Creativity and Leadership

With Danish elections and a new Danish government forming in June, just before the summer holidays, the new Minister of Culture, Joy Mogensen, and the Department of Culture had little time to plan and think about the annual event which by tradition is held mid-August. I was pleased to assist the Min ...

December 6, 2018

Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Purpose

Your business has the potential to change the world

In the newly published book Secret no more! 45 global entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators and I have come together to share our secrets about creating and scaling a startup, innovating within existing companies and leading with authenticity and passion. I have written one of the chapters, in wh ...

May 23, 2018

Creativity and Leadership, Other, Talks and events

6 ideas for designing a successful leadership seminar

The arts and cultural institutions are experiencing challenging times trying to ensure high quality and innovate their content and offerings while public funding is decreasing year by year. The museums, theatres, creative schools and other public cultural organizations in Denmark have to look for ne ...

July 5, 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

Ambitious leadership seminar discusses Denmark as cultural nation

Once a year the executive directors of the Danish government-backed cultural institutions such as the National Gallery of Denmark and the Royal Danish Theater meet for a leadership seminar that runs for 24 hours. The Danish Ministry of Culture is the official host and the purpose of the meeting i ...

March 1, 2017

Branding, Creativity and Leadership

Potentials and pitfalls in acquiring the Pihl & Son contracting brand

Investors are breathing new life into the well known Danish developer brand Pihl & Son which went bankrupt in 2013. Now owner and board member of LM BYG, Carsten Mindegaard, has teamed up with an investor and bought the intellectual property rights from the bankruptcy estate. Together they are ...

April 25, 2016

In many organizations — and agencies — branding is often considered an issue for the marketing or communication department. However, no matter how skilled the professionals who make up these departments are, their potential for driving a positive change is ultimately hampered considerably by thi ...

The board and the brand

By Oskar Stokholm

February 23, 2016

Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Start-Up, Restart and a new beginning

By Christine Gade Dannisøe

What does it take to start up a new company? Is it possible to start your life over as an ex-convict? And how do you restart a brand in a more authentic way? These were some of the questions raised and answered at our first Re:garding event of 2016. The subject of the event was […] ...

January 21, 2016

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife, Talks and events

Re:start – How do you create the world’s biggest online tattoo community in just two years?

By Christine Gade Dannisøe

Re:start your business You often hear the phrase: “When you have the idea the rest comes easy”. That sounds promising, but in reality it is far more complicated to find that sweet spot in the market and more importantly to maintain a successful business. At our first Re:garding event in 2016 we ...

November 28, 2015

City branding, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Kommunebranding15 – from periphery to center

By Katrine Ytzen

Participants from Nuuk in the North to Tønder in the South of Denmark met 11 leading experts and practitioners from the field of place branding at our annual place branding conference, Kommunebranding15. The renowned place branding expert, Robert Govers, gave a motivating speech stating that place ...

April 1, 2015

Anthropology and Culture, City branding, Creativity and Leadership

Nyt selvforsynende brandingsystem – borgmestre løser tilflytningsproblemer ved at bytte borgere

En ny selvforsynende type branding, hvor borgere med de rette kompetencer flytter til en nabokommune, vil fremover redde Danmark. I år er det Fredericia, Kolding og Vejle der kommer til at opleve store forandringer med det nye projekt, hvor håndværkere, folkeskolelærere og kreative seniorer fra ...

November 7, 2014

Branding, City branding, Creativity and Leadership

Økologi har brandet Lejre

Den 11. november kommer Lejre Kommune og taler på Kommunebranding14 om, hvordan de er lykkedes med at blive “Den Økologiske Kommune”. I den nyeste udgave af Danske Kommuner pryder Lejres borgmester Mette Touborg forsiden og fortæller i en længere artikel om, hvordan Lejre har formåe ...

