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Dealing with abundance & infinite loops
This month we explored robotics and autonomous vehicles in logistics with two large clients. What was scarce, such as strength, labour and experience, becomes abundant. What does that mean for business models built on scarcity?
This week I was at Dutch Design Week, among other things at Design the future today. Fascinating. But I immediately wonder: with which knowledge, and above all with which way of thinking?
Read more →Kickoff of ACN Air Cargo Netherlands and Startup Village Amsterdam: an industry that is going to work together right across silos. A keynote on breakthroughs, from AI to sustainability and from robotics to quantum.
Two days with Oxfam Novib and a very diverse group of international changemakers. The whole system in the room: how do we build new bridges to systems with more and broader impact?
This Monday there was a big kickoff where ACN Air Cargo Netherlands is going to work together as an industry in a programme with Startup Village Amsterdam. I am really convinced that we will only change things together if we work together right across all the silos. So it was great to give a keynote on Design for Breakthroughs: a different way of looking at innovation, change and becoming more Futures Ready. And talking about topics from AI to sustainability and from robotics to quantum is of course fascinating. Now let us get to work together!
Realising breakthroughs is about not making things too small, so they no longer have any effect, and not too big either, so they can no longer be overseen. It is precisely about recognising the system and the patterns that connect the small with the big. Finding the levers where a small action can make a big difference. So in the end, realising breakthroughs is above all about seeing and making the connection. To be continued.
Today starts with the preparation for a two day session: Building Bridges, organised by Oxfam Novib. With a very diverse group of international changemakers. From philanthropy and NGOs to impact investing, local youth workers and civil society organisations, and from scientists to policy makers. In short: the whole system in the room.
The aim of this gathering is to better understand the system as a whole and to rethink it. How do we break through the silos and walls, and build new bridges to systems that can deliver more and broader positive impact in the long term? There is no single path that will lead us through the big transformations of the 21st century; that idea is still based on linear thinking. So the real question is: how do we design a more network oriented approach? And what are the smallest possible system interventions that can have a positive effect in the long term?
I am really looking forward to two days of experimenting with new social tools that make it possible to connect effectively with a large group of highly motivated experts and create impact. #PracticeWhatYouPreach
Seven conversations about the capabilities that make an organisation futures ready, from systems thinking to purpose.
Episode 01 · 29:53
Many organisations want to be future proof. But what if the future cannot be pinned down?
Episode 02 · 39:12
What the tools of an organisation say about its ability to renew.
Episode 03 · 41:09
Strategy you do not read, but live through together.
Episode 04 · 48:52
How employees feel so connected that together they make the difference.
Episode 05 · 53:58
Active learning as a core capability of every organisation.
Episode 06 · 50:13
Organising by designing, researching and enterprising.
Episode 07 · 37:19
Through the systems lens you see how everything is connected to everything.
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