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  • Poem: Be Free, Like Birds in the Sky

    I’d like to do nothing for some time be free flying and gliding like birds in the sky left, right, up, down, up, down,… defying centrifugal forces unlimited by time, space, distance, force like free painting with myself as the paintbrush and the sky as canvas 4-dimensional playful like the birds, showing little tricks, challenge and… Read more

  • Pirates in the Sandbox!

    I spent last weekend in the wonderful city of Lisbon, under a blue sky, lots of sunshine and an pleasant spring-like 18°C! The atmosphere in the city is super-relaxed, the best description I heard was “like Barcelona on tranquilizers”. A couple of months ago, Venessa Miemis pointed me to the website of SandBox, a movement/network… Read more

  • 2012: my boss wants me to dance!

    We are getting towards the end of the year, and time has come to nail down the Innotribe 2012 objectives of our team members. Last Friday, I had my regular 1-1 with my boss Kosta Peric @copernicc – Head of Innovation at SWIFT. We had a really good discussion, challenging each other vigorously on what… Read more

  • Digital Identity: Buzzuminar with Dan Marovitz

    Yesterday, i had the pleasure to be interviewed by Dan Marovitz, the founder of Buzzumi, a knowledge monetization platform, and a board member of rbidr, and the Professional Diversity Network. He is currently on sabbatical from Deutsche Bank where he was, until June of this year, Head of Product Management for Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking… Read more

  • Defrag2011: Mercenaries with a Soul

    This was my second Defrag. I attended Defrag for the first time last year in 2010, and it helped me spot 6 excellent speakers for Innotribe at Sibos: Jeff Jonas, Mark Dowds, Laura Merling, Dion Hinchcliffe, Doc Searls, and Stowe Boyd.  I contacted more Defrag speakers, but or they couldn’t make it, or I just… Read more

  • Fear is not an option

    Previous posts were impressions of some great conferences I recently attended. This blog post is different. It is more a personal reflection. I invite you to join me on my journey. In our company, failure is not an option (FNOA). That’s quite normal given the nature of our business: a worldwide business-to-business network for mainly… Read more