June 19, 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Is your firm too serious to party?

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No firm is! I mean, up until this very friday, my relationship with everyone here was good and amicable. But nothing more than that. That isn’t bad. Not at all. It’s good mannered work-eth ...
June 15, 2007
StagisLife

Join us for a friday blog-beer

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At 4 pm today we’re inviting our clients, friends, colleagues and partners as well as You, dear blogreader, to join us for a beer or a cocktail. It was supposed to be a garden-party but the weather is not quite supporting our venture this morning so… Welcome to a couzy indoor friday afte ...
June 14, 2007
Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Narrative approach to understanding your company

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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 6, 2007
Communication

Brand vs. Reputation

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What the f… is the difference? You might ask. The question was also raised this weekend in Oslo at the 11.th International Conference on Corporate Reputation, Brand, Identity and Competitiveness by Dr. Kevin Money. More specifically he asked: Where does Brand end and Reputation begin? In short ...
Communication

The discipline of networking

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This weekend we (Nanna, Nikolaj and I) went to Reputation Institutes 11th international conference in Oslo. The theme of the conference was innovation as a reputation platform, and consisted of three days with speeches from professors and practitioners from around the world. And what a great experie ...
June 5, 2007
Design and Identity

Wim Crouwel and Erik Spiekermann on Helvetica

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I just stumbled on two little clips about type. And not just any sort of type but some of the best in the world. Firstly, a short thing with Wim Crouwel, dutch designer and typographer: And then, onto ...
June 4, 2007
Design and Identity

Inspired dot-com dots at TDC

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Just saw the new TDC identity alive on tv. It’s great! And I can’t help thinking about where the designers found inspiration. On www.stagis.com maybe? Well, you never know, they might just have thought of orange dots flying around as well… Or maybe they looked at the old Telia iden ...
June 1, 2007
Communication, Creativity and Leadership

Authentic motivation to write my book

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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 30, 2007
StagisLife

Technology – friend or foe?

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This weekend it became clear to me just how much we, and I think that everybody living in the modern world would agree with me on this, are dependant on technology. I learned this the hard way, because this weekend, my dad, Mr. Fix-it, tried to make our internet-connection wireless, and as a result ...
May 25, 2007
Creativity and Leadership

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

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. . . …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

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  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 funk ...
May 14, 2007
Communication

Buy songs on the internet

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Just bought a new hit that I wanted to play the other night. But unlike iTunes this service doesn’t allow you to play their files on a Mac. We can fly to the moon but we can’t download songs to Macs (unless you use anything but this site). ...
May 13, 2007
Anthropology and Culture

The true face of the organization

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I just stumbled on this interview in the CBS magazine (Copenhagen Business School) about blogging and how the use of social software can help a company show it’s authentic identity. Download the article as PDF. Article by Anders Hochheim, photography by Mads Armgaard. ...
May 11, 2007
Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Design and Identity

Specialekontoret på DR online

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Historie om Specialekontoret nu også nu DRs online nyheder ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Talks and events

Specialekontoret on DR P1

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Radioavisen (the danish national newscast) woke me up this morning to talk about Specialekontoret. The idea is to create the best physical and mental environment for students. I just grabbed it with my Mac. You can hear it here: Specialekontoret DR P1 or find it on DR Radioavisen – it was on a ...
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