Giraffes in the Kitchen (GITK) a fast-growing and award-winning Advertising Agency in Greece, founded in 2015. An agency that blurs the lines between disciplines and delivers measurable experiences by understanding needs, evaluating the environment and maximizing available resources. Always willing to test boundaries and do the unexpected.

They work internationally for companies that operate from Greece & Cyprus to the Balkans, Eastern Europe, UK and the US. Always up for a challenge, aiming high, far and beyond. They were Ermis award winners in both digital and PR and they were recently awarded Social Media Savvy Agency for 2018 by the eBusiness and Social Media judging committee. Virtual - IT and Giraffes in the Kitchen partnership has produced amazing work for CYTA & CNP Insurances so far.

Corprate and Brand Communication Strategy

Strategy is the key step in creating true value and devoted audience. In order to do so, you have to be one step ahead and predict future needs. We understand your positioning and goals and turn them into actions. Into content. Into campaigns. Into true value. Into unique experiences that your audience will love.

Branding

Your very own fingerprint. Your brand's identity should be unique and recognizable. Just like your fingerprint. When people interact with your brand, they should get a specific feeling; the one you set up for them.

Content Creation

Don't think out of the box. Think without the box. We make your brand memorable by building the right kind of content your audience wants. We set up the elements that will give the tone. We create stories for the right media challenging common perceptions. You don't have to make sense, to be understood. Now you need to experiment with your content, depending on the audience, the context, the experience and the time frame. Reach and engage with your audience like never before.

Social Media

If you’re looking for content calendars only, you’re in the wrong 7 place. We make sure social media content follows a pre-set strategy, considering latest trends and sticking to the brand’s context. Creative Direction makes sure it is stellar. Community Managers ensure real time engagement and response. We’ve got you covered.

Campaign Management

We don’t think Traditional or Digital. We think Campaign. From start to finish, we effectively coordinate and manage activations. Set the goal, select the media, create the message, launch the campaign, evaluate the results and done.

Online Advertising Management

We don’t think “clicks”, “likes”, “conversions”. We set the appropriate media strategy based on your goals. We keep on optimizing until we exceed targets. Then, we retarget. It can always bring more.

Insights and Reputation Management

Smoke and mirrors might do the trick for the circus, but not for the business. All of our projects are data driven. Our toolkit monitors and assesses reactions and deliverables, enabling us to intervene and modify - when necessary- and improve till perfect.

Our approach to project management services is to provide our customers with a visible and measurable framework, supported by appropriate tools, and an incremental implementation approach with built in quality for any type of project. Virtual IT project management services are provided by PRINCE2 accredited consultants.

Virtual IT incorporates a number of diverse management and technical skills and techniques to provide an overall systems solution to a business problem. Our approach to any project is to provide a comprehensive coverage of all systems in the organization so that both current and future needs are addressed.

Choosing the most appropriate technologies, telecom providers, system integrators and migration roadmaps / plans to reach the optimum solution for an enterprise requires analysis of the issues, extensive knowledge and research. We design network, data flow, MIS and communication solutions and select software solutions and tools using state of the art innovative ICT solutions, evaluated and selected based on the enterprises current and future needs providing ROI through increase in competitiveness, productivity and substantial costs reduction.

A combination of methods, tools and techniques are utilized as best suited for each specific type of project. Recommendations provided include integration of all aspects of database, hardware, software, networking, and telecommunication issues. Based on these we derive, model and formulate business requirements based on a number of techniques such as:

• Feasibility study
• Requirements analysis and definition
• Rational Unified Process
• Business Process Management
• Data Flow Analysis
• Process Re-engineering

IT Strategy

Our Services also includes the formulation of an IT Strategy for your organization which will help you visualize the emerging business environment and leverage Information Technology to create the appropriate organizational arrangement required to support your customer business strategy. Our challenge is to adapt the organizational and technological capabilities in order to be in dynamic alignment with our customers business vision.

Our approach is to understand the issues that determine the influence of information technology for a particular organization and the processes that will allow a smooth coordination of technology and corporate strategy.

Procurement Services

Based on derived specifications, our procurement services include development of tender documents, evaluation of proposals and recommendations of the appropriate, hardware and software systems. Follow up implementation project management services are provided to foresee the satisfactory implementation of the awarded contract are also provided.

E-Business Consulting

Our consultants evaluate your business procedures, processes, requirements, and customer relationships and prioritize your goals, helping you to create the e-Business architecture, processes and methods to increase your productivity, and reduce costs. Areas of expertise include e-Commerce, e-Travel, e-Government and e-Learning. Services include:

• Design of infrastructure evaluation
• Definition of procedures and processes
• E-business environment design
• Core and e-Business Systems Integration
• E-business strategy
• Pre and post e-business audit

CRM Consulting

With the intensified competition, companies realize that they need to treat their customers differently - with respect, one to one. Customers have a lot more choices and they don't have to be loyal to any company. Both existing business and born-on-the web startups increasingly realize that knowledge is their only sustainable edge, customers their key asset, and channel relationships their fountainhead of adaptability. Organizations are turning to knowledge and customer relationship management with high hopes of reducing the complexity, uncertainty, unexpected competitor innovations and shifting markets.

Our overall CRM services objective is to provide guidelines towards customer retention and loyalty. The consulting services offered focuses on identifying and implementing customer relationship, knowledge and channel relationship, management and processes, which will bring together your suppliers, distributors, service providers, business allies and customers.

Globalization, extensive competition, lower profit margins and regulatory requirements are some of the factors affecting the growth and competitiveness of enterprises today. Innovation provides the means by which enterprises can address and mitigate these factors extending their transforming into pioneer organizations.

Virtual IT Innovation consulting services provides mechanisms to implement Innovation culture identify new methods, develop new products and solve any problem using innovative solutions. Our methodology includes procedures for collecting, capturing, documenting, evaluating, selecting and implementing the most innovate solutions. Based on our ICT expertise our methodology includes techniques to map and address innovation ideas through state of the art technologies.

Assets are the second largest operational cost of an organization after personnel. Virtual IT provides consulting services of how to setup and manage a complete asset register from purchase to disposal. Our services will analyze your requirements and will provide you with recommendations on the data structure and the processes required to answer the following Asset information:

• WHAT

  Static and dynamic data structure and systems to maintain Asset information

• WHEN

  Processes to cover Purchase, Receipt, Disposal and Replacement of Assets

• WHERE

  Location, total view of Assets by location

• DOCUMENTATION

  Documents that are required to maintain and method of painting

• COST

  Information and processes related to managing asset capex and expenses costs

• ASSET PERFORMANCE

  Suggested queries, reports and KPIs required to manage and compare costs, quality and performance of your assets

• LIFESPAN

  Processes to manage condition status, transfer, Rework and Renovate, Down time, Corrective and Preventive Maintenance, maintaining a full history until disposal

Our training curriculum covers training requirements from both an IT and a Business perspective. Subjects covered vary from MIS to technical knowledge including Project Management, Innovation methodologies, Asset Management and Facilities Management related subjects.