We're
an independent business patnership group, founder-controlled Slovene
companies working and innovating together in Slovenia and around the
World. We spend our time designing and building new smart technology
driven practical sustainable solutions, sustainable
products&services, and connecting people around inspiring
creative sustainable projects around Smart House Ripitz Project
(SHRP),
and having a lot of fun doing it. Which we would like to continue
doing together with you, too.
Core
partners share 25 and more years of indipendent entrepeneur
experience in IT&ICT sector and Change Management Productivity
Programmes serving corporate sector: Ripitz, Ltd., Modri.net, Ltd.,
DSEGroup, Ltd., Ltd., Articom, Ltd., Novatel, Ltd., SamoStamp
Group and a number of other partners.
Smart House Ripitz Project (SHRP) was founded by the end of 2015 although we’ve been working
intensively on it ever since 2009. Briefly, SHRP is a comprehensive
sustainable project consisted of four major innovative sustainable
Programmes: Building Trade
Programme, Tailor-Made
Furniture
Production
Programme, Architecture&Industrial Design
Programme,
and Intelligent/Connected Mobility
Programme. SHRP
is a complex project with
twoo
interrelated
focuses:
1.
The
Main
– the narrowest focus
of the SHRP
project
are
physicly disabled people. All cathegories of physicly disabled
people. To name the few: the elderly, demented
people,
disabled, visually
impaired and blind people, hearing
impaired
and deaf people, variously injured
persons, requiring more permanent rehabilitation and
people
with
PTSD
(posttraumatic stress disorder) another
disorders such
as panic disorder, other anxiety disorders, people
suffering of substance
abuse and dependence which
frequently co-occur with PTSD,
and people with the major disorder that most commonly co-occurs with
PTSD. etc.
Briefly,
we
are developing
simple
innovative solutions,
products and services which help physicaly disabled people function
as
much as possible
independently and
without
the help of other people.
2. Auxiliary
focus – which
is at
commercial
pursuance
of
a
new
digitalized ways and
a
comprenhensive
digitalized
marketing,
promotional and merchandising services and activities for our
own
merchandising
purposes
and outsourcing it
to
(our) customers at a significantly discounted price which
is
a key
service of
epiks-modri.net
project.
By
doing this, by
supplying
the
market with these
new
digitalized services and introducing
various
supporting products
of ICT&IoT we
are not only effectively
connecting
all organizations and consumers to
the benefit of both. Through
this
connectivness purposeful
project
we
among
the first
are
introducing
a
novelty - »social marketing« and
concretely
giving our share by
promoting
sustainable
values and
raising
awareness
of
organizations
and
customers (people)
concerning
digitalization and neccessary changes allowing them all to
gain new experiences, to get new skills and knowledge which
is a needed precondition to
bridge the existing
digitalization
development gap and prevent Slovenia from further falling down behind
the competition. This
and the »bottom-up« approach initiating necessary changes for
greater mobility is
exactly
that what
the European Commission
(EC)
is
aiming for
in putting their efforts towards
realisation of the established EU Vision of our common future.
Intelligent/Connected
Mobility Programme (IMP) is
wortwhile to demostrate and tell you more about to
better understand our praxis (how we do things). IMP is of central importance within our auxiliary focus. Its
practical
starting point is
Roll-eX, just
one among a number of our »hard« innovations.
Roll-eX is
an incredibly amazing Slovene intelligent/connected smart ICT&IoT
applied and
true
sustainable innovative product around which we gather organizations
and open-minded people recognising, and being aware of today’s
Scie
nce&ICT&IoT
technology driven social reality and willing to share,
to
parcipatate, to perform their businesses and
everyday free time activities and life affairs in
a new sustainable way and willing to change their existing
ways
of life in accord with the true sustainable values by using and
supporting sustainable solutions to fully enjoy surrounding nature
they care by doing so.
Together with our supporters we help other organizations and people to do the same, to follow our
example. Our intention is clear and transparent: we are building a
strong social sustainable creativity community for the for-profit
benefit of all involved parties.