October 29, 2014

Branding, City branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity, StagisLife, Talks and events

Danish for progress: Smilet blegnede aldrig

Borgmester Jacob Bundsgaard (S) ændrer nu Aarhus Kommunes brandingstrategi for tredje gang på otte år. Det omdiskuterede ‘Aarhus – Danish for progress’ gav ikke den effekt, som man havde håbet på – og ‘Smilets By’ spøger stadig i kulissen. Her er tre klassiske place ...

October 15, 2014

Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

New management trend: Leadership through relations

Stagis has been working with Copenhagen Business School’s master programme Master of Management Development since 2006. The first couple of years we helped MMD improve the basic communications channels e.g. newsletters, website, corporate design, POS-materials, PR, social media, Google Adwords and ...

October 3, 2014

Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Back to the roots?

By Mikael Hallstrøm Eriksen

Det danske Hedeselskab (literally: “the Danish Heath Society”), an association whose commercial green sector activities generate an annual turnover of more than 2 billion DKK, has asked Stagis to help develop and revitalize its brand. First thing we did was to conduct an ethnographic map ...

September 5, 2014

Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Lejre gjorde visionen til virkelighed

Lejre Kommune satte sig i 2011 for at blive kendt som Den økologiske kommune. Tre år efter har de slået positionen som hovedstadens økologiske forhave fast med syvtommersøm. “Vi vil være en kommune med kant”. Så klar var udmeldingen fra Lejre Kommunes borgmester Mette Touborg i 2011, hvor ...

June 27, 2014

Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Master of Public Governance: Living the brand

Within the last 12 Months Stagis has been working very intensive with yet another master programme called Master of Public Governance, MPG, at Copenhagen Business School. This master programme is Denmark’s most flexible master for public leaders with more than 600 participants every year. But the ...

March 24, 2014

Anthropology and Culture, City branding, Creativity and Leadership

Stagis will help Municipality of Varde with new vision

This year got off to a good start when Stagis took part in the pitch of a large vision formulation process in the Municipality of Varde – and won. This means that part of our team will be spending a great deal of the Spring and the early Summer in the beautiful Western part of […] ...

August 26, 2013

City branding, Creativity and Leadership

Mød ildsjælene bag succesen “Cold Hawaii”

Der er sket noget magisk i Thy. Vestnordvest for Thisted ligger et af Europas bedste ”spots” for windsurfere. Det er en naturperle og en diamant for den nordjyske region, som netop i disse år er ved at blive slebet. Fænomenet kaldes ”Cold Hawaii” og er kendt verden over, hvis man elsker at ...

August 18, 2013

Authenticity Book, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

New Management Era: Capitalism and Hyperreality at Academy of Management

Academy of Management, the Worlds largest conference on management with about 10.000 participants and 1.600 presentations and workshops over a five day period. The conference is held in a new state in the US every year and this year it went down in Orlando, Florida – the home of Walt Disney World. ...

May 18, 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

How does your company rank?

By Kristoffer Schou

Thursday the 16th, Berlingske Business Magasin (a Danish business magazine) published a ranking of 140 renowned Danish companies for 2013 generated from interviews with 4.130 CEO’s. The measurements in the ranking include relevant parameters such as Leadership, Credibility, Competitive abil ...

March 17, 2013

Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Roskilde Festival just got a new logo – so what?

By Esben Skovgaard Wiese

In a previous blog post One man, 366 logos, I took a closer look at the Swedish designer Fredrik Lundwalls retouch of several well-known brand logos. Lundwall challenged himself to redesign an existing logo each and every day throughout 2012, and the result of his work was numerous potential face-li ...

February 8, 2013

Authenticity Book, Creativity and Leadership

Kierkegaard and authentic leadership

By Bo Starlit

It is 2013, and thereby the 200th birthday of Kierkegaard the world famous Danish philosopher. But what could a 19th century philosopher, discussing the fear and trembling of old testament Abraham possibly say about leadership, authenticity and organization today? In a sense Kierkegaard tries to und ...

