Partner no. 5 in Rainmaking
Since the founding of Rainmaking in 2006 we have been four partners. It has all along been the plan to expand the partner circle, so that we can reach our goal in 2016 with having 30 partners spread over 6-8 countries in Rainmaking offices.
We have been taking it slow here in the beginning, partly because we wanted to create a strong cultural and valued foundation and partly because we wanted to make sure to absorb just the right person in our warm-hearted and unique functional partnership, which for us is our biggest asset.
We have now succeeded to get Jesper Krogh Jørgensen on board from 1st of August as the 5th partner, which we are delighted and proud of.
Jesper comes from a position as Senior Partner in the renowned consultant firm Stig Jørgensen and Partners (SJP). At SJP he has trough the years worked with consulting some of the largest corporations in Denmark, in particular sales and marketing as well as development and monitoring costumer loyalty. In addition to this, Jesper has taught himself the reality in smaller companies partly through sitting in various boards of directors (e.g. Frokost.dk) and partly through strategy- and consultant work.
Formerly Jesper has worked for web firm Framfab as well as the consulting firms Andersen Business Consulting and Deloitte Management Consulting.
In private Jesper is married to Emilie, lives in Birkerød and has four children.
We genuinely appreciate the trust shown by Jesper by investing his future with us in Rainmaking. We are convinced that there will be a significant administration of our already strong partnership.
Read more about Jesper on his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1913127&authToken=SfZe&authType=name
2,4 million Danish Kroner to Bangladesh
On Thursday June 11th a charity dinner was held at restaurant Noma following an American example where 85 guests raised 600.000 DKK for climate projects in Bangladesh. The project has been pre-approved by EU who will 4-doubble the collected amount. As a result of this 2,4 million DKK is on it’s way to make a difference for some of the World’s poorest people.
Rainmaking was the principal organizer of the event, which was held in cooperation with Danish National Church’s Relief Aid, Restaurant noma, Meyers Kitchen and Rainmaking. All expenses were sponsored by the organizers so that all the money raised could go directly and in full to the charity project.
The artist Kristian von Hornsleth had donated a painting for the charity dinner and it went to the evening’s biggest contributor.
Michael Carøe and band entertained with crooner hits.
The project is about helping 70.000 people in 600 villages building dams, elevate buildings, build community houses in safe places, train a ‘civil defence unit’, installing water pumps etc.
The budget for the total project is estimated to be around 10 million DKK and thus, the contribution from the charity dinner constitutes almost 25 % of the total budget. Thereby, we have been able to help 17.000 people from 150 villages. It makes the effort worth the trouble and we look forward to repeat this success in a year’s time as well as taking new CSR initiatives.
At Rainmaking we have, as part of our 10-year ambition, a goal that in 2016 (10 years after Rainmaking was founded) we will spend 10% of our profit and 10% of our time on social work and charity.
Creating new ideas using systematic approaches
In Rainmaking we have made some experiments using structured brainstorming sessions and the like to facilitate the process of creating new ideas. These structured approaches have generated many ideas and some of them will eventually be tested and hopefully turn into real companies.
It is, however, our experience that most ideas just flow out of our heads when on vacation or when inspired ny reading a newspaper or attending a conference. This is fine and I am very pleased about the quality of the ideas. The challenge, however, is that this source of ideas can not be planned and boosted when needed.
It would therefore be extremely useful if we can develop or find a framework which could be used to find new ideas in a more systematic way.
We have heard about the 6 thinking hats but have never really used it. Have you tried this?
Or can you recommend other useful tools/frameworks/methodologies, which we should try?
Yet another feature in Erhvervsbladet
Erhvervsbladet has published a very fine article about our charity dinner at noma – read it here:
http://www.erhvervsbladet.dk/vaekstmaskinen/boed-milliardaerer-paa-velgoerenhedsmiddag
GruppeKoeb is turning 3 months!
GruppeKøb has now been around for almost 3 months and I will here on the blog tell you a little bit about the results and experiences we have made so far.
It has been 3 very exiting months where we have received many positive inputs and much feedback from our concept. For that we are very grateful because our concept is based upon participation from our GruppeKøb-buyers.
Here is short sum-up of our results so far:
Visits on our web site: More than 20.000 unique visitors.
Sold products: 510 sold products.
Popular news letter: 2000 people have signed up to our news letter.
Revenue: 1,2 mill Kroner generated revenue for our suppliers. Expected turnover ultimo July 2009 is 1,8 mill Kroner.
PR: Beautiful press coverage in the P3 radio news!
Large user involvement: More than 450 product suggestions from interested GruppeKøb-buyers.
Construction of a large network of suppliers: Cooperation with more than 20 distributors of quality products.
We think our selves that these results are really good in comparison to our own expectations for the first 3 months of business. Are there anyone out there, with more online experience than me, who can set our results in perspective to other new businesses and their web site visits etc.
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