Opinions

Researchers and professors give their opinion about current affairs from the point of view of their expertise in a certain domain. Their knowledge and expertise can shed a unique light on global situations, current affairs and political issues.

2012

Olympic Jazz (09 Feb 2012)

By Stijn Viaene, professor of Management Information Systems
(Source: Smart Business Strategies, February 2012)

2012 is touting itself as the year of the Summer Olympic Games in London. The papers will be packed with Olympics news. The bulk of the news coverage in the run-up to Sport’s High Mass, by the way, is perfectly predictable: how the organisation is running hopelessly behind schedule, and how all sorts of incidents are endangering the Games. But even so, in the final analysis, we’ll find that everything will be ready in time! We will have jumped to conclusions again, and the planning will not have been so bad after all.

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Mirror, mirror... (05 Dec 2011)

By Stijn Viaene, professor of Management Information Systems
(Source: Smart Business Strategies, December 2011)

You can really learn a lot by studying successful organisations that truly value collective creativity and open innovation. And we certainly have a couple of gazelles in Belgium. Does it surprise you that they fully embrace the possibilities of the Internet for co-creation of value? They represent the ‘Web x.0’.

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