Doing that we are led by clear purpose and
practically contributing to the implementation of The European Commission's agendas and initiatives for realising EU sustanability Vision by investing our time and putting serious collective efforts realising its goal of making European Community the world's most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy with the need to promote an digitalized and on Internet of things (IoT) based "Information Society for ALL" in order to construct a sustainable, global, pluralistic, and participitive democratic European Union. This goal was set by the European Union representatives at the Lisbon European Council of March 2000. One year later, the Gothenburg European Council of June 2001 agreed a strategy for sustainable development which completes the European Union's political commitment to economic and social renewal by adding a third, environmental dimension to the Lisbon strategy. A new approach to policy making was therefore promoted to insure that the economic, social and environmental effects of all policies would be considered in a coordinated way. Both the Lisbon and Getheborg strategies placed the importance of competitiveness of SMEs firmly at the centre of political attention, and underlined the importance of creating a climate favourable to SMEs and the need to stimulate entrepreneurial initiative in order to achieve economic growth and sustainable development.
By stressing that SMEs make up over 99% of all business enterprises in all EU countries and contribute 57% of value added in the EU The European Commision clearly points out (February, 17th 2017) that the SMEs are the backbone of the EU economy and therefore a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the European Union considering SMEs and entrpeneuership as a key for ensuring economic growth, innovation, job creation, and social integration in the EU.
Introducing Single digital market Strategy by bringing down the barriers to unlock online opportunities is the most important and priority part of EU Vision. We would like to share it with you, and for a better understanding to tell you more about our organization, our common (shared and intelligent/connected) mission, our practical operative strategy and what we think is important for effectiveness of its implementation:
To better understand our approach towards needed changes for realising EU Vision - the goal of "Information Society for All" and the operative strategy that we follow throughout this protracted change process we always bear in our minds and take into consideration the same principles deeply embedded in the previous video presentation. We would like to tell you more about them:
The “Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)” unit of the European Commission’s
Information Society and Media Directorate-General aims at facilitating the emergence of future business forms
designed to exploit the opportunities and manage the challenges posed by the socio-economic and technical
developments of the 21-st century. It recognises that businesses require new technologies, applications and services to
enable them to work as networked knowledge-based enterprises.
One of the characteristics in the knowledge-based economy is the increasing collaboration among enterprises and
economic and social agents, in order to offer innovative services and products, but also to engage in R&D activities.
Cooperation has proved to be an endogenous feature of Europe, and one of its biggest strengths in global competition.
Collaborative and innovative research has built in Europe a new sense of community and commitment to cooperate
towards shaping the future “ubiquitous information society”. This community spirit has been particularly well
understood and respected by all stakeholders in the field of the Networked Enterprise, which sees industry, academia,
research centres, governmental bodies and agencies at all territorial levels, and end-user associations singing to the
same tune. Inevitably, technological challenges will have to be paired with societal challenges. The new standard set
by this collaborative spirit calls for a new course of action as it recognises that the technologies and the economic and
social aspects of development must be intertwined in order to achieve a sustainable economic and social impact.
The Digital Business Ecosystems (DBE) Initiative responds ideally to this challenge of creating ICT instruments
together with collaborative practices and paradigms that support economic growth and include all the societal and
economic actors in the process. It has been commonly recognised as a new frontier for RTD in the knowledge-based economy. Indeed, SMEs and local clusters are now competing in a global and dynamic market where they need
more interrelations, more specialised resources, more research and innovation as well as access to global value chains
and knowledge. The research driven within the DBE Initiative supports all these necessities by offering an open
infrastructure that combines human capital, knowledge and practices, technical infrastructure, and the business and
financial conditions - all modelled within the European industrial policy agenda around the flow of innovation through community to sustain open knowledge production.
