This advisory report is written for Rowans Leisure Centre in North London. The leisure centre is well-known in (North) London and offers their customers different types of entertainment, such as bowling and karaoke. They recently added the option to hire a suite at the centre. The request to Sense Advertising …

Rapport, tot stand gekomen naar aanleiding van een projectopdracht tijdens de specialisatie ‘Information and Innovation’. De specialisatie richt zich op het onderwerp open data.Het onderzoek is gedaan in opdracht van de Gemeente Groningen, met als hoofdvraag: hoe kan de gemeente Groningen leren van de …

This report examines the opportunities for the European Musical Instruments Guild (EMIG) to enter the market. The central question is made after consultation with the assignment provider and founder of EMIG, Dmitry Badiarov. The central question is as follows: "What are the possibilities for EMIG to …

Presentatie in het kader van het project Opening Up.Opening Up is bedoeld om een betere dienstverlening aan burgers en bedrijven te zoeken door de inzet van social media en open data. Het Opening Up-project startte in oktober 2011 en duurt drie jaar. De Hanzehogeschool Groningen is een belangrijke partner …

This paper addresses one important mechanism through which the EU tries to improve the operation of its labour markets: the opening up of national borders for free worker movement within the EU. Free worker movement is a fundamental EU right; but EU enlargement begged the question of how and when to …

Developing European transnational clusters is a cornerstone in current EU-policies towards a sustainable competitive and open European economy. Within this conceptual paper relates these objectives to new developments in the application of network IT or, in popular terms, the rise of social media. The …

IT-based networking trends such as the rise of social media, crowd sourcing, open innovation, and cloud computing enable a profoundly different way of working and collaborating that challenges significantly traditional approaches of companies towards governance, i.e. the mechanisms a company employs …

In this thesis, the luxury coffee company Starbucks has been well described, although many aspects of the company have been left out of consideration in order to keep it relevant and clear. However, while Starbucks has not entered the Netherlands yet, there is much more for the Dutch to learn about the …