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The Forge knows how to make your team and organization innovative. We're curious to know what innovation challenges you need to tackle. Feel free to contact us. We are ready to make it happen!
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Leegheid 7 2800 Mechelen Belgium BTW: BE 0505.791.157 |
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Who are we?
Geert De Wael
Background: Applied Economic Sciences at KULeuven & Marketing at Vlerick Management School Business Experience: IBM, TV Brussel (Director), Sanoma (Operations Manager), Uplace-BMC Pro Triathlon Team (Marcom Manager), Lecturer EHB. Expertise: Leadership, communication management & team communication Other: Experienced impro- & stand up comedian. Coaching of public speakers. |
Michaël Van Damme
Background: Experimental psychologist & PhD in Organizational psychology at Ghent University (ongoing) Business Experience: Centrum voor de Ontwikkeling van het Creatief Denken (COCD, facilitator of innovation processes) & Ghent University (researcher) Expertise Science behind innovation in groups and organizations, group dynamics, communication, charisma, humor & idea selection. Other: Experienced Keynote speaker (e.g. TEDx). Experienced impro- & stand up comedian. Coaching of public speakers. |
What is The Forge?
Innovation is a real buzzword of our time. Everyone talks about it: entrepreneurs, managers, even politicians. But what does it actually mean and how do you do it? We are concerned that innovation is threatened to become a hollow term and we’re determined to give it its rightful content and meaning back. Our team helps other teams and organizations to analyze how innovative they are and what they can do to improve it.
What is our long term goal?
The Forge aims to realize a mental shift in management and innovation consultancy towards evidence based knowledge, practices and techniques. Our goal is that by 2020 it's the standard for managers to ask whether a proposed theory, technique or measurement is evidence based. Finally, we also aim to shift the usual focus on innovation processes towards more focus on innovation climate.
How do we want to achieve this goal?
The Forge wants to prove consistently that evidence based knowledge, techniques and measurements really are an added value for companies by applying it. The Forge always bases its advise, measurements and techniques on scientific research. The evidence based research is done in a business environment, why don’t we use it? We are passionate about sharing this knowledge as much as possible. We aim to share our expertise in a simple, transparent and interactive way.