Over the last ten years and based on this model a path for a new science of the Digital Business Ecosystem has been opened, a community
has emerged, the first technological solutions and implementations have been built, the first pilot business ecosystems
have been launched, and a network of regional digital ecosystems has been established. in research, in
technology and implementation, and in deployment and adoption of the powerful reference (know-how) model depected in the next picture:
Now we can tell you more ABOUT
SMART HOUSE RIPITZ PROJECT
Smart
House Ripitz Project is a New (sustainable) economy organizationaly
innovative kind of legally organized for-profit entrepreneur
partnership joint venture with the real,
all
comprenhensive and on sustainability developments and digital
innovations focused
programmes
following its own sustainable overall and performance goals
(our
main focus)
and
supporting goals and performances of a variaty of associated
sustanability public and other initieves
(like
and within European week of Mobiliy
) and
related
acitivties
through
partnerships within local communities based on and around our
Intelligent/Connected Mobility Programme (our auxiliary focus). The
letter is
allowing
sinergism and empowering collective (on cooperation and teamwork
based) realization of monumental
yet
hidden
local and global
growth potential within
local communities across Slovenia
we
close
together
are
realising through gathering&connecting and furthure employing an
ever growing vast number of new partners
and
supporters
(organizations and individuals) at
the level of local communities
to
the for-profit benefit and goals of all: both involved stakeholders
and the society. By stakeholders we mean
any
registered/enlisted
supporter whatsoever: whether being an organization or an individual,
pasive, active or pro-active, non-finantial or finantial supporter. Our greatful thanks go to all who participate. Thank You!
JOIN US - BE OUR NON-FINANTIAL SUPPORTER - Anyone who appreciates preservation of natural evironment and healthy way of life can be a member of our Social Sustainable Community PONY BIKERS VELENJE. Its purpose: socialising and having fun, making new friendships, exchanging ideas and networking. There is no membership fee - it's free of any payment. Any registered member who share the same sustainable values is free to organize Social Sustainable Community PONY BIKERS with the name of his home town or the place he lives in or of an organization he owns or works for if only given a permission from the owner.
Alongside
implementation of various Smart House Ripitz Project Programmes’
(SHRP) initiatives and activities, being led by the SHRP humane purpose
and goals we together promote the true sustainable values and
contribute practically paving the new ways of their realisations
which are expressed the best by our motto »SHARING IS CARING« with
the intention to furthure induce and enhance major changes in today
outdated and harmfull non-sustainable paradigms and counterproductive
as well as unproductive organizational ways of doing »business as
usual« and accompanied unhealthy ways of life of individuals for
their and the general public benefit at the same time. We do that by
gathering togehther and connecting Art&Craft, Science&Tecnology
creators, organizations, users&end consumers and any
self-interested individuals around the latest (cutting-edge)
Information-Communication Technology and IoT (Internet of Things)
innovative solutions, products and services predominantly of our own
- Slovene origin, and assisting them (everybody) practically to
facilitate all pervasive and complex tranformational changes needed
for strenghtening competitiveness of organizations, personal
self-development and the overall enhancement of adoption, intoduction
and use of the new and modern sustainable digital technology
developments, digital solutions, products and services in order to
better meet new life realities, challenges and unique opportunities.
Our today reality has been evidently shaped by unprecedented Science&
Technology breakthroughs inducing changes nobody wise can close their
eyes to. These changes are demanding effective informing, public
promotion and practical leading the way by giving own example to
others for faster learning and adaptation to more productive and
sustainable nature protection new ways of life and especially in
doing business more successful by using and introducing ICT&IoT
into foundations of conducting new sustaniable continuous
improvements of existing production and sales programmes, products an
services and innovative developing new generations of sustainable
programmes, products and services to better suit users’/end
customers’ needs while preserving natural environment.
We've realised through our past experiences these complex changes can not be
effectivelly neither induced nor realised through existing outdated
and fruitless external (top-down) system reforms »as usual« or by
public promotions only through more »ex chatedra« sustainable
education or by sporadic public sustanable awareness increase
actions, but only through difficult and complex internal (bottom-up)
restructuring processes based on practical sustainable innovations
and thoroughly organized change by following innovative restructuring
processes led by experienced leaders, not managers and executing it
on sites (in local communities) where actual things are happening.