February 4, 2013

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Stagis and CBS resume co-operation

By Louise Kramer

Since 2006 Stagis has helped Master of Management Development (MMD) – an executive master programme at Copenhagen Business School – with marketing and public relations. After a year off, we are now happy to announce that the co-operation has started again. For the next year or maybe more Stagis ...

December 4, 2012

Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Surfing adds value to Thisted

By Kristoffer Schou

The municipality of Thisted in Denmark has a lot to offer, and the citizens are realizing the potential of hosting a World Cup for Windsurfers. ”While a number of municipalities in Denmark engages with expensive – and often ineffective – advertising, Thisted municipality and the other ...

November 30, 2012

Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Anniversary party – when Stagis turned 15

By Kristoffer Schou

With the office back in place, we would like to thank all the lovely people who dropped by to celebrate Stagis last night. Thank you for all the nice flowers and presents and a special thank you to the all the people who contributed with interesting perspectives on the recent 15 years of Stagis. Esp ...

October 1, 2012

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

A new vision for the city of Kolding

The city of Kolding is about to undertake a great journey towards a new vision, in order to put the city on the map and make the city more attractive to future newcomers. We are proud to say that we will help Kolding reach their goal. Recently we hosted a seminar in Kolding for one […] ...

June 29, 2012

Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Jobs

Copenhagen wins European Green Capital Award – with help from Stagis

Friday night it was officially announced that Copenhagen is awarded the title of European Green Capital 2014. The title is awarded by the European Commision in Bruxelles and given once a year to the city in Europe that shows the most initiative and innovation in creating green, sustainable solution ...

June 5, 2012

Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

One step, two stops and thousands of messages closer to finding “Bus driver of the year”

How can text messages create better public transportation? Well, they can’t. Not on their own anyway. But if the text message campaign is a part of a larger project on delivering a high level of service and better travel experiences for the passengers it starts to make sense. The project “Bus dr ...

October 30, 2011

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Stagis nominated for Danish Communication Award 2011 for ’Bus drivers with character’

The Danish Communication Association (Dansk Kommunikationsforening) has nominated five projects for the Danish Communication Award 2011. One of them is ’Bus drivers with character’, a project that was initiated and executed by Stagis. The project integrates efforts in the fields of organizationa ...

September 12, 2011

Branding, Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

Bus Driver of the Year Rewarded

More than 200 people – bus drivers, their passengers and passers-by – were there when the “Bus Driver of the Year” was awarded Friday 2nd September in central Copenhagen. Six bus drivers were nominated for the title of Greater Copenhagen bus passengers, who had sent text messages with go ...

March 15, 2011

Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

World Class Branding Think Tank? Meet The Medinge Group

A few weeks ago I spent two days with an inspiring group of people discussing thoughts on branding, identitity, the use of social media in the Middle East, city planning and branding challenges in China. I was invited by Nicholas Ind to meet the group in Paris and give a brief talk on organizational ...

November 28, 2010

Branding, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Experience-based communication for CBS a success

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 ...

October 21, 2010

Be the change conference – Marketing by demonstrating the authentic strengths

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)

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 ...

April 26, 2010

Authentic Noma Restaurant is now the World’s No. 1

Today, restaurant Noma was announced the World’s number one restaurant. Tonight chef René Redzepi is being celebrated in London. Last year I was interviewing René a couple of times for the book I am working on. He has rediscovered Scandinavian food culture and reinvented what it is. And when ...

April 22, 2010

Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Gør virksomhedens kommunikation autentisk

DE FLESTE VIRKSOMHEDER VIL GERNE DIFFERENTIERE SIG MED ET UNIKT BRAND. MEN DE FÆRRESTE FORSTÅR AT KOMMUNIKERE UD FRA DERES AUTENTISKE IDENTITET FORDI DE BASALT SET IKKE KENDER DERES KULTUR OG AUTENTISKE STYRKER. KOMMUNIKATIONSRÅDGIVERE ER NØDT TIL AT VÆRE LANGT MERE OPTAGEDE AF KULTUREN I DE OR ...

