Design of a Hybrid Mortgage Lending System: To Decrease the Cost of Trust by considering the Integrative Model of Organizational Trust

Traditional financial companies play a central role in ensuring financial stability and reliability. However, these companies face institutional problems due to inefficiencies, lack of transparency and limited innovation. For this reason, the use of distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, has been explored as an alternative and its...

Synthetic data generation for research – enabler for privacy-enhancing health data sharing?: A multidisciplinary research on synthetic data generation in healthcare

Data-driven health research, specifically the development of AI models, is hampered by poor data availability and associated administrative burdens, caused complex and fragmented data protection regulation. To reap the benefits of using high quality health data, while safeguarding data protection of patients, the synthetic data generation is...

From Scroll to Soul: Design Features of Social Media Platforms and Their Impact on Users' Mental Well-Being

The prevalence of mental health issues among adolescents and young adults is increasing, with social media usage identified as a potential contributing factor. As technology becomes more integral to daily life, the design decisions of social media platforms emerge as significant determinants of users' mental well-being.<br/>Despite awareness of...

Exploring the Developer Drive: A Case Study on the Motivation of Individual Developers in Diverse Actors to Start and Continue Participation in a PaaS SECO Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory

This thesis explores the motivation of developers to initiate and sustain participation in a Platform-as-a-Service Software Ecosystem (PaaS SECO). PaaS, integral to SECOs, is gaining prominence for its cost advantages and scalability. The study focuses on understanding what drives developers in diverse roles to engage with PaaS SECOs and...

Communication is Care: Requirement-Based Platform Architecture Design to Enable Pharmacists' and General Practitioners' Interoperability Needs in Dutch First-Line Healthcare

The Dutch first-line healthcare domain faces challenges arising from an ageing population and resource limitations, accentuating the need for an effective IT domain. Inadequate interoperability and data portability between information systems used by healthcare organisations in daily processes hinder patient treatment and innovation. This study...

Realising platform control in data marketplaces through Secure Multi-Party Computation: A qualitative study exploring the use of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) as an instrument for realising platform control in data marketplaces

Practical problem: In today's digitally transformed and connected world, data has become a critical strategic corporate resource. In this context, data marketplaces are becoming more popular since they enable wider accessibility and more efficient interaction among companies. Despite this, there are several barriers in sharing data through this...

Change Request Risk Model: Improving The Migration Of Networks

Internet and mobile phones have become essential in our lives. Without the internet and our smart phones, large parts of our society would stop functioning or even collapse completely. It is therefore of critical importance that the service is of the highest quality and that the delivery of service is not interrupted. Telecommunication providers...

Effectiveness of Market Segmentation techniques using Data Sharing in the Telecom industry

Since the start of the 21st century, the amount of captured data has been continuously increasing in this digital age. With almost 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being generated and captured every day (Liang et al., 2018), researchers and companies have a strong interest in exploring the value that can be created with this data, called big data...

Enabling Data Marketplaces with Multi-Party Computation (MPC): An Exploratory Study investigating the Implication of the Maturation of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology to the Architecture and the Threat Landscape of the Data Marketplaces

The emergence of the Data Marketplaces is the latest iteration in the phenomenon of data-driven transformation of the world. Data marketplaces have emerged as a new form of data-driven business models which enable trading of data between the data owners/providers and data consumers by providing the necessary technological and non-technological...

Data Collaboratives: Trusted Data Intermediary Business Models

To address complex societal issues, cross-sector partnerships are needed that specifically aim to create value to address such challenges. Data collaboratives are initiatives that encourage and promote such partnerships, by the collection, sharing, or processing of data. Data collaboratives are faced with barriers that complicate collaboration...

BM roadmapping approach: overcoming the barriers for the implementation of Lead Time Based Pricing

This research explores the factors that challenge the implementation of Revenue Management (RM) in manufacturing industries. Previous research focused mainly on Order Management to explain how RM could be applied with studies that are mathematical by nature. However, there is no empirical study explaining the implementation process of RM in...

Cyberattack-Related Cascading Effects Mitigation: A Risk-based Approach for ICS Network Segmentation Design in Chemical Plants

Cascading effects are high-impact, low-probability phenomena that have caused catastrophic impacts in various chemical and process plants around the world. With the increasing trend of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures, there is a concern that accidents caused by cyberattacks may trigger cascading effects in these facilities. In...

Unlocking customer value within the Dutch telecommunication sector: The process of designing the compelling customer value proposition model within the Dutch telecommunication sector

Identifying Blockages and Unblocking Strategy for Digital Trade Infrastructures Innovation Process

Role of digital infrastructures to improve data exchange on trade lanes becomes more critical as complex border procedures contribute to inefficiency of the international supply chain. However, digital infrastructures innovation in international trade (DTI) has not reached the implementation phase. We are interested to analyse digital trade...

Business model innovation in European SMEs: thriving configurations and performance implications

For many years, Business Model Innovation (BMI) has been recognized by academics as key to improve competitiveness and innovativeness. While more than ninety percent of the large corporates conduct some degree of BMI, BMI has barely reached Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs). Increasing the use of BMI in SMEs is believed to boost the economic...

Private and public information disclosure to improve cybersecurity: A field experiment to incentivise compliance with anti-spoofing best practices

Testing Business Model Innovation Tooling for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Multiple Case Study on the Business Model Stress Test

Purpose<br/>Technology on itself does not have a standalone value. Value is allocated by the business model that is used to bring it to the market. A business model describes the value creation and capture mechanisms of the firm. In a dynamic world, businesses face potential disruption when confronted with trends like servitization, digitation,...

Pattern Based Evaluation of Blockchain Technology as a Catalyst for Business Model Innovation: Exploratory Research with Focus on the Potential Implications for e-Health

As blockchain technology became more established in the financial arena, federal health IT officials, vendors and developers started looking at its potential and its use in the healthcare sector. Lately, there has been a major hype around the potential of the technology. It is described as a disruptive technology that could enable business model...