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What is the company of the future like?
How do young startups manage to take over the world at a dazzling pace while trusted, established companies are going bankrupt? What developments would an entrepreneur or director need to keep track of in order to act at the right moment and seize the opportunities? How radically do you have to change to still be…
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Privacy: protect it or you’ll lose it
Serial entrepreneur and technology innovation expert Danny Mekić has outspoken views about data protection and privacy. ‘Privacy and security are not each other’s enemies. They go together hand in hand. And without privacy there is no security anyway.’ Danny Mekić was 12 years old when he started working as a volunteer for the newly launched…
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Customer brand loyalty is disappearing; what can you do to keep your customers? 5 tips.
One of the most important changes in today’s market economy is a strong decrease in brand loyalty, concludes entrepreneur and innovation expert Danny Mekić, who is a speaker at the Nyenrode Masterclass Business Development. “Brand loyalty used to be an excuse to avoid having to look for the best offer at the lowest price time…
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Digital voting: expensive, undemocratic and an inevitable security liability
It’s a debate that keeps coming back up. Sometimes it’s about voting computers; this time it’s about voting from your home using your laptop or smartphone. Voting with a slip of paper and a red pencil is ‘obsolete’, insist the technophiles. But contrary to what they say, the pencil and paper method is still the…
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ANWB’s Big Brother insurance is a terrible idea
How can a car insurance company continue to make money if driverless cars might make car damage a thing of the past? The answer is simple and sinister: by gathering as much private information about their customers as possible. Google has been doing it very successfully for years and the value of their shares has…
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“Facebook is taking the Pavlov approach to a whole new level”
Insulting a foreign head of state will soon no longer be an offence in the Netherlands. But on Facebook, it still is. Erdogan cartoons by Ruben L. Oppenheimer aren’t welcome on the online platform, and a satirical poem about Erdogan written by journalist Annabel Nanninga was sent to the digital waste bin too. Technology expert…