February 15, 2010

Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Going undercover

By Katrine Øhrberg

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation has launched a highly interesting new weekly documentary programme called “Undercover Chef” (meaning Undercover Boss in English). The show lets CEOs experience their own organization from a new point of view – that of their employees and costumers. The CEO p ...

January 25, 2010

Imagine for a moment that you have everyone's attention. For one precious moment, the whole room, crowd or maybe even the entire country is gathered to hear your words of wisdom, hushing each other, pushing to get a good seat in front of the television sets, eagerly awaiting your words of wisdom ...

What matters now

By Katrine Øhrberg

January 10, 2010

Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Greetings from the Airport Security Family (or, How to make Work Fun)

Something extrodinary is going on at the Copenhagen Airport. I’ve been wondering about it for the last few months. Today was no exception. As I was pouring coins, belt, watch, jacket and my beloved Mac in a plastic tray on my way to a Munich-bound flight, a handsome man at the age of my Dad [&hell ...

March 1, 2009

Catch the flu with Google and watch TED

One of the very cool things aout the web is when people figure out new ways of using material or information that's already out there. Google Flu is one of those great ideas. As more people use words related to flu when they are getting it, Google can predict quite well if the flu is […] ...

February 19, 2009

I finally got the chance to finish Malcolm Gladwells book 'Outliers' from 2008. I must admit that I didn't read hi's other books 'Blink' and 'Tipping Point', but I knew about him and my expectations was quit high. And I really did enjoy Outliers. The theories in the b ...

The 10.000 hour rule & more

By Anne Schourup-Kristensen

February 7, 2009

Authenticity model taking off in times of crisis

I just received a very nice email yesterday that made me very happy. A participant at one of the talks I did in the fall described how important it is to keep focus in these times of crisis and that my authenticity model was inspiring him. "…i disse tider med krise er det meget godt [&hel ...

December 14, 2008

A conversation of abundance,
“The Art of Possibility”

I want to share a story with you. When I was i fourth grade we had to chose a classical instrument that we wanted to play for the next many years at my school. I was thinking about the cello, but somehow I wound up with the clarinet, my parents and class teacher considering "what […] ...

November 18, 2008

Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity, Talks and events

OKI New Designer Award

This morning I was visiting Mediehøjskolen in Copenhagen as one of our clients, OKI Printing Solutions, is honoring the best conceptual design proposal from nine groups of students participating in the ‘OKI New Designer Award’. The students have had about six weeks to find a real or ima ...

October 22, 2008

Not to long ago I saw the coolest commercial I have ever seen. I think the pictures are perfect, the timing is perfect, the music is perfect, but… Yes of course there has to be a but. Despised how cool I thought this commercial was, and how often I told my friends about it, I […] ...

What are they advertising for?

By Nikolaj Ulstrup

June 1, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell and what you can learn from spaghetti sauce

One of my favourite writers is Malcolm Gladwell. The last book of his that I read was ‘Blink’ which is about snap judgements and first impressions, the decisions we make in split-seconds based on knowledge that we don’t understand ourselves. In the book that I am writing I work wit ...

March 29, 2008

The leader as coach – releasing potential or intimidation?

Maria just blogged about a coaching-experience here and here which inspired me to think yet again about the paradox of managers taking on the role as coaches. Coaching has been called an intimate technology (“intimteknologi”) of management. Intimate in that it is one-to-one, and has the ...

March 17, 2008

Having been an employee at STAGIS for about a month and a half now, this will be my first contribution to the STAGIS blog. During my time here at STAGIS, one of my first assignments have been the operation of the Novozymes exhibition stand at the DSE-fair at DTU on March 12-13. After weeks [& ...

