The traditional romantic belief about entrepreneurship is that it starts with writing an excellent business plan and raising lots of money. These stories usually end with a hockey stick growth and a retirement at the Bahamas. Don’t get me wrong. Writing a business plan is a great way to start a company. However, it is…

“Fall in love with the problem, not with the solution.” I was reminded about this huge design cliché when reading Frame Innovation during the Covid-19 outbreak. The author of this totally non-cliché book is Kees Dorst, a professor of Design Innovation in Australia and The Netherlands. In his book, Dorst describes how modern problems are…

Compliance training: love it or hate it? At Janssen, I hope it’s no longer a necessary evil ?. To achieve this, my team and I had to marry the insights of Learning & Development with the requirements of Quality & Compliance. And yes, buzzwords like “design thinking” were beneficial. I just wrote an article on…

What can you do on a Sunday? Well, I read a whitepaper on compliance training from the well-known eLearning Guild (you’re aiming to transform compliance training, or you’re not ?). I agree with suggestions to make compliance training more engaging, but I am missing essential points. Here we go. My main criticism is that the…