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Making sure that all Sparkies are healthy and safe is our first priority at the moment. In line with the latest recommendations of the Dutch government, everyone was requested to go home.

In line with the latest recommendations of the Dutch government, all Sparkies were requested to go home Thursday afternoon and continue their work from there. Working outside the office is nothing new for Sparkies, but usually this means working at the client.

CES 2020 is the world’s largest tech show with 175,000 industry professionals, from over 160 countries. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years.

At CES 2020 Las Vegas, we gathered 24 great international minds from corporates, government, research and the startup and investment community to discuss what disruption means to them and what or who they need to make it work.

SparkOptimus’ insights from the European Women in Tech conference (November 26th – 27th 2019)

Based on interview with Koen Verschuren (Head of Data Innovation at SparkOptimus) at World Summit AI 2019 in Amsterdam, where we moderated the panel discussion on “Using AI to transform retail”

In September, SparkOptimus hosted the quarterly boardroom session of TheNextWomen, to discuss the topic of ‘bias’ with female founders from a variety of industries.

SparkOptimus launches 'Make disruption work in the next decade'.

There are two main criteria for winning any race: going fast and going in the right direction. In the context of your company’s race against your competitors, “direction” represents your company’s strategy and “speed” represents your effectiveness in the implementation of that strategy.

At SparkOptimus, we are all about making disruption work for businesses. We demonstrate and grow our digital disruption expertise through the 100 or so new projects we deliver each year. Luckily, we aren’t the only ones who recognise the importance of this work.

Being a proud sponsor of the Young Pianist Foundation comes with ample opportunities for our Sparkies to come into contact with the intriguing world of classical piano music

SparkOptimus was founded in the Netherlands. These days however 70 percent of our work is outside the Netherlands. The last few months Sparkies have been on the ground in Mexico, Brazil, South-Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland, covering five continents!

Ranking first again in the category ‘Consultants E-business Services’ is a great honor that we are very excited about!

A short walk through the park overlooking beautiful Lake Geneva on a crisp March morning was the perfect start to a thought-provoking day at IMD Business School.

Digital is changing. Or as we like to call it, disrupting. Affecting all sectors, including the not-for-profit sector. Consumers are changing the ways in which they consume, and similarly, donors are changing the ways in which they choose to give.

2018 - 2019. Looking back, looking forward. Reflecting on 2018, the first thing I think of are, of course, the cool client projects I worked on. Hely (NS’s new digital venture) stood out for me in particular.

Operationalize the ideas of the future with the people you have in the now Because it’s in the nature of our work to interact a lot with our clients.

As technology rapidly advances, artificial intelligence – and more specifically, machine learning – is becoming increasingly relevant for SparkOptimus and its clients.

SparkOptimus congratulates Project March on their amazing achievements to date and is very proud to have recently begun working with this ‘DreamTeam’ from TU Delft!

Most management books I throw away, but this one is really intriguing!” This quote from Jean-François van Boxmeer, CEO Heineken, is just one of the amazing comments we heard from our guest speakers and invitees during the launch of our book ‘Make Disruption Wor

On Monday 28th of May, Alexandra Jankovich, Managing Partner of SparkOptimus, delivered a keynote speech at the 7th edition of the annual NextWomen100 event.