Pascal Ravesteyn

The Paradox of More Flexibility in Education: Better Control of Educational Activities as a Prerequisite for More Flexibility

The paradigm shift towards competency-based education in the Netherlands has a logical counterpart: the need for more flexibility in the curricula. After all, in competency-based education it is recognized that learning not only takes place in designated places (school, university), but may happen every time when the learner is confronted with a challenge. This observation leads to the necessity to incorporate the learning outcomes of formal and informal education in one curriculum. As a result, the educational process becomes more complex and must be better structured to control the individual learning outcomes.

How Do BPM Maturity and Innovation Relate in Large Companies

Due to the increasing level of globalization competition between companies is growing. As a consequence, large companies need to enhance both their productivity and innovation simultaneously. Where business process management methods, such as BPM maturity models, are typically seen as a means to improve performance and productivity, their impact on innovation is unclear. Therefor the objective of this study is to determine what the relation is between business process management maturity and Innovation in large companies. A research model is developed based on existing theory on innovation adoption, innovation value chain and BPM maturity models. Subsequently a questionnaire is constructed to gather data at four large European organizations. Based on both a correlation and regression analysis of the data provided by 143 respondents a moderate relation between the overall Innovation construct and BPM maturity is shown. The proportion of variance in innovation that can be explained by BPM maturity amounts to 22,4%. This means that investing in BPM capabilities is not enough to increase the innovation capability of an organization.

Transforming Clinical Practice Guideline Usage Through the Use of a Clinical Decision Support System: An explorative study at the University Medical Centre Utrecht

Medical treatments require a lot of knowledge and skills. To safeguard the quality of healthcare in general, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are written. Different studies show that the quality of healthcare improves by using CPGs. Based on the advancements in IT, a CPG could best be supported through the use of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS). In this paper, we seek to transform the use of several CPGs with regards to anti-clotting medicine and treatments through the utilization of a CDSS at the University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands. Data analysis shows that many of the included CPGs overlap and that the utilization of a CDSS for the determination of anti-clotting medicine and treatments could result in more effective and efficient decision making. Additionally, during the validation of the CDSS, we derived the attitude of the stakeholders towards the use of a CPG in a pilot study comprising a CDSS and identified several success factors that should be taken into account when designing, validating, and implementing CPGs into CDSS.