New creative uses of Hubs

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New creative uses of Hubs

Bouma, F. and Sijgers, M. (2016). Interview about Seats2Meet.

Hoff, van den, R. (2015). Seats2com - Unlocking the Future. Vision & growth strategy 2016 & 2017 [PowerPoint presentation].

https://www.seats2meet.com/

 

Recommended for implementation is investment by a commercial organisation and not by PTO or PTA. Transition to a new society, with (other forms of) people interaction. Resources, procedures, supervisions, quality/outcomes control etc. research/development by the commercial organisation.

Development areas, important locations, like central stations, airports, Public Transport hubs, meeting spaces with free facilities.

Seats2meet is a platform for exchange of expertise, forming positive surroundings for creating innovations by facilitating unexpected, but relevant encounters among people.

Public Transport Hubs are interesting to act as a new meeting point, as there are many people passing through and become an attractive location if someone invests in them. In 2007, Seats2meet (S2M) started an organisation with this added value. S2M is a platform for exchange of expertise, forming positive surroundings for creating innovations by facilitating unexpected, but relevant encounters among people. It is an organization which creates and leases online tools inspired by the society 3.0 philosophy. These were created to work as a virtual layer for any physical location with possibilities for people to sit, work and share knowledge. The tools work as online booking in exchange of social capital (their knowledge and abilities) or money; matching people based on their interests and field of work (facilitating serendipity) and question making (asking for help of people around you). In that way Seats2meet creates a network of relevant locations with a diversity of co-workers, who have their individual profession but can support each other on their way to be the best version of themselves for themselves.

3.4
  • Finance and business models
  • Infrastructure and vehicle
  • Marketing and promotion, customer care

General concept
Metropolitan areas
Any
Attracting more customers
  • Adaptiveness to evolving markets and customer needs
  • Increase promotion

Explore
  • Flexible economy
  • Shared economy

Business case and New Business Model. Invests in people and in social capital and maybe getting paid by monetary funds.

Medium (4 to 8 months)
Medium (KEuro)
High (over 50KEuro/year for an implementation)
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