to share

In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very mportant, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.
Joseph Badaracco

In our ‘new life‘ we explicitly look for new things, things that allow us to learn and that may be applied to our work. The choices we made lead us to generalistic areas; instead of specialisation, we have decided to orient ourselves broadly and combine and integrate those experiences. One of the subjects that we are interested in is (OTSM-)TRIZ. To share knowledge, we regularly attend conferences about this subject. The documents below describe our experiences.

Cybercrime
May 2011

Somewhere halfway through 2010, John asked Ruud Goudriaan, a former project colleague and member of ING's Corporate Security Office, to do a presentation on cybercrime for NGI. Ruud was enthusiastic, but still it took some time before it could be properly scheduled. In May 2011...

The Future of Financial Infrastructure
January 2011

For quite a few years now, John has been involved with the Club of Amsterdam. One or two times a year, he helps organise a session on various, topical subjects. In January 2011, John organised a session about future products and services within the financial services market...

TRIZ Future 2010 Conference-Bergamo
3-5 November 2010

The event took place at the Città Alta – the medieval part - of Bergamo (not far from Milan), and more specifically in the old monastery of Sant’Agostino. The ambiance was really beautiful!
It was the tenth time the conference was organised. The most important subjects were...

TRIZFest 2009 Saint Petersburg
July 2009

In July 2009, we travelled to the Russian Federation – for the first time – to visit the TRIZFest 2009, in St. Petersburg, the city of the Hermitage. St. Petersburg is a beautiful, old city, with a metro, more than 100 meters below ground, with many canals, on both sides of the river Neva...