Over the last 25 year IT development has greatly influenced the waycompanies are managed, the tremendous growth in the information society has made a huge amount of information extremely accessible. This has resulted in the problem of information overload where the large amount of information can affect the quality of a decision basis collected by a controller.The purpose of the study is to examine how a controller is affected by information overload and how this influences the decision basis. We intend to highlight the important elements to represent a high quality of information.A survey was conducted through a case study within a global affiliated company in the packaging industry. An adductive approach has been applied with a qualitative research method. Collected empirical material from interviews has been put into relation with existing theories.The case study indicates that there is no relationship between the problem of information overload and flawed decision basis.

Chemicals in preschools - a study of endocrine disrupting chemicals and awareness among preschool teachers The purpose of this study was to investigate endocrine disrupting chemicals that have been shown in preschools and also the preschool teachers? awareness of these chemicals. There were two methods used for completing this study; a literature study and a practical study. The literature study was made by researching on the internet and in books. The practical study was performed by sending questionnaires to all preschools in Kiruna municipality to study awareness among staff.

Titel: Att förpacka ett prisExamination: 2012-04-21Ämne/kurs: Kandidatuppsats, Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap, 15 hpFörfattare: Johan Ahlstrand & Patrik OlssonHandledare: Mikael GullikssonNyckelord: Förpackningsdesign, prispositioneringSyfte: Syftet är att undersöka tre specifika förpackningar och hur detre visuella elementen typografi, bild/illustration och formpåverkar konsumenternas prisuppfattning av produkten. Uppsatsen undersöker också om konsumenter som oftahandlar I ett specifikt produktsegment är bättre på att avgöraprispositioneringen på våra utvalda förpackningar änkonsumenter som sällan eller aldrig handlar frånproduktsegmentet.Metod: Detta är en kvantitativ undersökning, utförd med endatorstödd enkät.Teoretiska perspektiv: Studien använder sig av teorier från Marknadskommunikation med vikt på Strategisk Positionering samt Konsumentbeteende och Förpackningsdesign.Slutsats: Våra resultat visar att form i vår studie har varit det mestinflytelserika elementet när det gäller att påverkakonsumentens prisuppfattning. De visar också att konsumentersom sällan eller aldrig handlar från vårt valda produktsegment är praktiskt taget lika duktiga på att avgöra en produktsprispositionering baserat på förpackningsdesignen som dekonsumenter som handlar ofta..

The aim of this essay is to examine the supervisor?s view on the structure and content of the tasks given to students during their vocational training. The investigation could be of help for teachers when devising new vocational training tasks. The study is based upon qualitative interviews with five supervisors, all of whom work at preschools. The supervisors were asked to grade all the vocational training tasks on a scale from one (easy) to five (difficult).

The aim of this thesis is to explore and outline the cataloguing of sound recordings at two main Swedish audiovisual archives, The National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images Statens ljud- och bildarkiv, SLBA and The Grammophone Record Archive of the Swedish Radio Sveriges Radios grammofonarkiv and its data base GAMBA. As non-book, non-printed, material in many ways differs from printed material, the institutions that deal with this kind of material have often developed their own rules for the cataloguing of it. The general codes for cataloguing, AACR2 and KRS, are insufficiently suited for audiovisual material. That is the reason why the IASA Cataloguing Rules, presented in this thesis, have been created. After the presentation of the IASA rules the problems of accounting for important sections of the catalogue record are discussed such as title, statement of respeonsbility, performers, physical description and notes.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka i vilken utsträckning svenska tillverkningsföretag använder verklighetsrelaterad intern redovisning som metod att minska kortsiktigheten inom organisationen samt om denna anpassning också leder till de önskvärda resultaten. Detta har gjorts genom en kvalitativ fallstudie utförd på fyra svenska tillverkningsföretag. Den främsta informationskällan var primärdata i form av skriftliga och muntliga intervjuer. De undersökta företagen var NIBE Industrier AB, SCA Packaging Sweden AB, Trelleborg Engineered Systems Group AB och Vin & Sprit AB. Kontaktpersonerna var högt uppsatta chefer eller controllers.

SNA Europe?s handsaw concept is called ?Bahco Handsaw System? and is constituted by a saw handle with the possibility to switch between different saw blades. The sales of ?Bahco Handsaw System? products have not achieved the desired results probably due to the high price. Developing a more cost efficient handle, enabling a lower consumer price of the product, is assumed to increase the sales volume.

