Toward Accelerating Sustainability Transitions through Collaborative Sustainable Business Modeling: A Conceptual Approach

Sustainability transitions are purposeful and require deliberate collective action from multiple organizations, leading to the necessity to adopt new business models and redesign value networks. In both business model and sustainability transition research, the explicit activities needed to re-shape value creation and capture systems of...

Needs assessment report: D4.1

Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) are one of the EU key initiatives to support digital transfor-mation in all sectors. SmartAgriHubs focuses on DIHs in the agrifood sector. However, DIHs are emerging in the regions without a clear strategy nor organized connections within a network or with the agrifood sector. This lack of contact with end users...

Accelerating Adoption of Precision Dairy Farming through Digital Innovation Hubs

Whereas ICT-related precision dairy farming (PDF) applications are advancing, the actual adoption thereof in practice does not always reflect their promising added value (Weerdt, van der, et al., 2017). That is not surprising, as adoption is an abstract concept, hard to grasp, let alone influence. But focusing on the supply-side of PDF...

The value of safety and safety as a value

The research presented in this document analyzes how safety values are defined and used in practice, in particular by managers, and how they affect employers’ and employees’ decisions and behaviour at work. The work comprises three complementary activities: a literature review on the value of safety and safety as a value, focusing on the moral,...

Constructing a multi-sided business model for a smart horizontal IoT service platform

In order to realize a viable business ecosystem in the Internet of Things (IoT), we investigated how a smart horizontal IoT service platform can bring value and economies of scale to all required ecosystem stakeholders. By means of an example application domain case, this paper constructs a multi-sided business model illustrating how such viable...

A value case methodology to enable a transition towards generative health management a case study from the Netherlands

Purpose – Health is a main resource for human functioning. Embedding generative health management within organisations, therefore, is useful for health and productivity reasons. Generative health management requires a change in the thinking and actions of all stakeholders, and should be regarded as a system transition that may be supported by a...

Evaluation tool chain - Business Modeling: ITS Test Beds project Deliverable 3.2.3

Adaptive Conjoint Analysis as individual preference assessment tool: Feasibility through the internet and reliability of preferences

Objective: Patient values are not routinely assessed in clinical practice. Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA) is increasingly applied in studies assessing treatment preferences, and could provide a means to routinely assess individual patients' treatment preferences. Methods: An ACA-questionnaire was administered three times (7-10 days apart) to...