Novozymes exhibition stand at DTU

By Louise Christensen

March 3, 2008

Vision Meeting in Odense: Playing is living

I was invited to join a vision summit as a specialist on branding. The Municipality of Odense is suggesting the vision “Playing is living” which a number of politicians and business profiles were discussing last saturday. I had a fun day with good debate. It seemed that the folks in Oden ...

January 24, 2008

Backstage08 on experience, participation and authenticity

I met up with Joe Pine of Pine & Gilmore, the authors of Experience Economy and lately Authenticity which is about the rendering of authenticity in economic offerings like products, services and experiences. And as Joe was in Roskilde to talk at Backstage 2008 I joined him there and spent most ...

November 22, 2007

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Do you prefer espresso or caffè latte? Interactive infotainment

By Troels Bjørn Thorn

Do you read Berlingske or Politiken? Do you prefer espresso or caffè latte? Are you concerned about global warming? What party do you vote for? It sounds like a survey by STAGIS’ new partner, TNS Gallup, and it very well could be – but it isn’t. Quite the contrary it is a part of the [&he ...

November 5, 2007

What do you think of designer toys? I must admit I had my problems understanding them, but then again I do get why ones can be fascinated by the super-designed, pieces. For instance Amos, a quit popular item designed by James Jarvis. In my opinion James Jarvis’ figures is great because they ar ...

Another useful toy

By Anne Schourup-Kristensen

Return of the Real, CPH Dox opens on friday

Last week I was talking at CBS to a bunch of students about authenticity and the model I’ve developed. One of the (good) questions is why the notion of authenticity has become so important and wether it’s a new thing or just a phenomenon that has gotten new interest in the light of how s ...

October 20, 2007

Iceland Airwaves is now

I have a faible for Iceland – its atmosphere, nature, vibe and spirit of the Icelanders. This weekend Iceland Airwaves, the most intimate Indie Rock Festival, is on in Reykjavik. A festival I loved visiting and covering as a journalist a couple of years ago for Danish Cover Magazine. I was inspire ...

October 18, 2007

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

A Creative Nation

By Troels Bjørn Thorn

Maybe you know, maybe you don’t; but last month Denmark was actively branded as a creative nation in the U.S. At this occasion we should show the Americans what true creativity is all about. Remember, we have delivered some fancy trash cans to MoMA, so we must be creative?! Therefore we sent our c ...

August 7, 2007

Photosynth: Traveling without moving, part 1

Recently a trial version of Photosynth from giant Microsoft’s Live Lab came out. This is more than new way of sharing your holiday pics! It is also a way to visit places online in 3D – places that you love, that you can’t remember, didn’t get a full perspective of or even never had ...

July 3, 2007

Give your website a social dimension

Websites are still representations and brochures on the web – now with animation. But they lack the social dimension, the idea of dialogue between customers and employees. Examples of good social dimensions on corporate websites? About bandwith: http://www.computerworld.dk/art/40222?a=newslett ...

June 14, 2007

Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Narrative approach to understanding your company

I just received this email from Nilam at Leeds University Business School the other day as I attended a talk she did at the Reputation Institute Conference two weeks ago: Dear Nikolaj, It was good to meet you at the Reputation Institute conference recently and chat briefly about the diary studies th ...

June 1, 2007

Authentic motivation to write my book

Today I’ve been following a number of presentations at the Reputation Institute conference in Oslo. The big theme here is innovation and reputation and how they link. But one of the big topics appearing again and again is the need for – and understanding of – authenticity in corpor ...

May 25, 2007

EXIT 07: Has your business given attention to the arts lately? Do it!

. . . …not just for pure pleasure, but to lead your business further. Years ago, in 2002, I wrote an article in Ledelse i Dag with Christian Madsbjerg (ReD Associates) about this; ‘Lær af avantgarden’ (published in Ledelse i Dag, nr. 48, april 2002) – what business ...

