Sam Solaimani

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• PhD
• Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business University

One of the critical objectives underlying the digital transformation initiatives of numerous enterprises is the introduction of novel data-driven business models (DDBMs) aimed at facilitating the creation, delivery, and capture of value. While DDBMs has gained immense traction among scholars and practitioners, the implementation and scaling leave m...

The importance of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations for businesses has evolved from compliance to a strategic imperative. This shift is driven by increased investor scrutiny, reputation and brand value impact, talent attraction, innovation stimulation, community relations, and global regulatory requirements. At the same time,...

Purpose Lean Startup (LS) has gained considerable traction in the startup scene, especially within digital firms where the concept finds the concept's genesis. However, there are more and more calls in the entrepreneurship literature to study LS's application beyond the digital context. The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of L...

To achieve sustainability across the product life cycle, attention to the production process is a prerequisite. As a result of technological advancements, innovation and inventions in production methods are in full swing. Production methods that enable mass customisation (MC) are one of the recent developments in the production domain. This study a...

Purpose In the ever-increasing dynamics of global business markets, firms must use all possible sources to innovate continually. This study aims to explore how supply chain innovation can be fostered through joint efforts between firms and their supply chain partners. Design/methodology/approach At least two areas advocate innovation through exter...

This study proposes the Lean philosophy, which integrates a firm's “hard” and “soft” processes, as a promising way to enhance firm innovativeness. Five Lean principles that are specific to the innovation management context, namely, coaching leadership, learning culture, employee appreciation, learning routines, and collaborative networks, are discu...

The need for sustainable built environment is pressing; an urgency that spans environmental, economic and social values of sustainability. Since late 1980s, the Lean philosophy has been adopted in the construction sector, with a focus on efficiency, predominantly as a function of economic competence. More recently, however, the Lean principles and...

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs often encounter obstacles of technical, legal, financial and business nature. To develop a multifaceted view of ETD programs, the concept of the Business model (BM) can be used. BM helps to grasp a detailed understanding of business feasibility and viability, which entails a broad spectrum of key...

Purpose The practice of lean management (LM) principles has given firms, from a variety of sectors, quantum jumps in productivity and performance. India is at the cusp of a major leap in economic growth, and adoption of LM is a must for ramping up the rate of growth of the GDP speedily, if the government is really intent on achieving its objective...

Purpose Increasingly, a firm’s innovation capability has become one of the key frontiers of competitive advantage. The Lean philosophy has a well-proven reputation for its focus on process efficiency and effectiveness, and therefore, is often applied in various areas of innovation. Such wide and ever-increasing applicability also has resulted in an...

While “identifying customer value” is the first principle of Lean thinking, the concept of customer value has largely remained unchanged in the Lean discourse - quality, cost and delivery. This research examines the problem of working from such an internal process point of view in today’s highly dynamic world, where customer needs get increasingly...

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the most effective channels through which theses and dissertations can be made available to academic communities and beyond. ETD program management, however, needs to be aware of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) throughout the process of design and development of...

Objective: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs often encounter obstacles of technical, legal, financial and business nature. The existing literature provides valuable insight into each aspect, however a holistic view on these critical success factors is missing. To develop a multifaceted view of ETD programs, the concept of Business...

Purpose Implementing and maintaining Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) program at a national level encounters numerous difficulties in particular from technical, legal, business, and financial perspective. Business model (BM) is a tool to help to address business-driven challenges, such as business feasibility and viability, as one of the...

In many entrepreneurial projects, the concept of the business model (BM) is used to describe a business idea at a high-level and in a holistic way. However, existing literature pays less attention to implementation (or execution) of BM. Implementation becomes more complex when a BM is proposed by or requires a network of collaborating enterprises....

Studies on technical and process-oriented aspects of Lean Software Development (LSD) are increasing. Yet, the socio-behavioral (SB) dimension of LSD has remained relatively underdeveloped. Inspired by the Lean/agile literature, this study proposes an extended view on the SB dimension of LSD, which is empirically evaluated through a qualitative case...

IT-gedreven bedrijven, met name in de dienstverleningssector, zitten in een ongemakkelijkespagaat. Het is gewaagd om op IT te bezuinigen. Daar zijn de huidige markt en de technologieontwikkelingen, zoals big data, cloud en mobilecomputing, Internet of Things, servitization en digitale platformen, simpelweg te prominent voor. Aan de andere kant zijn...

National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the most effective channels through which Theses and Dissertations (TDs) can be made available to academic communities. However, to establish a national ETDs developers need to be aware of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs). CSFs are the few key areas where...

Lean aims to achieve competitive advantage through creating superior customer value with minimum waste. However, value creation and appropriation, which are central concepts in strategy literature and related to sources of competitive advantage, are not fully discussed in a Lean discourse. By combining various research streams including resource-ba...

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) is a prevailing branch of information management that has evolved significantly, along with the recent developments in ICT. Although the field of ETDs has frequently been subjected to scholar’s attention from different viewpoint, relatively limited attention has been paid to the business-driven questions a...

Development of successful business models has become a necessity in turbulent business environments , but compared to research on business modeling tools , attention to the role of metrics in designing business models in literature is limited. Building on existing approaches to business models and performance measurement literature , we develop a g...

