratt.

What we've done — consulting

Some companies we'we recently worked with as project management consultants:

  • Polish Energy Group (40,000+ employees in ca. 250 legal entities) on their IPO, touted by Bloomberg as Europe's largest IPO of 2009 at $2.1 bln — with Goldratt CZ.
  • Zabka Polska (2500+ convenience stores in Poland) on expanding their retail network of a new store format/brand, the 'Freshmarket'.
  • ITI Group (media holding, including TV network, the internet portal onet.pl, etc.) on implementing a group-wide comprehensive HR management software system.
  • The municipality of Wroclaw (a vibrant city of 630,000 people in SW Poland) on building the Euro 2012 infrastructure, including the football field, roads, bridges, highways and other supporting infrastructure — with Goldratt Institute Israel.
  • A leading retailer operating in Poland — establishing a Project Management Office.
  • Lux Med (the #1 private health care group in Poland) on implementing a key IT system.
  • LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services (the maintenance arm of LOT Polish Airlines) on a strategic project.

What we've done — education/training

A few things we've done wearing our educational hats:

  • Since 2001, we've worked with Ernst & Young Academy of Business as their partner in delivering public and in-house project management programs.
  • Since 2004 we've been running a post-graduate program in project management with Wyzsza Szkola Bankowa, the #2 Polish business school.
  • In 2010 we partnered with EMAS Group and Wyzsza Szkola Bankowa to establish a project management training program in Belarus and Ukraine.
  • We've trained thousands of people from all sorts of companies operating in Poland, both local and international.

The company

The management team consists of Marek Kowalczyk (marketing, sales), Tomasz Wrzesiewski (finance, operations) and Daria Kochanska (call center, inside sales).

The company in its present legal form of a limited liability company was established in February 2005. Prior to that, we had operated for four years as a sole proprietorship.

MANDARINE founder, Marek Kowalczyk, is also a co-founder of MINT Books, a publishing company bringing to the Polish market books on management according to Goldratt's theory of constraints. Marek lectures extensively at Polish and international business schools, such as the Warsaw Institute of Technology, Viadrina University MBA program, WSB MBA program. He is a sought-after speaker and publishes regularly for the Think Tank Magazine (the Polish equivalent of Harvard Business Review) or the Polish edition of the CIO Magazine.

Want to know more? Call us on +48 22 652-3780 or send us an email