May 19, 2007

Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Five lessons to learn from iconic Marimekko’s success in spanning time

Daring yet classic – 2007 is a year for Marimekko pattern design. I got the buzz as a sudden urge to buy Marimekko stuff as Christmas presents in December. Why? The fabrics contain a funky nostalgia within their designs – funky especially in my case, since I wasn’t even born ...

May 10, 2007

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Talks and events

Branding Denmark means action

Lately I’ve been asking myself what the authentic danish brand is all about. Almost a year ago I was discussing this with Wally Olins as I was asking his opinion as (however well-informed) an outsider (Wally is british). I think his answer was something like “sameness”, that the da ...

May 1, 2007

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

Students trying to get proper space – an opportunity for danish companies?

Not so long ago, I paid a visit to one of the many small communities that students have created in order to have a place to go to as they do their final dissertation at the university. As of now there are about 8.000 students working on their master-thesis (specialestuderende) in Copenhagen and only ...

April 29, 2007

Music for one apartment and six drummers

“Music for one apartment and six drummers” on YouTube by tishcro I just got this little piece of art that Jytte from the KaosPilots sent me. Reminds me a bit of the Blue Man Group that I saw about five years ago at Luxor in Vegas and somehow also the legendary Honda Accord Commercial. Ma ...

April 27, 2007

Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Co-creating with Björk + STAGIS’ new blogger

Björk – one of my favorite artists and Possibly Maybe the greatest nation branding and marketing spin Iceland will ever experience, paving the way for so many artistic goodies from the small nation far North in the Atlantic. On May 7th Björk’s much-awaited album Volta will hit the shops an ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

New CSR opportunity for innovation and knowledge-leaders in Denmark: Specialekontoret

Today Nanna and Marta launched the Specialekontor-website. It’s the first public annoncement of an ambitious socially responsible project we’ve been working on during mid-2006. This year we are aiming to make it become a reality! About a year ago our sociologist Katja had finished her di ...

March 30, 2007

Hi! I just discovered this awesome site: www.pandora.com If you, like me, love to get to know new bands (and stun your friends with your amazing musical knowledge) this is the site for you! It’s very simple to use. You just type in the name of your favourite band or artist, and it finds simila ...

Link of the day!

By Emma Holten

March 2, 2007

When Campaigning becomes Ordinary – and loses Meaning

Yesterday I tried inhaling teargas for the first time. Not surprisingly to most danes, I live in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. And late last night I went for a stroll outside my front door (about 50 feet from Nørrebrogade). I must admit that I wasn’t all that scared after watching it on the tele & ...

February 11, 2007

Viral films and fun ideas are winning. Meet EepyBird

I was just looking over at Jaffee Juice and found this snippet of thrill about Eepybirds fun experiment with quite a few Diet Cokes and an extensive number of Mentos (yes, the freshmaker). Go watch the Experiment #214. It’s good for you. ...

February 5, 2007

Advertising and marketing people without ethics

Just got this which seems to have become a (never ending) theme when it comes to discussing the advertising and marketing business. I was discussing the same thing just last week. ...

January 23, 2007

DRRB – the danish advertising association

I had a great meeting with Bjørn Karsholt, the director of DRRB (Danske Reklame- og Relationsbureauers Brancheforening), the danish advertising association today. The agenda was first and foremost if STAGIS should join the 80-odd agencies in the association. I thought about that since 1997, the fou ...

OKI Identity – the worlds first colour printer in colour

The new OKI Identity colour printer that we’ve developed for OKI and help them produce + market in Scandinavia is now to be found in some of the hippest design and trend-stores. Check out Nitty Gritty in Stockholm, Victoria Arena in Göteborg and from next week Casa Shop in Copenhagen. Check i ...

January 17, 2007

Kun Kortfilm
international short film festival in Copenhagen

Want inspiration for your next business initiative? Try something different! Visit one of the few select places that show something like 80 short films over the next few days in Copenhagen. All the new ideas start here and in a year (well, maybe less) you’ll see all the same ideas and tricks i ...

