Resultaten van een kwalitatief onderzoek bij de 32 grootste werkgevers in Noord-Nederland naar de kenmerken van en ervaringen met talentprogramma's. Conclusie: maatwerk en diversiteit (dus niet alleen management development) lijken kritische succesfactoren.
Sinds 1 januari 2013 kunnen bedrijven – of hun financiële intermediair – voor het indienen van belastingaangiften, jaarrekeningen en financiële rapportages gebruik maken van een nieuwe elektronische standaard: Standard Business Reporting (SBR).
Sommige ggz-aanbieders behalen betere behandeluitkomsten dan andere. We kunnen dus wat van elkaar leren. Transparantie over behandeluitkomsten is daarvoor essentieel. Patiënten die behoefte hebben aan keuze-informatie, zorgverzekeraars die optimale kwaliteit wensen tegen acceptabele kosten en hulpverleners die van elkaar willen leren, hebben daar allemaal baat bij. De auteurs laten zien hoe behandeluitkomsten gebruikt kunnen worden voor het verbeteren van de kwaliteit van zorg in de ggz aan mensen met ernstige psychische aandoeningen. Een belangrijke strategie daarvoor in benchmarken. Maar over benchmarken bestaat veel verwarring. Waarom is benchmarken zo belangrijk? Hoe komt een benchmark tot stand? En hoe kun je een benchmark inzetten voor kwaliteitsverbetering? Nugter, A., Schaefer, B., Swildens, W. (4 april 2017). SBG Conferentie “GGZ Behandeluitkomsten: Bron voor kwaliteitsbeleid in de GGZ. ROM en benchmarken bij patiënten met ernstige psychiatrische aandoeningen. Utrecht, Nederland.
Denim Democracy from the Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD) is an interactive exhibition that celebrates the journey and learning of ARD members, educates visitors about sustainable denim and highlights how companies collaborate together to achieve results. Through sight, sound and tactile sensations, the visitor experiences and fully engages sustainable denim production. The exhibition launches in October 2018 in Amsterdam and travels to key venues and locations in the Netherlands until April 2019. As consumers, we love denim but the denim industry, like other sub-sectors in the textile, apparel and footwear industries, faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project brought leading denim brands, suppliers and stakeholders together to collectively address these issues and take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production. Sustainability challenges are considered very complex and economically undesirable for individual companies to address alone. In denim, small and medium sized denim firms face specific challenges, such as lower economies of scale and lower buying power to affect change in practices. There is great benefit in combining denim companies' resources and knowledge so that collective experimentation and learning can lift the sustainability standards of the industry and lead to the development of common standards and benchmarks on a scale that matters. If meaningful, transformative industrial change is to be made, then it calls for collaboration between denim industry stakeholders that goes beyond supplier-buyer relations and includes horizontal value chain collaboration of competing large and small denim brands. However collaboration between organizations, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to failure. The research behind the Alliance for Responsible Denim project asked a central research question: how do competitors effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability? To answer this question, we used a mixed-method, action research approach. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project mobilized and facilitated denim brands to collectively identify ways to reduce the use of water and chemicals in denim production and then aided them to implement these practices individually in their respective firms.
The denim industry faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been especially criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. Reducing resource use of water, chemicals and energy and changing denim production practices calls for collaboration between various stakeholders, including competing denim brands. There is great benefit in combining denim brands’ resources and knowledge so that commonly defined standards and benchmarks are developed and realized on a scale that matters. Collaboration however, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to fail. This project brings leading denim brands together to collectively take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production, particularly by establishing measurements, benchmarks and standards for resource use (e.g. chemicals, water, energy) and creating best practices for effective collaboration. The central research question of our project is: How do denim brands effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability in denim production? To answer this question, we will use a mixed-method, action research approach. The project’s research setting is the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA), which has a strong denim cluster and is home to many international denim brands and start-ups.
Digital innovations in the field of immersive Augmented Reality (AR) can be a solution to offer adults who are mentally, physically or financially unable to attend sporting events such as premier league football a stadium and match experience. This allows them to continue to connect with their social networks. In the intended project, AR content will be further developed with the aim of evoking the stadium experience of home matches as much as possible. The extent to which AR enriches the experience is then tested in an experiment, in which the experience of a football match with and without AR enrichment is measured in a stadium setting and in a home setting. The experience is measured with physiological signals. In addition, a subjective experience measure is also being developed and benchmarked (the experience impact score). Societal issueInclusion and health: The joint experience of (top) sports competitions forms a platform for vulnerable adults, with a limited social capital, to build up and maintain the social networks that are so necessary for them. AR to fight against social isolation and loneliness.
