Hank Kune is founder and director of Educore

As founder and director of Educore (since 1991), Hank Kune has specialized in advising government organisations in projects about innovation and organizational development, and learning, with a special emphasis on hands-on problem solving in complex social, societal and administrative situations.

In the last ten years his work has focussed on systemic innovation in the field of public policy-making, sustainable development in civil service organisations, and developing future center initiatives for societal innovation. He works extensively with a number of government departments in the Netherlands.

His work addresses questions like:

• What is the role of creative individuals and centers for innovation in the emerging network society?
• How can we enable the public sector - and society as a whole - to deal with tomorrow’s challenges?
• How can we establish networks of linked future center initiatives throughout the world to collaborate on social and societal innovation?

Hank Kune has been advisor to Future Center initiatives at three Dutch ministries, and founder of the Dutch Future Centers network. In 2005 he co-organized and chaired the first International Future Center Summit & Exploration Tour, which took place in the Netherlands. In 2006 he helped design and organize the Da Vinci Future Center Summit in Tuscany. In 2005-2006 Hank co-created the dvd Work in Progress (2006), a film about future center initiatives in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and England, for which he wrote the script and conducted more than 25 interviews.

From 2006-2008 he was co-coordinator of OpenFutures, a European Commission project investigating state-of-the-art practice in future centers, innovation labs and future-oriented collaborative working environments across Europe. In this period he has worked on innovation projects in England, Italy, Portugal, and for the European Commission in Brussels.

Hank is a member of the New Club of Paris and the European Commission’s Living Labs Portfolio of Projects Leadership Group.

He is the author, co-author or editor of many publications about innovation, including Future Centers: Environments where Innovations Emerge (2008); OpenFutures - Operating System for Future Centers (2008); Corporate Universities and Future Centers (2007); Exploration Tours - Connecting Past, Present & Future (In Hands-on Knowledge Co-Creation and Sharing (2007); Future Centers: Space for Innovation (2005); Rapid Prototyping (2003); Future Centers: Exploration of Possibilities for Government (2002); Travel Guide to Innovationland (2001); and Critical Success Factors for Innovation in Non-profit Organizations (1999)

FUTURE CENTER ALLIANCE (FCA)

FCA is an alliance of master practitioners in the art and practice of creating, running and supporting Future Centers. The goal of the Alliance is to promote the effective realization of the Future Center concept in diverse domains. The eight core partners are experienced professionals working in the field of social and societal innovation, intellectual capital and collaborative workspace design. Their work ranges from academic and action research to hands-on problem solving in practice.

FCA at work
FCA is the leading market player for initiating, organizing and actively supporting the start-up, upgrade and management of Future Centers and similar dedicated innovation initiatives.
Services range from project conceptualization and advice to full scope turnkey design and management of appropriate organizational, methodological, ICT, and physical workspace solutions.

Alliance partners leverage their core expertise, complementary skills, and extensive networks to collaboratively achieve client objectives. They advise on and support public sector renewal and private sector innovation in a dozen countries, and have actively participated in the development of Future Centers throughout the world.

FCA partners created and ran the world’s first Future Center at Skandia in the 1990’s. They are responsible for convening and leading the first two International Future Center Summits (2005 in The Netherlands and 2006 in Italy) and are currently organizing a 3rd Summit (2009 in Sweden).
FCA partners served as the management team of OpenFutures, the European Commission’s Future Centers project (2006-08), and alliance members formed the core group of this project.

For more information, please contact
•    Leif Edvinsson at  leif.edvinsson@unic.net
•    Hank Kune at info@educore.nl

Website: www.futurecenters.eu

FCA partners

The eight core partners of the Future Center Alliance are:
•    Professor Leif Edvinsson (Sweden) is founder and CEO of UNIC: Universal Networking Intellectual Capital. He is a pioneering contributor to the theory of Intellectual Capital and advisor to governments and industry across the world on matters of societal innovation. He started the Skandia Future Center as a lab for organizational design, and initiated the creation of the world’s first public corporate intellectual capital annual report. Recipient of diverse awards, Professor Edvinsson is professor of Intellectual Capital at Lund University and Chair Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
•    Hank Kune is founder and director of Educore (The Netherlands). His expertise is in public sector innovation, learning and institutional development, and participative planning and policy-making. His publications have been influential in establishing and running many Dutch Future Centers, and he works regularly with them on strategic, methodological and organizational issues. He is author of the film Work in Progress about Future Centers in four countries.
•    Dr. Ron Dvir (Israel), specialist in innovation systems and knowledge management, is founder of Innovation Ecology. He has advised and written extensively on Future Centers as innovation engines for the knowledge economy. Dr Dvir has been key partner and researcher in several large-scale international R&D projects.
•    Paulo Martinez (Italy), expert in participatory methods and user-centric design. Founder of IDEAI with offices in Italy and Spain, and driving force behind Fu_Tour Future Center with its nomadic team organizing collaborative environments and future spaces where problems, conflicts and opportunities arise.
•    Henrik Danckwardt is founder of IC Community AB (Sweden). He was a core member of the project team that established the Skandia Future Center and was responsible for its operational management for four years. He and his team have developed a number of technology-based IC tools and supported their use in 20 countries.
•    Caroline Dunne is founder and owner of the Meeting Lab (Sweden), a firm whose flexible, solution driven approach provides comprehensive solutions to issues of organizational development through meeting effectiveness. She is a skilled facilitator and Strategic meeting advisor with an extensive background in intellectuyal capital consulting.
•    Tomasz Rudolf  & Sergio Sawin of Innovatika (Poland). Tomasz and Sergio are co-founders and directors of this dynamic innovation consulting and outsourcing firm with major industry clients in on three continents. Through strategic partnerships and collaboration with thought leaders they have develop an integrated toolkit of innovation tools, methods and good practices, and have initiated and coordinated several international communities of practice.