Cecile Huijkman leads the Business Intelligence team at Van Gelder Groep. With a team of data engineers, analysts and stewards, she turns raw data into decisions that hold up across operational, tactical and strategic levels. Day to day, she is building a data foundation meant to last. That puts her on the question most tool selections run into: what do you build yourself, and what do you buy? Her view is down to earth. What matters to her is whether data makes the work simpler and sharper, not how the brochure reads.