Building collaboration towards a circular economy: A framework for systemic collaboration to accelerate the transition to a circular economy

Problem situation - Global population is expected to double its size in 2030 (EMF, 2013), so will global consumption. Resource scarcity and associated environmental impact has shown that the current way of conducting business is not sustainable (Bocken et al., 2014). A promising alternative is proposed; circular economy. This new economic system...

User-centered Prioritization: A 2-dimension approach for evaluating the user value of backlog topics

User-centered Prioritization is a method for assessing the user value of the different topics present in the product backlog agile software development teams work with. It not only puts the users in the spotlight during this decision-making procedure by basing it on the benefits achieved and the level of fulfilment of user needs, but also...

Designing a tool for agile management in advisory firm X

The FinancialServices(FS) industry of advisory is inter- ested in the agile methodology and its practices. There are two reasons for this interest: first of all their clients, banks, are interested in these methods for their process management. Second, in order to keep up with the competition they need be up to date with new methods and...

Designing a Business model for a future sleeping experience

This master thesis shows the process and results of the assignment to design a new business model for Koninklijke Auping bv. The Business model generation tool (Osterwalder, 2010) was used to generate a new business model for a future context.