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To keep your vision and targets laser-sharp in business, you need multiple waypoints en route. You regularly need to take a break to reconsider your thoughts and see things from different perspective(s). On this page, you’ll find food for thought of different flavors – we regularly publish books, podcasts, videos and articles, to feed your mind, eyes and ears, to help (re)calibrating position towards your goals.

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Eddy Helsen

Receiving from the Ocean - Doing the right things right in business

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To succesfully operate in this era of rapid technological and societal change, ruled by demanding customers, shareholders, employees and an environment in distress, today's and tomorrow's leaders need a receptive, humble mind to create dynamic and resilient enterprises. At ViCre, we call this 'Receiving from the Ocean'. As a unique collection of management, assessment and…
Eddy Helsen

Reaching Horizons - When in Business Thinking and Acting Become One - 2nd Edition

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This book wants to encourage leaders in a philosophical way and bring them back to the roots of leadership and performance. How as a company leader can you make sure thinking and acting become one? How can an enterprise enhance its innovative power and decisiveness by speaking one language? On general request of ViCre’s clients,…

ViCre library

At ViCre we believe in reading. Reading about personal growth, about management and leadership, about specific business topics, and about understanding humans and human relationships. The spectrum is broad. Enjoy to receive from the ocean.

Reading a book, starts with buying a book. Hereby, we present you a series of books to get you started: old timers, classics and some new ideas.

Stir it Up with Yellow Time!

To pinpoint the 20 percent of activities that lead to 80 percent of your results, you need time to think. In our daily hustle and bustle however, we all complain about being too busy and that our glasses are too full. Well, here’s a quick fix to that: Pour some yellow time in. Yellow time is vacant time during your daily routine. It’s reflection time, an invitation to yourself to analyse whether you are working on the right things in the right way.

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Enterprise Excellence

Thriving companies

Companies that thrive instead of survive In the fast-paced world of business, companies that stand out and consistently lead the market share a common approach: a balanced focus on maintaining business operations, driving continuous improvement, embarking on transformative changes, and nurturing both a strong group culture and individual contributions. This balanced approach is not just… More
Enterprise Excellence

Successful Transformation Projects

The Key Pillars of Successful Transformation Project Management Talking about transformation, means talking about a future that is different than today. There are probably many projects that will need to be managed to bridge that gap, too many to all start at once and many options to choose from to move forward... In this dynamic… More
Enterprise Excellence

Creating business continuity

Every successful company today finds itself somewhere on the road to creating more sustainable value. But after years of conceptualising and exploring transformation approaches, for many, the essence of sustainability has vanished along the process. As a small refresher: becoming a sustainable company primarily refers to developing a company's talent for continuity. To be sustainable,… More
Customer Journey

Trust is the ultimate currency for business

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of business, trust has become a fundamental currency that can shape the destiny of companies. The concept of trust is no longer a mere catchphrase; it is an indispensable component that can either make or break an organization. Trust is a priceless currency that profoundly influences customer loyalty and… More
Enterprise Excellence

Create awarenes, get commitment

Or how to lift your enterprise energy to the next level Understanding your enterprise and constantly analysing its results is important to operate at your most successful. But what’s even more important and crucial for fully grasping your business and improving it, is seeing things as they really are. Are you able to capture your… More
Enterprise Excellence

4 colors towards Enterprise Excellence

Enterprise Excellence is the result of balancing 4 colored ‘activity paths’: Increase Performance, Create Awareness, Enable Transformation, Solve Issues. It means there is no wrong place to start, you choose the color that fits your current business challenge best. DO IT: Do the right things right to excel in the here and now   When… More
Workforce

The Future of Work

The time between the first flight of the Wright brothers, December 17 in 1903 and the landing on the moon, July 20 in 1969, was already mind-boggling.  But it is nothing compared to the speed of many of the changes in today’s world, accelerated by the covid-pandemic. They are so disruptive that they put a… More
Post-corona resilience (dutch article)

Moedig voorwaarts: ViCre Outlook 2021-2022

Een van ViCre’s hoekstenen is chaos, en hoe chaos te gebruiken in business als motor voor verandering. Een goed half jaar geleden maakte het coronavirus ongevraagd zijn opwachting in het bedrijfsleven, om vervolgens de spelregels volledig te herschrijven. Ook bij ViCre. Hoe zet een onderneming wiens core business internationale dienstverlening is een globale pandemie naar… More
Co-Creation

Interview: The first one-piece-3D-printed house

A world first! Kamp C, the Westerlo-based provincial Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in construction, printed a house using the largest 3D concrete printer in Europe. An interview with Annelies Helsen about ViCre's role in this unique, innovative project. The house was printed as part of the European C3PO Project. How did ViCre get involved?… More

Videos

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Yellow time

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Masterplan

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The Dolphin System

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Sweet Spot

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From Erosion to Sales Explosion

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Enjoy 2021

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Imagine 2020

Newsletters

In our newsletter you’ll find food for thought of different flavors – books, podcasts, videos and articles – to feed your mind, eyes and ears, to help (re)calibrating position towards your goals.

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