Contextual Innovation Management for service innovation

The aim of this research is to translate the possibilities of Contextual Innovation Management into recommendations which Stedin Meetbedrijf can use to develop innovative services. The main research question is: How can Contextual Innovation Management be applied for the service innovation process of Stedin Meetbedrijf? Contextual Innovation...

Managing professional virtual communities to improve performance

Project complexities in Maintenance Projects

Project complexities might deliver a contribution to failure of projects in reaching the project goals. Research towards project complexities has been done in engineering projects, but not in maintenance projects. There is a difference in maintenance projects and engineering projects. For that reason one cannot assume that the comparable results...

The Sustainable Footprint Methodology: Including sustainability in the project management of the Bergermeer Gas Storage project

Critical Front-End Development Activities for Engineering Projects

Putting effort into the early project phases in order to prepare optimally for project delivery is labelled Front-End development (FED). For projects, an optimum has to be found where FED is performed in a way that it increases the chance on successful project delivery, without losing cost competiveness. The results of this research can be used...

An Explorative Research into Exit Strategies of Dutch High-Tech Entrepreneurs

The exit strategy of High-Tech entrepreneurs is a field of science which has hardly been studied in the past. This research provides an overview of the different exit strategies applied by thirteen Dutch High-Tech entrepreneurs. The different High-Tech entrepreneurs were selected on the age of the venture (less than 2 years) and on their...

Improving the maturity of project portfolio management

This research has been performed with the organisation of NedTrain. NedTrain is an organisation which is responsible for the maintenance on the rolling stock of the Dutch railway system. In 2006 they have implemented project portfolio management in their organisation however they struggle to manage it properly. For that reason they want to...

Common risks and mitigation methods of start-up firms in Dutch business incubators

This study, primarily, seeks to reveal the most common and most dangerous risks as perceived by entrepreneurs and also present those mitigation methods that they chose to apply. As a secondary aim, the study looks for correlations between the appearance (encounter) and dangerousness (owner’s perception) with basic firm characteristics, such as...

The role of improvisation for techno-starters

Techno-starters are seen as value creators of the economy, but they are struggling to survive and 90% quits within 10 years. Due to this high failure rate effort is put towards business planning, but the importance of improvisation is not yet widely acknowledged. This research investigated the role of improvisation in start-ups and how...

Relationship between the evolution of an old and a new technological innovation

Nowadays many innovative technologies are emerging in the different markets. The relationship between an innovation which is already established in the market and a new budding innovation is not well known in every kind of market, especially when two innovative technologies are competing in different markets. This is the case of the PMP ...

Explorative Insight of Methods and Factors to Manage the Execution of Collaborative Research Projects

Nowadays, in an environment of globalisation, intense competition and rising research costs, Collaborative Research Projects (CRP) are essential means of sustaining technological growth. Collaborative research activities are increasingly applied across research-based and business-based organizations and are becoming an efficient way to achieve...

The business case in practice

The conclusions of this research are based on a combination of the literature on the subject of business cases and projects and of 50 responses (of which 26 complete), primarily by members of two professional organisations, to a questionnaire that was created for this research. The respondents have indicated to blame many budget and time...

Qualitative futures research for innovation

This is about how commercial organisations use qualitative methods of futures research, such as scenarios, roadmapping and trend-analysis, in their innovation processes. The linkages etween innviation proceses and the methids can take place in different ways.