Recently, the smart city concepts have gained increasing importance in current energy and city planning. Various smart city projects which have been realized show that a systemic, integrative approach is crucial. However, in the projects the delineation of boundaries for integrative planning and the realization of ...

The Center for Human Capital Management supported an international IT company by developing professional career tracks, job evaluation and salary bands.

Informed Consent and Comprehensibility Issues Research involving humans as subjects can be problematic from an ethical standpoint, because people’s welfare and personal sphere should be protected. For this reason, legislation regulates that potential participants must be informed about research procedures and any ...

How safe do Swiss citizens feels in their municipalities? The Winterthur Institute of Public Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been conducting extensive research on this issue. The findings provide the participating cities and towns with insight on necessary adaptations for the next ...

Dominique Ursprung was appointed Managing Director of the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC) in December 2015. With the successful establishment of the SJCC office at the International Management Institute, the Institute also takes over the secretariat for the  Parliamentary Friendship Group ...

Developing a job evaluation system

Since 2005, the Culture Department of the Municipality of Thalwil has been working successfully on the basis of the Conduct and the Funding Concept developed in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Management (ZKM). After about ten years, the municipality of Thalwil would like to evaluate, rework and reorientate ...

The literature on leadership, non-profit, and arts management have discussed many topics in relation to the leading of arts and cultural organizations (ACOs) such as leadership style or leadership structure. The question concerning what today’s leaders in the arts and cultural sector actually do, how they interpret ...

The main objective of the project was a significant improvement of sales forecasting algorithms with an application focus on food industry and retail, where food waste and stock-out situations are challenging for the planning process. The main product of the project is an intelligent planning software, whose ...

FairCare intends to improve the coordination of formal and informal care and to bring together supply and demand for care for the elderly. In Switzerland, there is a large number of private and public service providers offering a wide range of services for the elderly in need. However, it is difficult to find one's ...

Optimization of the processess of a Swiss rehab clinic

After Sales Services have become an important business for internationally operating Swiss companies. For SMEs the offering of after sales services is a challenge though, specifically in Asian markets. This project aims to develop successful business models in after sales services for Swiss SMEs operating in the ...

The study focusses on the question of how the discount rate of pension fund obligations should be determined in the context of a negative interest rate environment. Specifically, the report answers the following questions: What does IPSAS say about the applicable interest rate? What scope do the specifications of ...

Recent energy and climate policy in Switzerland calls for a step change in how individuals consume energy. This is especially true for the residential sector, which covers 29% of the national energy consumption. The attainment of such long-term social change is, however, difficult: people are seldom aware of the ...

Subsequent to the launch of the European Union initiative to improve quality and comparability of fiscal reporting across member states, the Financial Reporting Technical Assistance Program (FRTAP) for Poland, which is part of the Swiss contribution to the enlarged European Union, has been set up. ZHAW Institute of ...

This report identifies, analyses and presents for discussion key issues concerning the role of strategic foresight for policymakers, particularly in developing countries. Chapter II provides an introduction to strategic foresight and its use around the world. Chapter III presents key trends related to science, ...

The introduction of the diagnosis-related groups/Swiss DRG causes amongst other things a greater demand for transparency, including in non-medical support services [FM] in hospitals. In order to meet this, it is necessary to have a systematic way of measuring and comparing services in order to come up with specific ...