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Alan Hocknell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • High-Performance Driver design: benefits for all golfers
    Journal of sports sciences, 2002
    Co-Authors: Alan Hocknell
    Abstract:

    Here I report experimental data to show the variation in impact efficiency between a Driver and a standard golf ball with both impact speed and impact location. The relationship of these data to the Driver impact characteristics of the golfing population is presented as a key factor in the face design trade-offbetween increased Driver Performance and Driver fatigue life. Based on these Driver impact characteristics, a design principle is introduced that segments the golfing population based on Driver loft, to deliver the benefit of increased impact efficiency to all golfers and particularly to average golfers. Example Drivers created using this design principle are then used to generate experimental evidence that counters the widely held belief that gains in impact efficiency offered by high-Performance Drivers benefit only those golfers capable of generating the highest speed impacts close to the face centre.

Heljä Franssila - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Mobile Email as a Business and Personal Performance Driver in Everyday Knowledge Work—A Multi-method Case Study
    Knowledge and Process Management, 2013
    Co-Authors: Heljä Franssila
    Abstract:

    Mobile email is one of the first widely accepted mobile business application in enterprise settings that can be used by mobile phones. In this paper, a study about the role of mobile email as a Performance Driver in the everyday knowledge work of different business users in multinational information and communications technology enterprise is presented. Everyday communication task contents and volumes of knowledge workers were identified and analyzed by interviews, communication task diaries, and survey to understand the communication task goals and patterns of typical knowledge workers in enterprise settings. The study reveals that the biggest share of the knowledge workers' overall business-related communication (regardless of the communication tool and application) is centered on the internal communication tasks, and respectively, mobile email is used most intensively in the internal communications tasks. When comparing the relative importance of mobile email as communication solution for business users in different work positions, the study shows that mobile email is the particularly important everyday Performance Driver for managers who travel a lot and whose communication volumes in overall are extensive because of their role as central activity progress enabler for other work communities. Intensive users of mobile email gain more personal benefits than non-intensive users. The importance of mobile email is only moderate in the everyday business communication of those who are not in managerial positions. This implicates that mobile email as a business Performance Driver should be understood and evaluated by corresponding it with the internal process Performance objectives and measures. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • MindTrek - Mobile email as a business Performance Driver in everyday knowledge work: a diary and interview study
    Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era on - MindTrek '09, 2009
    Co-Authors: Heljä Franssila
    Abstract:

    Mobile email is one of the first widely accepted mobile business applications in enterprise settings that can be used by mobile phone. In this paper a study about the role of mobile email as a Performance Driver in the everyday knowledge work of different business users in multinational ICT enterprise is presented. Everyday communication task contents and volumes of knowledge workers were identified and analyzed by interviews and communication diaries to understand the communication goals and patterns of typical knowledge workers in enterprise settings. The study reveals that the biggest share of the knowledge workers' overall business-related communication (regardless of the communication tool and application) is centered on the internal communication tasks, and respectively mobile email is used most intensively in the internal communications tasks. When comparing the relative importance of mobile email as communication solution for business users in different work positions, the study shows that mobile email is most important everyday Performance Driver for managers who travel a lot and whose communication volumes in overall are extensive. The importance of mobile email is only moderate in the everyday business communication of those who are not in managerial positions. This implicate, that mobile email as a business Performance and productivity Driver should be understood and evaluated by corresponding it with the internal process Performance objectives and measures.

Thomas Wuestefeld - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The importance of brand heritage as a key Performance Driver in marketing management
    Journal of Brand Management, 2011
    Co-Authors: Klaus-peter Wiedmann, Nadine Hennigs, Steffen Schmidt, Thomas Wuestefeld
    Abstract:

    Corporate branding plays a crucial role in building a sustainable bond between the branded company and its customers. Because consumers’ corporate brand image develops over time, previous experience with a company and its products/services are of particular importance. During recent years, the question of brand heritage and how past, present and future merge to create corporate brand image has gained growing interest in both marketing research and managerial practice. The aim of the present study is to probe the importance of brand heritage on consumer brand image construction based on attitudinal components of brand strength. Using a conceptual model focusing on the antecedents of brand heritage and its effects on attitudinal components of brand strength, we present the methodology and the results of our empirical study based on a PLS-PM approach. The results support the assumption that consumers search for authentic brands with genuine history in an increasingly global and dynamic marketplace.

Carina Seidel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • strategic insight in the capacity efficiency with hospital data
    2015
    Co-Authors: Carina Seidel
    Abstract:

    This research focuses on the strategic insight of operational business capacity and volume of the patient care process. The reason for this research was to generate new insights on how to monitor, report and measure the operational business capacity and volume of a hospital. The approach is problem oriented and conducted at the Radboudumc in the Netherlands. The design science research methodology from Pfeffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, and Chatterjee (2007)was used. This is an approach which focuses on the development of information systems. The objective of the solution is to gather information from the hospital systems to give insight in the operational business capacity. In the literature there was no solution found which deals with the same problem. Therefore literature study about strategy, management information systems, Balanced Scorecard, business capacity were conducted to create a theoretical concept. This results in an ideal BSC for the healthcare and indicators for the perspective; internal process. In the design and development phase the design construct was created, which represents the development from the organisation strategy to the internal process perspective. Based on the design construct the testable construct is developed which includes the measures. The indicators within the testable construct are based on the literature. Therefore interviews have been hold to gather information. The testable construct emphasises the outcome and Performance Drivers according to Kaplan and Norton (1996). For the demonstration of the testable construct a prototype in Tableau was developed, which visually presents the indicator with hospital data. The validation was conducted in two phases. The first phase was to transform the desired abstract; the testable construct, to the actual abstract; the prototype. In this phase the availability of the data was checked and the current reports were considered. The second phase was the iteration process which was used to develop the prototype. There were eleven interviews hold with ten internal experts and one external on the topic of operational business capacity and volume. During the first phase the availability of the data was a concern. There is only one Performance Driver available of a total of nine. The Performance Drivers are crucial to the construct. They report the measures and give the critical insight to determine the efficiency of the patientcare process. In the second phase the interviewees agreed that the current report holds insufficient information about the operational business capacity and volume. The experts confirmed that the testable construct identified the information which is needed to monitor the operational business capacity and volume. The Performance Drivers are identified by the experts as relevant. The prototype cannot provide strategic insight, due to the lack of data about Performance Drivers and that the strategic goals cannot (current formulation) not be direct related to the operational business capacity and volume. Yet the prototype was seen as an improvement, which gave them more information and new insights. The contribution of this research is the model on how to develop an information system (Tableau) for hospitals about the strategic insight in operational business capacity and volume. This model is applied to the Radboudumc and the measurements are validated by experts. The BSC model can be used to develop information and indicators for the other perspectives. This will need further studies to gather information. The current prototype can be used to develop targets and generate strategic goals. If the information about the realised capacity and the available capacity can be gathered, the historical data can be used to forecast the information.

  • Strategic insight in the Capacity & Efficiency with Hospital data
    2015
    Co-Authors: Carina Seidel
    Abstract:

    This research focuses on the strategic insight of operational business capacity and volume of the patient care process. The reason for this research was to generate new insights on how to monitor, report and measure the operational business capacity and volume of a hospital. The approach is problem oriented and conducted at the Radboudumc in the Netherlands. The design science research methodology from Pfeffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, and Chatterjee (2007)was used. This is an approach which focuses on the development of information systems. The objective of the solution is to gather information from the hospital systems to give insight in the operational business capacity. In the literature there was no solution found which deals with the same problem. Therefore literature study about strategy, management information systems, Balanced Scorecard, business capacity were conducted to create a theoretical concept. This results in an ideal BSC for the healthcare and indicators for the perspective; internal process. In the design and development phase the design construct was created, which represents the development from the organisation strategy to the internal process perspective. Based on the design construct the testable construct is developed which includes the measures. The indicators within the testable construct are based on the literature. Therefore interviews have been hold to gather information. The testable construct emphasises the outcome and Performance Drivers according to Kaplan and Norton (1996). For the demonstration of the testable construct a prototype in Tableau was developed, which visually presents the indicator with hospital data. The validation was conducted in two phases. The first phase was to transform the desired abstract; the testable construct, to the actual abstract; the prototype. In this phase the availability of the data was checked and the current reports were considered. The second phase was the iteration process which was used to develop the prototype. There were eleven interviews hold with ten internal experts and one external on the topic of operational business capacity and volume. During the first phase the availability of the data was a concern. There is only one Performance Driver available of a total of nine. The Performance Drivers are crucial to the construct. They report the measures and give the critical insight to determine the efficiency of the patientcare process. In the second phase the interviewees agreed that the current report holds insufficient information about the operational business capacity and volume. The experts confirmed that the testable construct identified the information which is needed to monitor the operational business capacity and volume. The Performance Drivers are identified by the experts as relevant. The prototype cannot provide strategic insight, due to the lack of data about Performance Drivers and that the strategic goals cannot (current formulation) not be direct related to the operational business capacity and volume. Yet the prototype was seen as an improvement, which gave them more information and new insights. The contribution of this research is the model on how to develop an information system (Tableau) for hospitals about the strategic insight in operational business capacity and volume. This model is applied to the Radboudumc and the measurements are validated by experts. The BSC model can be used to develop information and indicators for the other perspectives. This will need further studies to gather information. The current prototype can be used to develop targets and generate strategic goals. If the information about the realised capacity and the available capacity can be gathered, the historical data can be used to forecast the information.

Klaus-peter Wiedmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The importance of brand heritage as a key Performance Driver in marketing management
    Journal of Brand Management, 2011
    Co-Authors: Klaus-peter Wiedmann, Nadine Hennigs, Steffen Schmidt, Thomas Wuestefeld
    Abstract:

    Corporate branding plays a crucial role in building a sustainable bond between the branded company and its customers. Because consumers’ corporate brand image develops over time, previous experience with a company and its products/services are of particular importance. During recent years, the question of brand heritage and how past, present and future merge to create corporate brand image has gained growing interest in both marketing research and managerial practice. The aim of the present study is to probe the importance of brand heritage on consumer brand image construction based on attitudinal components of brand strength. Using a conceptual model focusing on the antecedents of brand heritage and its effects on attitudinal components of brand strength, we present the methodology and the results of our empirical study based on a PLS-PM approach. The results support the assumption that consumers search for authentic brands with genuine history in an increasingly global and dynamic marketplace.