Continue reading Operational Government – Transformation narrative

Operational Government – Transformation narrative

In response to a strategic plan, I wrote a transformation narrative, tailored to the needs of the Board of Directors, Management, and staff. Additionally, I created resources such as a book, game, and presentations. This project ran for 10 months. This is the typical production approach for narratives: At the request of the customer details…

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Continue reading Dutch Government – Strategy & Playbook

Dutch Government – Strategy & Playbook

I created a strategy and playbook for information to citizens on behalf of a department of the Dutch government. In this endeavor, I collaborated closely with the management team and a design team. This project has been an eight month research and design project where I collaborated with designers, data experts, behavioral experts and policymakers.…

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Little Islands Workshop – Building bridges

While consulting for multiple business unitis within organisations I also design workshops, literally. This workshop is created to illustrate the little islands behaviour within the organisation and how to cope with the complexity of ownership, stakeholders and collaborations. I called it ‘Little islands’. The workshop is quite easy in structure and meant to facilitate discusion,…

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Human Centered Design Thinking Training

On behalf of Quint/Eraneos, I developed and designed a Design Thinking Training with a Human-Centered Design perspective. I collaborated with various colleagues to deliver this training to employees of housing corporations, water boards, (semi) government entities, and at customer events. This training was often a part of digital transformation initiatives. Places I have given this…

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Continue reading Data Life Journey for financial advisory services

Data Life Journey for financial advisory services

For a well known Dutch financial advisory services organization I designed a workshop to create awareness of the value in data mining. This awareness would lead into a more in depth discovery of data nuggets and a shift in their data lake maintenance. The goal: a longer customer relationship where advisory services would sustain across…

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Continue reading Public Transport – Designing a Common Dependency & Collaboration Day

Public Transport – Designing a Common Dependency & Collaboration Day

We created an interactive, workshop filled day to help a large public transport organization collaborate from within towards customers. The day was laid out from presenting plans, problems and predictions, mapping out modes, discussing and finally committing to a common understanding of dependency and collaboration. Details of this format is available on request. Details on…

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Continue reading Customer Experience – Transformation Acceleration Platform

Customer Experience – Transformation Acceleration Platform

As the CX Design Strategist and advisor working on an in-house developed online platform where organizations could shape, monitor, and drive their digital transformation efforts. Through this platform, the leadership, teams, and individuals within these organizations gained insights into their own transformation journeys, including Agile, DevOps, and BizDev implementations. With this information, they could work…

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Continue reading The Cognizant Digital Studio – New Safe Design Foundation

The Cognizant Digital Studio – New Safe Design Foundation

To make Cognizant’s Digital Studio compatible with health and safety regulations during Covid19 and make it as welcoming to employees and customers alike I designed core values, principles and guidelines for a redesign of the space. As the lead creative of the innovation practice I was the lead to help both the location director and…

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Continue reading Mirabeau-Cognizant Makerspace and Innovation lab

Mirabeau-Cognizant Makerspace and Innovation lab

As a design agency it’s important to drive innovation in the industry. We discovered new methods, applied new technologies and created experiments to try and illustrate the use of various cutting edge technologies. For Mirabeau I was the creative lead on the innovation lab until 2021, which entailed leading small teams to create concise and…

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Continue reading Masterclass Design Thinking /w University Rotterdam (HR) and municipal housing talent

Masterclass Design Thinking /w University Rotterdam (HR) and municipal housing talent

Quint (now Eraneos) wrote an article on the various challenges in municipal housing in the Netherlands and how they saw opportunity to incorporate the innovation power of university level students and that of Quint to start solving some of the key challenges like sustainability, operational accountability and collaboration. In collaboration with Hogeschool Rotterdam (University of…

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Continue reading ARCAM Data visualization on safety in the city

ARCAM Data visualization on safety in the city

In 2020 I spearheaded a unique collaboration between Cognizant and ARCAM. This collaboration consisted the creation and sponsorship of one of the expositions on Safe Spaces in ARCAM. The result was an interactive and data driven conversation data visualization on various aspects on safety in the city of Amsterdam. The goal: start and guide the…

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Continue reading The Best Is Yet To Come: one year of love and pride

The Best Is Yet To Come: one year of love and pride

On February 14th 2019 Vera Rademaker started gathering people in our office for what we soon called ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ (TBIYTC) to share and present what we are proud of in our coffee room/ cantina. Vera started this get-together because she felt some colleagues were missing out on the wonderful things we make:…

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Continue reading Live! #MijnZaanstreek Videoproductie voor Zaans Museum

Live! #MijnZaanstreek Videoproductie voor Zaans Museum

In opdracht van Fonk en in naam van Astrid Poot heb ik een korte video productie gedaan voor het Zaans Museum. De videos zijn voor kinderen uit de buurt die een spannende opdracht krijgen om zelf iets te maken voor het museum! Het programma is overigens in zijn geheel verzonnen, gemaakt en geïnitieerd in samenwerking…

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Continue reading Expert review of CX for a big US health insurance operator

Expert review of CX for a big US health insurance operator

In August 2019 I led an expert review of the CX and UX of a customer data management system used by big health insurance operators. Within a couple of days we scanned, interviewed and mapped the information we needed to give a good preliminary advice. The wish of the client was to get quick, result…

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Continue reading Wizard of Oz testing for voice using sound board software

Wizard of Oz testing for voice using sound board software

In innovation there is one thing that’s a constant: working through all the limitations and missing connections of technology really limits your ability to test with people. Let’s say you want to produce a voice interface for a newspaper and specifically like to use a high end artificial voice that hasn’t been released yet on…

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Continue reading Voice PoC sprint for publishing company

Voice PoC sprint for publishing company

As spin off of our innovation practice I was the creative and strategic lead for a Dutch voice project proof of concept sprint for a big publishing house. In order to create proof for a go-to-market strategy of the application of voice interfaces in the Netherlands we create Proof of Concepts. Goal was to go…

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Continue reading Digithon’s mini human centered design bootcamp in 20 minutes

Digithon’s mini human centered design bootcamp in 20 minutes

To profile Cognizant as an intersting employer and graduating company I helped organise a part of the Digithon. It was a huge success with over 80% followup after the event. My contribution was a 20 minutes bootcamp that I organised with my two colleagues Daniëlle and Marcha (coincidentally also the former graduates that joined my…

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