Internship @ Innovation Booster

INTERNSHIP


INTERNSHIP 


 I worked as an intern at the Amsterdam-based company Innovation Booster (IB). Innovation Booster is a successful consultancy bureau that designs strategies, structures, services and other innovative products for several clients. Their method is very direct and effective; an employee, called a booster, spends four work days a week at the company that hired Innovation Booster and spends one day reflecting, improving and helping fellow boosters at the IB office. For me, this company was a perfect fit to do my internship since my goal was primarily to experience how the practice of being an industrial designer was like at big companies like the ones that IB works for and whether everything I learned at the TUE was actually applicable to the reality. More broadly, this goal included getting to know the function of a business and the approach to and communication with clients. Fortunately, my internship provided me with quite some new skills that fit right into the goals I set beforehand. As an intern I got several jobs that mostly consisted out of assisting boosters. Together with them, I focused on the design processes of the projects for different clients. By doing several different projects I found out how different innovational teams work and thus, I kind of did an internship at a few companies at once. Overall, I learned how big corporates are organized, how they function and how they should be approached.