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In part 1 of this blog post, we have talked about the scientific method and how to apply it to business problems. In this part, we will focus on applying this method to a real-world problem. The problem we tackled started with a question from the client: We would like to know when trains are present at the platform. We would like to have this information to be accurate within a few seconds. Is that possible?

By Stijn Huygh-
For simple problems, one can get away with a non-systematic approach and tap from the same barrel of known truths and assumed knowledge. This can happen because the path from question to the solution is one straight line without many hurdles to take. However, when the problem becomes highly complex, and there aren’t many known truths, the simplest way to a solution is always a systematic approach. This is where the scientific method of problem investigation comes into play.

Onze CEO Dewi Van De Vyver gaf de lezers van De Tijd drie tips voor een gebruiksvriendelijke digitale transformatie.

Herbekijk het rondetafelgesprek rond GovTech met: Jan Adriaenssens, Director City of Things, Imec Dewi Van De Vyver, CEO Flow Pilots Pieter Lenaerts, Directeur ICT Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur Youri Segers, Chief digital officer, Stad Antwerpen Natasha Blommaert, Portfolio manager Innovatie & Change en Informatie- en Datamanagement, agentschap wegen en verkeer Joost Vandenbroele, GovSucces manager Advisor online participation, Citizenlab.

"Er zijn nog heel wat opportuniteiten voor bedrijven die willen digitaliseren, maar ze moeten wel de juiste aanpak volgen"
Contacteer vrijblijvend captain@flowpilots.com voor meer informatie of een verkennend gesprek!

Een gezonde luchtkwaliteit is belangrijker dan ooit. Renson en Flow Pilots zorgen ervoor dat gebruikers hun luchtkwaliteit zelf kunnen optimaliseren naar hun specifieke behoefte. 

Op dinsdag 22 juni 2021 om 13:00u organiseert Flow Pilots een rondetafelgesprek met experts uit de GovTech sector dat u online kan volgen.

Research shows that only 1 out of 8 digital transformation processes are successful. The question is ‘Why?’… The answer is quite simple: IT specialists put great focus on the product and how the end-product is going to look like/function, and less on why a product is needed. And this mindset is often, unfortunately the cause of failed digital tools. Luckily, the IT industry is slowly evolving from a technology/product-first approach to an end-user-first approach. At Flow Pilots we use Design Sprints to ensu

We designed two fun drawings your children (or you) can colour to help you relax and keep your little munchkins busy during this Easter break. Download the drawings via the links below!

Hadden we durven dromen dat het glazen plafond na ons opiniestuk plots aan diggelen zou liggen? Niet echt. Maar het omgekeerde hadden we ook niet zien aankomen: dat 2020 zo mogelijk nóg erger zou worden dan de jaren ervoor. Inclusie blijkt voor heel wat organisaties nog een ver van m’n bed-show. 

A year ago, just before things went down, we had the amazing privilege to start 2020 with a major 'high'!Our CEO, Dewi Van De Vyver won the award of #ICTWomanofTheYear. 

Dewi werd geselecteerd als een van de kanshebbers voor de award van IT Person of the Year! 

In the context of positive affirmations, we started this new year with a huge, fantastic and interactive PARTY filled with messages of positivity!

Met genoegen kunnen wij u mededelen dat Buck-e, Onze Stad App, Cirklo en MyWaste samen verdergaan in één online stadsplatform, Fairville.

Flow Pilots was one of the first companies in Europe to develop with Xamarin. Almost 10 years later we’re still very convinced of this choice and develop all our mobile applications with Xamarin. Discover the what, why, short and simple in this blogpost.

In this digital transformation, we believe the end-user should always be your main focus. But finding a partner that will help you with this transformation and who works in a way that guarantees the best collaboration is something that’s sometimes overlooked.That is why today we want to walk you through our agile development methodology and why we recommend this way of working.

We had the great pleasure of talking with Julie Scherpenseel.The Chief Growth Officer of ML6 talked about the future of AI, how this will impact our society and how increasingly important collaborations between companies are and will become. 

De start-upfase is Flow Pilots al lang ontgroeid maar de sfeer van de begindagen, die hangt er nog steeds op het kantoor in Antwerpen. “We hebben een vrij jong team, en dat niet-aflatend enthousiasme is hier echt heel goed voelbaar. Hier komt niemand gewoon zijn uren kloppen, iedereen werpt zich vol overgave en enthousiasme op de projecten die vaak heel uitdagend zijn”, zegt Chief Technology Officer Michiel Sioen.

 ‘MyTurn’: a digital tool on which shops, care centres etc. can display how many people are allowed in their facility, how many people are currently visiting and on which moments during the week/day there are available timeslots you can reserve.

More than the efficiency of working from home, flexibility is a mindset that has many different benefits, both for employers and employees.
What does flexibility mean? Why is it so important, how can it benefit your business and how do you prevent your team from taking advantage of it.
A conversation with our HR manager Anique, organisational psychologist and passionate about making employees feel and excel at their best in their job.

We interviewed Anneleen Vens, head of digital transformation.Discover what Renson does, how they use digitalisation to enhance their business and why they partner with, amongst others, Flow Pilots to assist and guide them through this digital transformation. 

Research shows that a comfortable and enjoyable workspace has an influence on employees health, satisfaction, wellbeing and performance. With some simple human- centred changes to your office setting, you can immensely improve the atmosphere of your office. Here are some tips and things Flow Pilots does to ensure a warm, welcome and productive work setting!

