Community Service Engineering is a curriculum of the faculties of Engineering Technology and Engineering Science KU Leuven in collaboration with Thomas More

Week 20: Implementation IQ

13 Feb – 14 Feb – Face-to-face in Geel

TOPIC: Implementation IQ

Face-to-face meetingThis week we welcome you in Geel

Friday 13/02Address: Thomas More Kempen | Kleinhoefstraat 4 | 2440 B-Geel

Saturday 14/02Address: Thomas More Kempen | Kleinhoefstraat 4 | 2440 B-Geel

9:00 -10:00 User Centred Design & Stakeholders? – Jan Dekelver (Thomas More) & Suzanne Hallenga-Brink (The Hague UAS)

10:00 -11:00 Implementation IQ – positive power - power to obstruct – Inge Vervoort (Thomas More)

11:00 -12:00

Linked interest between between (a potential) business (startup) – social profit organisation -> Getting a grip on value and win-wins – Inge Vervoort (Thomas More)

Case: The bodyguard/Zorro ESF project – Alain Dekeyser – VITO/Sels Instruments

12:00 – 13:00 BREAK BREAK

13:00 – 14:00

14:00 – 15:00

15:00 – 16:00

16:00 – 17:00

Making Change Work – Sonia Van Ballaert – IBM

Linked Interest – Continued – Inge Vervoort (Thomas More)

Valorisation potential of protected technologies (active portfolio management) - Walter Eevers - Commercial director – VITO

Individual assignment(s) Week 20

Individual assignment for this topic:

Task 3.5: Meanwhile your project is advancing. Are you able to meet the user requirements you set at the start? Do you expect difficulties for implementation? Do you have a back up plan? Is adaptation necessary/possible to strive towards adoption and the use on the long run (sustainability) of your project result? Have you used techniques to test the acceptance by your end users? Which techniques?

Please reflect on these questions and write them down in a report (600 words) and present it on your Weebly website - tab Design Solutions – Task 3.5.

Group interaction Week 20

Which stakeholders could be interested in your solution? Would a cross-sector collaboration be important to further develop this solution? With whom (different stakeholders) could you set up a long-term partnership? What would be the added value of collaboration with these stakeholders? What has to be agreed upon? – Open discussion via Webex for each of the projects. You could invite stakeholders to these online discussions.

You can find inspiration in the book “Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice”, Wiley, Hardcover – April 2014 by James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi