Have a look

Have a look
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Have a look. The girl is playing the piano. It says spectacle. They are singing. I don't see the crowd. Not a bad performance at all.

What are we waiting for

The innovationtrain 2.0 isn't moving yet. The goal is to head for Kajaani.

We've a fresh team working
Looking for sponsors
Shouldn't be a copy of 1.0

We can show a distant, modern, distributed and controversional Kainuu to our visitors.

The game has started.
May or June 2012.

Snowpolis Sotkamo today

Working with an audio project. Came to Snowpolis to catch some sounds and inspirational ideas.

Digital Villages Ecosystem Improved

Take a look at the improved Digital Villages Ecosystem.

Globally, water consumption increases at more than twice the rate of population growth.

There will be a shortage of Water, Money, Oil and Energy in many parts of the world.

A workforce of several hundred millions is waiting for whatever jobs available.

If cheap energy helped fuel the boom in China and India, then a vanishing supply of fresh water will apply the brakes in the near future.

 

Is the world moving towards biomass fueled CHP plants?

HISTORY | As the world makes moves towards biofuels (= biomass fuels in this context), the source of the biological material is going to become important.

The European Commission has published a green paper called "A European Strategy for Secure, Competitive and Sustainable Energy for Europe", which, in the view of the European Renewable Energy Industry is a missed opportunity for showing the way forward in Europe's energy policy and strategy.

I did write these sentences several years ago. What has changed since 2007?

• PRODUCT | Biomass fueled CHP is a proven concept; the 1 – 20 MW plant sizes for Europe and BRIC countries are however new and the sales and implementation is facing more barriers and uncertainties compared to Scandinavian countries where wood based bioenergy units have a long history.

• PRICE | The initial CHP investment is higher but ROI over lifetime should support the decision. The acceptance of a higher initial investment price demands strategic decision making and local political wisdom has to be a part of the decision making process.

• PROMOTION | Biomass fueled CHPs 1 – 20 MW as valuable community / district level investments are not well known outside the Scandinavian markets. Much more grassroots and local b2b promotion is needed to advance the Public-Private-Community-District partnership.

• PLACE | Location, location, location is everything. A CHP (cogeneration heat and power) should be installed in a location where the Public-Private-Community-District initiative has the logistical, operational and supply chain actors participating. To succeed, a multidisciplinary local action group has to be arranged by someone who wants to lead the operation from start to finish. Such a team was in place when the Autun, France, BioGrate 10 MW project proceeded from idea to completion.

• POLITICS | The City / Community level decision makers have to be a natural part of the planning process and a project team. A CHP plant want be a strictly Business-to-Business sales and implementation project. A successful project requires long term cooperation of several parties. If the networking infrastructure isn’t in place, there will not be a successful project.

Katinkulta

Katinkulta
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Katinkulta was the place where we had a Digital Villages think-tank meeting a year ago. Today, we're ready to propose full-scale solutions to clients around the globe.

The main elements of strategic architecture are mission, strategic business areas, analyses, goals, competitive strategies, action programmes, long-term financial planning and securing the strategies coming through.
 
This blog  is a description of that journey. We've been looking at the content, history, development, methods and implementation of strategic management models for years.

Strategic planning, combined with exceptional social demand and consumer insight, results in a strong village / city identity with attractive brand positioning.

Digital Villages is an evolutionary process. In all problem solving, service design or community building project participant learn by doing.

• Sustainable strategy created through a collaborative effort
• Development of visualization tools
• Their integration within social networking services
• Application of network visualization techniques and tools

Power to the people

First, this is very important. We want to work with capable people that can do the work on-site.

We deliver a working model improving  the ability adapt quickly to the changes of the local and world economy.

We explore the right structure for the Green City / Sustainable Community.
   
The right structure will depend upon strategic objectives. 

The strategic objective should be defined with least vagueness in respect of the

1. living conditions, infrastructure, housing, utilities, roads, industries, schools, health care, leisure, and other services,
   
2. the time frame and a measurable target.

China on my agenda

China on my agenda
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

I've China on my agenda and will spend more time to follow what happens in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India... Another way to look at the new emerging markets is to follow things and trends in the BRIC countries.

Financial Times Thursday December 29, 2011, tells about Labour unrest in China.

- LG Display hit by worker militancy


- Workers become very assertive

- Nervousness grows within government

- Revelations from Memo to Barack Obama


The weakening global economy has prompted companies to cut pay and benefits. The cheap labor model does cause problems and some estimate it isn't working anymore.

