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Lleras, S.H. (author)The present research is about a case study of a project held in the Service Science Factory, an initiative of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics for developing new service concepts. The objective of the research was to explore the contribution of design to service concept development. The analysis focused on exploring the...master thesis 2011
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Dihal, S.B. (author)The increasing ubiquity and capabilities of smartphones provide opportunities to combine their processing power, storage, connectivity and sensors into a shared resource pool for end-users and service providers. This is analogous to the concept of cloud computing, in which cloud computing datacenters provide a shared resource pool. Several...master thesis 2011
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Yang, H. (author)In times in which Information Technology is dominating our global society, cooperative research and developments (R&D) is rapidly becoming the most relevant topic in educational and scientific field. International collaboration is the trend in future research and education. Why is collaboration in education and research relevant? What kind of...master thesis 2011
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Shammi, M. (author)As companies have increasingly become dependent on IT to interact with clients, the issue of business agility has become one of IT agility. Companies look for agility in their business for flexibility and adaptation with respect to changing environments. They seek to make use of the market competencies and deliver customer-centric services to...master thesis 2011
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Steen, M. (author), Manschot, M.A.J. (author), De Koning, N. (author)In many service design projects, co-design is seen as critical to success and a range of benefits are attributed to co-design. In this paper, we present an overview of benefits of co-design in service design projects, in order to help the people involved to articulate more precisely and realistically which benefits to aim for. Based on a...journal article 2011
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Primagati, A. (author)Cloud computing market is expected to grow rapidly in the next five years. Even though Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions will dominate most of the market, Platform-as-a-Service solution is forecasted to have the fastest-growing segment, especially in Western Europe. On the other hand, cloud computing is also argued...master thesis 2011
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- Feenstra, R. (author) doctoral thesis 2011
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Westerveld, B.B. (author)Background and problem Audio-visual cultural heritage content should be preserved for our children and their children. However, currently the devices on which this material is stored suffers from decomposition. In addition to that, the content should be unlocked on a larger scale by exploiting modern technologies such as Internet and mobile...master thesis 2011
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- Terlouw, L.I. (author) doctoral thesis 2011
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King, S. (author)This thesis is about the development and testing of an approach that addresses the particular challenges of remote rural settlements, due to conflicting trends of outmigration and rural repopulation, and relates to the planning processes which affect them. Key to this approach is the optimisation of ecosystem services. This is based on the...master thesis 2011
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Oudijn, E.G. (author)The aim of this research is to translate the possibilities of Contextual Innovation Management into recommendations which Stedin Meetbedrijf can use to develop innovative services. The main research question is: How can Contextual Innovation Management be applied for the service innovation process of Stedin Meetbedrijf? Contextual Innovation...master thesis 2011
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Siemerink, P. (author)This thesis describes the design process of a service, Pearls in North, for elderly who live in Humanitas. The goal of the project was to design a product or a service that makes elderly physically more active so they feel good, stay healthy and independent. When people become older they tend to become more passive. Especially when people move...master thesis 2011
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Van Etten, R.H.M. (author)After its founding 15 years ago, Tam Tam has encountered the limits of legacy systems used for the internal processes in recent years. To overcome these limits, multiple efforts have been made to enforce a transition to specific Enterprise Application Integration styles. Although the efforts resulted in working application interactions, the...master thesis 2011
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Preece, C. (author), Phen, L.S. (author), Padfield, R. (author), Papargyropoulou, E. (author)Increasing calls for action on addressing the negative impact of human activities on the natural environment have lead to the growth of new markets for sustainable solutions. At a more macro level, the role of construction and marketing in economic development has been well established. In striving towards economic growth, a balance between...conference paper 2011
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Bröchner, J. (author)Productivity increase in the construction industry is often seen as low. Construction innovation projects could be prioritized partly based on expected contribution to industry productivity. Quality change in construction outputs and inputs is crucial. The purpose is to explore new output quality indicators. The analysis draws upon life cycle...conference paper 2011
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Bucur, A. (author)Information technology is the common denominator for all the industries in the 21st century, therefore any important change in this area is prone to have an impact on small and large businesses alike. The latest shock wave storming through IT is Cloud computing. Due to the importance and sensitive nature of applications used by financial...master thesis 2011
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Korthals, M. (author)Enviu is a young foundation that scouts and develops WOW! projects. These WOW! Projects are sustainable projects that have the objective to become an independent businesses on the long term. This graudation project has the objective to develop a new WOW! Project concept for Enviu utilizing 3D printing. The advantages of 3D printing are combined...master thesis 2011
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Isikdag, U. (author), Zlatanova, S. (author)The Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet-of-Things concepts are gathering more attention day-by-day. In the near future networks of interconnected sensors that are monitoring the environment around us will start to generate enormous amounts of data. This newly emerging paradigm can be named as Sensors Everywhere”. This new paradigm will lead ...conference paper 2011
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Nasr, K.A. (author), Gross, H.G. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)In this paper, we present two descriptive case studies covering the re-engineering and further evolution of adopting service oriented architecture (SOA) in industry. The first case was carried out for a company in the transport sector with an application portfolio of over 700 systems. The second case study was conducted for an organization in...report 2011
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Van Goudoever, F. (author)Every day ING receives thousands of digital or hardcopy requests from their customers that need to be processed and answered. A lot of these forms are rejected for various reasons every day. This causes not only huge paper flows and high turnaround times, but unsatisfied customers as well. One of these incoming requests is a hardcopy form to...master thesis 2011