Harold van Garderen - Dr. - TOP innosense

Harold is based in Cuijk/Wageningen, Netherlands. Contact details are:
 

Harold completed the Cognitive Edge training in UK - London November 2005. Harold has experience in ...And the Butterfly Stamped; The future backwards; Identity modeling and monitoring; Archetype Creation; Story Construction; Ritual Dissent; Three Facilitator rule; Anecdote Circles; Naive interviews; Participative observation; and The Set up.

Industry Specialisation

TOP innosense specializes in

• Product-innovation in Food, Consumer and High-tech
• Services-innovation in Government, Health care and Welfare
• Impact Assessment of Transition Management Programs
  

Besides these, we offer short (1, 2, 5, 10 day) engagements for strategy and scenario building, the CE standard propositions and custom-made engagements to created bespoke programs and solutions. 

Professional Background

I did my PhD on large scale simulations of physical-chemical phenomena in aggregating silica gels. Although this sound totally different from Cynefin methods and knowledge management, fact is that these phenomena all led to emergent properties in the natural system. Let me explain.

The starting materials were utterly boring: water, acid and silicon-dioxide (clean form of sand found in toothpaste and car-tires) but the emergence of properties was fascinating. Anyone with some knowledge in the fields of fractals will understand what I'm talking about.

Therefore I recommend anyone to run a screen-saver, creating pictures of fractals (yes, I know, it sounds outdated now) on your screen in the last few weeks before embarking on an accreditation course. It will really help in grasping the concepts behind the processes you see happening in front of you.

Projects Undertaken

* Facilitation of a 3-stage process - for modestly large group (12-15) of Young Professionals - starting with (step 1) gathering of narrative material from customers during a large commercial show (using video) and (step 2) extracting events and AVT items from these stories that were used as input to a set of three future-backwards sessions run in parallel to create a profound understanding of the past of our company and some meaningful future scenario's.

* Facilitation of several 1-day workshops with small groups (6-8) to enable to engage in meaningful discussion on the last five and next five years in their business.

Additional Information
Currently in the final stages of obtaining a Masters Degree in Information Management (www.ienm.nl) at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on Services Innovation.