To highlight the benefits of working with Xamarin we interviewed our developer Michiel Sioen about his approach and experience as a developer at Flow Pilots. 

As we position ourselves as a company that can help you in your digital transformation journey, the question is raised, ‘what is digital transformation’?The concept itself still provokes mixed feelings as both words entail change. A shift from analog to digital and to change the way you are working. It’s about learning new skills, stretching yourself and the organisation in adapting a new way of working and investing time and money for an uncertain outcome.

Een post over technologie, kunst en voelen door Dewi Van De Vyver, CEO Flow Pilots

For my internship, I was tasked to make Call’y, a to-do list for calls you have to make. This was my first experience working with Xamarin and the more specific parts of Android like notifications, permissions and interaction with other apps. I also had to work with a framework called MvvmCross, which I had never heard of before. In this post I’ll show which problems and tasks I tackled when making the Call’y app.

Our interview with senior developer Christophe Oosterlynck

Keeping your focus on people while building digital tools may sound a bit strange. For Flow Pilots it's simply the way we work. Whether it's in our research, communication while building your tool or our service after we finish a project, people come first.

Or how he transformed his blog to a progressive web app

Besides being astounding developers our Pilots show us that they have more skills up their sleeve. Today we share a blogpost written by our iOS developer Brent Van Vosselen.

We, Flow Pilots, are professional remote workers. Although we love our time amongst our colleagues in our beautiful Antwerp office we're perfectly organised to keep a good workflow at home.
In non-corona times this gives us the opportunity to create an ideal schedule where we can work during the hours that our concentration is at it's best and organise family time around this. When our government advised us to work from home, we were fully prepared and equipped to maintain our optimal workflow.

From problem to solution - optimise your process, a blogpost by our CTO, Michiel Sioen.

Problem-solving is an integral part of a lot of professions. Yet everyone struggles with it one time or another. There are a lot of known truths, guidelines and assumed knowledge out there but I find it’s very easy to skip the relevant steps when you need them. In this post I’d like to formalise some of these steps as a guideline and explain why they are important during your process.

Working remotely is in our DNA
Flow Pilots has always handled a flexible work atmosphere. Our team is used to working from home and fully equipped to deliver the best possible outcomes for your digital product.To guarantee the safety of our team, others around us and to help flatten the curve, we have decided to close our Antwerp office and asked our team to work remotely fulltime until further notice. We will continue to work on your digital products as planned.

Onze maatschappelijke vooroordelen zijn hardnekkig. Mannen zien overal kansen en gaan ervan uit dat die voor iedereen - ook vrouwen - voor het oprapen liggen. Daarom kruipen Dewi Van de Vyver (Flow Pilots) en Lode Uytterschaut (Start it @KBC) aan de vooravond van Internationale Vrouwendag samen in de pen voor een opiniestuk

Dewi Van De Vyver van Flow Pilots mag zich een jaar lang ICT Woman of the Year noemen. Julie Scherpenseel van ML6 werd verkozen tot Young ICT Lady of the Year 2020.

A blogpost by Dewi Van De Vyver

Yesterday we attended the 125th anniversary of the VBO-FEB.

As Flow Pilots we value the efforts of the federation to represent the concerns of the Belgian entrepreneurs in politics and society. Its new vision for 2030, Creating value for society, is one we surely endorse.

With the switch of CEO and management team, Dewi Van de Vyver felt like it was time to freshen things up. Re-evaluate who we are, who we want to be, and what needs to be done to get there.

Eind 2019 zullen Dries Langsweirdt en Koen Pellegrims het bedrijf verlaten en geven ze definitief het roer over aan een nieuw managementteam.

In this post, one of our star iOS developers - Brent Van Vosselen - guides us through how you used to develop for Apple products and what the future will bring.

Augmented reality can solve problems, add worth and increase the user experience in almost every industry. Companies all over the world are catching on and adding augmented reality to their investments, which makes it a key part of the tech economy. But what is augmented reality? And how is it going to effect us in the future? 

Brent Van Esbroeck shares the things he has learned during his internship at Flow Pilots.

“Ik wil als vrouwelijke CEO zeker mijn stem laten horen”, Bloovi sprak met onze CEO Dewi Van De Vyver over digitale transformatie, vrouwen in ICT en de groeiambities van Flow Pilots.

Buck-e, the system that rewards students with virtual coins

How does it feel to be a woman in a male dominated field? Our four pilot women, Selin Ozpak, Martyna Majchrzak, Lisa Debontridder and Dewi Van De Vyver tell you all about it.

Together with the owner of Holding D'Arsac, our CEO got invited to Blind Date Bizz to talk about certain topics.

Dewi Van De Vyver wordt de nieuwe CEO van Flow Pilots

Besides being astounding developers our Pilots show us that they have more skills up their sleeve. Today we share a blogpost written by our mobile developer and excellent writer Michiel Sioen.  

Every week we share a tip of the week during our friday team meeting at Flow Pilots. Sharing is caring so we would love to share our most valuable tips with you. This week we talked about "A mobile love story". 

Every week during our friday team meeting we share a tip of the week at Flow Pilots. Sharing is caring so we would love to share our most valuable tips with you. 

For those who don't have much time left in between their busy schedule and still want to absorb as much as possible out of a interesting book, there is now a mobile solution. 

Together with Digipolis Antwerp we developed an app to allow the city of Council in Antwerp to vote mobile.