What's in the box?
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Working 8 Hours Overtime
Today is the day. On 17:30 the doors of Hangar 36 will open for those who participate in 8UO *which stands for ' 8 uur overwerken'-translated working 8 hours overtime... *.
The alderman of culture and finance will open the event, followed by the foundations presenting their 'case'. The goal is to work 8 hours overtime (charity); Solving a problem where the foundation in question, is dealing with... Presentations afterwards are given in the night around 1/2 pm...
8UO is given now for the Third time in The Hague, and works alongside the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (TU Delft, university), and is a project of the ' Nieuwe Garde ' -New Guard (http://www.nieuwegarde.nl).
The assignments are diverse into thinking of a commercial to whole promotional campaigns... participating foundations are amongst others; the red cross, the richard krajieck foundation, KNCV tuberculosis foundation, andPrinses Beatrix foundation.
For more information go to:
tags: #8UO #achtuuroverwerken #nieuwegarde #NG achteruuroverwerken acht uur overwerken 8uo 8UO nieuwe garde binck36 hangar36 binckhorstlaan
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Eneco Internship
Last year I won 2nd prize in battle of concepts, with a concept called Windy Windmill. Till now I have been several times active in communication with Eneco, which resulted in an internship!
Labels:
Concept and Product Development
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Friday Morning Evaluation
The personal learning goals I wanted to work on were:
- Time for Creativity
- Deal with Handicap
- Listening & Understanding
See also this page
Evaluation:
Making choices is probably one of the most hardest things in life. In the following text I will try to explain the following choices I had to make, and evaluate the concept development lessons in general ( I will try to give some good feedback) as well as reflecting on my personal learning goals which we made at the beginning.
At first I would like to start off with that I enjoyed the Friday morning specification Concept Development a lot, inspiring, exploring and growing all the time. The lessons given put me in order, reflected my beliefs, made me think twice, made me think different, put out my weaknesses, and I think most important; putting out my strong points; finding out, confronting and confirming what I’m good at, and what I would like to do.
Doing that, and reflecting those with my personal learning goals I have to admit I have on one hand severely lacked following my goals, on the other hand I made major improvements.
Firstly, I have to say that making more time for creativity comes, I guess, in phases. I know until where I can go, and now I think I can be creative in all kinds of ways, or at least putting my creativity in multiple things. Though this changed already while doing my internship in a foreign country, which obviously changed my perspective on things a lot. But I think this perspective has been broadened, even more important; made more of use now. For instance within brainstorm sessions I noticed I can think extremely ‘out of the box’ but also function as a great mediator, and afterwards reflecting neutrally. Setting up documents, giving structure, convincing and making other people enthusiastic, taking leadership, taking initiatives, empathic values, and looking for opportunities, are competencies that I believe has been improved a lot.
I know now that my strong points within this work field came from concept development, participating and guiding the beginning starting until the part where it comes in the hands of product realization. Open minded and idealistic, but also rational and realistic. Reflecting this personal goal negatively I can’t see I made ‘extra’ time. I think I can only make it more efficient, and using it in an other way. Which brings me to combining this with dealing with a handicap that I can see now is nothing more than my body telling me to spent my time differently.
Listening and Understanding is something I really worked on a lot, and to be completely honest I sometimes still lack in concentrating on people, though towards colleagues and clients I continuously try to evaluate and asses the team working, improving working with other people all the time.
Evaluation:
Making choices is probably one of the most hardest things in life. In the following text I will try to explain the following choices I had to make, and evaluate the concept development lessons in general ( I will try to give some good feedback) as well as reflecting on my personal learning goals which we made at the beginning.
At first I would like to start off with that I enjoyed the Friday morning specification Concept Development a lot, inspiring, exploring and growing all the time. The lessons given put me in order, reflected my beliefs, made me think twice, made me think different, put out my weaknesses, and I think most important; putting out my strong points; finding out, confronting and confirming what I’m good at, and what I would like to do.
Doing that, and reflecting those with my personal learning goals I have to admit I have on one hand severely lacked following my goals, on the other hand I made major improvements.
Firstly, I have to say that making more time for creativity comes, I guess, in phases. I know until where I can go, and now I think I can be creative in all kinds of ways, or at least putting my creativity in multiple things. Though this changed already while doing my internship in a foreign country, which obviously changed my perspective on things a lot. But I think this perspective has been broadened, even more important; made more of use now. For instance within brainstorm sessions I noticed I can think extremely ‘out of the box’ but also function as a great mediator, and afterwards reflecting neutrally. Setting up documents, giving structure, convincing and making other people enthusiastic, taking leadership, taking initiatives, empathic values, and looking for opportunities, are competencies that I believe has been improved a lot.
