Posted: September 24th, 2010 | Author: Ingeborg | Filed under: Amsterdam, co-creation, Creative space, inspiration, inspiring, NDSM-wharf | Tags: Amsterdam, co-creation, Creative space, inspiratie, inspiration, NDSM-wharf | No Comments »
Soon Fronteer Strategy will cross the water and move to the NDSM-wharf. We are getting a brand new office with a great space for our co-creation sessions, a historic hangar… The original frame of the building is still in tact as well as a lot of authentic details in the interior. The whole office will be of high quality and a great place to get inspired!
Formerly the NDSM-wharf was a shipyard and is located on ‘t IJ in Amsterdam-Noord. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: July 16th, 2009 | Author: martijn | Filed under: co-creation, public speaking | Tags: Amsterdam, co-creatie, co-creation, inspiratie, inspiration | No Comments »
Here comes an inspiring story.
When researcher Alex Osterwalder was looking for a model for making business models, he could not find it. Or he could not find one he liked. None of them he found he could use across mutiple industries. So he decided to makes his own model together with a few other people. Enter Patrick. When Patrick van der Peijl found out about Alex’s project, he joined in and suggested to set up a community to make the book and model even stronger. The Hub was born.
What was so inspiring? When coming up with the idea to co-create abook on business modeling, they invented a new businss model with it. It was done before, but not with people actually paying for contributing. 400 People paid an average of 50 euros for being part of it, being able to suggest content, get the book first and be mentioned in the book. I thought it was a great examples of our 5 guiding principles of co-creation and presented my toughts on the official launch of the beta version of the book a few weeks ago in Amsterdam. 60 People showed up for a very well organised and inspiring day. The drawing is our model summarised by Paul den Dulk. The book launches later this year.
Anyone else with a new co-creation business model that works?
Posted: May 29th, 2009 | Author: J A M E S | Filed under: Amsterdam, innovation, inspiration | Tags: Creative Company, innovatie, innovation, inspiratie, inspiration | No Comments »
This week, I visited the Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam. A number of speakers was very interesting, including mister Amnon Levav of the Israeli firm Innovation SIT who spoke inspiringly about how innovation is often stimulated through challenges or discomfort, and usually found at the end of the path of MOST resistance. His analysis of structural, functional and relational ‘fixedness’ traps was a minor breakthrough to me.
The undisputed highlight of the day however was Sir Ken Robinson, who lectured about the importance of changing the way we look at education, chilling with Paul McCartney and his wife’s love of Elvis. I intend to read his new book “The Element” soon.
All in all, the event was fun, and I left inspired. I feel that in this day & age however, a conference like this should have wi-fi. Interestingly, there were rumors of a TedX event to be organised in Amsterdam soon. Let’s hope we can get a program together that deserves the ‘accolades of Ted-ness’.
Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: Marieke | Filed under: co-creation, innovation, TU Delft | Tags: co-creatie, co-creation, inspiratie, inspiration, TU Delft | 1 Comment »
That co-creation is hot right now, we already know. And that many companies are looking for ways to implement it… also no hot news. But sitting still will not lead you in any new direction either. Some advice? Just do it! It doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. Invite some people who know more or different things than you do and voilà: fresh input!
A good example was presented to me yesterday, when we were invited at Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 13th, 2009 | Author: Nicole | Filed under: communities, inspiration | Tags: community, inspiratie, inspiration, Social Strategy Talk | No Comments »
One thing is clear, communities are hot. They seem to be popping up all around us as an increasing number of companies and people have the growing urge to ‘start a community’. But where to start?
Last week we attended the 3rd Social Strategy Talk at the Westerunie, titled ‘Doe mij een community’. PSV, de Rabobank, a podcast priest and an Obama campaign member shared their experience and knowledge on creating and maintaining a community. Below a little more on the lessons learned. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 27th, 2009 | Author: martijn | Filed under: Apple, innovation, inspiration | Tags: Apple, brand development, innovatie, innovation, inspiratie, inspiration, merken | No Comments »
You can find Steve Jobs’ first big presentation from 1984 online. Hear the crowd soaring. When we at Fronteer talk about smart brands, we talk about Apple (sometimes). The thing is, this brand is built in a quarter century. It was carefully constructed and nurtured over the years.
