Modeling and simulating the Zika outbreak under deep uncertainty: a multi-method multi-resolution approach

Scenario Discovery in Supply Chain Risk Management

Using Serious Gaming To Make Operations Safer On Anchor Handling Tugs

To an observer, it might appear that anchor handling is a fairly simple straightforward and profit making business. However, with deep-water drilling and fluctuations in price of oil, the operation is becoming riskier than ever before. Besides, operational and environmental constraints, the crew also has to deal with pressures of time and money....

Conceptual Clustering of Patents: Enhancing insight for the decision making process in Strategic Technology Planning

Within technological R&D companies, the decisions made within their Strategic Technology Planning (STP) process are of great importance due to their financial, legal and competitive repercussions. For this reason their R&D managers want to be as widely informed as possible about the risks and benefits of developing a certain technology. As the...

The contribution of serious gaming to the Negotiated Approach: Applying game design to groundwater management in Khulna, Bangladesh

As alternative to IWRM, the Negotiated Approach is proposed to involve communities in groundwater management. This should increase water security in peri-urban Khulna, in Bangladesh. A serious game is desired to make the approach more accessible and support its collective learning process. With interviews, different parts in the process that...

Key-factors for successful Product Generation Process implementation: A contract manufacturer perspective

VDL-ETG is a contract-manufacturing firm active in among others the high-tech mechatronics market. Due to developments at VDL-ETG and the market in which they are active, VDL-ETG decided that they needed a more structured product development process. Therefore VDL-ETG has designed a tailor-made product development process which they call the...

Transactional Actor Analysis of the Sulphur Value Chain: New insights on policy guidelines for Sulphur emissions and content regulations

Market Entry Strategy: The case of Bluewater in tidal current industry

Key Governance Factors in Geographically Distributed Delivery

Over the last decade, offshore outsourcing of IT services increased in volume every year. Every year new clients start with outsourcing IT services to lower cost countries like India or China. New suppliers start offering offshore outsourcing IT services on a regular basis. Expected is that this trend will continue, despite the fact that...