Our Publications
- Our social media strategy framework – A series of articles about how we approach social media strategy
- The Quantified Self – Our series of articles around this topic
- A glimpse into the near future – Our big forecasting article with insights by some of our smartest friends
Our Thinking (Out Loud)
You want to dig deeper? These articles will give you a good insight into our thinking:
- How to cope with change – A popular article about how we approach the change around us
- About the Berlin Startup Scene – Instead of their pilgrimages to San Francisco, startup founders should travel to South Germany to learn from the Mittelstand how to build sustainable companies that benefit their communities as much as their founders.
- The New Aesthetic – A collection of links about something we really enjoy
- A few thoughts about Ambient Intimacy | Third Wave GmbH
- Cyborgs, identities & asking the right questions – Some thoughts on human and machine identities
- Reclaiming Social Media – A rant
- Building connections for serendipity – Serendipity as an essential part of our work
- Better Presentations – Saying goodbye to Powerpoint
- Developing Strategies – With mindmaps and white walls
The History of Our Company
We’ve been writing notes to reflect on our work. Combined, they tell the story of our company.
- Introducing Third Wave – The start
- Third Wave in coffee – The inspiration for the name
- Our consulting work – Some early thinking about our work
- Cognitive Cities is a wrap! – We did a conference on the future of cities and networked urbanity
- Week 25 – Our first week note
- Post-something and pre-something else – being six months in business
- Week 27 – Some thoughts about the strategy retreats we’re doing on a regular basis
- Uncomfortable Talk – The video of a talk we gave in Vienna
- Week 32 – How we see social media
- Week 36 – Typical week note with reflections about our work
- Cognitive Cities, Amsterdam – A recap of our CoCities Salon in Amsterdam
- Third Wave in 7 slides – A deck about who we are and what we do
- Week 52 – Our first anniversary
- Week 54 – Some photos from our office
- Week 71 – Why we like working and living in Berlin
- Week 75 – A reflection on our process
- Week 83 – Why and how we organize conferences
- Week 87 – Working outside of a specific market segment
- Week 90 – Providing unusual solutions
- Week 95 – A list of essential qualities that set Third Wave’s services apart
- Goodbye Peter – When our third co-founder left
- The 4-Day Workweek – An experiment
- Our second anniversary
- Week 129 – Moving to Mitte
- Week 139 – With Maddie gone, how is Third Wave doing? Quite good.
- Week 153 – A lesson learned from a failed proposal
- Week 157 – Third Wave turned 3 last Friday.
- Week 173 – After a successful 2013, Johannes describes Third Wave’s goals for 2014. And something with about a sci-fi author yelling at Germans.
to be continued