This study investigates if, and in that case, how design theory is applied in practice in the web development field. Prior research has focused on methods used in the web development field. We wanted to study the designers role in a web design process by comparing existing designer roles with design theory literature. We did qualitative interviews with two practitioners at two different communication agencies in northern Sweden. Based on our qualitative data and literature review we have concluded that a designer has to devote a lot of energy on requirements engineering in order to develop a clear understanding of the design situation..

The supermarkets are taking more and more market shares for potted plants the last years, and a greater part is bought without prior planning. Signals from several European countries, for example Denmark and UK, indicate that potted plants with added value have become more and more popular and the added value is based on present trends. The meaning of added value in this thesis is fancy pots, packaging, pins or arrangements. Potted plants with added value sold in supermarkets offer the consumer the advantage of getting a ?ready product? quick and easy.

Students at the School of Engineering at Jönköping University have on behalf of the swimming organization ?Nässjö Sim och Livräddningssällskap? conducted research on how to monitor and evaluate swimmers and swimming groups in a simple and efficient manner with a focus on usability and user friendliness. Since no system existed that could meet these requirements, the client had a desire to tailor and develop such a system. The purpose of this work was to develop a system that would work as a tool to be used by coaches and swimmers alike and allow them to eventually follow the development of swimmers and swimming groups. The organization also wanted to have the ability to create tests and exams, both for land and water training, register these in the system and in a structured way know which swimmers took and passed these.For this thesis, the following questions functioned as a framework for progress.UsabilityHow to design a usable system and what is required?SystemWhat type of system is best suited to meet the client's requirements and preferences?Competition resultsHow can one retrieve all the competition results for swimmers of Nässjö SLS?DatabaseWhat type of database is best suited to easily share data with an external existing database?Usability has been the main focus throughout the project.

Pappersbaserade förpackningar är ett område som växer snabbt. För att hålla ihop en förpackning och skydda dess innehåll är det nödvändigt mednågon form av förslutningsystem. I projektet har förslutningar i form av varmförseglingar studerats för olika sorters förpackningsmaterial. Vidvarmförsegling pressar två varma metallbackar ihop materialen vilket gör att en försegling bildas mellan dem. Hur stark en försegling blir beror påmaterialegenskaper och på de parameterinställningar som används vid försegling.

The ISO 9000-series is a set of quality standards created by the International Organization for Standardization. The series is intended to provide guidance to companies in the process of deploying an effective quality management system. The series includes the requirements standard ISO 9001. This standard contains requirements on how a quality management system should be designed and how companies generally must work with quality issues. When a quality management system is introduced, if wanted, a quality certification can be implemented.

In recent years, customer profitability has become a focal point of academic discussions on business performance. However, researchers remain divided as to how evaluation of customers ought to be conducted, resulting in uncertainty of how accounting systems should be adapted to prevailing conditions. This paper aims to investigate the application of customer accounting techniques and the role they play in the organisational and commercial context in which they take place. In a case study of Billerud, a Swedish company providing materials and services for packaging solutions, the interplay between customer accounting techniques and customer relationship characteristics has been examined through the application of a theoretical framework developed by Lind and Strömsten. Particular emphasis has been put on deviations from the prescribed pattern of the framework.

People in today?s society are becoming more and more aware of how important it is to use energy as efficiently as possible. This is clearly noticeable by an increase in home produced heat with e.g. solar panels or heat pumps heating systems. These changing customer demands forces district heating technology to be redesigned, which is why there is an ongoing research regarding the next generation of district heating - low temperature district heating (LTDH).

Uppsatsens syfte är att med utgångspunkt i den teoretiska referensramen och en deskriptiv fallstudie av tre företag få ökad förståelse för hur kommunikations- och marknadsföringsverktyget storytelling används i svenska företag. Syftet är även att identifiera vilka effekter verktyget kan ge och studera hur storytelling kan påverka företagskulturen. En kvalitativ forskningsansats med abduktivt angreppssätt har använts där tre fallföretag, SCA Packaging, IKEA och SAS samt konsulten Matts Heijbel intervjuats inom ämnet. De tre fallföretagen arbetar aktivt med intern storytelling.Teoriavsnittet inleds med en beskrivning av intern marknadsförings betydelse, därefter redogörs för verktygets storytelling som ett internt marknadsföringsverktyg. Teorikapitlet berör hur storytelling fungerar som kulturbärare då uppsatsens syfte är att studera denna aspekt.Studien visar att storytelling kan användas i många olika syften och på olika sätt.