McKinleyFieldman identifies commercial opportunities, connects the right people and turns promising ideas into profitable business.
From business development and strategic introductions to creative problem-solving, product development and hands-on consultancy.
The examples below offer a glimpse into the way I think and work. They range from successful businesses and commercial projects to unconventional ideas, inventions and experiments. Some became reality, others remained concepts. What connects them is curiosity, creative thinking and a constant search for opportunities where others might not see them.
Everybody got their own hobbies, mine is connecting the dots. Turning opportunities into business. Great business opportunities often start with something simple: seeing a connection that others haven’t noticed. Between […]
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This is my variation of the famous word-guessing game Hangman. The aim is not to guess the correct word but it is to exhaust the cheating Hangman out of cheating […]
This article is from 2022. The interaction below between OpenAI and me took place on https://chat.openai.com (opens in new window) Me: Can you write a short article about the Pfaff […]
Chalk sessions is where I examine your company from the outside in and come up with a list of reccomendations and/or new products or services.After a week I’ll present you […]
Albert Heijn is the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands. In 2018 they switched from regular printed price tags to e-ink price tags. Also called Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). ESL’s […]
I created this book on Amazon. The text was written by Esther Mulders and with her input I made the layout, text conversion and the cover. Also, each chapter has […]
Gemba (also written “genba”): Japanese word meaning “the real place.” It’s where value creation happens, but also where most problems occur. Gemba walk: definition In the manufacturing world, a Gemba […]
In the superyacht business only the best is good enough. One aspect is of course the finishing quality of the ships hull. A little-known secret is that the sanding work […]
The problem was how to find the correct address in the contents of thousands of letters from all different senders to all different countries. For example, here are two letters. […]
I don’t know what kind of problems you might have. But if you are willing to share them with me I’ll make a quick assessment if I can solve it […]
If you want to know who is behind MckinleyFieldman then check out this page. Two questions I often get is where the name came from and who the man in […]
I came across a one handed 24 hour watch and wondered what a one handed watch would look like that also includes minutes. The design below is the result of […]
Emerce 19 jun 2003 TicketToday is een van de eerste volledig geautomatiseerde kaartverkoopkanalen. Waar heeft de concurrentie het (niet) laten liggen? Ticketingleverancier TicketToday lijkt vanuit het niets te zijn gekomen […]
Advertis3D sold 3D floor stickers to all major supermakets and gasstations like Shell and BP.
After working in companies like Microsoft, Getronics, eBay and having started and sold an advertising agency I started in the postal and telecommunications industry with a new Hybrid Mail company […]
Introducing Handvertising: Branding the brand-aware (2007) This is one of those ideas that I wish I thought of. I go to a lot of club nights, rock shows, and court […]
The rise and shine of hybrid mail As appeared in the magazine Post & Parcel on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 http://postandparcel.info/35057/in-depth/the-rise-and-shine-of-hybrid-mail/ Colin de Vries, owner and founder of BlueMailCentral.com, writes […]
For Blow-up media I located and contracted advertisement locations. Since Blow-Up media places advertisements on scaffolding I setup a procedure to go to the local authorities daily to collect the […]
Getronics was the dutch market leader in credit card reader machines. In this project I reduced the overhead from 12 FTE to 2 FTE by standardising the credit card processing […]
How to win best show booth with a 700 euro budget.
Designed a latop sleeve in the shape of a Mac-OS file folder.
A website that would let you send a real card from any country to anybody. You could fake your holiday in Hawaii while you were actually in Cornwall. The holidayfaker […]
A case I designed for Victorinox. The main problem with these premium custom cases is that the phone market changes so rapidly that it’s very hard to make a quality […]
Introducing the HemiLid. The HemiLid is a half sphere large size cover that captures the heat and moist from your large fish or meat dishes in a oven like manner. […]
Hybrid Mail can reduce the cost of your corporate postal mail by up to 55% or even more in some cases. Sending the mail digitally, as close as possible, to […]
There is general rule of thumb in business that states the following. 80 % of your allocated time should go to sales10% to accounting10% to the actual service or product […]
The purpose of the website was to create an automatic Oil bunker broker: Oil Broker: One who acts as a go-between in the domestic or international crude oil market. A […]
Surprisingly enough there are still websites out there who don’t take the actual user in account. Things that seem obvious from a programmers standpoint are a total mystery for the […]
Development of a businessplan for a wireless fencing device.
. In my opinion the best way to get to know somebody to meet and talk but this page will give you a rough idea. I hope you will contact […]
If you ever played a violin you know that every violin sounds different. Some have warm tones others sound more high and nervous. Make no mistake about it. A decent violin […]
In business communication is key. That’s why it’s especially important to check if both parties mean the same thing. Use this free list of term to check of you are […]
Hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) of biomass is a thermo-chemical process for the conversion of solid biomass matter at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of water. The resulting product is […]
Nuggets of insight collected over the years. Only do business with people who have a direct personal gain from the project. Projects with high and low margins require the same […]
