Nóg een logistiek terrein op een plek waar de ontsluiting niet goed is, terwijl er veel concurrerend aanbod ligt rond Tilburg en Venlo: niet doen, stelt lector Cees-Jan Pen. Hij suggereert om de plannen voor de ontwikkeling van bedrijventerrein Heesch-West, die tot nog toe 55 miljoen hebben gekost, definitief af te blazen.
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It’s clear that the e$ective management of design is a commercial necessity. It enables a company or organization to innovate, to stay in line with or ahead of the market, and to identify and cater to consumer needs. When design becomes an explicit part of the management process, it can have a greater impact on business performance and help secure a market position for the long term. However, there is growing concern that most European small and medium-size businesses (SMEs) lack su#cient grasp of the role of design and that their focus on its management is still underdeveloped. With the exception of a few small-scale case studies, there has been no substantial research into how European companies handle design. To what extent do they succeed in integrating design into their operational management? What design management skills do they actually have?
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In response to globalisation and internationalisation of both higher education and the job market, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) has seen a considerable increase in English-medium courses, i.e. non-language subjects taught through English. Internationally, the rise of English-medium instruction (EMI) has led to research on, and discussion about the possible side-effects of a change in instructional language. More specifically, whether using a foreign language as the medium of instruction has a negative impact on teaching and learning. This paper reports the findings of a pilot research project into the implications of English-medium instruction (EMI) as perceived by students and teachers of the bachelor program Commercial Economics at the Faculty of Business, Finance and Administration at THUAS. Research methods used to collect data include face-to-face interviews with both students and lecturers involved in EMI subject courses, a student questionnaire, and lesson observations. Despite regular exposure to English and an adequate self-perceived English proficiency, results show that a considerable number of students, as well as teaching staff are experiencing difficulties with English-medium instruction and that for many EMI is not as efficient in transferring academic content as instruction in the mother tongue.
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In large organizations, innovation activities often take place in separate departments, centers, or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they are never implemented and fall into what is popularly termed the Valley of Death. A design approach to innovation is presented as a solution to the problem. However, practice shows that teams that use design nevertheless encounter implementation challenges due to the larger infrastructure of the organization they are part of. This research aims to explore which organizational factors contribute to the Valley of Death during design innovation. An embedded multiple case study at a large heritage airline is applied. Four projects are analyzed to identify implementation challenges. A thematic data analysis reveals organizational design, departmental silos, and dissimilar innovation strategies contribute to the formation of, and encounters with, the Valley of Death. Arising resource-assignment challenges that result from these factors are also identified. Materialization, user-centeredness, and holistic problem framing are identified as design practices that mitigate encounters with the Valley of Death, thus leading to projects being fully realized. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmj.12052 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-de-lille-8039372/
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Creative arts engagement has been shown to be related to maintaining wellbeing in older adulthood (Tymoszuk et al., 2019). For people living with dementia, music can be engaging and rewarding (Baird & Thompson, 2018), and is often presented as a therapeutic activity. It is theorised that music’s capacity to effect change is due to its engaging, emotional, physical, personal, social and persuasive qualities (Brancatisano et al., 2020). However, music itself is a complex intervention (Loui, 2020) and the ‘creative’ in music activities in the small number of studies with people living with dementia is rarely described or critiqued (Creech et al., 2020). Music is often described as passive (receptive)/active to reflect different listening or playing activities. Only a few studies detail opportunities for people living with dementia to exercise creativity (e.g. Zeilig et al., 2019).Technology to assist these musical interactions in dementia falls under distinct categories of listening to music, or playing music, with very little afforded in the way of agency, choice or control (MacRitchie et al., 2023). A few possible explanations could be: i) the musical activity is valued in terms of pre/post cognitive or social changes (Kontos & Grigorovich, 2018) i.e., the activity itself is not particularly critiqued, ii) creativity is assumed to be embedded in the activity and does not need to be enhanced or supported, iii) the locus of creativity is in cognitive processes occurring in the brain, so people living with dementia are often ascribed a passive role in creative musical interactions (Zeilig et al., 2019). We propose a new way of thinking about musical interactions for people living with dementia, building from the enactive, embodied experience of music (Schiavio et al., 2022), and considering a more relational view. Leaving aside the framing where the person with dementia is limited in what creativity they can offer, we propose instead a framework of design where subtle acts of agency and (mini-C) creativity are afforded, supporting a myriad of musical interactions that sit between listening and performing.
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This publication by Kathryn Best accompanied the Lector’s inauguration as head of the research group Cross-media, Brand, Reputation & Design Management (CBRD) in January 2011. The book outlines current debates around the Creative Industries, business and design education and the place of ’well being’ in society, the environment and the economy, before focusing in on the place for design thinking in creative and innovation processes, and how this is driving new applied research agendas and initiatives in education and industry.
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The urgency to innovate for organisational survival has become increasingly recognized, with the result that innovation has conquered a position high on the management agenda. However, the unfamiliarity around innovation pose a challenge for innovation management. No unique solution exists to building a successful innovation approach, such that firms are forced to experiment with innovation approaches. In analysing the innovation approaches of four large international organisations we find that these organisations share an essential common element: the presence of one or more ‘visionary innovators’ who are determined to lead a movement towards organisational change. We present a theoretical framework to illustrate four core characteristics of a visionary innovator, based on empirical evidence. The visionary innovators possesses traits to discover and realise innovations, business and political know-how, the ability to create and share a vision and space to realise that vision. We propose that a visionary innovator determined to spread such a mindset is indispensable to successfully achieve innovation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-de-lille-8039372/
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Design educators and industry partners are critical knowledge managers and co-drivers of change, and design graduate and post-graduate students can act as catalysts for new ideas, energy, and perspectives. In this article, we will explore how design advances industry development through the lens of a longitudinal inquiry into activities carried out as part of a Dutch design faculty-industry collaboration. We analyze seventy-five (75) Master of Science (MSc) thesis outcomes and seven (7) Doctorate (PhD) thesis outcomes (five in progress) to identify ways that design activities have influenced advances in the Dutch aviation industry over time. Based on these findings, we then introduce an Industry Design Framework, which organizes the industry/design relationship as a three-layered system. This novel approach to engaging industry in design research and design education has immediate practical value and theoretical significance, both in the present and for future research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.07.003 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-de-lille-8039372/
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This chapter discusses the following keywords for learning outcomes for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). 1. Clarity: Knowing what you want your students to achieve. 2. Shared: Designed together with your partner to match your course content. 3. Aligned: Linking different components (outcomes, assessment, and activities) of your COIL project together.
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Materieelonderhoud vormt de ruggengraat van de operationele inzetbaarheid van Defensie. Het Commando Materieel en IT en de Directie Maritieme Instandhouding spelen hierbij een centrale rol, ondersteund door onderzoek van de Nederlandse Defensie Academie. Het verzamelen van betrouwbare faaldata is essentieel voor voorspellend onderhoud en prognostics, maar vaak schaars. Daarom is het Dutch Prognostics Lab (DPL) opgericht, een samenwerking tussen onder andere NLDA, Universiteit Twente, De Haagse Hogeschool en Hogeschool van Amsterdam, gericht op het genereren en standaardiseren van onderhoudsdata. In dit KIEM project ‘Defensie Datastraat voor Slim Onderhoud’ (DefDSO) zetten de NLDA, DMI HHS en de HvA het gedachtegoed van DPL voort in voorbereiding op een overkoepelend project. DefDSO beantwoordt de vraag: hoe kan Defensie voorspellend onderhoud verbeteren door gestandaardiseerde data en fysieke testsystemen? Het doel is het ontwikkelen van een uniforme infrastructuur voor Prognostics and Health Management, die onderhoud efficiënter maakt en uitvaltijd minimaliseert. In DefDSO ligt de focus op het automatiseren van het genereren, uitlezen, opslaan, en delen van onderhoudsdata en het invoeren van een uniforme metadata-standaard. Het project levert belangrijke resultaten op: een standaard voor datasets die interoperabiliteit binnen Defensie bevordert, de integratie van PHM in defensieonderdelen, een onderzoeksagenda voor PHM-technologieën en een kennisinfrastructuur die samenwerking tussen Defensie en kennisinstellingen versterkt. Om deze doelen te bereiken, omvat het project vier werkpakketten. Het eerste richt zich op het standaardiseren van sensordata en het ontwikkelen van protocollen. Het tweede werkpakket harmoniseert bestaande datasets naar deze nieuwe standaard. Het derde werkpakket stelt een onderzoeksagenda op voor verdere implementatie van PHM binnen Defensie. Met dit project zet Defensie een belangrijke stap richting toekomstbestendig onderhoud door innovatie en samenwerking centraal te stellen. Het legt niet alleen de basis voor efficiënter onderhoud, maar versterkt ook de structurele samenwerking tussen Defensie en kennisinstellingen, wat bijdraagt aan de operationele capaciteit en technologische vooruitgang.
