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Platinum Partners
Platinum Partners
HES School of Economics and Business
Honouring a tradition in business studies that goes back to 1867, HES School of Economics and Business is one of the largest single-faculty institutes of professional business education in the Netherlands. It offers a wide range of business-related programmes preparing students for Bachelor and Master Degrees. Support courses are included in the degree programmes such as foreign languages, law and psychology. Currently, the school has a staff of 300 and some 5,500 registered students.
www.economie.hva.nl/internationaal/index_eng.html
Knowledge Partners
Evalueserve
Evalueserve is a global knowledge services firm that provides high value-added research services to leading edge clients worldwide. Our clients include global consulting and market research firms, investment banks, Fortune 500 corporations, as well as SMEs in financial services, telecom and technology, pharmaceuticals and biotech, and various other sectors such as automotive, oil and gas, FMCG, Retail, etc. Evalueserve’s client executives are located in the North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The client executives are supported by its multi-lingual research team of 750 professionals, based in Gurgaon India.
www.evalueserve.com
Industry Partners
Futurist.com
Futurist.com is professional speaking and consulting company owned by Glen Hiemstra. The web site is designed to acquaint you with my services. These services include keynote presentations, seminars, long-range planning retreats and consultation, and scenario planning. All of what I do focuses in one way or another on the development of the preferred future and since 1980 I’ve assisted hundreds of private, public and non-profit enterprises in thinking about and planning for the long-term future. The web site offers information about my programs and presentations, my speaking schedule, and the projects, interviews, CD’s, books, and articles that I am currently involved with.
At the same time, Futurist.com is intended to be much more than a publicity brochure. We are also your Portal to the Future, a website focused on the dissemination of information about the future and how to create it. We provide information about many future related topics, and add to this information all the time. Most of the information is at the introductory level and provides an overview of a subject and some useful links. Our commitment is to a greater understanding of and enthusiasm about the future and future-related subjects. Our audience is global, one of the great features of the World Wide Web.
www.futurist.com
International Centre for Consulting Excellence
The International Centre for Consulting Excellence has been created to ensure the delivery of a better “consultancy” deal to the private and public sectors across the globe and a more secure future for executives drawn into consulting. As companies increasingly wield the knife and cut to at least the bone at the first sign of economic or business difficulty they need to get more and better results from those outside or within the business. Consultants must “give back the watch” and perform. We have a vision of enabling the best use of the best people, regardless of age, through effective and relevant ongoing professional development, accreditation, “state of the art” global research, proven tools, techniques and process.
www.icfce.com
BTM Institute
Michel Nobel Harriet Fulbright Institute of Business Technology Managament
Founded in 2003, The BTM Institute is the first international nonprofit organization of its kind that brings together a select group from the academic, corporate, government and thought leadership communities as a think tank to address the long-standing need to manage business and technology together. The Institute offers research, publications, books, multi-disciplinary events and workshops, and promotes professional standards and career development in the area of Business Technology Management.
The BTM Institute is the only knowledge network for Business Technology Management that combines Innovation - where cross disciplinary global leaders collaborate to create new management standards; Expertise - where industry turns for critical management knowledge and research; Career Guidance - where members go for mentoring and career development; and Learning - where members work together to improve existing management processes and methods.
www.btminstitute.org
Gugin
International Business Development
Gugin International Business Development is a European consulting firm operating globally from Denmark and France. Our business evolves around consulting, training and research. Our expertise is largely based upon our knowledge about culture and its impact on business development.
www.gugin.com
Innergy Creations BV
Innergy Creations developes new Internet & Multimedia driven products and services. Innergy Creations initiates & implements innovative business cases. We believe that business innovation is all about balance. Balance of vision, ideas, creativity, business, marketing, technology and the management of it.
www.innergybv.biz
Synmind BV
Getting the best out of innovation and decision-making.
A dynamic enterprise as well as an effective government permanently needs more productive decision making, either on a project- or process basis.
Synmind enables you to do exactly that through synthesizing information and extracting knowledge at the same time!
Synmind offers a continuously available virtual decision environment that will function as an integral part of your own organisation, enabling you to harvest the creative potential of your organization to its fullest.
Synmind not only exploits the intuition and knowledge/experience of individual group members but also enhances decision making productivity in several ways. By visualizing individual assessments of ideas, proposals, solutions, or facts, Synmind accelerates understanding of the interrelations of the expressed opinions in an unparalleled way. Besides, Synmind enables users to ventilate their differing views on moments and locations appropriate to them, seven days a week, 24 hours per day. Valuable minority opinions will not be lost in the group dynamics and hierarchy.
