Resting on the competencies above the Val IT Research Group is focused on the four following research themes; innovation, participation, heterogeneity and measurement.

• Innovation

  • Open innovation and architecture of participation
  • Cognitive and psychosocial approach on innovation of e-services
  • Sustainable innovation (economic, environmental and social)
  • Global logistics and lean thinking

 

• Participation

  • User centered requirements elicitation processes
  • Work systems modeling
  • Participatory methodologies and philosophies

 

• Heterogeneity

  • Decision making with conflicting objectives
  • Computer based decisions support
  • Framework for multi-stakeholder and multiple objectives decision modeling in systems engineering
  • Visualizing intentionality tensions and multiple actor roles

 

• Measurement

  • Defining and measuring value
  • Understanding perceptions of value