I know now that my strong points within this work field came from concept development, participating and guiding the beginning starting until the part where it comes in the hands of product realization. Open minded and idealistic, but also rational and realistic. Reflecting this personal goal negatively I can’t see I made ‘extra’ time. I think I can only make it more efficient, and using it in an other way. Which brings me to combining this with dealing with a handicap that I can see now is nothing more than my body telling me to spent my time differently.
Listening and Understanding is something I really worked on a lot, and to be completely honest I sometimes still lack in concentrating on people, though towards colleagues and clients I continuously try to evaluate and asses the team working, improving working with other people all the time.
Labels:
Concept and Product Development
Thursday, January 29, 2009
NNSafe (2)
We had developed a concept called NNsafe for an insurance company called Nationale Nederlanden. Customer insights of current and future customers is essential to deliver high quality service. Our concept focuses on risk prediction of future customers, based on the behaviour of current customers. With this concept we ranked third on the Battle of Concepts website. See also my previous post about NNSafe !
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
VOIZ Politics Discussion Platform
Last friday we have presented our end concept VOIZ. We had to came up with a trend (we chose 'crowdsourcing' and 'citizen involvement in politics'), an idea (a way to attract youngsters to politics), and a concept (an online platform where current discussions, polls and games give youngsters influence in politics). This you had to work out, with full design, a guerilla campaign and a business model (as shown in the presentation). We were second place out of four teams in class!
Download the presentation:
Labels:
Concept and Product Development
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Pomegranate Phone
Looking for new developments like Instant Voice translation we stumbled upon the Pomegranate Phone. At first we were shocked; wow what a wonderfull design, and 'more things that you could ever think of ever fitting into the palm of your hand'. Everything build in; phone, camera, full internet browsing 'and that's just the beginning' as the trailer tells you...
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And for more information, and a nice review about the Nova Scotia Viral go to:
Friday, January 16, 2009
NN Safe
Third place, on Battle of Concepts (www.battleofconcepts.nl), with a concept for Nationale Nederlanden (www.nn.nl/), one of the biggest insurance companies in Holland. Their problem? The immense overload of data. How can they use this data for risk management?
NNSafe is an application developed for NN to calculate risks amongst their target group in actual, recent but also for future insurances. How does it work?
Mainly, the application researches the current database of clients, and connects to the major popular social networks like Hyves and Schoolbank. The application corresponds their own clients with users on those platforms, by simply matching names, resulting in the public details, which consists out of ‘places they visit’ and ‘groups they belong to’.
This information can be very much useful for this kind of risk management; because you can count the amount of groups, places, hobbies, sports and interests by seeing in how much they are representing in a certain field of behaviour. For instance, you can see that a client with a high risk behaviour is likely to be somebody who comes from a certain place in town, or has a special taste of cigarettes, likes to play dangerous sports, or belongs to groups of rebellious soccer supporters...
NNSafe is an application developed for NN to calculate risks amongst their target group in actual, recent but also for future insurances. How does it work?
Mainly, the application researches the current database of clients, and connects to the major popular social networks like Hyves and Schoolbank. The application corresponds their own clients with users on those platforms, by simply matching names, resulting in the public details, which consists out of ‘places they visit’ and ‘groups they belong to’.
This information can be very much useful for this kind of risk management; because you can count the amount of groups, places, hobbies, sports and interests by seeing in how much they are representing in a certain field of behaviour. For instance, you can see that a client with a high risk behaviour is likely to be somebody who comes from a certain place in town, or has a special taste of cigarettes, likes to play dangerous sports, or belongs to groups of rebellious soccer supporters... Monday, January 12, 2009
Dutch on Ice
How cheesy can it be? It’s a few days below zero and everybody suddenly wants to skate. And so do I, how Dutch. And even if I did not have skates, and even if I did not skate for years I managed not to fall down at all.
It’s Saturday morning, early as I biked through the streets of The Hague, on the way to a friend of mine where we would gather up.
It’s Saturday morning, early as I biked through the streets of The Hague, on the way to a friend of mine where we would gather up.
It’s minus five I guess, but I’m prepared (with Mongolian trousers included). And my skates of course, found and got them within a few hours on the online market place, picked them up for a dime in Delft on the way home from Rotterdam yesterday. It’s hard to find skates now, and on the news they are even mentioning traffic jams all over the place because of the sudden immense interest to ice skate.
“It might be your last.”
And how lovely, a few hours later we were on the ice, somewhere on the fields outside of the big city, where the Dutch landscape truly comes alive. We passed the old farmer mills and children selling coffee and hot chocolate on the docks, hundreds to thousands people were on the ice.
On the way we stopped in a village, ice skating through its channel. We heard folk music and saw a lot of people gathering up in the centre, where everybody was on the wooden flounders entering the local bar.
The smell of hot stew (yes, the famous pea soup) combined with thick hot dogs was nearly unbearable, as I sat eating saying: “I hope they’re not going to play Frans Bauer…” But they that the moment I said it, a tune of him, one of the most famous and traditional Dutch folk music artist, started.
I guess you just have to love it. I did.
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