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- A Model for Assessing the Impact of Electronic Procurement Forms
- This paper aims to contribute to the development of a model for assessing the direct and indirect impact of various forms of electronic procurement EP on a firm's integral purchasing (-related) costs. The model builds on existing classifications of purchasing costs and benefits and is illustrated by means of a...
- White papers 2001-03-19
- Creating A Knowledge Productive Work Environment
- In nowadays knowledge economy, the work environment is becoming the primary source for learning. This implies a fundamental change in the relationship between working and learning. We were used to view learning as a preparation for work: learning preceded working. Now, learning can be viewed as a direct consequence of...
- White papers 2007-01-19
- Methods For Identifying Learning Processes In Innovation Processes
- This paper aims to trace methods that are suitable for identifying, describing and enhancing learning processes in teams that focus on improvement and innovation. An exploratory literature review resulted in three perspectives to identify learning processes: The first perspective offers methods that stimulate reflection by looking back upon the learning...
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Design Principles For Knowledge Productivity
- This paper explores the learning processes that contribute to knowledge productivity: the improvement and innovation of an organisation's procedures, products and services, based on the development and application of new knowledge. Based on reconstruction and parallel case studies in more than 20 innovation practices, we formulated eleven design principles. Those...
- White papers 2006-05-22
- An Analysis Of Product Development
- The concept of a system is a crucial tool in understanding system development methods. Unfortunately, different authors use different definitions of this concept. Some view a system as an organized collection of components, others view the concept of a state space as central to the system concept and still others...
- White papers 2006-06-09
- Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship In Networks
- The process of invention, innovation and diffusion of new technologies is a process that unfolds within established economic structures, but at the same time changes them: a phenomenon known as structural readjustment. The development and introduction of new technologies offers opportunities for knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is defined as a...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Applying Revenue Management To Agent-Based Transportation Planning
- This paper explains a multi-company, less-than-truckload, dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems VRP based on the concept of multi-agent systems. We focus on the intelligence of one vehicle agent and especially on its bidding strategy. We address the problem how to price loads that are offered in real-time such that available capacity...
- White papers 2006-05-19
- Designing Transaction Platforms For IT-Based Dynamic Sourcing
- Developments in information and other communication technologies have led to more insourcing and outsourcing opportunities for organizations. The traditional model of isolated IT outsourcing by a single organization is being eclipsed by a new trend of sourcing through interorganizational networks and IT-based virtual organizations. Dynamic sourcing is becoming a core...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Requirements Engineering for Cross-organizational ERP Implementation: Undocumented Assumptions and Potential Mismatches
- A key issue in Requirements Engineering RE for Enterprise Resource Planning ERP in a cross organizational context is how to find a match between the ERP application modules and requirements for business coordination. This paper explains a conceptual framework for analyzing coordination requirements in inter-organizational ERP projects from a coordination...
- White papers 2005-06-03
- Analyzing Requirements of Knowledge Management Systems With the Support of Agent Organizations
- Knowledge Management KM is considered by many organizations a key aspect in sustaining competitive advantage. Designing appropriate KM processes and enabling technology face considerable risks, as they must be shaped to respond to specific needs of the organizational environment. Thus, many systems are abandoned or fall into disuse because of...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- A Hierarchical Approach to Multi-Project Planning Under Uncertainty
- One survey several viewpoints on the management of the planning complexity of multi-project organisations under uncertainty. A positioning framework is proposed to distinguish between different types of project-driven organisations, which is meant to aid project management in the choice between the various existing planning approaches. One discusses the current state...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Finding In-House Knowledge: Patterns and Implications
- This paper presents the results of two studies aimed at understanding how employees find knowledge available in their organisation. Data about knowledge awareness and knowledge finding strategies were collected in two research organisations using interviews and on-line questionnaires. The results of the two studies demonstrate interesting patterns. First, it was...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Providing Knowledge Management Support to Communities of Practice Through Agent-Oriented Analysis
- This paper concerns the need for methodological support in providing Knowledge Management KM IT solutions. Due to the distributed nature of knowledge, the support of KM often requires complex, distributed IT systems, which are inherently difficult to design. The paper proposes an agent-oriented methodology based on Tropos for the analysis...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Influential Aspects of Relevance for a CRM System in a B2B Environment
- Customer Relationship Management CRM can lead to greater profits. However even as many as 55% of all CRM projects do not produce results. This research tries to help increase success rates. For the research question a part of the USIT model by Schuring and Spil has been used. The model...
- White papers 2005-06-08
- A Web-Based Instrument To Measure The Value Of Using e-Learning
- Many managers of institutions of higher education have to make decisions about investing resources in e-learning. A project group has developed a Web-based instrument that has been evaluated in a series of pilot studies and consequently adapted. The major idea behind the instrument is the assumption that decisions are based...
- White papers 2005-04-03
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- Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, MD, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer for Immunicon Corporation, Appointed Chair of Medical Cell Biophysics at University of Twente in the Netherlands
- HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. -- Immunicon Corporation (NASDAQ-GM:IMMC) announced today that Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, MD, Ph.D., its Senior Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer, has been appointed Chair of Medical Cell Biophysics in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands....
- Research articles 2007-03-27
- IsoTis, Twente University set up orthobiology research group
- IsoTis and the University of Twente are joining forces in the field of orthobiology research. IsoTis is transferring its in-house orthobiology research group to the University, where it will become part of the Biomedical Technology Institute BMTI run by Professor Jan Feijen. The scientific founders of IsoTis...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
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- Sumana Datta joined Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals Business Unit as a research scientist in 1992. She held various positions before becoming analytical coordinator worldwide of rubber chemicals at Akzo Nobel. Datta received her doctorate in heterocyclic chemistry from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Calcutta and was...
- Research articles 2003-03-10
- The University of Twente Purchases 450 Licenses of SolidWorks Software to Meet Student Demand For 3D CAD
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- Research articles 2002-08-19
- Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete
- THE HAGUE AFP — A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Experts from the University of Twente developed and tested the concrete...
- Research articles 2008-08-06
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