Nowadays, job positions are not as clearly defined as they used to be. Increasingly, work is carried out in varying roles where the only constant is the employee – but even he or she has to keep growing and adapting. Our current systems of remuneration are the one thing that has not been moving along. Not only are they unable to keep pace with the dynamics of modern business but they are time consuming and expensive. If you want to abandon them, however, you first have to change the basis f...

Sinds 25 november 1975 is Suriname officieel een onafhankelijke democratische republiek, een zelfstandige natie. Maar anno 2021 functioneert het land op veel gebieden nog net als in de tijd van de Nederlandse kolonisatie en slavernij. Hoe komt dat? En hoe kunnen we dat veranderen?

Die vragen staan centraal in dit essay, dat gaat over de urgente noodzaak tot transformatie van een sinds eeuwen verwaarloosde samenleving tot een moderne, vitale maatschappij. Een maatschappij waarin de menselijke ...

Design thinking is on the rise among managers. And for good reason: design-driven organisations have higher revenue growth, more loyal customers and a higher competitive advantage than organisations that mainly focus on control. They are promising organisations that are focused on opportunities rather than bottlenecks. But, within organisations, design thinking does not happen all by itself. After all, organisations are like living tissue, they are only partly makeable, and usually have a str...