This graduation research presents findings on how the start-up organisation BimBimBikes can overcome its current difficulties with the acquisition of new German customers. Although this research uses the start-up company as a basis for the investigation, it might be applied to similar businesses that …

This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to analyse emergence and the development of planned knowledge locations in cities (science and technology parks, creative factories, knowledge hubs, etc.). It argues that the study and the practice of developing these precincts can benefit from explicitly …

This is the closing chapter of the volume on the popular music studies in The Netherlands and Belgium (The Low Countries), which is part of the IASPM-book series Made in... . This chapter focuses on the influence of Dutch and Belgian popular music across the world. Filled with sometimes surprising examples …

ABSTRACT The idea of acquiring Computational Thinking Skills gained recent interest by institutions and companies as part of the core competencies shaping the 21st-century. Due to existing stereotypes and gender roles in technical related fields, research has been carried out in how to best excite kids …

In this paper we explain why Axiomatic design has not been applied in large system of systems information technology architectures in health care organizations in the Netherlands. We have found in extensive case studies of IT systems that the Independence axiom could not be found in the existing Information …

Over the last decade, social media platforms have transformed the hotel industry. Companies such as Facebook and Tripadvisor have changed how hotels attract and communicate with (potential) customers. The Paleis Hotel is a boutique hotel with 20 rooms situated in the city centre of The Hague. Currently, …

Het beheer van grote hoeveelheden documenten vormt een steeds grotere uitdaging voor organisaties. Of het nu gaat om bestaande of nieuwe informatiesystemen, lokaal of in de cloud, informatiemanagers stellen zich de vraag welke mogelijkheden er zijn om de toegankelijkheid en vindbaarheid van de informatie …

Spreker op dit onderwijscongres over de rol van de docent De snelle veranderingen in de maatschappij hebben grote impact op het onderwijs en de toekomst van het leren. De komende generaties lopen aan tegen de grenzen van ons systeemdenken. •Hoe leren we ze daar uit te breken? •Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat …

De wereld om ons heen verandert continu in een hoog tempo. Dus vraagt ook de steeds complexer wordende onderwijsomgeving om continue veranderingen. In deze nieuwe context dienen ook docenten een nieuwe rol vervullen. Zijn er barrières die we moeten overwinnen om deze nieuwe rollen aan te laten sluiten …

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York Video is increasingly used as an instructional tool. It is therefore becoming more important to improve learning of students from video. We investigated whether student learning effects are influenced through an instruction about other viewing behaviours, …