Sociale en politieke filosofie van Simone Weil.
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During the past two decades the implementation and adoption of information technology has rapidly increased. As a consequence the way businesses operate has changed dramatically. For example, the amount of data has grown exponentially. Companies are looking for ways to use this data to add value to their business. This has implications for the manner in which (financial) governance needs to be organized. The main purpose of this study is to obtain insight in the changing role of controllers in order to add value to the business by means of data analytics. To answer the research question a literature study was performed to establish a theoretical foundation concerning data analytics and its potential use. Second, nineteen interviews were conducted with controllers, data scientists and academics in the financial domain. Thirdly, a focus group with experts was organized in which additional data were gathered. Based on the literature study and the participants responses it is clear that the challenge of the data explosion consist of converting data into information, knowledge and meaningful insights to support decision-making processes. Performing data analyses enables the controller to support rational decision making to complement the intuitive decision making by (senior) management. In this way, the controller has the opportunity to be in the lead of the information provision within an organization. However, controllers need to have more advanced data science and statistic competences to be able to provide management with effective analysis. Specifically, we found that an important skill regarding statistics is the visualization and communication of statistical analysis. This is needed for controllers in order to grow in their role as business partner..
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Competitive advantage is probably the most popular business concept today (Mooney, 2007). This article aims to investigate critically the discourse on competitive advantage, as expressed by business literature, by locating its meanings in the public higher education sector. This research reveals that people working within the HEIs have given broader and more diversified meanings to this concept, which are partly due to the message received from external environment, and partly because of the influence of professional settings in which they function. By studying these diversified meanings, 13 elements are identified in constructing the competitive advantages of higher education institutions. Furthermore, the importance of each element is rated and ranked which enables us to assess the quantitative significance. The clarification of this container concept “competitive advantage” leads to the conclusion that the business way of defining of competitive advantage should be critically reviewed and verified in the context of public higher education sector, because the competition in the public education market is different from the normal market competition defined by the business literature.
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This study explores how non-executive directors are challenged by management while they seek to improve the effectiveness of supervisory boards in the Netherlands. A combination of semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire among non-executive directors indicates that supervisory board members mainly experience boardroom challenges in three core areas: the ability of non-executive directors to ask management critical questions, information asymmetries between the management and supervisory boards and the management of the relationship between individual executive and non-executive directors. The qualitative in-depth analysis reveals the complexity of the main contributing factors to problems in the boardroom as well as the range of process and social interventions non-executive directors use to address boardroom issues. The findings highlight the need to better understand boardroom processes and the need of non-executive directors to carefully manage relationships in and around the boardroom.
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Vragen als ‘Wat is authentiek leiderschap?’ of ‘Wat is de rol van de creatieve professional in complexe maatschappelijke vraagstukken?’ komen niet uit de lucht vallen. Er is een context, er zijn (beweeg)redenen waarom deze vragen (nu) worden gesteld. Dat geldt ook voor de zoektocht naar de rol van het onderwijs voor het aangaan van maatschappelijke vraagstukken of het verlangen om ‘mens te mogen zijn’ zoals geformuleerd in de visie van het domein Creative Business van Hogeschool Inholland. Deze thema’s serieus nemen betekent ook deze belichten vanuit de huidige tijdgeest en de oorzaken ontrafelen waarom een vraag (nu) speelt. Ik zal eerst de contouren schetsen van de huidige tijdgeest waarin complexe vraagstukken ontstaan en dan ingaan op de manier hoe we gewend zijn deze op te lossen.
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This short paper describes the first prototyping of a self-evaluation process of Curriculum Agility at a Faculty of Technology in Sweden. The process comprises guided, semi-structured, individual interviews at different organisational levels within the faculty, a joint narrative based on those interviews, prioritizing development strategies per level, and jointly mapping them on importance and implementation time. The self-evaluation is part of and based on the research on the principles of Curriculum Agility. The results show the interplay in timely curriculum change for futureproof engineering education between the teaching staff, the systems and the people who control the systems. The self-evaluation brings together the different perspectives and perceptions within the faculty and gives insight in how those affect he willingness towards and occurrence of curriculum development. This work in progress indicates how doing such a qualitative self-evaluation paves the road for transparent strategic dialogues on a holistic level about what to give attention and organize differently.
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In dit afscheidscollege kijk ik terug op de afgelopen vier jaren en schets ik een beeld van de mogelijkheden voor de toekomst. De ondertitel van het afscheidscollege luidt: Van het lectoraat ‘Disseminatie van Farmaceutische Innovaties’ naar het lectoraat ‘Innovatie van Zorgprocessen in de Farmacie’. Het betoog begint met een overzicht van de ontwikkelingen in de (farmaceutische) zorg sinds de start van ons lectoraat (Hoofdstuk 2, Van waar komen we?). Daarna vat ik samen wat we zelf hebben gepresteerd (Hoofdstuk 3, Wat hebben we bereikt?). In hoofdstuk 4 werp ik een blik op de toekomst (Waar gaan we heen?). En ik kan het niet laten ook nog een paar gedachten te formuleren over hoe we die toekomst vorm kunnen geven (Hoofdstuk 5: Hoe gaan we erheen?). Een samenvatting staat in hoofdstuk 6 en ik eindig met een kort dankwoord in hoofdstuk 7.
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