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Renowned expert in sales-marketing and change management who can inspire you to develop a solid customer-centric strategy
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About Rik
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Speaker Rik Vera started to travel the world to inspire companies, managers, teams, customers, and audiences to develop their own Day After Tomorrow-strategies. Rik Vera has been giving over 1000 keynotes, lectures, and workshops in many countries. He has been guiding and coaching hundreds of small to very large international companies and their leaders on their journey to the Day After Tomorrow.
Rik does not bring a silver bullet, nor does he pretend there is a script. Rik Vera knows how to create that vibrating but not hostile discomfort and how to make people smile and hungry for change. Rik Vera will shake, rattle, and roll.
See keynotes with Rik VeraYou had been building this amazing 5-year plan. Business was growing, your ambitions were high and then all of a sudden a gigantic meteorite called COVID-19 struck our planet and caused a major standstill of life and business. The world will never re-start in the old mode. You have loads of questions. How will the post-COVID-19 world look like? What can companies do today to survive, strive, and win after the harsh winter of COVID-19?
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The Day After Tomorrow will be here soon. Managers shouldn’t be taken by surprise. Having been a managing director in the ‘good old’ textile industry for over 25 years, Rik does understand how challenging these fast-changing times are for managers and their teams and
why they do ask these questions: “Will my company still be there in 2035 or are we going to be crashed by digital disruption anyway?”; “How are we still going to be relevant to people and society by then?”; “Where and how should we start?”.
The answers are simple: Yes, every company can still be around and relevant in 2035.
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The business environment has been reshaped dramatically in between 2000-2020 due to technological waves that have changed people and society way faster than most companies were able to cope with. We have entered the era of the Smart Ecosystems Economy. Smart healthcare, smart logistics, smart retail, smart agriculture, smart food, smart mobility, smart cities, smart education, smart banking, smart insurance, smart utilities,… will become our daily reality.
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Why did Nokia lose the smartphone battle? Why did Kodak fail? What happened to Xerox? Why did Chernobyl turn out a disaster? Change the culture is the key. The old normal is not fully dead and the new one is not fully born. We have entered the Twilight Twenties: the in-between zone. There are no scripts for that twilight zone and those that travel it based on assumptions, will not survive.
The good old normal culture was inside-out, top-down, balanced scorecard driven, hierarchical, rigid, and based on patterns and assumptions. It was killing companies in the past and it will be killing even more companies in this era of lightspeed changes times.
Change it while you still can and start very simply by implementing one essential new KPI which is the perfect antidote for the old normal culture: the Net Curiosity Score (#NCS).
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