In a world characterized by increasing sustainability challenges, organizations are continuously facing new demands; creating new requirements of change management and incorporation of new strategic decisions. Today, organizations are responding to the emergence of new sustainability directives and regulations at a EU level, whence the latest sustainability framework CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), becomes particularly relevant. Companies are therefore facing the challenge of integrating strategic management in their navigation, preparation and maneuvering of new directives; a transition that requires new strategic decisions and adaptations. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively examine how CSRD affects organizations in terms of corporate changes, operational adaptations and strategic decisions, as well as what capabilities are essential to incorporate. The study also aims to investigate relevant challenges and opportunities associated with the new directive.

I en tid då förtroende i och för företag diskuteras flitigt ville vi se vad förtroende egentligen kan sägas vara och framförallt vilken betydelse det har för de anställda. Externt kan förtroende kopplas till bilden av företaget utåt och det väckte vår nyfikenhet för kopplingen till den interna bilden, de anställdas uppfattningar om företaget, det vill säga identitetskänslan. Såväl identitetskänsla som förtroende är centrala begrepp för organisationer idag men det finns lite forskning kring dessa begrepps relation. Vårt syfte med undersökningen har varit att skapa insikt i huruvida det finns en relation mellan identitet och förtroende. Detta gjordes dels på ett teoretiskt plan, där vi försökte konceptualisera begreppen och dess relation till varandra, och dels på ett empiriskt plan där vi undersökte dessa begrepps relation till varandra i praktiken.

Public participation is a key aspect in the planning of Swedish municipalities. It is probably the most important tool of them all in the planning towards a sustainable future within the cities and the municipalities as a whole. Participation from the public can take on several different forms. In this paper I focus to research and discuss in and around the usage of a web-based 3D platform called City Planner. The tool allows the user (the public) to view the municipalities planning in a fairly new (but quickly growing) environment.

This study examines the use of building modeling and energy simulations in the design process  of  a  building.  The  take-off  point  is  the  notion  of  energy  simulations  being needed early and throughout the building design process, and that the lack of energy simulations may be explained by the fact that they are time consuming and therefore often too expensive. A greater interoperability between software tools used by relevant disciplines,  such  as  the  architect  and  the  energy  specialist,  would  create  smoother workflows, which would reduce this cost and open up for more frequent and iterative energy  simulation  processes.  The  study  is  an  assessment  of  the  modeling  tool  Revit and  the  simulation  tool  Virtual  Environment  and  whether  they  can  create  smoother workflows, and make leeway for a more frequent use of energy simulations throughout the  design  process.  It  also  investigates  the  limitations  of  what  can  be  examined  by simulations in Virtual Environment. This will hopefully help clarify the future role of energy  simulations  in  design  processes.  The  method  is  a  trial  by  error  approach  of testing the two software tools by building and simulating a model. The results of these tests  show  that  the  workflow  is  not  optimal  (and  therefore  time  consuming)  for frequent  and  iterative simulations  throughout the  design  process,  but  it  also  reveals some  great  possibilities  of  what  can  be  performed  with  these  two  powerful  tools  at hand.  Further  development  with  regards  on  platform  independency  of  the  building information  model,  including  seamless  exporting  and  importing,  seems  necessary  to strengthen the future role of energy simulations..

The study aims to describe how art teachers conduct their teaching towards the new curriculum requirements, hence, to the must-haves of society towards the art education. As a future art teacher, I have an interest in finding out how the art teachers tackles the new requirements despite substance plight. The study has revealed that resources for the art education, both financial and time varies from school to school. Which says something about a very unfair situation for the teachers..

Syfte: I och med att det står tydligt i den nya skollagen och i Lgr 11 att elever som riskerar att inte nå kunskapsmålen ska utredas, kommer det att krävas tydlighet inom skolan vad gäller kartläggning/utredning av behov av särskilt stöd. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på om och hur pedagoger med specialpedagogiska arbetsuppgifter kartlägger elever i åk 3-9 med sent upptäckta läs och skrivsvårigheter samt hur arbetsgången är och om det finns en färdig plan för det.Teori: En elev som fungerar normalt i talspråkssammanhang men har svårt att läsa och/eller skriva har läs- och skrivsvårigheter. Glentow (2006) beskriver vad läs- och skrivsvårigheter är. Svårigheterna benämns som generella eller specifika. Specifika läs- och skrivsvårigheter måste kartläggas.

