This blog is about my thoughts on all subjects I encounter out of curiosity and during everyday work. My work focusses on Information Strategies & Management but also, as you can, see wines from the magnificent country New Zealand.
Three Forms of Transparency
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Three Forms of Transparency

by Robbert on feb 25, 2012 • Reageren?
I think there are three forms of transparency: forced, active and passive. The first, forced transparency, is well know because of cases like Enron and Wikileaks. Legislatorsand society force organizations to be open about the way they operate. Organizations are forced to be accountable and more importantly to do the...
De weg naar het informatie paradijs
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De weg naar het informatie paradijs

by Robbert on okt 20, 2011 • Reageren?
De afgelopen periode heb ik het boek het informatie paradijs van Guus Pijpers gelezen. Dit boek geeft op een hele pragmatsiche wijze handvatten om de weg naar het informatie paradijs te vinden en wanneer je het paradijs gevonden hebt hoe je in het paradijs jouw weg kan vinden. Guus maakt...
Infographics are out of control
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Infographics are out of control

by Robbert on sep 22, 2011 • 2 reacties
This year to date the stream of infographics seems to be out of control. Every day there is a new infographic that tries to explane some phenomenon. If I search twitter for #infographic I get 20 more results within 5 minutes! Again triggered by Juuso Koponen I feel that most...
How neuroscience could make your presentations better
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How neuroscience could make your presentations better

by Robbert on sep 19, 2011 • Reageren?
Today I had a thought about presentation and neurosciences. My main question was: how can neuroscience help presenters tell their stories better to an audience? I see two important things here. the first is using multiple visual slides for each sentence. If you want to do this you should use visuals...
PICNIC day three
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PICNIC day three

by Robbert on sep 17, 2011 • Reageren?
Yesterday was the third and final day of PICNIC. The picture (courtesy of PICNIC) was taken in the NANO supermarket and is a bonzai tree powering a cellphone. In this supermarket artists gave impression what could be done with nano technology. This wonderfull day started with the Open Data Breakfast....
PICNIC day two
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PICNIC day two

by Robbert on sep 15, 2011 • Reageren?
Today was day two of PICNIC and another great day, maybe not as great as yesterday but never mind! The weather had improved tremendously over night. The day started with the Vodafone Mobile Clicks presentations. After a short delay and an introduction that was a little bit to long they...
PICNIC day one
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PICNIC day one

by Robbert on sep 14, 2011 • Reageren?
My first ever PICNIC festival day started with a nice talk by professor Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the KNAW. He talked about the relationship between creativity and physics. One of the best parts was about most important element of a formula, the equals sign. This sign brings together two worlds...
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Great TED video by Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing

by Robbert on feb 25, 2012 • Reageren?
For me this video is about the power of association in the brain!
Neuroscience & Information Management
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Neuroscience & Information Management

by Robbert on sep 9, 2011 • Reageren?
Yesterday I gave a presentation at Rabobank on neuroscience, the final frontier of information management. At VLC we believe there are four barriers to information management. The last one is interpretation. If your information is digitally available, accessibel and relevant, interpretation is the last barrier. Can a person make the right decision based on that information. The...
PICNIC2011 Poster Project
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PICNIC2011 Poster Project

by Robbert on aug 11, 2011 • Reageren?
At the PICNIC site I found this slideshow on the posters for the upcoming festival, some very nice posters! Great work!
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Processes and EIM

by Robbert on aug 10, 2011 • Reageren?
The world of processes and information is a world closely linked. The reason to manage your information is that it has value in the processes of your organization. If this is not the case why bother? Let’s look at the sorts of information that have value in the world of processes. Describing the process is...
The 80/20 rule for Social Media
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The 80/20 rule for Social Media

by Robbert on aug 3, 2011 • Reageren?
Yesterday I had a very nice discussion on the application of the 80/20 rule (aka the Pareto Principle) on social media. The nicest application of this rule is by Timothy Ferriss in the 4 Hour Workweek. He states that 20% of your customers take up 80% of your time. So you need to lose these customers...
Post Holiday Energy
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Post Holiday Energy

by Robbert on jul 27, 2011 • Reageren?
This week I returned from my holiday and started working again. About 2 months ago I started my training for the Amsterdam Half Marathon and the last two weeks I ran a lot. At the moment my energy levels are great and still growing. This is a wonderful feeling that I van recommend to every...
Updating Administration
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Updating Administration

by Robbert on jul 4, 2011 • Reageren?
Being the first of the month all business activities are concerned with updating the administration. First was the VLC Advisory administration. This was the first time and we are in a transition of systems. The consequence was that it took a while and needed some manual corrections because of the transition. I had to take...
Visualizing the Flow of Tweets
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Visualizing the Flow of Tweets

by Robbert on jul 1, 2011 • Reageren?
I am looking at two very nice vids twitter posted on its blog yesterday. They are illustrating nicely how tweets from japan were posted, replied retweeted! Information has to move to create value. How does your organisation move information? and
CIOnet and Again Big Data
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CIOnet and Again Big Data

by Robbert on jun 30, 2011 • Reageren?
This afternoon I visited the last CIOnet meeting before the holiday season. The subject again was Big Data. The organization had some great foresight in planning this session a few days after all big research companies like Gartner and McKinsey published some great reports on this topic. The session started with Edgar Heijmans, programdirector at...
Bigdata and Social Business
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Bigdata and Social Business

by Robbert on jun 29, 2011 • Reageren?
Today I was taking a look at some of the posts and tweets on last weeks Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. I visited this conference in 2008 and always keep an eye open this time of year. One of the keynotes was from Lee Bryant from Headshift. He talked about Data Driven Business Improvement. In...
Three out of five!
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Three out of five!

by Robbert on jun 23, 2011 • Reageren?
Today I started of at the wrong VLC office ;-( A mixup in the appointment forced myself and a colleague to drive to Rotterdam. The meeting started to late but had a very good result. We discussed our internal change management training. We made a decision about group size, subjects and the case we will...
Sales and Change for VLC
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Sales and Change for VLC

by Robbert on jun 23, 2011 • Reageren?
Yesterday I was busy working on a number of leads, this is always exciting and nice to do. Sometimes we figure out that we cannot help the customer and sometimes we can! The questions from (potential) customers often vary a lot, which is nice to see because this means strategic variation. Within VLC we are...

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