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Discover a selection from our range of scientifically grounded practical solutions for the specific challenges faced by entrepreneurs and organizations. 

Our solutions support you in designing, innovating, digitizing, and optimizing your operations, always with sustainable business practices as our guiding principle.

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POWERFUL CORE

We are working together to build a solid internal operational framework. 

  • Workshop - Lego Serious Play

    In this LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop, participants bring their ideas, assumptions, and aspirations to life. By building individually and reflecting together, they develop a shared understanding of what is important to the organization, where it wants to go, and what strategic choices are needed to get there.

    Outcome: Participants collaboratively formulate a widely supported mission and vision and develop an initial outline for their organization’s or company’s strategy.

  • Workshop - Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas

    In this workshop, participants map out their business model from three perspectives: economic, social, and environmental. This provides an integrated and forward-looking view of the organization and its impact. Through targeted questions, the canvas helps clarify both strategic choices and the underlying actions within the organization.

    Outcome: a completed three-layer business model canvas that can be used as a tool for strategic decision-making.

  • Training - Optimizing Your Marketing with AI

    A coaching program for SMEs on implementing AI and marketing automation, both strategically and technologically. AI offers many opportunities for marketing, but Flemish SMEs often lack the knowledge or resources to take full advantage of these possibilities.

    Result: Participants learn how to use AI in an accessible way as an innovative technology to optimize their customer experience.

    Discover the Start to AIM project

  • Training - Personalized Content Creation for Marketers

    We support communications and content agencies in leveraging generative AI for content creation. Through co-creation, marketers learn how to use NLP and generative AI to develop personalized content.

    Result: content creation becomes faster and easier, giving marketers more time for other core tasks. With relevant, tailored content, they can also reach their target audience in a more targeted and effective way.

    Discover the COntent project

  • Coaching Program - Digital Work Instructions

    Digital work instructions help social enterprises and day-program initiatives focus more on mass customization: smaller product lines tailored to specific customer needs. In this way, organizations increase their agility and competitiveness, while at the same time operating in a more sustainable and circular manner.

    Outcome: a widely supported implementation of digital work instructions (technological, process-related, and economic) to support individuals who are distanced from the labor market.

    Under the Digital Work Instructions project

STRONG COLLABORATION

We'll help you build sustainable partnerships within your ecosystem.

  • Workshop - Map Your System

    In this workshop, we’ll map out your (eco)system. This allows us to broaden our perspective on the issue and approach it from a systems thinking perspective. This approach better aligns with complex realities and helps you take targeted steps toward a sustainability transition.

    Outcome: Participants gain insight into the key elements, stakeholders, and potential levers within the system. This enables them to work more effectively toward a sustainability transformation with maximum impact.

  • Workshop - Circular Pursuit Game

    The game Circular Pursuit helps participants gain insight into the complexity of systemic partnerships. It makes them aware of the questions needed to successfully shape such partnerships.

    Outcome: The game and reflection spark dialogue among stakeholders, thereby strengthening transparency and mutual trust—two essential building blocks of sustainable partnerships.

  • Coaching Program - Building Circular Partnerships

    We offer a guidance program for circular partnerships to help them jointly develop a circular business model and successfully bring it to market. As part of an ongoing, practice-oriented research project, we are testing this program in collaboration with circular entrepreneurs.

    Interested in participating in this practice-oriented research? Contact Karen Brabant.

    Discover the project “Collective Value, Valuable!”

IMPACTFUL INNOVATION

We'll help you make a difference with your business idea.

  • Workshop - Future Thinking: Scenario Planning

    Scenario planning explores realistic visions of the future based on macro trends and translates them into potential implications for the company. This clarifies which conditions make a desired future possible and how the organization can prepare for it. 

    Outcome: In combination with backcasting, participants develop a strategy based on opportunities and necessary conditions, rather than on obstacles and limitations.

  • Coaching Program - Design Thinking

    In this coaching program, participants use design thinking as a practical approach to better understand complex challenges and arrive at workable solutions step by step. Starting with the needs of users, they explore the problem, formulate sharp insights, develop ideas, and test prototypes in their own context. By learning through hands-on experience, feedback, and iteration, participants create space for solutions that better align with the realities of users and organizations.

    Outcome: Participants develop a supported prototype or action plan for a specific challenge and learn how to use design thinking as a method to strengthen innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving capabilities within their organization.

  • In-House Training - Systemic Innovation

    We provide concrete guidance to better support entrepreneurs in addressing complex issues and driving system innovation. Using practical tools, participants analyze the system and identify areas where targeted interventions are possible.

    Outcome: Participants gain a deeper understanding of a complex business issue, identify appropriate interventions, and develop targeted indicators to track progress.

Publications

  • Report - Mapping of Crowdfunding Platforms

    March 2024

    Crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful way to raise funds for all kinds of initiatives, including projects that benefit the community. The project GrowthFundMe aims to develop an e-learning and civic crowdfunding platform to support community-based entrepreneurship. To that end, existing crowdfunding platforms were analyzed. Curious about our insights?

    Discover the report

  • Book Chapter: Sustainability in Higher Education

    May 2024

    Karel Deneckere, Bart Henssen, and Elien Crois investigated the potential of systems thinking in the transformation of higher education institutions toward sustainability. This is illustrated by the case study of Education for Sustainability Hub. Interested in the systemic transformation of higher education toward sustainability? 

    Read the book chapter

  • Sustainable Partnerships

    The Project Circular Transition through Quintuple-Helix Partnerships examined what is needed to establish sustainable partnerships among the actors in a Quintuple Helix model for circular ecosystems, within the Flemish and Brussels contexts. Based on three case studies, knowledge was gathered—through a combination of positive-appreciative inquiry and action research—regarding the conditions necessary to realize these multi-stakeholder partnerships.

    Read the book chapter

    View the research report