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Gertjan van Hardeveld

Business Strategist

Gertjan van Hardeveld

Areas of Expertise:

  • Strategy
  • Sustainable Business Models
  • Circular Economy
  • Innovation Management
  • Value Proposition Design

Guilty pleasure: 

  • Disproportionally fond of the word Platypus.

Contact

  • [javascript protected email address]
  • Phone  +31641433362

As an outside the box strategist, Gertjan helps organizations to adapt their business models and develop and implement new ways to create value. Gertjan applies a 'systems approach' to support the efforts of public and private organizations to grow towards creating more sustainable business value that cohabits with the environment and society they operate in.  Cross-linking disciplines, perspectives, values and knowledge and initiating co-creation as well as applying his over ten years of experience as an entrepreneur, make Gertjan a versatile innovator. 

 Fascinated by technology and the wondrous possibilities it brings, he is often involved in the application of disruptive technologies in his work. Technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, all enable change and are among Gertjan's favorite instruments and discussion subjects. As a constructive dreamer he often wonders what a sustainable human centric business model for the world would look like. 

Projects

Duurzame ontwikkeling Catharijnesingel Utrecht

Jul 09, 2018, Full spectrum duurzaamheidsstrategie voor stedelijke infrastructuur

Samen met KWS-Infra en tenderbureau GAIM gaf Except middels een innovatiesessie invulling aan de duurzaamheidsdoelstellingen van de gemeente Utrecht. De uitvraag van de gemeente Utrecht  betrof de sloop van een deel van het in het centrum gelegen projectgebied Catharijnesingel.

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Serenity Farms

Sep 15, 2020, Sustainable food production in arid regions

Serenity Farms is a concept for a sustainable 110ha greenhouse facility for profitable food production in arid climates. The first site is to be located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, under the vision of the Reza Investment Company. It will be the largest sustainable greenhouse operation in the world. The only water it uses is salt water sourced from the red sea, and is powered entirely by the sun. The core of Serenity Farms is a high tech food production solution that provides fresh fruits and vegetables for 170.000 people.  

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Roadmap to the BGI Manual

Okt 22, 2019, Bridging the knowledge gap in the field of Blue Green Infrastructures

Blue Green Infrastructures (BGI) increase the resilience of urban and rural landscapes, integrating their core functions with natural features and processes. Hurdles exist in the process of translating BGI-related knowledge and data from science to practice, and a tool that facilitates this transfer is still missing. We conducted a research in collaboration with a team of partner organizations (JNCC, IFLA Europe, BiodivERsA, and NRW), to pinpoint key preliminary knowledge to design such a tool, and collected our key findings in a report downloadable on this page.

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