Designing a bottom-up Remanufacturing Process Control and Maturity Model for Airline MRO: A case study at KLM E&M

In this day and age sustainability is becoming increasingly important. Even though the airline business is not the first thing which comes to mind when regarding sustainability there are huge efforts in play to extend the life of airplanes and its corresponding components. This is done via remanufacturing. Remanufacturing can here be defined as:...

How mature are your lead time estimations?: The proposal of a planning and estimation maturity framework for the maritime industry

During the start of a project organisations make estimation on the expected amount of work and the corresponding project duration, the lead time. To make these estimations with a low uncertainty is important because a false estimation could result in cost overruns and project delay. This paper proposes an estimation and planning maturity...

Maturity model for the IT-department when migrating to a SaaS-environment

In a period where digitization rapidly influences the corporate world, Cloud Computing (CC) has emerged over the past years as well. CC refers to offering hardware, software, and data by a provider over a network and can benefit organizations enormously regarding cost efficiency, operational excellence, and innovation. Software-as-a-Service ...

Translating Management Maturity Levels to Flood Defences Asset Cost and Performance: Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks

Maturity model is widely known as an assessment tool to understand an organization management capabilities and identifying potential improvement. The model demonstrates informative results towards the organization management maturity but hard to acknowledge the influence of potential improvement towards the organization’s asset performance....

Improvement in asset management using a lean perspective: The contribution of lean in the maturity models of asset management

Organisational factors enabling intelligence-led policing in the Dutch police force: A case study research

Police organisations wordwide struggle with the implementation of intelligence-led policing (ILP). This research aims to identify organisational factors that affect the state of implementation of ILP in the Dutch police force. From a multiple-case study research multiple factors have been identified that affect the functioning of ILP. These...

Scaled agile maturity model

In today’s world agile software development has been embraced more and more in software service industry. Though the agile practices have gained widespread popularity in the recent years, there are quite a number of concerns in scaling the agile practices from team level to the entire enterprise. Few frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework ...

Maturity model of capabilities to prepare for implementing agile software development

A Maturity Model for Maintenance Departments of Public Organisations: An adaptation of the EFQM model

The growing awareness of delivering public services into more costumer-oriented minded triggers the public organisations to manage their assets professionally. Building assets are one of the resources owned by the public organisations that need to be maintained. Maintenance departments are part of the public body that have responsibilities to...

Managing the university campus: Towards a maturity model for campus management

The main function of university Institutions is to produce human capital and providing students and staff with a helpful environment that will enhance their learning, and becoming more creative. It is for institutions a challenging task to match demand with their assets. Resources have to be put for the right use to update the portfolio to...

The influence of different contract types on the effectiveness of owner-contractor relationships in construction projects

The nature of working relationship between owner and contractor in engineering and construction projects is considered to have a major effect on the project performance. This research focuses on factors that may influence owner-contractor relationship effectiveness. Literature suggests that different types of contract, being one of these factors...