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Vendor lock-in!

'Lock-in of corporate customers and consumers', zo beoordeelde Zhou (2006) het businessmodel van Microsoft dat ten grondslag ligt aan de verkoop van het webserviceplatform .NET.

Towards 100% Renewable Energy: Democratizing the Energy Market with Energy Commons

Intern toezicht verdient een luisterend oor

Het UWV verzamelde illegaal digitale gegevens van uitkeringsgerechtigden door zonder toestemming cookies op hun computers te plaatsen. De functionaris gegevensbescherming heeft gewaarschuwd, maar is genegeerd. Het is de hoogste tijd dat in de opleidingen en functioneringsgesprekken van leiders en managers ook hun vermogen tot werkelijk luisteren wordt beoordeeld.

De gebouwde omgeving in de 21e eeuw: informatiemanagement als nieuw primair proces

In: ‘Onderzoekend op weg’, een essaybundel over opdrachten voor de toekomst, geschreven door de lectoren van De Haagse Hogeschool t.g.v. het afscheid van Rob Brons als collegevoorzitter, januari 2014 In dit essay worden nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de sector van de gebouwde omgeving beschreven. Door de crisis zagen bedrijven zich genoodzaakt te innoveren teneinde te overleven. In deze bijdrage worden de strategieën die zij daartoe gevolgd hebben, in vogelvlucht beschreven. Vervolgens wordt gekeken naar de consequenties van de veranderingen in de sector voor het onderwijs en het onderzoek aan de hogeschool. Deze bijdrage is gebaseerd op onderzoek zoals beschreven in het boek Samen Sneller Slimmer en maakt ter illustratie gebruik van aldaar weergegeven interviews.

The origins of SWOT analysis

The origins of SWOT analysis have been enigmatic, until now. With archival research, interviews with experts and a review of the available literature, this paper reconstructs the original SOFT/SWOT approach, and draws potential implications. During a firm's planning process, all managers are asked to write down 8 to 10 key planning issues faced by their units. Each manager grades, with evidence, these issues as either safeguarding the Satisfactory; opening Opportunities; fixing Faults; or thwarting Threats: hence SOFT (which is later merely relabeled to Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, or SWOT). Subgroups of managers have several dialogues about these issues with the instruction to include the needs and expectations of all the firm's stakeholders. Their developed resolutions or proposals become input for the executive planning committee to articulate corporate purpose(s) and strategies. SWOT's originator, Robert Franklin Stewart, emphasized the crucial role that creativity plays in the planning process. The SOFT/SWOT approach curbs mere top-down strategy making to the benefit of strategy alignment and implementation; Introducing digital means to parts of SWOT's original participative, long-range planning process, as suggested herein, could boost the effectiveness of organizational strategizing, communication and learning. Archival research into the deployment of SOFT/SWOT in practice is needed.

Establishing Auditing Intermediaries to Verify Platform Data

What you don’t know can’t hurt you: this seems to be the current approach for responding to disinformation by public regulators across the world. Nobody is able to say with any degree of certainty what is actually going on. This is in no small part because, at present, public regulators don’t have the slightest idea how disinformation actually works in practice. We believe that there are very good reasons for the current state of affairs, which stem from a lack of verifiable data available to public institutions. If an election board or a media regulator wants to know what types of digital content are being shared in their jurisdiction, they have no effective mechanisms for finding this data or ensuring its veracity. While there are many other reasons why governments would want access to this kind of data, the phenomenon of disinformation provides a particularly salient example of the consequences of a lack of access to this data for ensuring free and fair elections and informed democratic participation. This chapter will provide an overview of the main aspects of the problems associated with basing public regulatory decisions on unverified data, before sketching out some ideas of what a solution might look like. In order to do this, the chapter develops the concept of auditing intermediaries. After discussing which problems the concept of auditing intermediaries is designed to solve, it then discusses some of the main challenges associated with access to data, potential misuse of intermediaries, and the general lack of standards for the provision of data by large online platforms. In conclusion, the chapter suggests that there is an urgent need for an auditing mechanism to ensure the accuracy of transparency data provided by large online platform providers about the content on their services. Transparency data that have been audited would be considered verified data in this context. Without such a transparency verification mechanism, existing public debate is based merely on a whim, and digital dominance is likely to only become more pronounced.