On our way to Århus Kaospilot training (Denmark) on Tuesday February 2, Andra and I were stuck at the Copenhagen airport due to snowstorms. Flights to Århus were cancelled. After staying over at the Copenhagen Airport Hotel (imagine a Fawlty Towers scene), which had nothing to do with Copenhagen or the airport, we managed to catch the flight the next day, and were late for 3 hours! Not the best way to start the day. But Pete Sims and Team 14 welcomed us over the group lunch served by the italian sandwich bar.
We spent the first two days with Kaospilots Team 14 talking about and practicing the business model thinking. What are the business models of today? How can you come up with the business models yourself? How do models on social entrepreneurship look like? (thanks to Alex!). And how does the model of Kaospilots look like? This was an interesting question as the coming week we are working on an IT Academy model for Estonia. We were amazed by the positive energy and enthusiasm of Team 14; 2 days was simply too short to model all their ideas. Many business ideas were around social entrepreneurship, doing good for the community and saving the earth from more trash and stuff. Wonderful.
We spent Friday with Espen Sivertsen and the teams 15 and 15+. They work on an exciting project “better city, better life” for Expo 2010 Shanghai. Besides modeling the new ideas they were especially interested in the business model for the book. Part of their Shanghai assignment is to create the book with 100 concepts designed for a better city-better life, which will be presented in Shanghai.
Cool heads and warm hearts is what the Kaospilots stand for. And it is true. Entrepreneurship is an essential part of the Kaospilots program, but equally important is designing the life around one’s passion. We were inspired to work with these great people on some of our assignments.
Above is an example of graphic recording by one of the Kaospilots. Recognize the style? Wonderful to record your meetings like that.
Thanks, Kaospilots, for a wonderful week (incl. Peter Froberg). You rock!
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