The introduction of augmented reality: At the Oral & Maxillofacial Department of the University Medical Center Utrecht

The complexity and interdependency of hospital activities make it challenging to seamlessly integrate new technologies into clinical routines, especially with various stakeholders involved. Considering contextual factors when implementing innovations has been recognized as critical to success. This highlights the significance of an approach that...

The handover moment: Designing a framework that allows the aggregation of insights to allow a translation into an interaction that increases the likelihood of implementation

The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has been finding it increasingly difficult to carry out its task in recent years. Increasingly, they have been in the news negatively with reports such as poor conditions in Ter Apel, hopeless waiting times for applicants and having to pay penalty payments. Besides the media attention, it is...

Paving the Way: Exploring the Potential of Green Parking and Collaborative Information Sharing between Municipalities and Companies

Changes in the climate have forced municipalities to rethink urban development and become more climate-resilient. One way they can achieve this is by implementing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems, or SUDS. Permeable pavements are a type of SUDS designed to let rainwater infiltrate, thereby reducing runoff and lowering peak flows. They can be...

Mending a broken innovation process: A study of the interactions in the innovation process to improve the implementation of innovation by design

Within the Dutch Ministries, implementing agencies receive the request to execute specific policies. To do this, they often need a (technical) product/service/platform which enables them to fulfill their job. With new types of technology coming to the market, the implementing agencies explore these new options to see if and how they can add...

Towards Proactive Integration of Sustainability in Projects: A framework for integrating sustainability at the operational level of EPC contracting organization

In recent years, the concept of sustainability has grown in popularity and has become a critical strategic component for businesses (Garza, 2013). Corporate organizations, as the industry's productive drivers, play a crucial role in attaining sustainable development. Thus, the problems have shifted from "WHY" to "HOW" to integrate sustainability...

Identification of a dynamic center line model and its implementation in FLORIDyn: A comparison between MOESP and DMDc system identification

Wind energy plays an essential role in the transition to a sustainable future and wind turbines allow us to utilize it. Wind turbines are often installed in close proximity to make the best use of the given space and to save costs. This also has the disadvantage that the turbines influence each other due to wakes. This is where wind farm control...

Increasing the use of eHealth at Karakter Nijmegen by improving the experience of the therapist: a case study

This project was done for and in cooperation with Karakter Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatrie, a psychiatric hospital for children. The aim was to give Karakter knowledge and tools to improve the experience of the therapists during the implementation of Jouw Omgeving, a digital environment that allows patient, parent and therapists to communicate about...

Improving geotechnical risk management implementation in organizations and projects: A policy analysis approach

Nowadays, construction projects are considered to be risky mainly because of to their high complexity and the various uncertainties which they include. Geotechnical risks due to unknown subsoil conditions or variation of groundwater tables as well as their causes and failures, are a significant source of project risks. On the contrary, effective...

Formation flight in civil aviation

A model has been developed to demonstrate the value of a decentralized approach to formation flight routing. In the considered scenario, formation flight is an in-flight option. While centralized approaches are well covered in the literature, anticipating the use of formation flight before take-off, decentralized approaches have received less...

Implementation of the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan: Identifying and Overcoming Socio-Institutional Constraints

The Greater New Orleans area suffers from flooding caused by extreme rainfall events on a yearly basis. Since most stormwater is flushed into the drainage system via mostly impervious surface, water does not infiltrate into the ground, which causes subsidence due to soil drying out, which causes damages to roads, buildings and underground...

Making Service Innovations Work: Increasing the effectiveness of service design consultancies in the implementation of a project

In this thesis the subject of service implementation is investigated. From the research findings a framework is constructed which serves as the basis of a toolbox. The thesis fulfills an assignment that was posted by service design agency Ideate from Amersfoort who wanted to become more effective in the implementation of newly developed services...

Iris - A strategic & integrated mobile application for KLM's cabin crew

This MSc. thesis is about the development of an integral user-centered and lean mobile application for KLM's cabin crew. In approximately 12 months the author has executed many deep internal analysis on KLM's inflight services operations, its organization and processes, the cabin attendants and its external environment. And in addition to all...

Developing innovation systems in the e-health domain: Implementing Europe's Digital Agenda

European Digital Agendas are launched every 2-5 years by the European Commission. They focus on the economic and social benefits that ICTs will bring Europe. In the Netherlands, national and local governments are working on the implementation of 2015.eu’s agenda (2010-2015). As it is difficult to satisfy all stakeholders, the implementation...

Implementation of Virtual Design and Construction: Evaluation and improvement of the VDC implementation in the design phase of large AEC projects

Design processes in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry are claimed to lack performance (Churchill and Thoren, 2009; CIB, 2009; Rezgui et al, 2009). The lacking performance is caused by fragmentation of the industry into multiple disciplines (Rezgui et al, 2009). As a result of the multi-disciplinary nature of the...

Generic and Orthogonal March Element based Memory BIST Engine

A Memory BIST architecture and implementation based on the novel concept of Generic and Orthogonal March Element

Bridging the gap between ideas and implementation: A concept to improve the innovation process of the Ahold Innovation Team

The Ahold Innovation Team (AIT) creates new technological applications for Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall&Gall, Hypernova and Albert. The most potential innovations are developed until ready to test on a small scale. Thereafter, the ideas need to be transferred to the business in order to implement them large scaled on the shopping floor. Over the...

A strategy on how to implement public toilets

On average, each person visits the toilet 8 times a day. Each day, 15 minutes are spend on a toilet. Therefore no one can deny the important role of toilets. This project scrutinizes toilets in public spaces. The development of mass produced cheap material public toilets, placed at the wrong locations, has lead to many problems. Problems such as...