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  • Banks for a Better World

    This is probably the most important blog post I wrote since the start of my blog in April 2009. It’s about a “big bad idea” that started simmering during Le Web 2010, when listening to Shai Aghassi of Betterplace.com     Shai Agassi was the number two of SAP in 2009, responsible for a budget… Read more

  • Is SWIFT a Railway station ?

    Recently had a good discussion with Tony Fish, author of My Digital Footprint, and entrepreneur/investor with AMFventures. The discussion was in the context of our digital identity incubation project (more about that project in an upcoming blog post). Not sure who invented it, but he came up with a really good metaphor based on the… Read more

  • Pump up the (innovation) Volume

    I would like to start with one of the slides of the innovation framework presented in “How to make babies?”. The graphic and model is of course based on – but adapted to the specific SWIFT environment – the work of on Henry Chesbrough, the godfather of the concept of “Open Innovation”, and author of… Read more

  • Pirates, Rebels, Mercenaries and Innovators

    Not many people know this, but in the 70ies, 80ies, I was a quite successful DJ, and me and my friends toured under the brand “Celebration”. Life was – and still is – a big feast. Embarrassed to say, but my first record bought was “Paranoid” from Black Sabbath. The paranoid thing probably haunted me… Read more

  • A little bit of heaven

    We are having some fantastic spring weather here in Belgium. Almost summer time with blue skies and temperatures of 25° C. But it is still spring. End April 2011. On top of it, I took some days off during this week. I am usually very lucky when planning my days off: the weather gods are… Read more

  • Innotribe Mumbai: Newsflash #1

    By now, you should know that on June 1-2 2011, Innotribe will host its first standalone event in Mumbai.     Innotribe Mumbai – Mobile payments: Connecting the unbanked will focus on the opportunities that high mobile penetration presents to take banking services to the historically ‘unbanked’ communities – and explore the ways in which… Read more