A warm welcome in Helsinki

Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: co-creation, Nokia, Rooftop | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

welcome-to-helsinki1One month ago we held a Rooftop co-creation session in Helsinki for Nokia. The subject involved developing scenarios for using mobile phones in the future. The people we invited to join the excellent Nokia team flew in from Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Sweden. A great mix of backgrounds and characters formed the basis for a successful workshop.

Nokia is actually one of our most cherished clients. They see the true value and meaning of co-creation. Together with them we are exploring the road less travelled in open innovation. This road is one where companies actually allow people from outside to join its challenges for a longer period of time. Nokia intends to come back to our external professionals in a few months to actually touch base on the progress that has been made. And even after that, 9-12 after the session, we would like to review with the entire group what had been done with the workshop outcome. Did it change in any way Nokia’s product portfolio, strategy or vision? I can’t wait to find out.

Discussion continued in any case long after the session in the KLM business class – our private lounge.


Eating our own dog-food

Posted: December 22nd, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: co-creation, inspiration, Rooftop | Tags: , , | No Comments »

dogfoodCo-creation is at the heart of what we do, but what is at the heart of co-creation? In order to answer this question, we decided to give ourselves a dose of our own medicine. We asked an external moderator from Kaos Pilots to lead a co-creation session in which we would participate ourselves.

To get a broad view and diverse input on the subject, we invited three of our clients from Heineken, Bugaboo and Leaseplan and three former expert-participants to join us in this session. Our goal? Get to the essence of co-creation!

Between several exercises ranging from drawing each other’s face without looking at your paper to imaginative sword fighting, various interesting topics were brought to the table. Group discussions eventually led to four co-creation essentials: Read the rest of this entry »