Thousands of employees at the LG Display factory went on strike over year-end bonuses.

The dispute involved some 8 000 people and forced a partial production shutdown at the Nanjing plant.

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year 2012
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Happy New Year 2012. What's new for the coming year?

Let's call it TRANSFORMATION. Numerous great ideas from the 80s are getting a new life in our services 2012.

We're very happy for tremendeous cooperation and collaboration with our global digital friends and wishing a prosperous new year to all of you!

Winter is late

Winter is late
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Winter is late but North Corea does have a new leader. Huffington Post writes:

"PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's power brokers publicly declared Kim Jong Un the country's supreme leader for the first time at a massive public memorial Thursday for his father, cementing the family's hold on power for another generation."

I'm a little bit confused. Father Christmas might have the same kind of status in Finland without any political power, whatsoever.

Happy Christmas

Sotkamo K-supermarket

Sotkamo K-supermarket
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo K-supermarket. We're expecting a white Christmas.

- a few centimetres of snow
- temperature is just around cero degrees Celcius
- the Southern part of Finland will not have snow
- the downhill slopes in Sotkamo are ready to accpet skiiers

European turmoil

European turmoil
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

European turmoil: problems aren't over yet. It will take years to get the euro on track again.

Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Finland does have a marginal role and is probably moving out from the core decision making process.

What does it mean for us? Changes are marginal. It's not realistic to believe that we could have a bigger impact than the one percent of the population.

Why should we be in the center of the European decision making process if we aren't able to deliver added value to the solutions that have to be made faster and faster in the future.

Sotkamo yesterday evening

Sotkamo yesterday evening
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo yesterday evening outside the K-Supermarket. It was the day of final Spanish language course for this year.

There is still plenty of work
We start again 12.1.2012
But w've more than seven months to learn more
Singing christmas songs together
We've a great team of ten students and an inspring teacher

Postcard from Gdansk, Poland

Postcard from Gdansk, Poland
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Postcard from Gdansk, Poland. The year 2011 is almost finished.

We did spend some time in Gdansk over twenty years ago just before the stumble of the Berlin Wall.

Today 29.12.2011, I read about news from North Corea:

"Life in the North Korean capital came to a standstill as mourners dressed in thick, dark colored jackets blanketed the plaza from the Grand People's Study House to the Taedong River for the second day of funeral ceremonies for the late leader. A giant red placard hanging on the front of a building facing Kim Il Sung Square urged the country to rally around Kim Jong Un."

The Sovjet inspired communism is gone and history, but there're stiil some strongholds on the globe: China and North Corea. China is very much capitalism inspired. North Corea is trying to become a museum of hard-line communism with closed borders and no freedom of speach for its citizens.

More jobs in sales and retail than in car manufacturing

Mote jobs in sales and retail than in car manufacturing
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

More jobs in sales and retail than in car manufacturing, according to Der Handel ad in Der Spiegel.

Selling
Shopkeeping
Services
Retail
Customer support

Memories from France

Memories from France
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Memories from France. I've loads of papers from the 90's that need to be screened and analyzed.

The years in France
Travelling around Europe
Search for new projects
Development of new projects

I'm planning new audio recordings to cover some of the key experiences.

Working with manuscripts to get started.

Virtual service design

For a social media nerd, it is no news that organizations are slower than individuals in adopting social networking technology.

But I do see a change happening
There is a huge sleeping potential
Organizations can make tiger-jumps
Open innovation and collaboration
New business models and service design
New global distribution chaneels
Cost-effective global collaboration

Paris

Paris
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Paris, Champs Elyse. We're planning a campaign focusing on Asia 2012: Taiwan and China to be more specific.

Planning starting now
Bioenergy
Bioeconomy
Measurement and Control
Knowledge intensive travel arrangements
Problem solving with the Bitotechtouch team
Logistics: Finnair, VR and Vantaa City

Blogging more about details during the coming months

Networking and Narrowcasting

Networking
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Networking has been a part of my vocabulary for at least thirty years.

The digital age has changed the way we work together on a global scale, but networking is still very much a people to people business.

We used video, tape recordings, interviews and print media as tools for networking in the '70s at Hewlett-Packard.

Personally, I did interactive and transatlantic "podcasting" with C-60 minutes cassettes at the end of the '70s.

Still, the biggest challenge is to have something valuable to say or to contribute.

Technology makes some things easier and adds to the speed of interaction, but the thought process is just about as slow and cumbersome as ever before.