Pride Amsterdam is 9 days full of activities and events around LGBT+ awareness, protest, and celebration. Avanade & Accenture organized a joint event during the Amsterdam Canal Parade in which a total of 130 colleagues, partners, friends, family, and clients came together at a premium spot at the canal to watch the boat parade and enjoy a party.
2022 marks Sebo Wijnberg 21-year anniversary at Accenture and Avanade. In this blogpost, Sebo reflects on his years at Avanade and the years to come.
In “Homecoming” we tell the stories of Avanade “boomerangs”, employees who left the company for other opportunities before returning. Jeroen Scholten started his career at Avanade almost 17 years ago. After working at the IT department of a local hospital he met up with a former colleague who introduced him to Avanade. Since then, he has grown toge...
In “Homecoming” we tell the stories of Avanade “boomerangs”, employees who left the company for other opportunities before returning. This time Evert Veldhuizen tells his story. After two years working for another employer, he is back At Avanade and working in the Financial Services domain.
Discover how an UX design team is failing on their own terms, with minimum risk and high reward. Failing is a huge part of the design process and helps us to develop even better products. From sketching and building a prototype to a lot of testing along the way.
It is easy to just give up when things don't work out, or not to take risks at all. But failure doesn’t mean the initial idea wasn’t valid or that you are not enough. Failure simply means there is a lesson to be learned. Something at Avanade we know to be very true.
Although I have my own role at Avanade, and therefore my own expertise, I am happy to have support from colleagues. From different departments and even from other countries. It makes results even better.
We are living in a strange time, working from home has never been done by so many people at the same time as today. In this blog I will give you 9 tips that I am using to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Gender bias blijkt zelfs in de 21e eeuw nog steeds een probleem waar nog niet mee is afgerekend. In deze blogpost licht ik uit hoe gender bias zich in verscheidene vormen nog dagelijks voordoet en hoe het effect hiervan verder reikt dan enkel op het niveau van de individu.
De afgelopen maanden ben ik aan het werk geweest binnen een leuk en internationaal project. Ik deel in dit blog mijn ervaringen hiermee.