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    The Serendipity Machine (English Edition)

    Por Sebastian Olma

    Sobre

    he notion of serendipity is not new to business thinking. The
    importance of unexpected conversations and knowledge exchange
    in innovation has been noted in the management literature for
    many years. What is new is actually building a business –
    a machine – that systematically facilitates serendipity.
    This book presents a disruptive business model that allows you to do exactly
    that. It is based on a study of Seats2meet.com, the Dutch network
    of physical coworking, office and meeting spaces.
    By reinventing social capital as the currency of network culture and
    fusing it with the phenomenon of serendipity, Seats2meet.com has
    created a serendipity machine that increasingly looks like an
    appropriate platform for value creation in a network economy,
    fusing traditional monetary capital with social capital. It has
    effectively put into practice something academics have been
    feverishly looking for for the last two decades. And the key to it all
    is serendipity.

    Seats2meet.com has created a business model that provides
    a platform for the digital bohemians, knowmads, free agents, or
    independent professionals as well as corporate nomads to unleash
    their creative powers. By co-creating the infrastructure today’s
    creative revolution needs in order to crystallize, Seats2meet.com
    has projected itself into the future of capitalism. Creative
    revolution has become the company’s business. It can become
    yours as well!

    Sebastian Olma, PhD, is an international scholar and expert
    working at the interface between creativity and economy. Trained
    as a philosopher as well as an organizational economist, he helps
    companies and organizations to effectively and sustainably make
    the most of their innovative potential. He lives in Amsterdam,
    where he divides his professional time between running his
    consulting company, The Think Tank (thethinktank.nl), and
    codirecting the Creative Industries Research Centre Amsterdam at
    the University of Amsterdam.

    Yulia Kryazheva is an architect and researcher, has worked on
    a diverse range of projects in the areas of architecture and urban
    renewal, service design and illustration, creative consulting. This
    practice gave shape to her current professional domain: design
    thinking & visual communication. From her studio, Yulia Ink
    (yulia-ink.com) in Rotterdam, she works for clients all over Europe.

    B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and
    management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial
    start-ups alike. Mr. Pine co-founded Strategic Horizons LLP,
    a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and
    design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings.
    A prolific writer, in 2011 he updated his best-selling
    The Experience Economy (with Jim Gilmore) and co-wrote Infinite
    Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier (with
    Kim Korn).

    Acknowledgments
    To collect data for our research, we traveled to many of the
    more than 70 Seats2meet.com locations in the Netherlands in
    May and June 2012. We would like to take the opportunity to
    thank everyone who was kind enough to participate in our
    interviews and share their experience of Seats2meet.com with
    us – above all, the users of the workspaces, the bookers of the
    meeting spaces, the Seats2meet.com entrepreneurs and the
    staff. Thanks to Seats2meet.com community manager Vincent
    Ariëns for being a great connector! Special thanks go to Ronald
    van den Hoff and Mariëlle Sijgers for accommodating all our
    research requests and welcoming us into the Seats2meet.com
    ecosphere. This was an amazing experience.
    Yulia Kryazheva and Sebastian Olma, July/August 2012
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