Renato Haechler
Inspired by a vision of sustainability, both in developing personally and as a society
IP vs. Business Model
The environment defines the rules of the game
There is something fascinating about emerging economies. The lack of infrastructure and uncertainty in governance and property rights lead to massive challenges for businesses unheard of in more developed economies. But as businesses are challenged, they tend to come up with solutions.
To be successful in a developed economy . . .
Build Trust - Build Business
Businesses have an edge over Governments
Trust is a key factor to trade and economic development - but also to political and societal movements. But this thing called "Trust" is hard to grasp and understand. What builds trust? And what's the state of the world in terms of trust?
When I was working with a global trade credit insurer I realized that a lot of their . . .
Over budget & behind plan
We just used all our natural resources for this year...
Not meeting a deadline and overshooting the budget can happen. But if it happens in every year, with every project, the person responsible is usually fired - whether in business or government. Today marks the day we used up our resource budget for 2016, according to WWF. Unfortunately, when it comes to our global resource consumptions we . . .
Managing Transparency
Why more data is not equal to better decisions
After every scandal in the political and corporate world, there is the call for more transparency. In an outburst of criticism, various stakeholders request new reports, lists, policies, and laws. In many cases, the hype comes and goes, and nothing really changes. But sometimes, more "transparency" is indeed created. Does it help?
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The Power of Rituals
How to overcome our biggest weaknesses
There's something fascinating about human behaviour. We like to think of ourselves as logical beings, doing the right things in line with our judgement. But there's many things of which we know that they're right, yet still we don't do them. Like regular physical exercise.
In those cases we find excuses like "It's not because . . .
Changing a life story
Filling our actions with purpose
"How do we change our customers life story?", our CEO recently asked in a team meeting. And ever since I'm fascinated by that question, not just for business, but beyond.
I wonder if you can actually answer this question without separating it into pieces and re-assemble the answers. In my view, there's three questions implied . . .
Innovating mankind out of work
How will our future look like?
FarmBot grows all the food you need in your backyard. With your 3D printer you design and manufacture spare parts for your house and cars. Autonomous drones deliver anything else you may need from the factory nearby - produced by machines.
What was pure science fiction 20 years ago, is already a viable ecosystem today (despite . . .
