The term crowdsourcing was introduced by Jeff Howe (2006). It is the act of a company or organisation to take a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined, and usually large, network of people in the form of an open call. As communication tools to organize work have become …

BACKGROUND: The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply and demand of medical services. However, little is known about this new workforce …

A refugee is a person who, for reasons of persecution (or fear hereto), is forced to leave his home and is outside of his home country. Although the great majority of the world's refugees find themselves in third world countries, also wealthier countries are dealing with considerable numbers of migrants …

The focus of my research is how Bartholomeus Guesthouse (BG), founded in 1407 by Willem van Abcoude, has organized care over more than 600 years for the elderly and elderly sick people in the Centre of Utrecht. After the reorganization of 1817 -by Royal Law- the 7 (9) Guesthouses were merged to one …

"The World of the [open] innovator" described the background of the revolution we are in in innovation and what the consequences are for innovation, changing towards design driven open innovation. We reframed innovation to meet new needs and values of companies and organizations in our work field. We …

Ieder jaar komen ERASMUS- studenten uit het buitenland naar Nederland om een stage te lopen bij de opleiding fysiotherapie van de Hogeschool Zuyd te Heerlen. Om hun eerste contact te vereenvoudigen, maar ook om geïnteresseerde studenten te informeren, is een uitgebreide informatievoorziening in het Engels …

Hostmanship verscheen oorspronkelijk in 2002 en groeide uit tot een fenomeen dat de wereld aan het veroveren is. De ervaringen die zijn opgedaan sinds het verschijnen van het boek Hostmanship - the art of making people feel welcome zijn gebundeld in de herziene versie die begin aprilten doop werd gehouden …