Performance Solutions and the European Centre will start a partnership from the 1st of August.PS is strong in the educational field, transforming performance into experience, focus on hospitality, health, professional services and automotive. PS will benefit from the academic foundation of the European Centre and EE will benefit from the PS network. Concrete result; we visited PS partner Nokia and visited the Nokia flagshipstore. Nokia asked us to do a research proposal on the impact of their flagshipstores.

The inner circle of the European Centre met the end of July for a strategic meeting and discussed our future publications. We will work on an academic publication about the Experience Society and the Quality of Life in 2009. 2.We will publish a study about the interface of sensory perception and emotion. 3. Experience and Healthcare. 4. A practical guide for experience in hospitality. 5. A reader by the Pioneers of the Experience Economy, Joe Pine, Ralph Jensen, Venkat Ramaswamy and many others. 6.A practical guide and toolkit for implementation of experience concepts. 7. Article on Virtual Experiences and the Experience Landscape. 8. Experience and an inspirational workspaces. 9. The Experience of Nature and the Nature of Experience. Quite an ambitious program for the coming three years.

Our bookstore started, a small selection of special books that are related to the field of the experience economy will be available on our site. The first books that are for sale are; Experience Economy A new perspective, by Albert Boswijk, Thomas Thijssen en Ed Peelen now in English and you can pre-order Authenticity by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore What Customers really want Publication date 18th of October and The Emocode by Susanne Piët.

Michel Bauwens the founder of the P2P foundation and lecturer at our Executive course will be writing on our blog every month, the first posting is there. Thanks Michel!

Today we recevied from our publisher the first three copies. The book is now available for the English speaking market. A celebration worth. Our next book we will write with some pioneers in the field of the Experience Society

Today we received the new book of Hans van der Loo, Jeroen Geelhoud and Salem Samhoud about how to awaken organisations, how to make them more energetic, and effective. With lots of pleasure we see that the Prenatal businesscase( Petra Brussen lectured at our networking meeting last year) has been used as an opening case of vitalising an organisation by a clear vision. The authors also used the competing values framework of Rober Quinn as a model for assesment of culture. The refreshing concept of a meaningful organisation is being introduced. As soon as we have read the book we will come with a complete review. Recommended!

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I have been lecturing the 10th of May in Copenhagen for Short Cut, a conference for Huse i Danmark and the European Organisation of Cultural houses ENCC. I was pleasantly surprised by the receptiveness of the public and the enthusiasm about our approach to the experience economy. I spoke with Rolf Jensen(Dream Society) and we discussed the state of the experience economy in Denmark. We planned to organise a summit for the Experience Economy,where all pioneers in the field will share their ideas together of how we believe that Xp EC is developing. Also had an very inspiring discussion with Uffe Aelback who is now director of the World Outgames. We discussed a possible role of our Centre to evaluate the games. Also spoke with Bjarne Rasmussen ( Coordinator of Sustainable Zealand Region) and Soren Sorensen about developments in the field of tourism and experience economy. Jis Jensen teaches at the University of Roskilde (experience management) and we will explore ways together how to cooperate and share knowledge. The very good news is that Jorn Christansen, (Projektleder Innovation og Forskning Regional Udvikling
Region Midtjylland) participant in our executive course in Barcelona , succeeded in getting the funds together to raise a Centre for the Experience Economy in his region which will be founded in Aarhuus.

We have been working hard with the help of Mark Hansen and Anna Snel on the translation of the discourse on communicative self direction of Prof.dr Arnord Cornelis, a lecture of 1999. For the first time his theory and concepts will be available to english speaking public.The video of the lecture is undertitled on the dvd of the international edition of our book The Experience Economy, A New Perspective, to be published the 29th of may.

You and we broke a record. In Januari we had over 5000 unique visitors on our website.That is 5 times as much as in jan 2006.Thanks for your interest and please keep giving us feeback. We are in the process of working on the lay out of the site, to have a better overview.

Don’t talk about it but do it. The door is opened by a touch of my fingerprint. Electronic touch screens on the wall, easy to discuss your website or log, or any other issues,lots of space, brighty modern colours, big tables to work on, a little corner to do the morning kick off (morning prayer). The toilet door is transparant, as you close the door it becomes intransparant for privacy and in the mirror you see the latest news and teletext. I was thrilled today being a guest at Freedomlab. Freedomlab works close together with EE and 2 Yellows provides us with this interactive website. If your are creative and innovative your office better be it too! Good example of an experience environment setting the culture.

ID&T and Q Dance have started a partnership with the European Centre for the Experience Economy.ID&T and Q have developed ‘the experience chain’ of Dance Events. Partners of ID&T and Q will be invited on specific moments to contribute to the event. EE will do research on the impact of the experiences offered(XRP).