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Suppose you have to do something you’ve never done before and you come up with all kinds of excuses to avoid doing it. Procrastination. Recognizable? Then you are not the only one. Many people find it scary to do something unfamiliar. Because it’s outside their comfort zone. We also encounter this fear regularly in development […]

Strategy and its implementation are often not connected in the day-to-day operations of many organizations. By deploying portfolio management from your organization’s strategic objectives, work is prioritized for added value, in line with business strategy. In this way, strategy and execution do connect. Last June, we hosted one of our Executive Round Tables on the […]

Collaborate and deal with change Did you know that sailing is in many ways similar to the process of collaboration and change within organizations? Now you may be wondering; “What’s sailing got to do with that?” For me, as a sailor, a lot. Just imagine the following scenario: You get on a sailboat with your […]

I love gardening and everything that comes with it, from plan to execution. Before the shovel goes into the ground I wonder: What will the structure of this garden be? What should be high and what should be low? What grows where well? As soon as I have a plan, I immediately get to work: […]

What can be learned from the similarities between tool implementation and mountain biking? What challenges and pitfalls will you encounter along the way? You read it here. This photo shows what I enjoy pretty much every weekend – and when possible a few weekday evenings as well: mountain biking. Although in the Netherlands it is […]

Do you ever wonder why some sports teams are so much better than others? Probably the top teams have these characteristics. To relax after my work for Synergio I like sports. It used to play volleyball and now I play tennis. As you may have read in the personal stories of my colleagues, there are […]