This crisis has terrible consequences for many people, but it also has a positive side. The crisis gives impulses to take certain steps. Encourages businesses to look at their processes and to organize themselves differently, so that they need fewer people to do more.

I believe that crises will always occur. Now we have the credit crisis. Then there will be the energy crisis, which will definitely come back with extra force. Then we will get the water crisis and perhaps even an inflation crisis. The world is so fluid, that things are constantly changing and new crises are occurring continuously until a new era has arrived.

Forcing breakthroughs
It seems like we need drama to start new things, to force breakthroughs, to break through existing structures. We obviously need gigantic oil prices to ensure that we produce electric cars, batteries and solar panels. We need crises to think of solutions for the water and food problem and food safety. It seems that just in that way we finally apply all the knowledge and technical capabilities that actually are already on the shelf.

Flexible structure
Companies can better prepare for crises. For example, by forming dynamic organizations with a flexible structure, so they can easily fall back 20 percent or grow. That dynamic, flexible structure also encourages them to seek greater cooperation with other companies, in flexible and temporary connections. You look for partners to develop something together and if the cooperation does not add value anymore, the relationship ceases to exist. And then you just start the next LAT relationship. With universities, companies, or other organizations. As a company you are just a tiny part of a larger whole. You need each other to really achieve something.