Dutch minister of Economic affairs Mrs. Van Der Hoeven talked yesterday about RedesignMe.com in her yearly Innovation Lecture as being the example of an effective community of talents. “RedesignMe.com can be an inspiration for product developers and decission makers in using the massive creative potential of online communities.” Dutch press release here.
We are happy to announce that we are nominated for the Shell LiveWIRE award! This award goes to the most innovative new company of the Netherlands. We congratulate the other 12 nominated companies.
Today RedesignMe has been interviewed for Dutch Newspaper TV. http://www.ed.nl/video/regionieuws/article3920509.ece
This month an interview with RedesignMe can be found in the new Bright Magazine. The magazine theme is “Design for All” and talks about crowdsourcing product design and hacking IKEA.
Fresh back from Cannes, RedesignMe is off to Romania to join Vodafone’s Webstock Web 2.0 Conference. This conference full of keynotes and workshops on the development of Web 2.0 and the value for budiness. Meanwhile you can enjoy our new main page design and the introduction of our themes: Dutch Design Week and Sports & Technology.
Tuesday I’ll be joining a pannel discussion about collaborative innovation in Cannes, France. What can be a better environment to talk about innovation then wine, croissants, camembert and a jet-set boulevard? Pictures and report soon.
P2: Collaborative Innovation: Good for Business?
Panel Chair: Stephen Wolak (Vodafone, UK)
Panelists: Thierry Bonhomme, CEO, Orange Labs, France
Laurent Gouzènes, Group VP, STMicroelectronics, France
Stewart Fallis, BT, UK
Maxim Schram, RedesignMe
Date: Tuesday 16th September 2008
Time: 14.00-15.30
Room: AUDITORIUM I
Abstract: Open Innovation and Collaborative Innovation have attracted a lot of
coverage in recent years, particularly with the publication of Don
Tapscott’s book “Wikinomics”. What does collaborative innovation mean
for large corporations? Is collaborative innovation good for traditional
businesses? How can corporations collaborate and differentiate? Come
along to the panel and hear leading experts in this field discuss these
issues.
RedesignMe will be giving a lecture during Marketing day at the University of Maastricht on October 8. Here’s the program:
8:45 - 9:20 Reception
9:25 - 9:30 Opening by the President of the MMD: Chris Tossings
9:30 - 10:00 Lecture by Host of the Day: Piet Pauwels
10:00 - 10:45 Lecture by Henkel
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture by RedesignMe
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture by Nokia
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 16:15 Workshops - Case work + presentations
16:15 - 16:30 Drink - announcement of winners case competition
16:30 - 18:30 Drink - company fair - personal interviews
More info here: http://www.3ma.nl/mmd/
In the next issue of Bright Magazine you’ll find an interview I had with Matthijs van der Pol of Bright.
I did a video interview with the Dutch website NuZakelijk, last wednesday. You can watch it here: http://www.nuzakelijk.nl/20080815/nuzakelijk-video/iedereen-productontwerper-bij-redesignme Dutch only. 