Creative Ideas In a Troubled Time In a troubled time, creative powerful new ideas pierce the darkness and paradigm shifts happen. It seems creativity plays an important role here and helps us to create meaningful change. A great and well-known example of such a powerful idea is the relativity theory of Albert Einstein. Physicists proved […]
Why did we decide for a remote team? When I started our first software projects with ANDRS, we hired skilled companies to do all of the design and development. We decided for companies in our proximity and contracted on project delivery specifics. These companies came with their own team in their own office. This construction […]
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker In 2017 we celebrated 5 years of innovation. A lot has changed within those 5 years where we shifted from delivering projects to delivering you our brands’ software as a service. Here’s why and what that means for your business. […]
Press Release – Kitchener, Ontario – Dutch founded ANDRS Projects has chosen the Waterloo area to call its home away from home. After soft landing in the region in 2015 and testing Canadian waters in 2016, the Dutch tech company – that builds brands that help their customers leverage the power of their stakeholders – decided […]
Many companies go global, but that does not make them born global firms. Since we are in the spirit of Christmas let’s make a comparison with Santa’s global gift giving business, to discover what distinguishes a “born global” from any other global operating firms. Global focus from the earliest beginnings Born global firms originate internationally. […]
A Fab Lab in Amsterdam showed how Europe is made by People The Netherlands fulfilled the Presidency of the Council of The European Union during the first 6 months of 2016. Running during that same period a program called Europe By People showed how art & design can be leveraged to bring Europe closer to […]
GOOD Conference Caroline Vrauwdeunt – CEO and Founder of ANDRS talks about Open Data as part of the GO Open Data Conference 2016 in Markham, Ontario, Canada. GO Open Data (GOOD16) is a community-driven annual conference by and for the Ontario Open Data community. GOOD16 is a collaborative effort between civil society, IT professionals, bloggers, community […]
Test, validate and modify You probably heard of “Lean startup” or “Value Proposition Design”? These are the guidelines for today’s generation startups that bring their creative and innovative solutions towards a scalable business. These smart creatives acknowledge the need to test, validate and modify their innovations in market reality and with help of existing key […]
Building an innovation economy Caroline Vrauwdeunt – CEO of ANDRS! will be on the cast of CityAge: Build the Future on October 8 & 9 at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Cities are where we must implement the ideas and partnerships that build an innovation economy: new ideas in transportation, energy management, economic development, and resilient infrastructure that […]
Map Your City: een zelfgemaakte schatkaart voor je eigen community “In iedere stad bestaan interessegroepen met behoefte aan een gebouw waar zij zich mee kunnen identificeren”, zegt Caroline Vrauwdeunt. Zij bedacht Map Your City, de app waarmee mensen in een community een sterk netwerk opbouwen rond een gebouw, en het pand zelf plus de omgeving in kaart […]
Over de Innovation Awards Sinds kort is onze innovatie Map Your City genomineerd voor de Accenture Innovation Awards 2015. De Accenture Innovation Awards is een jaarlijks terugkerende innovatiewedstrijd voor de meest innovatieve Nederlandse producten, diensten en concepten. Met de Innovation Awards geeft Accenture bedrijven en organisaties de erkenning die zij verdienen. In Nederland gelanceerde concepten die uitzonderlijke […]
Onze app krijgt Koninklijke lancering! ANDRS!’s Map Your City is samen met 2 andere Nederlandse MKB bedrijven onlangs door het Nederlandse Consulaat in Toronto een bijzondere gelegenheid geboden om acte de presence te geven tijdens de Nederlandse handelsmissie in Canada eind mei. Gedurende de afsluitende Resilient Cities Summit zetten Zijne Majesteit Koning Willem-Alexander en Hare Majesteit Koningin […]