The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how to design a urban space so that it is experienced safe and how to implement this at an actual site. Knowledge on the subject has been gathered through litterature studies and interviews with experts. Through an analysis of the site with surroundings and studies of projects with similar problems, practical actions have been observed. Part taking in the municipalities planning process has given insight in the projekt as an whole and the interests of different parties. There are many different opinions about what the word safety means. It is a feeling depending on situation, that is affecting our daily behaviour.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur en entreprenör/ kreatör produktplacerar i bästa mån för att överleva i modebranschen. Metod: Kvalitativ med intervjuer som bas för empirin. Slutsats: Med hjälp av en positioneringsmodell kan entreprenören/kreatören ta ställning till sina konkurrenter och placera sin produkt till den tänkta målgruppen. Teorin hjälper företagare att strukturera upp en annars komplex hantering som i nystartade företag ?bara sker?.

Den kinesiska draken växer så det knakar och i släptåg kommer bland annat satsningar på ekologiska städer för att försöka bryta den onda spiral av negativ miljöpåverkan som landets utveckling för med sig. I den här uppsatsen försöker jag kasta ljus på ekologiska städer som planeras av svenska experter i Kina, med avsikt att reda ut hur väl ekologisk hållbarhet integreras i planen. Jag försöker också reda ut problematik som uppstår när svenska planeringsideal kolliderar med det kinesiska synsättet på boende och städer. Initialt beskrivs klimat- och miljörelaterade faktorer som varit språngbräda till ekostäders popularitet idag. Sedan ges en definition av begreppets innebörd och de bakomliggande tankarna kopplade till hur föreställningen om ekologiska städer har utvecklats i ett historiskt perspektiv.Huvuddelen av arbetet utgörs av en fallstudie där fokus ligger på hur det svenska konsultföretaget Sweco vill minska det ekologiska fotavtrycket i sin konceptuella plan för den Internationella Ekostaden Caofeidian.

Gothenburg municipality has a lot of natural water. This paper enhances the function and importance of water in the city. It also deals with the problems of sewage water and flooding. Gothenburg has reached an advanced stage of water planning. By developing a Waterplan, the municipality highlight that water has an important position in the urban planning.

Arbetets mål var att inom 5 veckor (motsvarande 7,5 högskolepoäng examensarbete) göra en marknadsundersökning, samt ta fram en plan eller ett verktyg för att så fort som möjligt kunna få en marknadsundersökning av ett område inom vägar och infrastruktur. Rapporten är en sammanställning av inhämtad information från Sverige bygger,samt från intervjuer med platschefer inom verksamhetsområdet.Det område som har granskats är Sundsvall med närliggande städer samtkonkurrenter inom området..

Background: The development of the IT-industry, where new technologies and new services continually arise, has led to new players with different specializations. The increased degree of specialization means that these players need to cooperate with each other in different types of projects.Problem definition: What factors are important in a project to achieve the objectives as quickly as possible? More players should lead to cooperation difficulties, how can you coordinate in the best possible way? Today, it is desirable for all parties in the project to shorten down the lead time.Purpose: The main purpose is to explore the different factors that affects the project's lead time concerning broadband installation. The part purpose, is to analyze and assess the conditions for cooperation between different players in the project for broadband installation and to provide a recommendation.Method: In order to answer the problem definition, the paper is structured around a qualitative approach with interviews to obtain data. Mostly, the used data comes from primary sources with an extension of secondary sources.Theories: Theories that are used in the paper are: Communication Process, Communication Plan, Project Planning & Project Plan, Efficiency through collaboration, Communication in a network.Empiric: Empirical data consists of primary data collected through interviews.Analysis: The analysis is based on the variables from the theoretical frame of reference; Communications, Planning, Interaction & Information.

Our purpose with this study was to investigate whether there was any difference between high and low performing students from selected aspects such as choice of studies, achievement, self-image, motivation, confidence and career choices.A training professional in today's schools requires knowledge of how young people think about their lives for us to help students develop both high-and low-performing students. Students have different conditions, but no matter good or bad conditions, each individual pupil must be allowed to develop.The concepts used in the study are of study, self-image, motivation, achievement in the future and career choices. In the background, describes these concepts through literature study. The method we have used was semi-structured interviews. Which means a fixed structure, but with room for follow-up questions.The results of our study indicate that there were clear differences between high-and low-performing students.

In all types of learning situations, it is important to find each student where they are at the moment in knowledge. I have reflections about  what animal experience students have with them when they begin their education. This thesis is about what home environment and in home environment acquried animal experience student at agricultural college have. This work is based on data collected through questionnaire survey done in two agricultural colleges in middle Sweden in the spring of 2007. Questions were divided into four blocks, historical data such as on the environment in which pupils are growing up, animal habit, why they read on agricultural school and future data on what plans students have for future education and careers.

This thesis processes the work of developing CPU code and GPU code for Thomas Kaijsers algorithm for calculating the kantorovich distance and the performance between the two is compared. Initially there is a rundown of the algorithm which calculates the kantorovich distance between two images. Thereafter we go through the CPU implementation followed by GPGPU written in CUDA. Then the results are presented. Lastly, an analysis about the results and a discussion with possible improvements is presented for possible future applications..