January 10, 2007

Innovation leap: The new iPhone

The other day someone said “I thought you were the kind of guy who had a Blackberry”. Here’s why I dont have one and don’t want it (and for that matter and socalled smart-phone): It’s not smart – it’s stupid! A few months ago I read the patent-description of ...

January 5, 2007

Claim to fame!

On this blog we have often touch on the issue of to what extend co-creation in business will come to. With a good warm up in 2006, 2007 seems top be the year where user generated content will boom in business, whether it be in the fields of journalism, photography or the marketing of clothes. [&hell ...

December 28, 2006

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

CSR in 2007

http://www.23hq.com/STAGIS/photo/1518559 ...

December 13, 2006

Redesign in Colour

Six months ago I was asked by OKI in Scandinavia to help out selling their smallest colourprinter. The OKI C3400n. Its pretty bulky, it prints 16 colourpages a minute and 20 blackn’whites. You can print to it through your network. Its good quality. Japanese. For good reason OKI wanted them sol ...

December 12, 2006

The Standard is upside down

Today a girl named Nanna paid me a visit in the office to talk about working for us in the spring. As she was explaining why she preferred STAGIS over so many other companies she described us as creative and “playful”. Not that I oppose the idea but I was wondering what brought her to [& ...

November 22, 2006

Visit from the free Belarus-press

Today Birgitte and I got a visit from far away. The editor and a reporter from the belarussian “Belarus and Market” came to visit. They are visiting Denmark to receive help on the development of their weekly newspaper which they are fighting to publish in a country where it’s not p ...

November 10, 2006

Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Master’s out, colours are in!

Yesterday I gave in my master thesis at MMD at CBS. I’ve been working on it on and off for four month and then intensely for the past three weeks. And after I gave it in yesterday I just saw Mads and Rasmus’ discussion about colours on our moblog. Check it out – there’s more ...

September 5, 2006

Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Managers are hiding while new opportunities disappear

As you can se elsewhere we’re trying to get a number of managers to gather around a big project (that we’ve been working on for 7 month). And at the same time as Amanda was writing the post about Bendt Bendtsen (whom she and I and everyone we know – except Villi, he couldn’t ...

August 15, 2006

CBS and blogging in the media

Master of Management Development was on DR P1 just a moment ago. Lars Ginnerup was interviewed by Anne Vig about the new management paradigm and the use of social software, which is a part of the CBS executive program MMD. If you find that interesting, you might also want to join Ole Fogh Kirkebys & ...

August 13, 2006

Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Internal blogs – how social media is helping to create meaning

Yet again I got the question “how many companies in Denmark are blogging?”. I really can’t tell. First of all because I don’t know of a place to search for danish corporate blogs and secondly because if I found it, the number still wouldn’t be right as the technology is ...

August 7, 2006

The greater purpose
Co-creation on Lars Kolinds blog

Leader and management developer Lars Kolind recently finished the book “Kolind Kuren – fra bureaukrati til vækst” and started blogging about the ideas from the book. His ideas are great and there’s lots of new thinking for oldschool managers. He is having great success in ge ...

July 27, 2006

Media buzz: What happens to the media when everyone is their own media?

The media is no longer a distribution of communication created by journalists, it’s becoming a forum or context (maybe even container) for communication created by users who are being coached by journalists and editors. The role of the media as well as the employees is changing. Basically, the ...

June 26, 2006

Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Navigating in Unknown Waters

I was on the radio this morning, DR Københavns Radio asked if they could do a live interview about the job-swop that Lars Konggaard from Deloitte and I did a couple of month ago. “On deep waters” they called it, metaphorically mentioning my being away from my own safe haven. Jette Beckm ...