Last but not least, Synmind compels purposeful discussions by offering effective means to control sessions by well defined goals, criteria and milestones.
Using Synmind can go hand in hand with existing decision making capabilities and practices within your own organisation and is available in a number of operational modes.
www.synmind.com
Info.nl
Info.nl helpt bedrijven met effectieve webtoepassingen zoals web portals, corporate websites, web content management en wireless-toepassingen. Ook op strategisch niveau kan Info.nl uw weboplossingen richting geven, bijvoorbeeld door het maken van een digital roadmap. Tenslotte kan Info.nl u helpen bij de operatie van uw webomgeving.
www.info.nl
Media Partners
KnowledgeBoard
Our unique principles of self-moderated community-led research supported by expert content scouting, events and community news bulletins nurtures a continously evolving think and action network of 12,000 members. Anyone is welcome to join and enjoy without hassle or payment; KB's global partnership provides experienced support to thousands of individuals and organisations with a growing knowledgebase, workshops, KM networking, publishing and more: do you want to edit a Special Interest Group? Visit the site:
www.knowledgeboard.com
What is Enlightenment? magazin
What is Enlightenment? schreckt nicht vor den wirklich wichtigen Fragen des Lebens zurück. Jede der vier Ausgaben, die wir jährlich herausgeben, beleuchtet einen kritischen Aspekt des spirituellen Lebens in unserer heutigen komplexen, spannungsreichen und sich rasant verändernden Welt. Unsere fortlaufenden Studien haben immer deutlicher zu Tage treten lassen, dass die spirituelle Transformation für uns Menschen tatsächlich ein evolutionäres Gebot ist und im Zentrum einer jeden Vision über die Veränderung dieser außer Kontrolle geratenen Welt, in der wir leben, stehen muss.
Kurzum: Wir sind bestrebt, das gerade erst in Erscheinung tretende Gebiet einer neuartigen Spiritualität, die ganz und gar eine Spiritualität für das 21. Jahrhundert ist, zu erfassen.
www.wie.org/de
Shaping Tomorrow
Shaping Tomorrow exists to help you 'anticipate the future' and recognize the opportunities and risks that will affect you.
We help busy people and organisations manage uncertainty and create opportunities for growth and profits - today. Every day our editors scan and analyse trends worldwide, and upload relevant articles and studies about the future to Shaping Tomorrow.
From our UK headquarters we manage this global team of editors, each with a subject specialization. Our information comes from rigorous and continuous physical searches for quality future-related sites. We are trained environmental scanners and trends researchers, not an automated web crawler. We have backgrounds in professional futures, market research, publishing, and senior management roles in many of the industries we cover.
www.shapingtomorrow.com
iNSnet
iNSnet - interNetwork for Sustainability - supports and promotes comprehensive sustainable development. iNSnet regards sustainable development as a tool for improving the future of life.
iNSnet offers an open, international platform for disseminating information, knowledge and examples of good practices and results to support the work of people, parents, teachers, workers, businesspeople, politicians and administrators, communicators and leaders for leaving a better world for future generations.
iNSnet helps organizations mapping out and communicating sustainable strategies and facilitates sustainable projects.
www.insnet.org
World Summit Award
The World Summit Award, a global project, held in the framework of the WSIS, seeks to demonstrate the benefits of the Information Society in terms of the new qualities in content and applications, by selecting, presenting and promoting the best products from all over the world with a special emphasis on bridging the digital divide.
www.wsis-award.org
Obis Omni
Obis Omni has been created as a direct result of extensive research with a wide variety of Business Intelligence professionals. Feedback reflected that there was a strong demand for an independent, dedicated BI Community where learning and networking tools (on and offline) are developed around individuals' ever-changing needs. Obis Omni is this single focal point for BI professionals.
Obis Omni delivers thought-provoking, transparent information through a wide variety of white papers, case studies, publications, news articles, online forums, events and suppliers.
www.obisomni.com
University Partners
University of Amsterdam
The Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) is a comprehensive university, which:
- aspires to occupy a leading position internationally in education and research
- aspires to be a multidisciplinary university where research is carried out, as well as education offered and followed in a broad range of disciplines
- aims to contribute in an active manner to social developments at regional and international level, in particular in the region of Amsterdam
- aspires to be a transparent and efficient organisation of professionals
- aims to effect improvement of its financial basis
- aims to confirm its image, which is based on its achievements and ambitions, and which its employees, students and graduates are acquainted with and support, and which is recognised by the outside world.
