Renewed services, your feedback?

People who have worked with us know that we eat our own dogfood, and in that sense we updated our services page today. Why? We teach and support organizations to use the AARRR metric model to validate the hypothesis of their business model, and as such we also use the same system to validate our own […]

Learn how to manage technical debt from a business perspective

Recently I get a lot of questions related to Technical Debt and Legacy products which triggered me to write this article, explaining how I managed technical debt a while ago. I want to share this information to provide you extra options, I do not claim this system is the best out there, it is just […]

Gamificiation within the Education System

Thanks to Mark Willems, Bart Cornille, Oiheba Bensaâd and my wife, my brain has been doing overtime concerning our Belgian Education System and how I would like to see it being different. It has been a strange ride, where most of the time I, like many others, was too much focussed on the current constraints […]

Mindsetter: Boost Your Change Project

Guestblog by Dave Synaeve, propellor.be Mindsetter is partly a powerful simulation of changing organisations and the resistance they can encounter. This serious game gives insights in the cycle of change, the reactions of people on change and the different kinds of resistance you can expect. Good change management involves to create buy in and making […]

Welcome to the Social Innogram: The Future of Education

Guestblog by Mark Willems, kbs-frb.be/ Expose – Ask – Shoot – Expose We all went to school. We all rely on education for our own kids and our future social capital. In that way we are all education experts. The social innogram is a playful way of ‘imagineering‘ future education through the eyes & perceptions of many others. […]

Effective Brainstorming with GPS

Guestblog by Peter Bertels, FlandersDC.be In his 1942 book How to Think Up, Alex Osborn presents the technique of ‘Brainstorming’ used at BBDO, one of the most successful advertising agencies at the time. He described brainstorming as a group activity “using the brain to storm a creative problem”. Although Osborn believed that brainstorming was central […]

Become a Protean Career Architect

Guestblog by Lesley Vanleke, debaak.be Continuous globalization, technological developments and sustainability issues have also impacted the traditional relationship between employers and employees. The way these two parties reach agreements is profoundly changing. In the traditional psychological contract, employees receive job security and they confide in the long term commitment to their company to take care […]

Plörk – Gamification and Group Coaching Combined

Guestblog by Pierre Neis Plork (play and work) is a workshop facilitation format combining the forces of group coaching and the dynamics of games (gamification). Some consider Plork as solution focused coaching in a minimal timeframe. The main reason for Plork is to install a dynamic of permanent change within the company by the dynamics of the […]

Team Purpose and Motivation Empowered by Applied Improvisation

Guestblog by Rutger Slump, letsplayinnovation.com An increasing number of professionals are trained in improvisation skills and mindset. It helps them to play with their environment instead of controlling it, which is especially useful when dealing with complex or choatic surroundings. Improvisation is therefore a very interesting part of the Innovation Game in organizations. “The act […]

Intera(ttra)ctive Presentations

Guestblog by Jasper Sonnevelt, VX Company If keeping someone’s attention in a lecture was business, it would have an 80% failure rate.” – dr. John Medina Whether you’re a seasoned presenter/trainer or just every now and than presenting something to your colleagues, you will know that one of the hardest things about giving a presentation […]