Barend Frans is sinds 1987 werkzaam bij de politie. In samenwerking met publieke en private partners zet hij zich sinds 1997 in voor een digitaal veiliger Nederland. Zo maakt hij Nederlanders meer bewust van hun digitale veiligheid en hoe zij zich beter kunnen beschermen op het internet. Samen met …

In large organizations, innovation activities often take place in separate departments, centers, or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they are never implemented …

Companies are organised to fulfil two distinctive functions: efficient and resilient exploitation of current business and parallel exploration of new possibilities. For the latter, companies require strong organisational infrastructure such as team compositions and functional structures to ensure exploration …

In our current and turbulent times, it is clear that some sort of organisational agility, in which-ever way achieved, is necessary to survive and thrive as an organisation. The question is how to achieve such manoeuvrability. We propose the use of design (thinking), with a focus on prototyping to iteratively …

In large organisations, innovation activities are often located in separate departments, centres or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they never cross the valley …

The urgency to innovate for organisational survival has become increasingly recognized, with the result that innovation has conquered a position high on the management agenda. However, the unfamiliarity around innovation pose a challenge for innovation management. No unique solution exists to building …

In order to become more innovative, corporations are increasingly turning to design­-driven innovation capabilities. These capabilities are dynamic: they influence the way companies run their business and how companies create, capture and deliver value. Building design capabilities has proven difficult, …

Samenvatting Dit onderzoek komt voort uit mijn interesse voor de beroepspraktijk van oudere beeldend kunstenaars. Kan deze beroepspraktijk ook als een vorm van levenslang en levensbreed leren beschouwd worden? Aangezien in de artistieke praktijk en in het leerproces van de kunstenaar het ‘zelf’ een prominente …

The Global Positioning System has long been a great tool for militaryand, of course, civilianactivities, but the militarys heavy reliance on it also makes it a likely target. Due to the character of the satellite navigation system, security vulnerabilities exist that threaten information continuity and …

Aims: This paper aims to explore the effect of the social network based intervention Powerful Together with Diabetes on diabetes self-management among socioeconomically deprived patients. This 10-month group intervention targeting patients and significant others aimed to improve self-management by stimulating …