The future workplace of SMEs: A research in the ongoing experiences of the pandemic on the hybrid workplace strategy for Dutch SMEs

The Dutch government implemented strict regulations to reduce the spreading of the virus and highly encouraged travel restrictions and to work from home if possible. As a result, organizations were forced to adapt and implement remote working. These implications became the norm for close to two years. Consequently, the needs and preferences of...

Understanding the Future Workplace: Research towards the use of organisational characteristics in the transition to the hybrid workplace

<br/>During the worldwide pandemic between 2020 and 2022, lockdowns were instigated. Working from home became the norm for almost two years. This has caused the needs and preferences of employees and employers regarding work and the workplace to change for good.<br/><br/>As a result, the common preference for implementing more remote work in the...

Design of a Hinge-Mechanism for an Ankle-Foot Orthosis that Increases Versatility and Ease of Use among AFO-Users

Background: The development of ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) have come a long way over the past decade. However, most improvements are mainly focused on gait performance. Hereby, other tasks are overlooked. This is also stated by AFO- users. AFO-users want an AFO that can be adjusted to suit dierent tasks. An adjustable AFO...

Bridging the valley of death: An Approach to aligning Design Agencies and their Clients through Organisational Empathy

A knowledge gap exists between design agencies and their clients leading to what is known as the Valley of Death. This is the result of a resource and knowledge gap around a concept, leading to challenges in adoption into an organisation resulting projects losing momentum, and ultimately being abandoned. The aim of this project was to develop a...

Determining the Societal Costs of Electricity Fraud

Electricity fraud generates costs for different stakeholders in Dutch society. Media publications about fraud costs often only refer to stolen electricity and lost taxes. But that is not all. In many of the electricity fraud cases there is a strong relationship with the illegal cultivation of hemp. The combination of electricity fraud and hemp...

Optimisation model for scheduling preventive tamping maintenance: A study into the effect of using the alignment in combination with the level to schedule preventive tamping maintenance

Exploring European shale gas development: A Transaction Costs perspective

The rise of shale gas production, has been the greatest revolution in the U.S. energy landscape since WWII and it is argued that market governance facilitated the process. This study analyses the feasibility of EU shale gas development. The publicly available shale gas analyses are inconclusive about the impact of future market design on shale...

Alignment of corporate real estate strategy and corporate business strategy

A Framework for Measuring the Alignment between Business Models and Business Processes in Software Development Companies

Currently, there are plenty of tools and frameworks of measuring the strategic alignment of a company – the consistency between the corporate strategy and its business processes. However, no one has proposed a tool for measuring the alignment between a business model and business processes. This research project aims to fill this gap in the...

An Approach for Enterprise Architecture and Business Model Alignment

This research aims at bridging business model and enterprise architecture in a practical and analytical way. Exploring business model and enterprise architecture limitations and the way these limitations affect the organization showed that by bridging them an effective communication between IT and business people could be gained,...

A solution to misaligned data access in a vectorizing compiler framework

Vectorizing code for short vector architectures as employed by today’s multimedia extensions comes with a number of issues. The responsibilities of these issues are moved to the compiler in order to keep hardware simple. One of those issues is memory-alignment, which requires the compiler to guarantee loading and storing vectors at aligned...

Midas v1.0: Multimodal Interface for DNA Alignment of Sequences

Major research efforts in Bioinformatics include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution. To perform these specific tasks different tools are used. Using these tools separately is a...