For this to accomplish we need to be operativelly well organized.
First of all we need new refference sustainable business models,
programmes and projects. SHRP is an practical organizatinal sample of
such a refference model offering all of this including its praxis and
rich past experiences.
Past
experieces and refference praxis is a valuable source of learning
new, gaining better applicable knowledge and futher improving praxis.
Exercising
SHRP we have also learned that getting and employing only a few early
adopters and supporters is not enough to induce greater actual
changes of already established and outdated traditional ways of doing
business and living. There is an obvious need for a better organized,
more efficient and practical actual social movement mobilizing more
others than just a few to follow their example. This process is
progressing too slow now. Because majority of potential participants
(supporters), even those with the positive attitudes towards
sustanability whether be organizations (like SMEs or bigger) or
individuals, delay their actual deccission to join any movement
expecting some tangible personal i
ncentive (benefit) as a motive to
decide to join. So, we impreved our business model and solved this
issue by motivational policy of making some of participant »partners«
(Roll-eX center partners), if they decided to join and engage activly
or pro-actively by letting them use our commercial digitalized and
intelligent marketing, promotional and merchandising services
otherwise reserved for our regular customers at a discount price as a
starting point for their decission for cooperation in a Intelligent
Mobility Programme. This motivational policy is now well received and
intersting for many organizations (SMEs and other) and individuals to
join proving that our approach, business model and praxis is truly
referential.
Worldwide
digital modernization for sustainability is based on new ICT&IoT
generations of digitalised products and services following science
breakthrougs in every area of business and life. Digitalization is the core of
4.-th industrial revolution which is taking place since the end of
2008. Science&ICT&IoT developments are driving changes that
bring serious challenges and unique opportunities to anyone.
We
have
recognised
this is especially important for small an medium size entrepreneus
(SMSs), but majority of which
today
and objectively because of the current economic situation
can
not afford neither to use too expensive cutting-edge new ICT&IoT
products
and
services nor to pay their own specialized staff for those
technologies and services
in
spite of that it is evedently crucial to increase their sales and
overall business effectivene
ss and
growth
.
Besides, we have also recognised SMEs are the most reluctant towards
adoptation of novelties.
This
is significantly decreasing the chances
of
taking advanteges offered of the opportunities offered by
digitalization
for
the recovery and faster development of the economy,
new
employments
and living standard.
Because
SMEs
represent
the
backbone
of
the economy.
European
commision
recognises
SMEs are a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the European
Union and considers SMEs and entrpeneuership as key to ensuring
economic , innovation
, job creation, and social integration in the EU
stressing that SMEs make up over 99% of all business enterprises in
all EU
countries
and contribute 57% of value added in the EU.
We have recognised the most of SMEs are dispersed across the whole
Slovenia
in a number of local communities. This
is why we decided a single local community to be the best
organizational starting point to innitiate and immplement changes.
All
of these three points led us to the conlusion that more effective and
practical involvement of both SMEs and local communities are the twoo
factors deciding whether momentum for change process towards greater
sustanability and chalenges and oportunities offered by
Science&Inovative Tecnology sectors and digitalization will be
faster perceived and utilized or deleyed if not lost to the
detriments of all. We bear in our mind how important would it be for
Slovenia to fully exploit this momentum to be among the early
adopters of digitalization novelties supporting new sustainability
development trends and EU strategic policies on the subject.
