Frugal Thermometer Innovation

In low-resource settings, like Uganda in Africa, fever is commonly measured by means of tactile contact with skin. However, for patients, caregivers and healthcare workers, self-assessment of fever is significantly inaccurate. Inadequate healthcare leads patients to be over-diagnosed with malaria and therefore over-treated with antimalarial...

SMOOTHLY SAIL THROUGH NEGOTIATION !: Finding Opportunities and Conceptualising a Tool

Negotiation is an everyday task. But a lot of people avoid it or hate doing it as it involves a lot of emotions. People negotiate face-to-face, over the telephone and even miles apart. Each context is different and needs to be tackled differently. Negotiation is a complex process involving emotions, relationships and also a lot of skills. It is...

A new sanitation system for slums in urban dense areas

Around 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to proper sanitation solutions, leading to many social, economical and health related problems. This report elaborates on “Clean Alliance” a product-service-system based in the provision of adaptable toilet booth availability supported by a waste processing Mini Multi Product Plant (MMPP)...

Creating customer engagement for the customers of Ahold

In recent years, innovations like Smartphones, 3G (wireless Internet), and social media have entered the Dutch market. These innovations lead to brand transparency because they give customers access to brand related information and and allow them share that information amongst each other. Loyal customers therefore might be tempted to consider...