The current way of organizing education is not tenable in the coming decade. We need to address how we teach, how we organize schools, how we increase the effectiveness of learning, how we construct classrooms, and how we deploy new technologies. Lean management philosophy has been successfully applied …

In dit onderzoek staat het geweldsgebruik door de politie centraal. De politie heeft geweldsmonopolie, dit houdt in dat zij het recht hebben om geweld te gebruiken om ervoor te zorgen dat de rechtsorde gewaarborgd wordt. Indien een burger te maken heeft gehad met politiegeweld en hij is van mening dat …

Lean manufacturing has proven to be an efficient means improving mass production. Recently, Lean is of increasing interest for high-variety, low-volume production environments. However, little research has been done in this field. Yet, this contribution provides a systematic literature analysis in conjunction …

Lean Six Sigma is applied in a wide range of economic domains ranging from industry to services to healthcare. These are all domains that have markedly different structures. Recently a set of papers has appeared indicating that the successes in applying Lean Six Sigma to new domains such as government, …

Presentation given june 2012 at the International QRM Conference.

Op 13 april 2010 houdt Jan Marijnissen de 9e Thorbeckelezing in Den Haag. Hij is de directe opvolger van Hans Wiegel die als laatste in 2008 een lezing hield. De titel van de lezing van Marijnissen luidt:"Dimmen of Gasgeven: Hoe de parlementaire democratie overeind houden in moeilijke tijden?"

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is increasingly used as decision support method in concurrent innovation projects with multiple stakeholders. AHP is welcomed for supporting procedural justice, which regards transparency and fairness of decisions. This is useful for policy settings, with diverse …