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Zoetermeer, Netherlands Amref Flying Doctors and ORTEC decided to increase their impact together by extending their partnership in 2021. This partnership combines the expertise of both parties to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare and stimulate innovation in Africa. Supporting Amref Flying Doctors in their mission to contribute to better health for especially girls and younger women in Africa is a valuable step for ORTEC in bringing to live our purpose to improve the world using our passion for mathematics.
At ORTEC, our mission is to “improve the world with our passion for mathematics.” Therefore, we continuously focus on how we can help our customers become more sustainable. A good example of how ORTEC’s data-driven approach can help is by accelerating the integration of electric vehicles in your daily operations. This article discusses the application of such vehicles in the aviation market. It shares insights from our ongoing research into zero-emission airport operations. In particular, we will discuss how scheduling algorithms can be used to plan the operation of electric push-back trucks more effectively.
The success of a digital transformation depends on driving change in the organization. The series Five Ways to Translate Data into Better Decision-Making has covered the five components that are crucial for approaching change value-driven, instead of technology or data-driven.
Get briefed with the full series coming together in a dynamic infographic.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands: Today, ORTEC and many other organizations raise the flag to create awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Exactly five years ago the world embraced these 17 goals that guide us to a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable society by 2030.
September 2020
Many businesses aspire to become data-driven organizations. They embark on a digital transformation or start making use of data analysis, artificial intelligence, or machine learning. But not all organizations are equally successful in their attempts to use data to generate business value. After all, state-of-the-art technology and data alone do not guarantee successful digitization. Businesses must also pay attention to their customers’ needs, the education and training of employees and cultural change, all coming together in a holistic digital strategy that is crucial for a well-functioning data-driven organization.
This is the fifth and final article in the series on Five Ways of Translating Data into Better Decision-Making. In this article, we will summarize the first four articles and show how they can be combined into a single, integrated approach.
The coronavirus outbreak has reduced the number of flights worldwide. It is without doubt the airline industry enters a new reality: dealing with uncertainty.
While many things remain outside direct control, maximizing agility helps airlines to deal with uncertainty and anticipate future scenarios. Agility is about making better and informed decisions that enable airlines to respond quickly to changes.
In this Downloadable Insight our experts have identified the steps to take to achieve the required level of agility by increasing the analytical maturity level and organizational alignment.
This month, ORTEC organized the 2nd Global Retail Summit. This second edition of the event was held online and was very well-received by our customers: 90 people from 43 companies in 21 countries participated. Read on to discover the highlights and key planning insights we got from the event.
August 2020
Technology is almost always supportive of character, says ORTEC’s Chief Technology & Innovation Officer Patrick Hennen. “At most, you can use highly innovative technology as a driver, but even then you shouldn’t be using it at all costs. The technology has to create value for the business; business should be able to do something with that technology that was not possible before. Ultimately, technology is an enabler, not an end in itself.”
This is the fourth article in the series on Five Ways of Translating Data into Better Decision-Making. In this article, Patrick Hennen, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at ORTEC, discusses the role of technology in data-driven decision making.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands ORTEC announces to have recently joined the Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC). This coalition of Dutch commercial, non-profit and governmental organizations commits to accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives to position The Netherlands as the frontrunner in the development and application of AI for economic and social value. One of these initiatives is U-Prevent, an interactive mathematical model that indicates for each individual patient the effect of medicines on cardiovascular diseases. U-Prevent is an initiative by ORTEC, UMC Utrecht, Erasmus MC, LUMC, Amsterdam UMC, Amphia Ziekenhuis Breda, Harvard Medical School, and the association of cardiologists.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands Today, ORTEC announced that Marianne Tijssen is appointed as Non-Executive Board Member, effective July 1, 2020.
Marianne Tijssen will take over the position of Lineke Sneller, whose term is ending as per July 1, 2020. Tijssen has worked at ABN AMRO for over 24 years and is co-founder of FiveDegrees. Since 2014, she supports multiple organizations by being part of their supervisory boards. Among them the board of Univé, a cooperative insurance company.