Tag: Innovation

  • “When times are changing, never forget the beauty in your craft”

    “When times are changing, never forget the beauty in your craft”

    “Any entrepreneur should constantly be looking for their distinctive qualities. What makes you the best at your trade? What can you offer this changing society? Is this the area of work that suits you best? Everyone has their role, their function; and the key is to find your unique strength. Estate agents too can ask…

  • Interview Randstad Magazine

    Interview Randstad Magazine

    Danny Mekić is a management consultant in the area of technology, media, communication, entrepreneurship and innovation. He gives lectures, teaches classes and often appears on radio and television. Furthermore, he is part of the shadow cabinet of the Dutch entrepreneurs’ organisation ONL voor Ondernemers as its Minister of Technology. What does he consider the greatest…

  • Technological battle for the future

    Technological battle for the future

    During the Christmas holidays, I always visit a lot of fellow entrepreneurs. Retailers try to take advantage of the holiday rush – their devotion and ambition is an inspiration – and others use the time to look ahead to the future, aside from the usual festivities. But they’re all concerned with the question in which…

  • Retailer self-pity won’t help your revenue

    Retailer self-pity won’t help your revenue

    It seems not a week goes by without a message appearing in one medium or another, lamenting how badly retailers suffer from the advent of the internet. It’s being repeated so often, you’d almost start believing it. And now the retail crisis has even reached a point where an appeal to the consumers’ morality is…

  • Danny Mekić is after sustainable innovations

    Danny Mekić is after sustainable innovations

    To let today’s solution be tomorrow’s solution too. Humankind in the West has accomplished great things. Our knowledge is richer than ever and information is available around the world. There are walnuts from Australia in European supermarkets, and we can eat strawberries any time of the year. Technology does much of our work for us,…

  • Innovation: speed boats and oil tankers

    Innovation: speed boats and oil tankers

    A faltering economy leaves little room for innovation within a large, established company. More than ever, employees with good ideas who want to innovate are met with critical scrutiny and demands for a well fleshed-out investment proposal: before an innovation gets the green light, it needs to be proved that this innovation will be successful.…