Increase your social impact

People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy.

How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your organisation too.

This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically.

La fierté. Après l’amour, c’est probablement le plus beau sentiment du monde. C’est quelque chose que nous recherchons activement, également dans notre environnement de travail. Néanmoins, en réalité, cette ’fierté’ ne fait pas partie du quotidien au travail. Ainsi, plus de 70 % des employés vont au travail sans enthousiasme. Dès lors comment motiver et engager vos collaborateurs ?

Ce livre traite d’une culture d’entreprise qui est plus qu’une simple campagne de communication. D’une culture d’entreprise qui permet de trouver des employés, de les passionner et de les unir. C’est un livre truffé de conseils utiles pour développer et cultiver votre propre culture d’entreprise. Laissez-vous inspirer par l’histoire de Protime, racontée par son cofondateur et son CEO, Peter s’Jongers.

How trust can change the world

In the past 30 years, technology has caused waves of disruptive developments, each crashing onto society and business alike. With the tide building and the pace accelerating, the next wave promises to come in big. These new challenges have a societal and environmental impact, are systemic and increasingly complex.

Our old ways of doing business don’t suffice anymore. Furthermore, the future is too fast and too complex to go at it alone. In the future, competition will happen on the level of ecosystems, not just on the level of companies, products or services.

This book gives companies the tools to build mutually beneficial, equal and sincere partnerships. We call them metasystems. And we believe them to be the most suitable armor for the next decade. Metasystems are built on trust and purpose. The biggest challenge is how to leverage the soft side, the human factor again.

“It’s a pivotal time, both exciting and frightening. By joining forces, we believe businesses can accelerate, innovate and create a desirable future horizon.” - Dado Van Peteghem

“The war of all against all has ended. It’s time to reinstate the essence of business: collaborating to fuel progress and a prosperous future.” - Nils van Dam

Strategies and Best Practices for Corporate Partnering

Bart Vanhaeren – Co-Founder and CEO of InvestSuite
"This book is a gem for any B2B start-up entrepreneur. David succeeds in providing both the bigger picture as well as the really interesting nitty-gritty stuff. The real-life examples are spot on and very insightful. A must-read."

Karen Noël - General Partner, Partech Ventures
“Founders, you have found the only lawyer who will save you a lot of fees! A book to keep throughout the life of your start up! The advice provided is of great value.”

The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services.
 
The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner.  No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is required to collaborate with other partners to ensure growth.
 
It is crucial for startups and scaleups to think beyond (corporate) venture capital financings and actively use a vast spectrum of corporate partnering arrangements to scale their business.
 
This book thus takes an expansive approach and analyzes corporate partnering transactions from a much broader perspective, covering several types of partnering models for collaboration between corporates and startups and scaleups, with a very strong focus on the perspective of the startups and scaleups while engaging in these types of transactions.
 
Target audience
 
The main reason for writing this book is to provide strategic, but at the same time practical guidance for the analysis, design, negotiation and implementation of a broad range of corporate partnering transactions.
 
You should read this book if you are:
 
• an entrepreneur planning to grow the startup  through the design, adoption and execution of a corporate partnering strategy
• a corporate planning to collaborate with startups and scaleups through different corporate partnering transactions
• an investor desiring to contribute to the growth strategy of portfolio companies through funding and strong partnering expertise
• a transaction professional desiring to learn more about the complexity of corporate partnering transactions
 
 Peter de Keyzer –Growth Inc
"What do you need to grow your company? A plan, money, ideas, hard work and of course opportunities. Collaboration is not something that automatically springs to mind. However, David Dessers shows that collaboration is an excellent way forward to look for more growth. David has a tremendous amount of experience in facilitating collaboration and partnerships which means he easily takes you through all the steps and pitfalls, opportunities and strategies you need to know about. This book is filled to the brim with new insights, many interesting examples and deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in innovation, co-creation, corporate partnering and profitable growth."
 
Sven De Cleyn – imec.istart Program Manager
“This book not only gives a comprehensive overview of potential collaborative models that enable startups to scale, but also practical insights and recommendations supporting daily operations. Must-read for founders and managers that seek to engage with partners to scale their business.”
 
Jürgen Ingels – Serial Entrepreneur
“Reducing time by learning from others is an important success factor for companies in a digital world. This book is a great tool to apply this time reduction law and to learn how to get corporate partnering done in a faster and more efficient way.”

How do you innovate, how do you structure your organization, your team, your personal life? You need a detailed plan and everything laid out for the future! Really? Well, maybe not always. Maybe you need to operate also with the Spaghetti Principle.

Discover how you can embrace this special principle and really make innovation stick. Specifically, you will learn how to deal in today’s dynamic and uncertain environment.

With practical examples from leaders and companies you will see how a totally different approach to strategy and innovation can revolutionize your work. With examples from fields as diverse as the Startup world, nature, opera, TED, Lars Sudmann will awaken you to an inspiring and thought-provoking journey of innovation. You will see innovation and experimentation with different eyes after reading this book.