When you have people screaming for more at your first real introduction, and 25 years later still… what can we add to that? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 21st, 2008 | Author: J A M E S | Filed under: column | Tags: innovatie, innovation, inspiratie, inspiration | No Comments »
The Joys of Airline Travel – published in Second Sight Trend magazine. Sorry – only in Dutch
Verdoemenis in het Inferno van Dante? Een zondagse wandeling in het bos – met pannenkoek! – vergeleken met het lot van een hedendaagse reiziger.
We gaan er even vanuit dat we niet bij de 5% “sorry overboekt” horen die met een McDonaldsbon het riet in worden gestuurd, noch dat onze vlucht wegens omstandigheden (niet vol) wordt gecancelled.
We hebben dan na de dame van de marechaussee nog precies een uur en achtendertig minuten om bij de gate te komen – en die hebben we nodig ook, want het is naar C99 nog 8 kilometer lopen. Snelwandelend geven we nog even 9 euro uit aan een flesje water. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 10th, 2008 | Author: martijn | Filed under: column | Tags: inspiratie, secondsight | No Comments »
THIS COLUMN WAS PUBLISHED IN SECOND SIGHT MAGAZINE – SORRY, … ONLY IN DUTCH
Mannen, hoedt u voor de vrouw. Zij mag dan dom zijn, in haar sluwheid overtreft zij zelfs de gemeenste wolf
Ziezo, zijn we wakker? Schopenhauer gaat, als ik me het citaat goed herinner, nog even verder met een meticuleuze uitleg van waarom mannen zich voor het zwakke geslacht moeten hoeden. Niet zozeer de stelling zelf (geen haar op mijn hoofd lieverd, echt niet), maar de kristalheldere scheiding tussen man en vrouw die eraan ten grondslag ligt, vind ik interessant.
Dat de zaken 150 jaar na Schopenhauer iets ingewikkelder liggen, ondervond ik laatst aan den lijve. Netjes Engels opgevoed, hield ik de deur voor een dame open. Nu verwacht ik hiervoor geen koninklijke onderscheiding, maar de ‘independent woman’ in kwestie maakte het wel erg bont: “Hoe zou jij het vinden als ik de deur voor jou openhield ?” gromde ze me zuur toe. Bah. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 10th, 2008 | Author: martijn | Filed under: column | Tags: inspiratie, responsibility, secondsight | No Comments »
THIS COLUMN WAS PUBLISHED IN SECOND SIGHT MAGAZINE – ONLY IN DUTCH, SORRY…
You’re On Your Own
Het geheim van de smid inzake ‘Verantwoordelijkheid’ is dat beide kanten van de tafel het eens zijn over wie er verantwoordelijk is. Net als bij een kadootje: je kunt wel iets geven, maar als de ander het niet aanneemt is er een probleem. Geven en nemen van verantwoordelijkheid… je kunt er maar beter duidelijk over zijn.
Duidelijkheid alleen is helaas niet altijd voldoende. “Dit is mijn wijk niet, meneer – ik denk dat u beter even binnen kunt bestellen”. In die gevallen rest natuurlijk niets anders dan corrigerend optreden: ‘Nee juffrouw, ik denk dat ik beter buiten kan bestellen. Geeft u mijn bestelling even door aan uw collega? U bent hier immers de serveerster en ik de klant. Uw tafelschema is geenszins mijn verantwoordelijkheid.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 10th, 2008 | Author: J A M E S | Filed under: column, inspiration | Tags: hip, inspiratie, telegraaf | No Comments »
THIS COLUMN WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ‘DE TELEGRAAF’ WEEKEND SUPPLEMENT – ONLY IN DUTCH, SORRY…
HIP IS UIT
Nee, natuurlijk niet: “Hip” is “In”, dat weet iedereen. Er zijn zelfs limited edition vitaminedrankjes: Alles is hip en trendy.
Schoolkinderen zijn hip. Ze dragen de allerlaatste mode, zo uit de Glamour.
Jonge ouders zijn hip. Kijk maar naar hun Bugaboo, Lamartinashirt of Hilfigerjack.
Kakkers zijn hip. Je ziet het aan hun Abercrombieandfitchbloes, pumagymp en sleutelketting.
Makelaars zijn hip. Het bewijs is geleverd door hun Italiaans gesneden (lees: te krappe) almost-Oger pak, soepel achteroverge-gelde corpsballenmatje, diagonaal geruite en dasloze overhemd, glimmende scooter en gebrek aan sokken (alleen die cognac-suede gespschoen is nog over uit een sneu pre-hip tijdperk van lang geleden). Read the rest of this entry »
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