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Fan, Joyce (author)The integration of Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) into Taiwan's smart grid infrastructure has been a cornerstone in enhancing energy efficiency. However, uncertainties persisted regarding the extent to which HEMS could effectively bridge the energy efficiency gap. This study investigated HEMS' role as boundary objects, capable of...master thesis 2023
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Boom, Marit (author)Lead time reduction of military supply chain (MSC) processes is essential for well-functioning military organisations. MSCs are complex and uncertain systems, including interdependencies between actors and processes. Flexibility is needed for MSCs to deal with complexity and uncertainty. Furthermore, reducing lead times contributes to the...master thesis 2023
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Ruijs, Luca (author)The gap between planning and budgeting is a problem for improving health systems. In decentralisation health care services, authority, resources, and responsibilities are moved from central actors (i.e. national government) to peripheral actors (i.e. municipalities). Adding the risk of creating silos within sub-national governments, creating the...master thesis 2022
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Lochtenberg, Lotte (author)The scope of this graduation project was the current organizational design (OD) approach of a service company. The initial assignment was to investigate whether there were opportunities within the current approach to make it more experience and/or user centered. The current approach is used for quite a long time and the assignment was to shine a...master thesis 2021
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van Triest, Harmen (author)One of the cornerstones of construction project delivery is contract management. It can be directly related to business and project performance (Muhammad et al., 2019). Nevertheless, contracts and contract management have proven to be a complex and risky undertaking. It has been named as one of the main causes of conflict in the construction...master thesis 2021
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Suib, S.S.S.B. (author), van Engelen, J.M.L. (author), Crul, M.R.M. (author)Design and craft domains possess knowledge and experiences that are valuable to product development; however, such knowledge is often tacit, localized, and embedded within each respective domain. In this paper, we examine how a combination of design tools—prescribed as boundary objects—supports knowledge exchange and collaboration between...journal article 2020
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Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Nikolic, I. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Quist, J.N. (author)Finding leverage points for sustainability transformation of industrial and infrastructure systems is challenging, given that transformation is emergent from the complex interactions among socio-technical system elements over time within a specific social, technical and geographical context. Participatory multi-modelling, in which modellers...journal article 2020
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Picavet, Daan (author)In the Netherlands more and more groups of volunteers are formed who collectively establish sustainable energy producing initiatives. The customer needs of these so-called sustainable energy collectives are unlike any other customer groups of distribution network operator Stedin. Their applications for grid connections often require case...master thesis 2018
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Scholtens, J. (author)New 3D printing techniques enables companies to rapidly create high-quality and full-coloured objects. This allows them to create tangible objects to communicate ideas and concepts, instead of conventional flat 2D presentations.In order to explore what opportunities this innovation can provide, a deeper understanding of the impact of using...master thesis 2017
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van den Broeck, W. (author)Fossil fuels will run out in the foreseeable future. Out entire economic system is build upon fossil fuels and building up another base for this economic system is challenging. The only alternative for making materials that normally are derived from fossil fuels is the Bio-Based Economy. Materials in this way get made from biomass, such as sugar...master thesis 2016
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Bakker, M.A. (author)The goal of this project is to design a tool that supports the business developers to explain how a signature solution adds value to the airport and how it is created. To be able to design this tool more information is needed about what a signature solutions is and why it is important. Also more context is needed about when and where this tool...master thesis 2016
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Nieuwsma, G.T. (author)The port of Rotterdam is the largest port of Europe. Each year, approximately 140,000 vessels heading for the port of Rotterdam. To maintain Europe’s number one port, innovation is crucial. Innovation concerns change, which causes a substantial shift in mind-set and tasks for the traditional port worker, especially on operational level....master thesis 2016
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van Waas, R (author), Slinger, J (author), van Splunter, S. (author)This article explores the use of a System Dynamics model as a boundary object in a case study regarding decision-making on water scarcity in South Africa. The model integrates expertise from the hydrological and ecological sciences with socio-economic information for a specific area, the Mossel Bay region. The model proved to be adaptable to...conference paper 2015
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Theunis, M.T.T. (author)During the product development process, many “surprises” can materialise. These surprises can be both positive and negative, such as highly capable resources, extensive knowledge on a certain necessary product feature or a lack of communication with the supplier. These surprises can be named uncertainties, since they are still uncertain at the...master thesis 2014
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Stompff, G. (author), Smulders, F.E.H.M. (author)In product development, representations of the intended product are needed to enable specialists to learn about what they develop together. A variety of representations is deployed, ranging from textual documents like requirements, up to integrated prototypes. The difference between these representations is the fidelity: the degree to which a...conference paper 2014
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Henze, L.A.R. (author), Mulder, I.J. (author), Stappers, P.J. (author)The increased complexity in Product Service Systems development goes hand in hand with complex heterogeneous networks. A Human-Centred Design approach has been taken to understand such networked collaboration and to develop a framework having user-experiences guiding communication and collaboration among parties. The current work elaborates on...conference paper 2013
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Bharosa, N. (author), Lee, J. (author), Janssen, M. (author), Rao, H.R. (author)One of the main challenges in cross-border disaster management is the development and use of information systems that cater the needs of heterogeneous relief agencies, policies, activities and cultures. Drawing upon activity theory, this paper examines cross-border information systems development for disaster management. We infuse the concept of...journal article 2012
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Johansson, K. (author), Gluch, P. (author)The Swedish building sector has for a long time struggled with the difficulty to create and share new knowledge. Within the sector, groups of professionals have been found to only share knowledge with members of their network, not with those they consider to be outsiders. As an attempt to unite different views and professional groupings, an...conference paper 2010
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Van Slobbe, E. (author)Consensus in Dutch society is that the existing coastal defence regime is not sustainable. Adaptation is not only a technical challenge, but affects elements like ecology, cultural heritage, recreation, urban development, making the issue complex both from a political and from a scientific point of view. And innovations must cope with the actual...conference paper 2010
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