Reuse of previously captured knowledge in current and future projects

Contemporary project-based organisations recognise the importance of leveraging past project knowledge for competitive advantage. By leveraging the lessons learned from previous and ongoing projects, organisations can benefit from managing learning within and across projects effectively. Despite these benefits, challenges persist in effectively...

Conceiving, designing and implementing the mechanics teachers social club

As part of the Delft University of Technology's (TU Delft) bachelor programmes, mechanics courses are provided across 7 out of its 8 faculties by more than 70 mechanics lecturers. Yet, mechanics is considered a difficult subject to teach, with lecturers reporting that they have limited time and resources to assess and improve their teaching...

Metropolitan Landscape: Definition, Mapping, and Governance

This chapter revisits the most significant international definitions of the metropolitan landscape. It shows methods of mapping and measuring the metropolitan landscape, most of them developed at TU Delft. Additionally, it discusses one of the tools that can be used to develop the metropolitan landscape and reflect on its qualities and...

Longitudinal Network Analysis on a Farmers’ Community of Practice and Their Changes in Agricultural Systems Management

Farmer peer networks have been identified as a key way to increase adoption of beneficial management practices to minimize negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. We studied the social processes that contribute to beneficial management practice adoption. We administered two questionnaires to participants of a farmer community of...

Empowerment of Youth Through Design in Youth Initiatives

Youth care in the Netherlands has faced quite some problems in the past years. It is organised only by adults who mostly have nothing to do with it, and it shows — both youth care workers and youth themselves have had enough. Every solution to the youth care problem in the Netherlands leads to new problems, making it a wicked problem which does...

EDN Framework: An Embedding Design Network: Overcoming the barriers of embedding design principles in businesses through the support of an inter-organizational network

As acquiring design thinking by organizations become a lighthouse for long-term competitive advantage for some, its adoption becomes more important. Companies on this journey face different types of resistance and challenges laid out in this thesis. As networks offer a different context and opportunities for learning, this thesis tries to answer...

Development of a knowledge sharing game to design collaborations in a hierarchical organisation: How innovation strategies can be implemented at the working floor throughout organisations

Background: There is an increasing need for structured methods that encourage effective knowledge sharing and collaborations at the working floor to implement innovation strategies, especially in case of employer - employee relationships. <br/><br/>Objective: This research (master thesis) focused on knowledge sharing on the work floor during...

Building a Culture of Open Pedagogy from the Platform Up

New York City College of Technology (City Tech) is one of 24 colleges comprising the City University of New York (CUNY), the United States' largest urban public higher education institution legislatively mandated as the "vehicle for the upward mobility of the disadvantaged in the City of New York."1 Fulfilling this mission is vital to the...

Formulating a capability approach based model to sustain rural Sub-Saharan African inhabitant's self-reliance towards their built environment

Changing climate conditions and depleting resources are becoming more important on the global agenda, the paradigm shifting to understand which means (resources) are necessary to generate future well-being. Unfortunately, the formal built environment remains the most polluting global industry and due to its conservative character seems...

Using Communities of Practice for Entrepreneurial Learning

Start-ups engage in entrepreneurial learning throughout their existence. Although the process is highly complex and difficult, they benefit from support offered by incubator. Elements of incubator support are able to create a positive environment with certain requirements that contribute to interorganisational learning and acquisition of...

Adoption and diffusion of a marketing led organisation in syngenta seeds

Project context and scope The launch of the Marketing Led Organisation (MLO) in Syngenta Seeds in 2010 marked, in effect, the start of an adoption and diffusion process with the purpose to spread the MLO throughout the Vegetables EAME organisation. The way to diffuse the MLO was using a dedicated group of carefully selected employees, called...

Knowledge governance for sustainable rural development: Exploring potentials, characteristics and barriers in the Northern Frisian Woodlands

Rural regions in the Netherlands cope with the challenge of sustainable rural development in a complex network context. There is neither consensus on facts nor consensus on values about what is sustainable and what not. Literature suggests knowledge governance as a promising form of governance. It focuses on the coordinative power of knowledge...

The Architectural Information Map: Semantic modeling in conceptual architectural design

This research focuses on the acquisition, representation, sharing and reuse of design information and knowledge in the conceptual phase of architectural design, and targets the creation of situated digital environments where communities of architectural practice communicate and collaborate using this information and knowledge. The utilizable...

Knowledge Communities in fives

Many modern knowledge intensive organisations rely on knowledge sharing communities, often called ‘communities of practice. These communities can be found in many organisations, but their forms and functions appear to be quite diverse. This implies that questions concerning the functioning of communities, (how do they work) and questions...