Life of the fleet manager

Job ID #: 72 
Position Type: Student (Stagiair of Afstudeerder) 
Location: Limburg (NL) 
Education Required: Hoger Beroeps Onderwijs (HBO/BSc.) 
Functional Area: Research & Development  
 
 
Functieomschrijving:

Document services are becoming more and more professional. Océ is playing into this by taking over the management of the extensive printer fleet of top 500 companies.
Imagine a fleet manager [m/f] monitoring and controlling all these devices while on the move. We believe that handheld devices like Blackberry or iPhone could well be an amazingly useful tool for this, as long as the right applications are running on it.
The mission for this assignment is to come up with appealing designs for fleet management applications for hand held devices.

Do you recognize yourself in the next description?
This assignment will take between three and six months. You will have to think from the end user perspective. You will deploy innovative user centered design techniques, such as co-creation, workflow video or context mapping, to get a good view of the life of the fleet manager.
Inspired by this view, you'll make usable and appealing designs for new software applications. You enjoy working with a programmer, who will make the actual prototypes based on your designs.

Behavioral competences you can develop during this assignment are:

• Problem analysis
• Judgment
• Co-operation
• Customer orientation

Graduation assigment: academic level, 6-9 months
Education: Informatics / Design / Application Research

Océ vestiging

Océ is one of the world's leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. In 2010 Océ joined the Canon Group of companies to create the global leader in the printing industry. For more information, please visit www.oce.com.