Business cases for anti-soiling coatings in the Netherlands

This paper focuses on the application of coatings with combined anti-soiling and anti-reflective properties in the Netherlands. The main goal is to provide different perspectives and case studies for the application of this new technology in a fast-growing market, identifying the best scenarios from the user’s and investor’s point of view. A...

Zero emission city logistics: Current practices in freight electromobility and feasibility in the near future

This paper examines the feasibility of using electric powered vehicles in urban freight transport from a carrier’s perspective, including their attitudes towards electric freight vehicles (EFVs) and all relevant elements affecting this business case, such as: technological features, existing restricting and promoting policies, financial and non...

Business case for smart homes

The application of home automation in “smart homes” has been successful from a technological point of view. In practice, however, few projects seem able to survive after the initial financing period has ended, failing to establish a positive business case. This chapter addresses why the positive business case for smart homes is hard to establish...

A negotiation game to support inter-organizational business case development

Nowadays, an increasing number of organizations in the supply chain are involved in business collaborations. The success of such collaborations is, among others, highly dependent on joint investment in IT system implementations. In this paper we will discuss how business cases can be used to determine the costs and benefits of such investments...

From productivity strategy to business case: Choosing a cost-effective intervention for workplace innovations

The article presents an approach to developing cost-effective interventions for workplace innovations for entrepreneurs who seek to enhance the productivity of an organization. The business case method is used to extend the Q4-model of productivity, which supports developing a productivity strategy in order to choose a cost-effective...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Psychosocial Risk Management

Roadmap to tracking based business and intelligent products

Item-centric tracking is an opportunity to increase visibility and control in different operations of a company. The economical feasibility of item-centric tracking is based on recent technological developments for monitoring the material flow on the item-level instead of the material type-level. It enables companies to track and trace assets...

The occupational safety and health scorecard – a business case example for strategic management

Objective: Human resources and health issues are crucial in terms of corporate competitiveness. However, systematic, continuous and strategically aligned occupational safety and health (OSH) management is scarcely applied in companies. One major reason for this could be the lack of generally accepted and standardised OSH control methods. Our...