Corvinus University of Budapest
Futures Studies Department
The Futures Studies Department (FSD) is a scientific workshop, where a small team of dedicated futurists works since 1968 to raise awareness of and responsibility for the future, and to disseminate concepts, methods and tools to influence it through education and various research projects on the academic level, and through consulting.
www.uni-corvinus.hu
Institute for Media and Information Management
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Media and Information Management (MIM) studies is the course that prepares you for careers in the professions of the future - for information is already the key element in our society. If you want to play a part in deciding what magazines and papers write about, what appears on television, which books are published or which information products end up on the market, then MIM is the course for you.
www.mim.hva.nl
HES School of Economics and Business
Honouring a tradition in business studies that goes back to 1867, HES School of Economics and Business is one of the largest single-faculty institutes of professional business education in the Netherlands. It offers a wide range of business-related programmes preparing students for Bachelor and Master Degrees. Support courses are included in the degree programmes such as foreign languages, law and psychology. Currently, the school has a staff of 300 and some 5,500 registered students.
www.economie.hva.nl/internationaal/index_eng.html
Utrecht School of Governance
www.usg.uu.nl
Supporting Partners
Nano Tsunami
Nano Tsunami based in Holland, is Europe's largest NanoTech News Portal. Nano Tsunami is independently owned and we pride ourselves on being a " nano soap box" from which all parties ( for and against ) Nanotechnology can air their respective views & news items.
Nano Tsunami offers daily global headline news about the emerging MNT, micro- mems- and NanoTech industries.
Our target audience consists of those interested in developments within the emerging world of NanoTech, we also focus on emerging NanoTech products.
Entry to our site requires no form of log-in or subscription and our editorial calendar is 6 days a week (with Sat-Sun Issues combined)
www.nano-tsunami.com
Asia House
To many newcomers the Asian market is incomprehensible. Asia House is an independent organisation that can support you in developing a successful intercultural business relation. We mainly focus on Greater China, Japan and South-Korea, where we know the many customs and habits through years of experience, customs and habits we in the West are usually not aware of.
Communicating with Asia is one of a kind. Many western organisations completely misjudge the Far East by using the same approach as in Europe. Asia House is not only aware of the many cultural differences between the West and the Far East, but is also well-informed on the cultural and political barriers one has to overcome to be successful in Asia.
www.asiahouse.nl
economie
economie aims to help create a world where investment with social, environmental and ethical consideration is the universal norm. We believe, that each individual should be able to invest in a way that reflects his or her personal values. Also, we believe that together we can take charge of our monetary power to build a future in which prosperity doesn't rely on the impoverishment of others, despoiling the environment or fuelling conflict. We aim to achieve this by raising global awareness of socially responsible investment, by transforming attitudes towards it and, more specifically, by increasing public access to expert SRI advice.
economie has developed the UK's first SRI examination course and SRI kitemark to provide comprehensive in-depth training and accreditation for financial advisers committed to socially responsible investment.
www.economie.co.uk
Fast Future
Fast Future helps clients explore future trends, assess their implications and develop strategies to address them. We place a strong emphasis on using horizon scanning to spot opportunities to create trends, develop propositions that disrupt markets and build new ventures.
www.fastfuture.com
Promedia
Promedia takes care of the production of internal and external magazines, (e-mail) newsletters, content for websites, reports, speeches, etc. Communication projects that build bridges between sender and recipients. Promedia gives shape to your communication goals and advises about the multi media approach.
www.promedia.nl
Organic & Wellness News
Organic & Wellness News TM, produced by Premergo International Inc, is the first international and independently owned trade journal for the organic and natural sectors with worldwide distribution. Our Mission is to tell buyers and producers about the organic and eco-friendly alternative to conventional shopping and living. On paper and on the Web, we connect producers, traders, brands and customers in the marketplace. By letting them share information, we strengthen the organic sector. With two annual editions and 20,000 copies, the newspaper covers around 29 fairs every year. Visit us www.organic-and-wellness-news.com and register for free. For any questions or to submit us any editorial ideas, please contact info@organic-and-wellness-news.com.
Plausible Futures
The Plausible Futures Newsletter is a news service for the future studies community edited by independent researcher Ole Peter Galaasen based in Norway. The initial idea behind Plausible Futures was to use the internet to collect and present news and analysis on different management topics. Throughout the years the site has grown in complexity and the coverage today spans diverse science and humanistic topics. The objective of this website is to help organizations and individuals discern the news and background information available on the internet related to the future. The key topics of this site is new technology, management theory and long term large scale change.
www.plausiblefutures.com
The CEO Refresher
The CEO Refresher is brain food for business! Leadership - strategy - leading change - performance - insight - words and wisdom - mindfulness - interestingness - learning - and learning faster!
www.refresher.com
