Sebastiaan Hooft – APK voor ondernemers

Sebastiaan Hooft – APK voor ondernemers

APK voor ondernemers is the latest book of Sebastiaan Hooft, a highly successful dutch serial entrepreneur, DJ and producer. The book is aimed at entrepreneurs and written in Dutch, so it’s funny to see a book review in English from a non-entrepreneur. 🙂

APK voor ondernemers” has some valuable life lessons and has useful takeaways for every professional, who is trying to balance the various roles in work- and personal life.

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Management Drives App – Individual Profile Remo Knops

Management Drives App – Individual Profile Remo Knops

In this article I will share my thoughts on the management drives experience and the resulting MD assessment and my individual profile. I noticed the Management Drives Experience on the LinkedIn feed of Arne Essers, HR Adviseur at Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek and Team Coach at Punt Komma Coaching. Brief introduction to Management Drives “Drives are … Read more

WRKSHP.tools – Erik van der Pluijm best tools for your next innovation workshop

WRKSHP.tools – Erik van der Pluijm best tools for your next innovation workshop

WRKSHP.tools is the latest online project of Erik van der Pluijm, who is one of the designers of the book Design a Better Business.

I’ve reviewed the book on this blog back in 2017, when I wanted to learn more about Design Thinking (check out this Standford University webpage).

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Operating Model Canvas book review – Andrew Campbell, Mikel Gutierrez, Mark Lancelott

Operating Model Canvas book review – Andrew Campbell, Mikel Gutierrez, Mark Lancelott

Operating Model Canvas – Aligning operations and organization with strategy is the title of the latest book of Andrew Campbell, Mikel Gutierrez, Mark Lancelott. The look and feel is very much like the Business Model Generation handbook from Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur Alan Smith, Patrick Van der Pijl and Tim Clark.

I this book review I will get you through the Operating Model Canvas book structure, the Operating Model Canvas Toolbox and compare it with the Business Model Canvas and Process Model Canvas. Finally I will give a business analysis view on the Operating Model Canvas.

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Waterfield Finn Wallet review for iPhone 7 Plus

Waterfield Finn Wallet review for iPhone 7 Plus

Waterfield Finn Wallet for iPhone 7 plus is the product that is reviewed in this article. Waterfield is a well established company in San Francisco that is making device specific sleeves, accessories and other bags.

I was personally looking for a wallet that could fit my passport, car paper, a few cards and even my Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 smartphone I wanted something with a high quality finish and at the same time functional, just like my Exentri Wallet.

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Waterfield Micro Wallet review

Waterfield Micro Wallet review

Waterfield Micro Wallet is the latest product from San Francisco based sfbags that I’ve purchased. It is a durable and compact wallet ideal for cash and cards.

However this wallet can be used in a wide variety of usage scenario’s and is even part of the Waterfield Cycling Ride Pouch. In this article I will have a look at the design and used materials.

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Aspiring Advisor Book Review – Moritz Dressel

Aspiring Advisor Book Review – Moritz Dressel

Moritz Dressel, a former Business Administration classmate from University of Twente, wrote the book Aspiring Advisor based on his experience as a management consultant within Deloitte. I was fortunate that Moritz was willing to sent me a copy of his book.

The Aspiring Advisor’s subtitle is “strategies and tools for a successful consulting career” and I was really curious what leanings Moritz would provide, given the fact that we’ve both work for large multinational (consulting) companies.

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Design a Better Business – Book review

Design a Better Business – Book review

Design a Better Business is the result of a hunderd-day-race of Patrick van der Pijl from Business Models Inc, Justin Lokitz from Business Models San Francisco and  Lisa Kay Solomon co-author of the bestseller Moments of Impact. Designers Maarten van Lieshout and  Erik van der Pluijm completed the Design a Better Business (book)team.

Based on the design thinking model (double loop) various must-have tools, skills and case studies are discussed for each phase in the model. So let’s dive into the book structure first and see if the highly visual work book consumes as easy as the Business Model Generation Handbook.

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Process Model Canvas – Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting

Process Model Canvas – Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting

The Process Model Canvas is developed by Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting and is complementary to Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas. The PM Canvas will help you define the operating model that needs to be adopted, but HOW do you do that?

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Onetastic addin for Microsoft OneNote

Onetastic addin for Microsoft OneNote

Onetastic is addin for Microsoft OneNote supercharges your OneNote client with macros that can be downloaded from Macroland, a note overview in OneCalendar, Image Utilities, Custom Styles, Favorites/Shortcuts and much more.

Driver to give Onetastic for Microsoft OneNote  a trie, was the  article “Why I’m Dumping Evernote for OneNote” of Sascha Segan on PCMag. I know Sascha from past Mobius Conferences, when he still was writing for Gear Log.

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