Management Science and Innovation
Operations Management
Managing Technology Risks in R&D Project Management
What are the advantages and disadvantages of parallelizing
R&D activities and simultaneously pursuing alternative technologies, when
investments have to be made at risk? (published in IIE Transactions, recipient of the ...more
Achieving earlier and more accurate estimates for agile CMMI projects
Agile development practices are increasingly being applied to large scale projects. How can we predict and forecast how long and how much a complex agile development will cost? (SEI SEPG 2008)
Coordination problems in Complex Product Development
What is the role of product architecture and
organizational communication in complex product development efforts? What is
the impact of misalignment between complex product architecture and
organizational structure on ...more
Globally Distributed Product Design and Performance
How to design a complex product
globally? How to manage complex product
architecture? What is the most efficient way of distributing complex subsystems
across global design centres? How to achieve both NPD efficiency and high
quality at the same time in ...more
New Technology and Service Development
What is the effect of development of new
technologies and services on current products in the telecommunications
industry? How does the relationship between technology/service developers and
client firms affect product and service performance? How does a ...more
Outsourcing Decisions in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Firms
What are the key tradeoffs in outsourcing and
contract-manufacturing decisions in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms?
Which operational and organisational capabilities affect....more
Manufacturing decisions and the commercialization of disruptive technologies
Manufacturing
expertise is often in short supply in novel industries. What are the implications
for business development? (Funded through TSB Regenerative Medicine
program).
General Management
Richard’s work
‘Introduction to Management’ is now in its fourth edition; and a re-worked
version is to be published in the Autumn of 2011 (published by Palgrave
Macmillan).
Contemporary Strategic Management
A crystallisation of much of the work carried out over the previous ten years, and a definition of one aspect of management in practice (published by Palgrave Macmillan).
Measuring Time using Dynamic project control
How can a project manager predict the final duration of a project in progress using performance information? A combination of baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project ...more
Crew Scheduling at Brussels Airlines
An optimisation tool to support crew scheduling decisions for a Belgian Airline company (published in Interfaces and European Journal of Operational Research)
Westerscheldetunnel
What is the main objective during the construction of a project baseline schedule for the Westerscheldetunnel constructed at the Netherlands? Minimizing idle time of an expensive freezing machine! (published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management)
Impact of net present value optimisation at the Flemish water production company
What is the impact of optimising the net present value of a capacity extension project at a Belgian water purification company? (published in the Management Science and Project Management Journal)
Analyzing the organizational structure and rostering process in hospitals
The
efficient and effective management of nursing personnel is of critical
importance in a hospital’s environment comprising a vast share of the hospital’s
operational costs. The nurse...more
Project Leader: Mario Vanhoucke
Analysis of errors in management accounting systems
A simulation model to analyse the impact of errors in cost accounting systems sheds light on the need for costing system refinement. The efforts of these refinements should be focused on such cases, where ...more
General Management
Richard’s work ‘Introduction to Management’ is now in its fourth edition; and a re-worked version is to be published in the Autumn of 2011 (published by Palgrave Macmillan).
Contemporary Strategic Management
A crystallisation of much of the work carried out over the previous ten years, and a definition of one aspect of management in practice (published by Palgrave Macmillan).
Performance and performance management
A crystallisation, analysis and evaluation of the strengths and shortcomings of how managers and organisations assess and evaluate their own performance for success and otherwise (published by Pearson)
Structure of Urban Movements in Large Cities
How people move around mega cities? What are the patterns of such complex systems as to guide planners for policy making and managers for business development? (published in PLoS ONE)
Evolution of Large Technical Networks
Is there a common pattern of growth in technical networks? This paper examines this important question to managers, engineers and policy makers by looking at the major subway network systems.
Delay Announcements in Service Systems
People often wait before being served, and their waiting times can be long. To alleviate the uncertainty typically associated with the waiting experience, service system managers often make announcements ...more
Forecasting Arrivals to Call Centers
Call center managers need reliable ways of forecasting future arrivals (demand) to their systems. In a real-life call center, arrival streams to different call types (e.g., tech support or sales) may be dependent. For example, a surge in arrivals for a particular queue ...more
Necessity of Others – Mother of Invention
It has long been considered as fact that creativity is most evident when people are self-motivated (intrinsically) in their work. Looking at data from two organizations and supported by a laboratory study, we found that intrinsic motivation was much more effective when linked with a focus on others...more
Idea Flows – Mapping Innovation Identification
Do the CEO and the hourly employee judge creativity the same way? If not, corporate innovation programs asking employees to be creative may be doomed to failure. This research attempts to map how employees evaluate potentially creative new ideas within existing companies....more
Identifying Creativity at a Distance Contract Design for R&D Licensing
Creativity is a balance of novelty and usefulness. Yet how we evaluate ideas changes depending on how near or far we feel from the particular context. When people are close to a problem both novelty and usefulness of the solution are relevant....more
Maximizing Employee Creativity
How can we encourage employees to maximize their effort and creativity in working on problems? Perspective-taking is one way to encourage employees to focus on end users in solving problems...more
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