Strategic foresight research often overlooks SMEs, leaving them vulnerable in a changing landscape. While scenario planning is valuable for SMEs, literature notes barriers. Three case studies examined these barriers, revealing challenges. Despite challenges, our workshop on structured scenario planning …

Over the past decades, journalism schools and journalism training programmes have been trying to keep up with the constant technological and societal developments. Numerous studies have been done about what knowledge and skills should be taught and several on how they should be taught, to be more adaptive …

Lezing + paneldiscussie voor publieke sector RO; deelname als panellid. Forum, Rabozaal, Groningen

In the Netherlands, the position of the city center is transitioning from a place-to-buy to a place-to-be. This means that the city center is changing from a place where people come to shop, to a place where people come to meet and experience. This shift causes Municipalities to reevaluate the position …

Playfulness intertwined with city-related themes, such as participatory planning and civic media are becoming more popular. In the last ten years, game designers have taken up the theme of play in relation to the urban environment. In this paper, we present a conceptual mapping of “urban play,” through …

Introduction The research group of the Hogeschool Zeeland has set up a consortium to develop new knowledge about cascading effects in critical infrastructure in the event of a flooding; as well as measures in pro- action, response and recovery phases to help the involved professionals increase the resilience …

The deployment of naval vessels requires much specialised knowledge. Firstly, about the mission: what goals have to be reached (the command-aim), and what has to be done to achieve this aim? Secondly, about the situation: how can sufficient information about the situation be gathered to determine whether …

Resilience is held as a promising concept to produce a paradigm shift from traditional flood control to an integration of flood risk management and spatial planning. Central ideas to the resilience narrative are that nothing is certain except uncertainty itself' and adaptability' is key to governing …

De aanleiding voor dit onderzoek is de verhoogde werkdruk en een niet naar wens functionerende werkomgeving, veroorzaakt door de migratie naar Windows 7 bij het Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (UMCU). Het gevolg hiervan is dat de Directie Informatie Technologie (DIT) veel capaciteit besteedt aan …

The general aim of this research project has been to examine this phenomenon of tourism flow switching and consider the factors driving the geopolitical instability that can compromise destination security. On a more practical level the research has also examined what the reactions of Dutch tourists …