Design of a Digital Interactive Collaboration Facilitator in a Datacenter Development Context
B.J.M. Mol (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
D.M.C. Schriever (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
R Binnekamp – Mentor (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)
GA van Nederveen – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Integral Design & Management)
Hans Ramler – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Integral Design & Management)
K.G. Heijne – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Creative Processes)
Nienke Ris – Mentor
Nils Schmeling – Graduation committee member
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Abstract
This thesis aims to design an interactive tool that facilitates collaboration between Microsoft’s teams in the datacenter development design process. Current datacenter development strategies of Microsoft do not sufficiently take into account socio-technical aspects which is causing project delays. Such socio-technical aspects are internally represented by different teams at Microsoft, such as the Community Affairs team and the Environmental team. Incorporating the preferences of all the relevant teams during the design, results in enhanced collaboration through increased mutual insights, which can be used to develop new design solutions. Such new design solutions inherently incorporate more socio-technical aspects...