June 14, 2006

Hackney vs. Nike

Hackney council in London is threatening Nike with legal action since they became aware of the fact that the famous brand had “borrowed” the Hackney council logo for several of their products such as shirts, footballs etc. for the promotion of its grassroots football campaign for the Wor ...

May 23, 2006

Customer Made

These days companies are doing all they can to get their customers involved in co-creating their products. CUSTOMER-MADE: “The phenomenon of corporations creating goods, services and experiences in close cooperation with experienced and creative consumers, tapping into their intellectual capital, ...

May 19, 2006

Free stuff – garbage

garbagescout.com ...

May 16, 2006

EuroGel 2006

GEL is short for “Good experience Live” and is a conference, and community, exploring good experience in all its forms — in business, art, society, technology, and life. The conference started in New York but this year the first European version (EuroGel 2006) is coming to Denmark ...

…That is what Nelson Mandela said about the movie “Tsotsi”. I went to the movies last night to see “Tsotsi” and I must say: Go! Go! Go! On Thursday it will disappear only to return on DVD in a couple of months. Tsotsi made a great impression on me and was not only a visual […] ...

The movie that puts South Africa on the map

By Amanda Karlsson

April 10, 2006

London

Just a quick post to let you know I´m going to London for my Easter break. I love going there because it´s a good place to spot new trends. One trend I will be keeping an eye out for is Being Spaces, extensions of peoples living rooms where you can hang out, work, network and […] ...

April 3, 2006

Talking About Talking About the Weather…

For the past two month I’ve been talking more about the weather than I do the remains of the year. Constantly hoping for sunshine and dry roads so I can drive my motorbike. Today I drove it to the shop to get new tyres (enjoying a bit of rain doing it) and came to think […] ...

March 29, 2006

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Last night I saw the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know. It was just an amazing movie – for once a piece of work that actually explores the art of moviemaking. The story is great and there’s just this amazing variety of details in the language and the little stories within the story. ...

March 23, 2006

Now that things are out of the way, I just want to tell you about a little mail-out we did last week. One of the big events in the Danish advertising and communication world is the Direct Marketing Prize and this year STAGIS wanted to do things a little different – after all it is […] ...

What u need, when u need it …

By Karsten Keinicke

March 17, 2006

Anthropology and Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

At være swopper i Stagis i en uge

By Lars Konggaard

I uge 11 har jeg byttet job med Nikolaj Stagis. Nikolaj er projektchef i Deloitte og jeg er direktør i Stagis. I dag er min femte dag i Stagis, hvorfor jeg efterhånden har et ganske godt indtryk af hvilke rammer der gælder for ledelse her. Her er en række af de ting jeg synes er […] ...

February 28, 2006

Kaospilots Flying, but is Denmark Crashing the Project?

Today I had a meeting with Uffe Elbæk at Kaospilots in Århus. This place is a top-of-the-line innovation-, entrepreneur- and projectmanager school with a bunch of really friendly, enthusiastic, committed people. One of the things that strike me is they’ve been keeping up the spirit for 15 ye ...

February 26, 2006

Anthropology and Culture, Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Authenticity in a working perspective

Hans Henrik just asked about authenticity. Are you authentic due to what you do or is it a part of you, he asks. Well, for the more theory-savvy there is lots and lots to read and discuss when it comes to the term itself. The Philosophical understanding is best defined by Søren Kierkegaard, Martin ...

February 11, 2006

Growth Creating Startups

In the danish business daily Børsen today Kasper Kronenberg writes about new research from Aarhus Business School where Kent Nielsen has published a report on danish entrepreneurs and how well they did from 1998 – 2004. Only 47% of the danish startups succeed the first six years. Kent Nielsen ...

Branding, Creativity and Leadership

Make the Authentic Story Thicker

Yesterday I spoke with a CEO of a fashion brand. I asked him how his business was and what sort of challenges he saw for his organization. At first he told me that the challenge was keeping the quality of the design and keeping the relations throughout the distribution (about eight contries in Europ ...

January 10, 2006