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'S-Hertogenbosch, Nb, Nl

As Director Digital Product Strategy & Innovation responsible for digital product strategy development and accountable for the delivery of the short-, mid- and long term innovation program portfolio.Directing Wolters Kluwer's global AI program with the aim to unlock existing and new business potential for flagship content search software applications across geographies.

As Global Director Digital Innovation I headed Arcadis' corporate innovation and led its Digital Studios with the aim to unlock existing business and new growth potential cross regions and business areas and/or to start up new ventures through strategic research, incubation of new (disruptive) value propositions and the development of AI powered SAAS product/service combinations.Furthermore, I drove Arcadis' digital transformation by embedding innovation portfolio management, product & business model innovation and product management in the global Arcadis organization, supporting the setup of new ventures and competence development of Arcadis employees (i.e. lean start-up, scaled agile, UX research, service and business model design data science and analytics).

As Director Business Development & Digital Service Innovation at Philips Research, I was globally responsible for strategic R&D SMART Cities / Public Spaces & LivingLab. I took full accountability for setting priorities and safeguard quality of the released features delivered by the innovation teams. These innovation teams developed new product/service combinations, translated strategic innovations into compelling digital service propositions and built strategic partnerships & ecosystems to obtain a leading position in the market.Responsibilities:- Strategic R&D SMART Cities / Public Spaces & LivingLab- IP generation, with a direct personal contribution of 7 filed patents- Defining roadmaps fitting innovation strategy and business R&D plans- Translating strategic innovations (AI, IoT, API, photonics, connectivity, cloud and edge computing, etc) into compelling scalable service propositions (digital, professional, lifecycle and managed services)- Building new product service combinations by taking into account the 3 Innovation lenses (customer desirability, technical feasibility and economical viability)- Accountable for open innovation by maintaining external relationships, opportunity scouting for cooperation and applying best 3rd party vendor technologies- Managing, coaching, and developing staff (UX/UI Researchers, Business Concept Developers, IT and System Architects, Connectivity and Network engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and IT DevOps teams, PhD researchers, Project Managers, etc)- Influencing Philips Lightings' digital services strategy across businesses and functions

- As Sr. IT Project Manager, I was responsible for managing the solutioning and delivery of contractually scoped IT infrastructure transformations programs and/or restructuring projects.- Responsible for managing cost, schedule by applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management- Responsible for managing all project resources, including subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plans with the project teams and the customer (e.g. ABN AMRO, Shell, ASML)

IBM’s Young Graduate Program is an international management traineeship for high potential future leaders which contains IBM business courses regarding the IBM portfolio, Sales, Project Management and Consulting. Simultaneously learning on the job regarding your profession (Project Management) was part of the program.

The influence of group diversity and group conflict on the perceived performance effectiveness of a workteam

Master Of Science

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