While the merits of Collaborative Supply Chains (CSCs) are broadly appreciated, studies on sine-qua-nons in the formation of CSC are relatively limited. This paper systematically reviews the extensive CSC literature to extract critical success factors and challenges, and proposes a generic framework to establish and sustain various levels of CSCs.

Lean focuses on creating value while reducing waste. Although frequently overlooked, capturing value is equally important especially for resource-starved SMEs. Drawing on a multidisciplinary literature review of ‘customer value’ and ‘mechanisms of value creation and capture’, this paper aims to develop an integrated framework for Lean value managem...

Managers aim to explain how and why IT creates business value, recognize their IT-based capabilities, and select the appropriate IT to enhance and leverage those capabilities. This article synthesizes the Organizational Information Processing Theory and Resource-Based View into a descriptive typology of IT roles. On the basis of these roles, the co...

De opkomst van sensoren en Big Data leidt tot geïntegreerde markten voor zorg, wonen en medische hulp. Spelers strijden om een rol hierin met nieuwe platformen gebaseerd op hardware en gezondheidsdata.

http://www.rathenau.nl/publicaties/publicatie/de-kracht-van-platformen.html Toonaangevende bedrijven als Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb en Uber innoveren en zetten bestaande machtsverhoudingen op hun kop. In rap tempo veroveren zij nieuwe markten door gebruik te maken van de kracht van platformen. Een platform is een fundament van producten, dien...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to propose and demonstrate a framework for estimating performance in a networked business model. Design/methodology/approach: Our approach is design science, utilising action research in studying a case of four independent firms in Health & Wellbeing sector aiming to jointly provide a new service for busine...

Resource-constrained SMEs face mounting challenges to achieve sustained performance in today’s highly competitive environment. To remain competitive, many SMEs show interests in adopting Lean. Unfortunately, the majority of firms pursuing competitiveness through Lean failed to extract the expected value due to a lack of strategic approach. The thre...

Download: http://dx.doi.org/10.4233/uuid:b574eb40-6bff-49d4-9ba2-bed4a588d850 For a long time, technology has served as a silver bullet to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and to outperform the competitors. However, access to and exploitation of technologies gradually becomes a commodity, hence a less powerful resource to be leveraged to a...

Technological innovations, from ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, telecommunication to intel-ligent appliances and robotics, bring new possibilities to the Smart Home domain, which has led to an increase in the number of academic publications in this domain. To date, no comprehensive overview and clustering of the core concepts used in these...

One of the first steps in innovation projects and entrepreneurial initiative involves formulating a Business Model (BM) that describes the value creation, delivery and capturing logic of a business idea. However, when formulating a BM for networked enterprises, the alignment of the collective BM, supporting the joint service or product on offer, an...

In order to become more innovative, companies that operate in the Smart Living domain increasingly initiate and participate in networked business environments that transcend industry boundaries. Inter-organizational collaboration is often characterized by conflicting strategic interests and incoherent operational business processes and procedures....

In the last decade, Business Model (BM) has become a salient concept in the business management communities and beyond. The extant body of knowledge of BM constitutes various streams focusing on conceptualization, definition, classification, ontology, typology, and literature overview. However, increasingly the recent studies point out that the lit...

Critical design issues (CDIs) are a prominent topic in the literature on Smart Home service design and engineering. Smart Home technologies (i.e., products and services) have to meet one or more of these CDIs in order to become or be perceived as being valuable for customers and providers. However, the CDIs mentioned in Smart Home literature are ex...

During the Bled conferences, Business Models have attracted a lot of attention. The discussion has moved from understanding the core concepts towards designing and implementing business models. Business models have become a common topic, with concepts and approaches becoming main stream, and connected to more generic research approaches and design...

Purpose – The creation of a service is enabled by a “strategic-level” business model (BM), while the implementation or execution of the service is described by “operational-level” business processes (BPs). In many innovation projects, especially trans-sector projects, a lack of alignment between the strategic “what to do” and the operational “how t...

To become more innovative, increasingly companies in Smart Living domain initiate and participate in trans-sector collaborations. Trans-sector collaboration is marked by involvement of various actors from distinct sectors with sometimes, if not often, conflicting strategic interests and incoherent operational business processes and procedures. To g...

Technological innovations, varying from ubiquitous computing, intelligent appliances, telecommunication, robotics, to wearable sensors, enable new Smart Home (SH) applications. More and more academic publications reporting on experiments on SH can be found. A comprehensive clustering of concepts and approaches is largely missing. Based on an extens...

This study answers the question whether human processual interventions are used to improve business-ICT relationships and if not, what the reasons might be for this. Human processual interventions are about improving human relations and match the problem of troubling relationships between IS and business with its associated miscommunication, unclea...

Smart Home projects require product, service and business model innovation by organizations from multiple sectors. A considerable number of Smart Home projects, however, fail to live up to expectations and to commercialize their services. Business models that enable these projects have to be viable and feasible for the project as a whole as well as...

Nowadays, rapidly changing and increasing competitive markets cannot be conquered in isolation. A lot of companies, therefore, operate in a network of collaborating actors. ‘Smart-Living’ is one of these trans-sector projects in which different actors with different backgrounds are involved. A considerable number of Smart-Living projects, however,...

Animated diagrams representing dynamic systems hold great potential for improving the way people learn. However, so far the literature failed to find clear benefits of animated diagrams. Consequently it is worthwhile to investigate conditions under which enhancement of learning occurs. In the present study interactivity of the display and spatial a...