Case study: Dutch football stadiums as multifunctional entertainment centres In the Netherlands, football is a mainstay of the entertainment industry. The professional football calendar has 800 matches every year and 250,000 football fans visit the matches of their favourite clubs every week, contributing a massive 2.9 billion euros to the Gross Domestic Product. Yet there…

How Much Value Does your Data Represent? In June 2021's megahack, hundreds of companies worldwide were affected. The suspected perpetrators - the Russian hacker group REvil, are reportedly demanding $70 million in ransom. Reports about data breaches at large organizations, caused by (human) errors or criminal hacks, appear in the media all the time. There...

Openness Can Break Ingrained Patterns If 2020 has made anything clear, it’s that we don’t have our affairs as well-in-order as we always thought, here in The Netherlands. Whether it’s the fight against corona, the benefits scandal or the approach to ICT projects, time and time again we seem to make some fundamental mistakes. That…

Smart Leaders Count on the Goldsmiths of IT These are uncertain times and the world is becoming increasingly complex. That calls for a new type of leader. Having a dominant, all-knowing CEO, who everyone in the company chases after, is useless – not only because none of the employees will accept it, but also because…

Corona Crisis Proves IT Must be Core Business for Government Too The Dutch GGD (Public Health Department) and the RIVM (the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) have been widely criticised for the lateness and inaccuracy and of corona statistics: the numbers of reported infections, hospital admissions and deaths have frequently been incorrect,…