Monthly Archives: December 2010

December 21, 2010
StagisLife

High expectations for a happy New Year

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This afternoon, December 21, we are shutting down the office for almost two weeks, celebrating the holidays and the new year. The year 2010 certainly hasn’t been easy for us at Stagis – a bit of a bumpy ride. Where the global crisis of 2009 left us untouched (actually it was a very good year [&h ...
December 20, 2010
Branding, Communication

Bus drivers rap MC Einer Christmas song to create new image

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Every year at Christmas time a Danish hit from 1988 by rappers MC Einar is played on Danish radio. ”Jul, det’ cool” it’s called, meaning ”Christmas, it’s cool”. The rappers talk about an angry bus driver. Last week the ”Bus drivers with character” faced the old hit with their own r ...
November 28, 2010
Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Experience-based communication for CBS a success

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A few weeks ago we launched the conference ‘Be the change’ for the executive Master of Management Development program from Copenhagen Business School. The conference was designed to create attention and be a platform for interaction between the executive program and potential participants. The f ...
November 24, 2010
Talks and events

Kom-Dag 2010 on Authenticity and Credibility

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I was fortunate enough to participate at “Kom-dag”, the annual event created by the Danish Communication Association. The theme this year was Authenticity and Credibility. Apart from a 30-minute talk in the morning, I gave a brief interview that you can watch on YouTube and an article ab ...
October 25, 2010
Communication, StagisLife

Major branding project about the bus drivers in Copenhagen

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Last week I signed a contract with the public transportation organization Movia who represents the public bus industry in Copenhagen and Sealand. In July, the Danish Transportation Agency decided to allocate a little less than 10 mio. Danish kroner (about 1.3 mio Euro) to giving the bus drivers a be ...
October 24, 2010
Communication, Talks and events

Map Marathon

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Last weekend I had the pleasure to participate in the seminar: Map Marathon, an event that is part of the annual Frieze Art Fair, based in Regents Park, London. The seminar had an impressive line up of scientists, mathematicians, graphic designers and artists all talking about how mapping can be use ...
October 23, 2010
Design and Identity, StagisLife

New knowledge base in London

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The last few weeks has been the first, in my new position as both a member of the Stagis team and as a master student in London. I had the privilege to be accepted at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design’s MA in Communication Design. The school is located in Clerkenwell and Holborn [&he ...
October 21, 2010
Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Be the change conference – Marketing by demonstrating the authentic strengths

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How do you market an executive master program that excelles by letting the participants shape the program themselves? At Master of Management Development, an executive program for experienced managers at Copenhagen Business School, the managers attending the program decide for themselves what to rea ...
Authenticity Book, Creativity and Leadership

NOMA – Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine (book release)

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Last month, Rene Redzepi, the celebrated No. 1 chef of restaurant NOMA, was introducing his new book at the Sydney Opera House. I just received the book by mail this morning. It’s beautiful and well worth reading. Inspiring story (and diary) and inspiring photos. Out on Politikens Forlag in De ...
Design and Identity

Trade union crisis makes organisations look inside themselves

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‘The crisis makes the trade union look inside’. An article on the website of Danish trade union FTF is concerned with the organizational crisis of their market: the members of the trade and labour unions are fleeing. They interviewed me to get a perspective of possible solutions in regar ...
October 3, 2010
Authenticity Book, Design and Identity

Authentic Patterns

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We have been working on the book cover for ‘The Authentic Company’, coming out in 2011 in Danish and in 2012 internationally. Here is a shot from Annes screen I took the other day. The hardcover has a black and white pattern illustrating boxes. At the center of the front page you’l ...
September 14, 2010
Communication, Talks and events

Stagis part of Kom-dag 2010 on Authenticity

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I’m thrilled to tell you, that I’m participating as speaker at Kom-dag 2010 (Communication Day 2010) on November 23rd which is being organized by Danish Communication Association. The theme of the year is authentic and reliable (trustworthy to be exact) corporate communication. At the e ...
September 1, 2010
Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Design and Identity

City of Copenhagen wishes ‘GOOD TRIP’ with new magazine

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Municipality of Copenhagen wants to raise the traffic safety between so-called ”soft” and ”hard” road users to get less injuries in the busy metropolis. And as Stagis has worked a lot with different institutions and organizations in regard to traffic and safety as well as the bus industry of ...
August 31, 2010
Talks and events

Internal communication means better business (from MobilTech conference)

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I was attending a conference on the use of mobile technology in business and communication today, as I was presenting a Stagis project called Busdrivers with character (“Chauffører med karaktér” in Danish), presenting the way we’ve been working with customers as a means to change ...
August 27, 2010
StagisLife, Talks and events

DDA Bar #21 at Stagis

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Yesterday afternoon and evening, Stagis hosted the 21st DDA Bar, an event for the members of Danish Design Association. Peter Kreiner, CEO of Noma gave a brief talk on the success of Noma. He also added an important comment on the window of opportunity that not only Noma and Danish restaurants have ...