There
are a number of evidences and recommendations lately of how crucial
is transformational change and exectly what to do:
So,
we have recognise the necessity of faster change towards development
and more intensive use of the new innovative sustainable for-profit
ways, business models and practical working concepts and as the first
step of effective initiating change especially the importance of
public informing and associated services like social marketing (a
sort of which is by effect ealier mentioned motivational policy in
our business model), digitalized smart promotional and new kind of
digitalized smart merhandising which is interesting for all kind of
organizations because it is the best suited to today’s consumers’
needs and habits. It brings them new customers measurable imidiate
and more effective shortterm as well as lontermterm incrases of sales
in comparison to their competirtors who use traditional methods and
technologies. It’s easy to grasp todays »smart« reality: having
smart phone you do everything: you find, order, pay and g
et whatever
you like without even visiting a shop. The letter is the starting
operational point of our new conncept of digitalized merchandising,
supported by marketing and promotional activities in order to
increase sales and competitiveness of our customers, partners and
supporters.
Numerous
other obstacles are acting against and slowing down any more sincere
development and practising real sustainable values in our daily work
and life. We have already said that putting more efforts only to
theoretical educating for new values and practises and sporadic
public promotional actions to increase sustainability awareness
evidently do not solve these problems effectively. And it isn’t
just that simple political-macro economical explanation that our
existing life reality working against change is strong consumerism,
fueled by global and local mass media industr
y and harsh everyday
market realities where, although we admit that, global corporations
and bigger companies with huge stocks of capital power are now
dictating the rules of economic and finantial market success and
decide on either a survival or a failure of all smaller others and
that this requires either mobilization and political action led by
all kinds of ideologies (from far left to center and far right ones
or to better do nothing as a self-excuse not to try to change
anything because it can’t help anyway. We don’t agree with these
views of solutions to the problem. Because, this is only one and wrong
possible explanation of today’s life reality becuase we also know
that the foundations of the real power behind a global coporate
sector is not capital itself, but human resource capital,
organizational know-how and aplied IT-ICT&IoT solutions,
innovative people and numerous potential supporters. Therefore, we
know that there is existing still another, although hidden life
reality which most of us is not even thinking of. Today real
power is intelligent information, practical knowledge and human creative skills
activated by information (importance of public promotion and of
know-how to disseminate and proper use the information), if only
there is a way to reveal a readiness and willingness of potential
suppoters and know-how to disseminate it and properly use it.
So,
it is all about you, us, people themselves whether we are willing to try, learn and accept novelties for change change or not. We would like you to
recognise the bigges obstacle to change: manthality of stubernly
sticking to evidently outdated and still prevailing traditional
»business as usual« paradigms and to the traditional business
models, methods and praxis of doing everything »on your own and
alone, instead of being »connected to others«. These issues are
what is really stoping majority to accept whatever changes and the
new ways of doing things, business and everyday life affears. This is
what our Intelligent/Conected Roll-eX Mobility Programme is offering:
digitalized
novelties,
new
experiences, knowledge,
operational
skills.
Practical
new ways, necessary tools, know-how and meth
ods for effective change
in doing things and businesses in a different way instead of
repeating it »as usual«.
Intelligent/Connected
Mobility Programme
is
bringing positive new experiences unblocking negative attitudes and
generates and release collective creative energies and synergies out
of connectiveness that anulate otherwise unstoppable progress of
existing
detrimental
trends with negative consequnces for us all, our society and our
natural environment and, once again, especially endengering the
survival and the further development of small and medium
en
trepreneurs (SMEs) and countryside.
We
see a lot of opportinities and new practical ways for effective
change bringing immidate short term pro-profit results, too. Unless
organization and people
in
local communities
tray
new things, they never get a new expeirience, this is a natural
process of learning everything and the only effective path of gaining
practical knowledge&skills for self-development as the basis for
making any furthure progress.
This
is path towards effective change.
Briefly,
what is the opportunity? Self-organization at local communities levels
where things are really happening, self-determination, pro-active attitude
and the most important of all – connectivness, cooperation and
team work operative organization towards employing digitalization. Where is the opportunity laying?
To
remind you:
According to European Commission: »Small
and medium-sized enterprises (ESMs) represent 99% of all business in
the EU making 65% of GNP.
OUR
OPERATIVE STRATEGY
To be continued...