Op 20 april 2022 klonk het ‘Hora Est!’ Sinds mijn proefschrift goedgekeurd, gedrukt en wel was, realiseerde ik mij pas wat ik eigenlijk gedaan had. Hoe was me dit eigenlijk gelukt? Promoveren als een soort mix van een opleiding, vrijwilligerswerk en hobby, hoe kijk ik daar nou op terug? En zou ik het anderen aanraden? …
Goed nieuws: het Slingeland ziekenhuis heeft de inhaalzorg al grotendeels weg gewerkt, mede dankzij het Hospital Control Centre (HCC). Meer informatie hierover lees je in dit persbericht. Een mooi bericht ook om deze blog serie over mijn promotie onderzoek mee af te sluiten. Het laatste artikel van mijn proefschrift gaat namelijk precies daar over: wat zijn …
Centraal plannen voor een stabiel adaptief systeem Lees verder »
Dit keer een blog in het Nederlands, hoewel het onderwerp ‘open loop’ nou niet bepaald Nederlands klinkt (en ook niet is). In het 3e paper van mijn promotie onderzoek Explaining integration and differentiation by identifying the rules and coordination mechanisms in a hospital’s logistical system (hier te downloaden) constateren we dat de sociale interacties die we …
Since October I have been working on a new consultancy project that involves the renovation of a large academic hospital in the Netherlands. So just like in the last blog I ask myself: what would the researcher in me advise me, the consultant? After my blog on Material Management, this one will be about the (re)design …
In the past weeks I have been asked several times what my recent paper on logistical social networks means for practice. I have asked the same question myself: what would I as a researcher advise myself as a consultant? In the next blogs I would like to focus on some projects I have worked on and how …
In the past months several people critized hospitals for having become ‘too lean’ and managers for ‘logistical minimalism’. It is said that hospital managers strive for low inventories to reduce cost and this is said to be a bad thing. Clearly, there have been shortages of all sorts in these corona times: nurses, masks and …
In the fast and dramatically changing circumstances we are all in at the moment due to the Corona pandemic, the process of creating and publishing process of my second scientific paper seems a bit surreal. In 2018 I did research on the social network of a Dutch hospital’s logistical system, I submitted my paper early …
Paper prepint on the hospital logistics social network now available Lees verder »
Transformation is like an invisible wind (the effects of which are perceptible everywhere) (Francois Jullien in Treatise on Efficacy) Welkom op de website van Squrious. Sinds 2017 schrijf ik regelmatig blogs over mijn promotie onderzoek op deze website. Squrious is ook het bedrijf van waaruit ik sinds 2014 ziekenhuizen adviseer, onder de vlag van SQwin. …
Since the start of this blog in 2017 I have written 36 blogs, which were read by over a thousand readers. So far it has been a very rewarding way of sharing findings and ideas related to my PhD research because I got in touch with a lot of new people and had nice and …
For two days a week in the past 6 years I have been working on material management as a consultant, in various Operating Room Theatre complexes. During this time I have been thinking and talking a lot about bills-of-material, storage capacity and layout, inventory levels, transport carts and all sorts of materials that I had …
Why Material Management is (unfairly) overlooked Lees verder »
