The main question in this PhD thesis is: How can Business Rules Management be configured and valued in organizations? A BRM problem space framework is proposed, existing of service systems, as a solution to the BRM problems. In total 94 vendor documents and approximately 32 hours of semi-structured interviews were analyzed. This analysis revealed nine individual service systems, in casu elicitation, design, verification, validation, deployment, execution, monitor, audit, and version. In the second part of this dissertation, BRM is positioned in relation to BPM (Business Process Management) by means of a literature study. An extension study was conducted: a qualitative study on a list of business rules formulated by a consulting organization based on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission risk framework. (from the summary of the Thesis p. 165)
To profile a better physiognomy of contemporary technocratic logics of planning, this chapter explores the reform of the working processes and organisational structures of the public management bureaucracties in the Amsterdam municipality. It does so in order to reflect on the mechanisms through which technocratic thinking gets institutionalised within existing public government bodies, and to reveal the development of public planning expertise in contemporary urban governance. As in other chapters in this section, here we particularly question the changing role of public bureaucracies in the Netherlands, a country where public expertise still plays a central role in urban governance, but is progressively reformed to accommodate private actors
Digital transformation has been recognized for its potential to contribute to sustainability goals. It requires companies to develop their Data Analytic Capability (DAC), defined as their ability to collect, manage and analyze data effectively. Despite the governmental efforts to promote digitalization, there seems to be a knowledge gap on how to proceed, with 37% of Dutch SMEs reporting a lack of knowledge, and 33% reporting a lack of support in developing DAC. Participants in the interviews that we organized preparing this proposal indicated a need for guidance on how to develop DAC within their organization given their unique context (e.g. age and experience of the workforce, presence of legacy systems, high daily workload, lack of knowledge of digitalization). While a lot of attention has been given to the technological aspects of DAC, the people, process, and organizational culture aspects are as important, requiring a comprehensive approach and thus a bundling of knowledge from different expertise. Therefore, the objective of this KIEM proposal is to identify organizational enablers and inhibitors of DAC through a series of interviews and case studies, and use these to formulate a preliminary roadmap to DAC. From a structure perspective, the objective of the KIEM proposal will be to explore and solidify the partnership between Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Avans), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), van Berkel Logistics BV, Smink Group BV, and iValueImprovement BV. This partnership will be used to develop the preliminary roadmap and pre-test it using action methodology. The action research protocol and preliminary roadmap thereby developed in this KIEM project will form the basis for a subsequent RAAK proposal.
De Noordelijke provincies staan als gevolg van onder andere selectieve bevolkingskrimp, de noodzaak van verduurzaming van de woningvoorraad en de door aardbevingen veroorzaakte schade de komende jaren voor een grote ruimtelijke planningsopgave. Tegelijkertijd treedt in 2022 de Omgevingswet in werking. Deze wet vervangt grote delen van het omgevingsrecht en moet de huidige vaak complexe, langdurige en kostbare procedures voorkomen door een efficiënter en eenvoudiger systeem van ruimtelijke planning te introduceren. Binnen dit nieuwe systeem is burgerparticipatie één van de speerpunten. De wetgever wil de burger eerder en meer betrekken bij het maken van ruimtelijke plannen om zo de kwaliteit van de leefomgeving te verbeteren. Echter zijn die burgers zelf niet of nauwelijks bij de vormgeving van deze burgerparticipatie betrokken geweest en ook bestaande onderzoeken richten zich met name op de visie van de overheid. Dit onderzoek betrekt juist de burger en onderzoekt welke wijze(n) van burgerparticipatie volgens zowel de gemeenten als de burgers uit door aardbevingen getroffen dorpen de meest doeltreffende wijze is om de ruimtelijke kwaliteit te verhogen. Daarmee past het onderzoek binnen de thema’s Aardbevingen en Leefbaarheid van het Kenniscentrum Noorderruimte en sluit het aan bij lopend onderzoek binnen het lectoraat Leefomgeving in Transitie. Het onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd met behulp van mixed methods waarbij documentanalyse, literatuuronderzoek, paneldiscussies en interviews worden ingezet en leidt tot publicaties, bijdragen aan het onderwijs van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen en aanbevelingen richting gemeentebesturen. De centrale vraag luidt: Op welke wijze(n) kunnen diverse vormen van burgerparticipatie uit de Omgevingswet volgens gemeenten en bewoners het meest doeltreffend worden geïmplementeerd om de ruimtelijke kwaliteit en daarmee de leefbaarheid in dorpen in het Groningenveld zoveel als mogelijk en op een duurzame wijze te verhogen?
PBL is the initiator of the Work Programme Monitoring and Management Circular Economy 2019-2023, a collaboration between CBS, CML, CPB, RIVM, TNO, UU. Holidays and mobility are part of the consumption domains that PBL researches, and this project aims to calculate the environmental gains per person per year of the various circular behavioural options for both holiday behaviour and daily mobility. For both behaviours, a range of typical (default) trips are defined and for each several circular option explored for CO2 emissions, Global warming potential and land use. The holiday part is supplied by the Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport (CSTT) of the BUas Academy of Tourism (AfT). The mobility part is carried out by the Urban Intelligence professorship of the Academy for Built Environment and Logistics (ABEL).The research question is “what is the environmental impact of various circular (behavioural) options around 1) holidays and 2) passenger mobility?” The consumer perspective is demarcated as follows:For holidays, transportation and accommodation are included, but not food, attractions visited and holiday activitiesFor mobility, it concerns only the circular options of passenger transport and private means of transport (i.e. freight transport, business travel and commuting are excluded). Not only some typical trips will be evaluated, but also the possession of a car and its alternatives.For the calculations, we make use of public databases, our own models and the EAP (Environmental Analysis Program) model developed by the University of Groningen. BUAs projectmembers: Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport (AT), Urban Intelligence (ABEL).