Lars Sudmann has been a CFO and a strategy manager at leading organisations. He is now a corporate advisor, university lecturer and explorer of what makes innovation and change possible.

Decode the data landscape. Reboot your sales and marketing. Prepare for the era of AI

Being obsessed with positive change and ideas can propel us to extraordinary achievements and can be a fantastic positive driver of change.

In the age of AI wired consumers with irrationally high demands, we need to be obsessed with creating smooth, differentiated, relevant, exciting customer experiences and frictionless customer services. Any of those interactions should be driven by customer data – the pulse of every customer’s unique heartbeat, and an organisation that has adopted new methodologies, processes, and technology platforms.

In Obsessed, we demystify the complex world of data and sales and marketing technology. We answer questions like: How do you build a data culture and strategy? How can you be more intentional about the technology foundation you choose to improve your marketing and sales engine across the customer lifecycle. How do you create an obsession for the right metrics that focus on value? How do you infuse Artifical Intelligence capabilities into your organization? Can you see GDPR as an enabler?

Finally, we need a cultural paradigm shift in dealing with marketing technology and applying it to marketing and sales scenarios. An obsession with long-term thinking and customer relationships based on value rather than short-term. And that’s when you truly start rebooting your revenue engine.

Decode the data landscape. Reboot your sales and marketing. Prepare for the era of AI

Being obsessed with positive change and ideas can propel us to extraordinary achievements and can be a fantastic positive driver of change.

In the age of AI wired consumers with irrationally high demands, we need to be obsessed with creating smooth, differentiated, relevant, exciting customer experiences and frictionless customer services. Any of those interactions should be driven by customer data - the pulse of every customer’s unique heartbeat, and an organisation that has adopted new methodologies, processes, and technology platforms.

In Obsessed, we demystify the complex world of data and sales and marketing technology. We answer questions like: How do you build a data culture and strategy? How can you be more intentional about the technology foundation you choose to improve your marketing and sales engine across the customer lifecycle. How do you create an obsession for the right metrics that focus on value? How do you infuse Artifical Intelligence capabilities into your organization? Can you see GDPR as an enabler?

Finally, we need a cultural paradigm shift in dealing with marketing technology and applying it to marketing and sales scenarios. An obsession with long term thinking and customer relationships based on value rather than short term. And that’s when you truly start rebooting your revenue engine.

Duval Union is a collaborative and cooperative business consulting, marketing and communications ecosystem that combines the know-how of seasoned marketing services agencies with the ambition of young marketing technology start-ups to fix business & marketing issues of companies. An agent of change that helps brands and corporations to enter the new normal of constant innovation & disruption.

This book gives you an insight in the specific ecosystem of Duval Union.

How do you innovate, how do you structure your organization, your team, your personal life? You need a detailed plan and everything laid out for the future! Really? Well, maybe not always. Maybe you need to operate also with the Spaghetti Principle.

Discover how you can embrace this special principle and really make innovation stick. Specifically, you will learn how to deal in today’s dynamic and uncertain environment.

With practical examples from leaders and companies you will see how a totally different approach to strategy and innovation can revolutionize your work. With examples from fields as diverse as the Startup world, nature, opera, TED, Lars Sudmann will awaken you to an inspiring and thought-provoking journey of innovation. You will see innovation and experimentation with different eyes after reading this book.

Lars Sudmann has been a CFO and a strategy manager at leading organisations. He is now a corporate advisor, university lecturer and explorer of what makes innovation and change possible.

Expressing yourself in a powerful way is not a gift, it’s a choice.
 
Are you tired of bumping into corporate walls? Not getting the budget, job or promotion that you want? Are you fed up with other people always being heard, while your ideas are being ignored? Are you struggling to network and pitch your business? Is a dry mouth and shaky voice the only thing you associate with speaking in front of a group? Do you just freeze when someone is giving you a hard time in a meeting and tries to take over?
 
If the answer is yes, then it’s time for you to STAND UP.
 
Everybody can learn to express themselves in a powerful way. No matter what other people claim. It’s not a gift, it’s a choice. Inspiring and convincing people to take action on your ideas starts with you, your story and how you bring it. This book will show you exactly how to do that.
 
Follow the five steps and discover how to:

• raise your energy and credibility
• earn attention and trust
• take people into your world
• become the solution
• trigger action

After reading this book, you will positively STAND OUT in any situation. Because standing up is the only way you can stand out in life and business.

Let’s inspire action!

Expressing yourself in a powerful way is not a gift, it’s a choice.
 
Are you tired of bumping into corporate walls? Not getting the budget, job or promotion that you want? Are you fed up with other people always being heard, while your ideas are being ignored? Are you struggling to network and pitch your business? Is a dry mouth and shaky voice the only thing you associate with speaking in front of a group? Do you just freeze when someone is giving you a hard time in a meeting and tries to take over?
 
If the answer is yes, then it’s time for you to STAND UP.
 
