Exchanging urban knowledge: Japan X Netherlands

One of the many challenges facing the Netherlands is the government’s<br/>goal of building one million homes by 2030, as a solution to the housing<br/>deficiency that’s plaguing the Netherlands. The intended method is to densify current urban areas rather than continuously expand outward into green areas to keep the natural environment open for...

A landscape for learning: Anchor points for exploration

Managing Knowledge Exchange and Supplier Selection in a Product Technology Transfer: An innovative manual to guide practitioners in the early phases of product technology transfers

In an ever more interconnected and integrated world, supply chains are undergoing continuous radical redesigns triggering in turn transfers of products and technologies between suppliers across the globe. This multi-year, cross-functional process, referred to as product technology transfer is determinant for the success or failure of a supply...

The Water Efficiency Paradox: The significance of spatial scale and knowledge exchange in irrigation water management

Water scarcity is a growing issue across the globe (Rijsberman, 2006) and because agriculture is the main consumer of water, investing in irrigation efficiency seems like a good solution to this problem. However, local gains in efficiency can reduce runoff and hence, have an adverse effect on downstream water availability (o.a. Perry (2018, 1999...

The effect of the Spiegel on construction projects and project managers: A study into the Spiegel method which aims to facilitate reflection, learning, and knowledge exchange

Understanding inter-organizational information sharing: A case-study in the context of Risk and Opportunity Based Asset Management for Critical Infrastructures (ROBAMCI)

On a daily basis we (in) directly make use of functions of various infrastructures: we drive on roads and bridges or we live without worries behind the safety of a dike. Only when there are cracks in the dike or a particular bridge is not accessible due to for example a broken pillar, we realize how critical these infrastructures are for our...

On the conversion of functional models: Bridging differences between functional taxonomies in the modeling of user actions

In this paper, I discuss a methodology for the conversion of functional models between functional taxonomies developed by Kitamura et al. (2007) and Ookubo et al. (2007). They apply their methodology to the conversion of functional models described in terms of the Functional Basis taxonomy into functional models described in terms of the...