Thaking things further in the SPM journey: Creating the new journey into Strategic Portfolio Managment and successful implementation through new tool design for useability

Organisations have a lot of trouble with managing their portfolio.<br/>The portfolio is the set of projects the company is currently running. The consultancy Jigseye provides tools for that purpose called Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM). They created tools to support organisations in creating that overview and the next step to manage it as...

Implementing sustainable design theory in business practice: A call to action

The intensification of industrial activity within an unsustainable development paradigm caused an alarming environmental crisis intertwined with societal problems on a global scale. Sustainable design theory contains an extensive body of knowledge on how these environmental and societal issues can be addressed by rethinking industrial...

Marketing intelligence system implementation in B2B service marketing environment: An explorative case study

PROBLEM The business and marketing environments of today are rapidly changing due to several trends in society and in the market (Kotler &amp; Keller, 2016). To maintain their position, companies must continually renew their knowledge management systems. The emergence of information technology (IT)-based intelligence systems suggests more...

Designing a service for the management and prevention of periprosthetic joint infection cases

This thesis describes the design process of a service/tool for the management and prevention of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) cases. PJI is a complication that follows total joint replacement and is devastating for the patient. It causes physical and mental strain and the patient's health never returns to close to what it was prior to the...

Circular Rollout: Bridging the design-implementation gap in circular economy

<b>Circular Economy<br/></b>Exponential growth in human activity has caused exponential changes in Earth system variables, like greenhouse gas emissions and global temperature. Human influence on the planet has reached far beyond safe parameters and could lead to disastrous consequences for large parts of the world. This is attributed to the...