Everybody can learn to express themselves in a powerful way. No matter what other people claim. It’s not a gift, it’s a choice. Inspiring and convincing people to take action on your ideas starts with you, your story and how you bring it. This book will show you exactly how to do that.
 
Follow the five steps and discover how to:

• raise your energy and credibility
• earn attention and trust
• take people into your world
• become the solution
• trigger action

After reading this book, you will positively STAND OUT in any situation. Because standing up is the only way you can stand out in life and business.

Let’s inspire action!

This book reflects the scientific work which is based on Dries’ passion for the ISAs. It provides answers to questions, including:

• Are ISAs optimal auditing standards from a theoretical audit quality perspective?
• What is the advantage of principles-based over rules-based standards, and in what respect may such standards contribute to audit quality?
• In what way is the potential impact of auditing standards on audit quality contingent on the applicable institutional context?
• In what way is the legitimacy of auditing standardsetters under pressure?
• What may be the influence on standard-setting and regulation in general of a desire amongst policymakers for zero-tolerance in terms of residual risk?
• How does a researcher define and measure audit quality from a scientific perspective?
• In what respect is “compliance” different from “quality”?

Next to scientific arguments, this book is a unique attempt to providing empirical results related to audit reports issued in practice from 2004 to 2009:

• Which parties contribute towards compliance with ISA reporting standards: de-jure auditing standard-setters (IAASB, national auditing standards) or de-facto auditing standard-setters (Big-N auditing networks)?
• Are audit reports standardised from an individual criterion point of view?
• Is the text of audit reports harmonised at the international level, as we would expect from an ISA perspective?

This book is highly recommended for policymakers, standard-setters and academics around the globe who are interested in auditing standard-setting.

Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets and finally on PES.

Guiding citizens through this (r)evolution and supporting them to manage necessary or desired transitions is a shared challenge of European PES and a huge public responsibility PES are actively taking up. Thereby PES are contributing to well-balanced labour markets which are essential for sustainable growth and for maintaining our social welfare supporting systems.

PES jointly develop solutions through exchanging and learning from each other, rethinking practices and policies and continuously improving their organisations for more sustainable and inclusive labour markets and in order to better serve employers and jobseekers. This book gives an insight into PES policies and practices which are inspired by the close collaboration in the PES Network. PES Network members reflect on their European-wide learning organisation, they point out challenges and their strategic and operational answers from a national perspective, bringing in valuable personal experience. “PES Policies and Practices” thus touches upon a broad variety of PES core topics and gives you the chance to understand their business in a politically shaped environment, characterised by a unique collaboration.

Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets and finally on PES.

Guiding citizens through this (r)evolution and supporting them to manage necessary or desired transitions is a shared challenge of European PES and a huge public responsibility PES are actively taking up. Thereby PES are contributing to well-balanced labour markets which are essential for sustainable growth and for maintaining our social welfare supporting systems.

PES jointly develop solutions through exchanging and learning from each other, rethinking practices and policies and continuously improving their organisations for more sustainable and inclusive labour markets and in order to better serve employers and jobseekers. This book gives an insight into PES policies and practices which are inspired by the close collaboration in the PES Network. PES Network members reflect on their European-wide learning organisation, they point out challenges and their strategic and operational answers from a national perspective, bringing in valuable personal experience. “PES Policies and Practices” thus touches upon a broad variety of PES core topics and gives you the chance to understand their business in a politically shaped environment, characterised by a unique collaboration.

Si le besoin de sécurité existe depuis toujours, les moyens de l’assurer sont aujourd’hui transcendés : comment gérer et maîtriser le big data, l’intangibilité, le cyberespace… ? Les réponses adéquates manquent parce que l’esprit humain peine à suivre le rythme.

Or, se focaliser sur l’objet amène à occulter le tout qu’il intègre. La preuve : pas d’électricité pas d’Internet. La protection ne réside donc pas dans la seule informatique ; elle requiert une analyse holistique d’un système complexe en perpétuelle évolution. D’où la (re)découverte de principes de défense antiques totalement raccord avec les enjeux du cyberespace.

Design & Cyberespace expose ces designs en partant de la protection du point protégé pour gagner progressivement tout le contexte interne et externe.

The Digital Business Cookbook

Thanks to open source, the Cloud and API's, it is easier than ever before to build and release software products to a global audience. As a result, competition is tough, prices are under pressure. The good old recipe of just adding more functionality to your product does not work anymore.

In this book, Peter Verhasselt and Nick Boucart will explore what it takes to build winning digital products today. They’ll focus on the idea that one should stop developing software, and design digital services instead, effectively combining hyperscale with microcare: the ability to establish an intimate relationship with each and every of your thousands of users.

Peter and Nick will discuss the capabilities and processes you need to build such digital services. They zoom in on the kinds of assets you need to develop, and that will greatly influence the valuation, all supported with practical advice and real world examples.

If you are responsible for bringing digital products to the market, this book will give you a head start.

Language: English