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InnovatieV! stands for Innovatief Vlaanderen. We are a group of innovation enthusiasts who are looking to support innovation and innovative partnerships in Flanders. As part of this, we are building a website www.innovatiev.be and, every 6 months, we organize a Managing Innovation in Flanders conference.

Helping organizations to become more innovative.Founder and owner of company DoYouMind bvba.I was responsible for innovation at Antwerp Management School:- Setting up the domain of innovation- Defining, teaching & coordinating a Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a 1-year, full-time program. Result: 34 participants in the second year!- Defining, teaching & coordinating "Building Innovative Organizations", a 6-day program for executives to learn how to strengthen the innovative power of their organization. Result: This was the first business school program on this topic in Europe, receiving lots of press attention,- as adjunct professor in innovation, lecturing in the fields of innovation and innovation culture. My last teachings got an average feedback rating of 87%.I work with many larger companies on how to organize innovation: Alcatel-Lucent, TE Connectivity, Televic, Agfa, ...

Leading the definition, selling and introduction of the concept to build teams around the talents of their people. As such, this is a main contributor to increase a culture of innovation.The first step was the deployment within Alcatel-Lucent Benelux, which reached a fast spread throughout the company.The second step is the definition for global, company-wide deployment.Result: This concept was later introduced also in companies like Barco, Swift, Vandemoortele, ...

Selling IPTV applications and business consulting to most of the major Service Providers in the world. Key topics are advertising, content recommendations and application enablement.Leading an international team of business developers.Leading cooperation agreements with Microsoft, gaming companies, media companies,

Organising sustainable innovation in the domain of Triple Play (telephony, nternet and television services).Joined start-up of IPTV application products like Amigo TV/ My Own TV, which got the worldwide Infovision award for most innovative Telecom applications.Leading the definition of Alcatels company-wide Triple Play Solution.Joint definition of the Application Enablement strategy, which is still today (in 2014) the vision for Alcatel-Lucent.Afterwards, I learned that I was the first Innovation Officer worldwide in any company.

Managing the requirements gathering and roadmap definition of 1000 people Access BU.

Improving the processes in the Access BU concerning requirement gathering and roadmap planning.

Leading DSL R4.2 release; biggest Alcatel DSLAM release ever.Result: Its press release had a 2% positive impact on Alcatel shares.

Performing Top Level Design in the areas of xDSL, IP routers and VoIP.

Working out new concepts.I was lucky to be at the forefront of the big booming ADSL-business.

Company in IT and IT solutions. Selling IT hardware and software in the areas of eye-investigation, mathematics and Microsoft Access.