An adaptive network model for AI-assisted monitoring and management of neonatal respiratory distress

This article presents the use of second-order adaptive network models of hospital teams consisting of doctors and nurses, interacting together. A variety of scenarios are modelled and simulated, in relation with respiratory distress of a neonate, along with the integration of an AI-Coach for monitoring and support of such teams and of...

Improving Inter-Project Learning within Project-Based Organizations

In project-based organizations, enhancing performance and augmentation of project value rely heavily on the effective assimilation of past experiences. Nevertheless, the intricate nature of projects and time constraints present extra challenges for an effective learning across various project teams. Inter-project learning, particularly in the...

Computational Modeling of Multilevel Organizational Learning: From Conceptual to Computational Mechanisms

This paper addresses formalization and computational modeling of multilevel organizational learning, which is one of the major challenges for the area of organizational learning. It is discussed how various conceptual mechanisms in multilevel organizational learning as identified in the literature, can be formalized by computational mechanisms...

Adaptive network modeling of the influence of leadership and communication on learning within an organization

This research addresses the influence of leadership and communication on learning within an organisation by direct mutual interactions in dyads. This is done in combination with multilevel organizational learning as an alternative route, which includes feed forward and feedback learning. The results show that effective communication (triggered...

Transition Experiments for Circular Construction: Learning-by-doing, but how?: A typology for transition learning in circular building experiments

In order to mitigate the high environmental impact of the construction sector, the Dutch government envisions a fully circular building economy by 2050. The first phase of this transition (2018-2023) consists of experimentation. Here, circular building experiments should trigger radically new ways of thinking and radically new ways of doing....

Improving uptake of Lessons Learned through a Learning Diary

This thesis aims to provide a better understanding of how one can improve the uptake of lessons learned. So far, there has not been any study that examined the use of a learning diary for organizational learning purposes. A learning diary might be used to learn as a community when individuals use their personal diaries as input for the...

The interplay of risks on digital platform openness – a case study

A platform needs to have sufficient market potential, represented by the number of users who can join a platform. Platform openness affects the ease of actors joining the platform. Hence, in order to increase the chances of platform success, platforms want to maximize market potential and consequently also platform openness. This is problematic...

Applying Lessons Learned: How project-based organizations can apply lessons learned retrieved from past projects

A case based comparison of the efficiency and innovation potential of integrative and collaborative procurement strategies

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare in what ways different types of integrative and collaborative procurement strategies may enhance efficiency and innovation in public infrastructure projects. Further, implementation challenges are identified and discussed. Interview-based case studies were performed of ten infrastructure...

Organizational Learning to Unleash Creative Capacity of Contractors

In the Netherlands, technical innovations for dike strengthening rarely become mainstream. A case study of the redesign process of the dike between Kinderdijk and Schoonhovenseveer suggests that benefitting from the creative capacity of contractors requires organizational learning.

Learning an organization new working methods: The system based contract control method at Rijkswaterstaat as example

Rijkswaterstaat is adapting its role in the construction of public works. The organization implemented a new working method to assure the contractors fulfill their contracts. The objective of the method is that Rijkswaterstaat check the quality system of the contractor based on the project risks for Rijkswaterstaat. Learning is defined as...