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, and with diverse organizations in the public and private sector throughout Europe.

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. From 2006-2009 he was a member of the European Commission’s Living Labs Portfolio of Projects Leadership Group.

Hank is an active member of the New Club of Paris, a think-tank for the Knowledge Society.

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 Future Centers and master practitioners in the art and practice of creating, running and supporting Future Centers. The goal of the Alliance is to promote the effective use of Future Center concepts in diverse domains. Members work together to exchange ideas about effective practice and co-create new knowledge, methodologies and tools to support systemic change in organizations and society. The intention is to initiate and collaborate on joint international projects relevant to key stakeholders in the public and private sector.

Building on the work of an earlier alliance, the FCA was renewed and reestablished in 2011 by a diverse group of practitioners from 8 countries. It is the leading international alliance for initiating, organizing and actively supporting the management and renewal of Future Centers and similar dedicated innovation environments.

FCA at work
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 four International Future Center Summits: 2005 in The Netherlands, 2006 in Italy, 2009 in Sweden, and 2010 in Japan.
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
•   contact@fc-alliance.net

Website: www.fc-alliance.net

FCA partners

Members of the FCA are:

• Working Future Centers and other innovation and foresight-enhancing workspaces;
• Public and private organizations committed to the practice of innovation, and seriously interested in applying Future Center concepts to co-create value for their customers, stakeholders, sectors and society as a whole;
• Experienced professionals working in the field of business and societal innovation, intellectual capital, collaborative workspace design, problem solving and academic/action research, who have demonstrated an affinity with Future center concepts.