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September 20, 2016

By Remco Lenstra

Design Thinking for beginners

Strategy & Innovation

Antwerp Management School recently welcomed some 250 full-time master students from all over the world. During the Onboarding Days, one of the things they were introduced to is Design Thinking. This concept offers a process-based and efficient way of dealing with complexity and finding

September 2, 2016

By Gerard Puccio

How to develop a strategic innovation vision for your organization

Strategy & Innovation

What are the trends emerging today that will shape your industry tomorrow? How can you develop a creative outlook on these trends and become a winner with unexpected growth in a mature market? Professor Gerard J. Puccio, lecturer in our Master Class Creativity & Innovation Leadership,

July 14, 2016

By Remco Lenstra

Design thinking is dead, long live design thinking!

Strategy & Innovation

Design thinking, maybe you’d heard of it … I’m genuinely curious to find out what your first reaction was to this rather woolly expression. The word ‘design’ has caused many a controversy in the past – it’s still a challenge to steer any substantive conversation away from interminable

June 16, 2016

By Simon De Ruyter

Alumni stories, PART FOUR: a call for product developers

Students & Alumni Strategy & Innovation

The Master of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MIE) welcomes students from many different backgrounds, from engineering, science, IT and applied economics, to product development. Simon De Ruyter is an alumni of last year's MIE who studied Product Development before he came to AMS. We

June 8, 2016

By Lorens Van de Velde

Alumni stories, PART THREE: the Street Store

Students & Alumni Strategy & Innovation

The mission of Antwerp Management School is based on three pillars: self-awareness, a global perspective, and societal consciousness. For this last pillar, every class at AMS needs to organize a social community project every year, as part of the Leadership and Career Development Track.

May 25, 2016

By Axel Van der Donk

Alumni stories, PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION

Students & Alumni Strategy & Innovation

I graduated from the Master Innovation Entrepreneurship (MIE) program in 2015. My business partner, another MIE grad, and I are one year into the financially disadvantaged life of an entrepreneur, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We are currently reaching the end of a phase that can

May 23, 2016

By Remco Lenstra

Watch out for these 4 pitfalls for innovation in SMEs

Strategy & Innovation

Is your SME in the doldrums? You are longing for innovation, but none of your efforts seem to lead anywhere? To bring about innovation in an SME is not exactly easy, but it is possible you are unknowingly complicating things. Maybe you have fallen prey to one of these common pitfalls.

April 29, 2016

By Annick Schramme

Impact and Added Value of Fashion in Antwerp – Part 1

Strategy & Innovation

The Economic impact of the fashion industry on the city of Antwerp The glamour, excitement and creativity of the world of fashion have always appealed to the imagination. But the fashion industry comprises more aspects than solely the designing process and fashion shows. Worldwide more

April 20, 2016

By Maka De Lameillieure

This is a human world - Part II

Strategy & Innovation

Small changes with a huge influence Behavioral changes (of your customers, contributors, supplier) are accomplished most effectively with small changes than shock interventions. In the book The Big Smalli, Robert Cialdini and his colleagues Steve J. Martin and Noah J. Goldstein see how

March 10, 2016

By Eddy Laveren

Why only one in five mergers and acquisition transactions succeeds

Strategy & Innovation

After the financial crisis, Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) transactions are finally on the rise again. Yet only for one in five cases do the negotiations turn out to be a successful transaction. We – Antwerp Management School, in association with the University of Antwerp, lawyer firm

February 11, 2016

By Geert Scheipers

What is organizational performance management

Strategy & Innovation

It is not a simple task to give direction and reach strategic decisions that are carried through by all parties involved. This is especially the case in large organizations as well as smaller businesses. On top of this, chosen strategies often suffer a loss in traction over time and are

February 2, 2015

By Antwerp Management School

The power of LEGO®

Strategy & Innovation

Today organizations are more and more confronted with wicked problems: complex problems of which the thesis statement alters regularly or whereby many different stakeholders are involved. Visualization techniques help to make that sort of problems insightful and solve them. Or why you