Improving uptake of Lessons Learned through a Learning Diary

This thesis aims to provide a better understanding of how one can improve the uptake of lessons learned. So far, there has not been any study that examined the use of a learning diary for organizational learning purposes. A learning diary might be used to learn as a community when individuals use their personal diaries as input for the...

Measuring the security culture in organizations: a systematic overview of existing tools

There has been an increase in research into the security culture in organizations in recent years. This growing interest has been accompanied by the development of tools to measure the level of security culture in order to identify potential threats and formulate solutions. This article provides a systematic overview of the existing tools. A...

Fostering an innovation culture at KLM’s Digital Factory

This thesis report represents the result of a graduation project for the master programme Strategic Product Design at the Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the Digital division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. <br/>This project aimed at changing the Organizational Culture of KLM Digital. This due to the perceived lack of...

Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: Evidence from Dutch infrastructure practices

Purpose - How learning is facilitated in inter-organizational projects remains underdeveloped in the literature. The aim of this study is to focus on viewing the relationship between the multiple organizations in a project, from a perspective of the learning aspect. Design/Methodology/Approach - This research analyses the learning trajectory...

Occasions: Enhancing the psychological well-being of office workers through smart building technologies

Over the past few years, workplaces have placed increasing importance on enhancing well-being. The benefits are clear: increased productivity, improved employee engagement, and reductions in health care costs. Another recent development has been the rise of smart office buildings. MAPIQ, a system integration company, is an active player in the...

Corporate real estate strategies and organizational culture

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how strategic corporate real estate (CRE) management varies across different types of organizational culture. Additionally, the authors examine how a set of well-established strategies is categorized by CRE executives and investigate whether there have been any changes in priorities of...

Imagination as a driving force for inter-organizational innovation: The development of a research framework

With the help of a qualitative case study and existing literature from scientific fields like social sciences, psychology, policy studies, and innovation studies a research framework was compiled for studying imagination as a driving force for innovation fueled by its social context. A try-out of this research framework suggested the result of...

What is served for breakfast?: An empirical analysis of CRE strategies and organizational culture

The quote Culture eats strategy for breakfast was made famous by Mark Field, president at Ford, in 2006 and has ever since been a guiding principle in management practice of corporations operating across the globe. General management profession has widely embraced culture as a key factor in strategy design. However, in corporate real estate (CRE...

Unraveling the difficulties of implementing and operating a public SSC: Case study towards the effect of governance on the perceived performance of shared service centers in the public sector

Growing Strategic Innovation at Dimensys

Today, making business, and more importantly, staying in business is becoming more and more complex for companies. Organizations are aware that if they want to survive they have no longer the option of carrying on doing today what worked yesterday. Innovation seems to be the shared answer among companies for responding to the fast-changing...

The Organization of a Cross Border CHP-Alliance: Managing the Cultural Differences

CHP-Belduco is a Combined Heat and Power plant, which was built on the site of Belchem, a chemical company in Flanders, Belgium. The purpose of the plant is to deliver steam and other utilities to the chemical plants on the site. In order to do that efficiently, the combination of heat and electricity is used. The plant is owned and managed by...

Towards a playful organization ideal-type: Values of a playful organizational culture

Numerous organizations have embarked on playful endeavors such as serious gaming (playing games with a learning/training purpose) and ‘gamification’ (applying game technology and principles to make existing practices more game-like). One could consequently theorize about the dawn of playful or anizations, i.e. a type of organization that is...

Supporting designers at Philips Design: A designer centric approach to knowledge sharing

The goal of this study is to improve design support for designers at Philips Design. Philips Design is organized to be completely ‘people centric’: their products fully aim to fulfill user needs and wishes. To achieve this, the employees are supported by the High Design Process. It enables them to do people centric innovation for the Business....

No child's play: The role of organizational assumptions in New Product Design

Products are developed with groups of people. These groups of people need to have a common idea what the product they are developing should look like at the end. Product development is considered a social process where the end result is created in negotiation between all participants. Literature show that having more shared understanding about...