Well…some of my friends thought that is was an April-fools joke when I told them that one of our offices is now in a castle. Here is the picture to proof that I was not bullshitting. The guy next to our company standard is not our personal butler but my good friend Laurent Kinet (co-founder of Early Stage). We are already working at our new office there but the official inauguration will be on the 6th of May. Give me a sign if you want…Continue Reading “New office for Early Stage”
Some cool pics from my vacation with my nephew’s Family (Kris, Mieke, Ellen and Wim) and the Moonen family (Bart, Inge, Aster and Felien). Sun, Snow and Fun, what do you want more?
Sometimes life surprises you with a fun fact you didn’t expect…How about a toilet with 60° C water in the closet. We just encountered it in our hotel in Grenoble. Due to a distracted plumber the hot water tap had been connected to the toilet. The result is that we have steaming water in the toilet…funny but don’t flush the toilet when you are still on it (especially not when you are a man :-)).
Well, Valérie (my wife) and me just did one of the nicest joggings we have ever done. We participated in the jogging Tihange 2010 and it was a blast. Mostly we are running in the bigger joggings (the Carefour runningtour for example) where you have in general more than 1000 participants so we were a bit reluctant to go to one of the smaller happenings in our region. But what a surprise : super organisation, subscription fee only 3 € and all the things we…Continue Reading “13,175 km at Tihange”
Well, I’m almost there…almost 50.000 km done on my Triumph Sprint ST. I bought this bike 3 years ago (February 2007) and it has never let me down since then. I’m a regular driver who uses his bike mainly (almost exclusively) for professional means. During the weekend I don’t have a lot of opportunities to go drive in the beautiful region of Huy and the Ardennes that are not so far from where I live. Just to tell you that I’m not the classic weekend warrior who is polishing his bike from morning till noon and then goes for long rides through senic landscapes (I wished).
I have chosen the Triumph Sprint ST for several reasons and I would like to share them with you so that it might help if you ever have to make a choice for a bike that will at the same time be used for professional home-work traffic but that can also be used for good leisure trips. My main criteria at the time where :
- Budget
- Test-Drive
- Reliability
When firms launch new products they test them quite extensively before releasing them. For interfaces (such as a website, a Smartphone or any other piece of junk that has an interface) one of the things that is tested is the usability of it all. How easy is it for the user to find out what he has to do to reach his goal (and preferably without reading the 350 page manual). The methodologies on this subject are vast and there are many companies who have…Continue Reading “Usability testing : grandparents to the rescue!”
Normally I would keep this for the company blog but I’m so exited about this study that I’m writing a small blogpost on my site here. With Early Stage we have just launched a national survey on the use of Enterprise 2.0 tools in Belgium. If you feel you have an opinion on the use of Enterprise 2.0 within your professional organisation (or the lack of it) please fill out our survey on http://www.earlystage.be/survey. I hope to see your contribution because we will send you…Continue Reading “A survey on Enterprise 2.0 in Belgium”
I’m one of these guys who risks his life every morning by driving from Liège to Brussels…on a bike. And last week it was really a whole adventure. Rain, traffic jams, wind, cold and every other unpleasantry you can think of. My boots were so soaked that I had to put them on the central heating when I arrived at my clients office. I was sitting with only my socks on at the meeting table. Luckily for me I have a very understanding client who…Continue Reading “Driving through traffic…and rain.”
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Jack Lynch, Executive Board Member of Wolters Kluwer (one of the largest editors in the world, 3,4 billion of revenue in 2009 and more than 18.000 employees). We talked about the opportunities of collaborative software in organisations such as Wolters Kluwer and allthough the advantages seemed clear we also talked openly about the multiple reasons why the Enterprise 2.0 hype seems to have enormous difficulties to prove itself in the professional environment. During our conversation and based…Continue Reading “Talking with Wolters Kluwer”