Summary Title: How to make decisions on software based servicedevelopment in the mobile handset industry.?The Rapid Model for Holistic Application Evaluation Authors: Per-Inge AnderssonPatrik Dreveborn Tutors: Björn Regnell, Department of Computer Science,Lund UniversityRobert Wenglén, School of Economics and Management,Lund University Problem formulation: Academically the questions of finding out what constitutes a sound decision base and finding out how to handle the issue of a holistic approach must be addressed in order to make a well balanced and relevant decision model. The core question is which decision criteria to include and which drivers are important in estimating the status of the criteria? Practically to provide Sony Ericsson with a formalized evaluation process for decisions on software development that is transparent, objective and challengeable. Purpose: Academically to contribute to the field of decision making research by elaborating on how to make a holistic, rapid and rational decision model.

Saab Component Maintenance in Linköping, Sweden, offers maintenance, repair andoverhaul (MRO) services for civilian and military aircraft components. Lately, thedepartment has struggled with slow throughput rates, despite various counteractingattempts. Studies show, that large parts of the delays derive from the logisticsdepartment where goods arrive and dispatch. Therefore, Saab wants to carry out anextensive analysis of the department in order to further investigate what is causing itsslow throughput rates.The thesis begins with extensive mapping over Component Maintenances whole valuestream to find out how departments interact with each other and which roleindividual departments have in the total supply chain. Out of 13 000 different partnumbers, components were divided into five product families.

I november 2007 beslutade den svenska regeringen att samtliga offentligt finansierade organisationer, oberoende bransch, ska upprätta hållbarhetsredovisningar i enlighet med GRI:s riktlinjer. Hållbarhetsredovisningen ska fungera som ett komplement till den finansiella redovisningen och i dessa ska organisationerna redovisa miljömässiga, sociala och ekonomiska faktorer. Samhällets påtryckningar på att organisationer ska ta sitt ansvar för sina handlingar på ett hållbart sätt har ökat med tiden, med andra ord, strävan efter en hållbar utveckling behövs för att tillfredsställa dagens behov utan att äventyra kommande generationers möjligheter. Corporate Social Responsibility,, vilket syftar till att spegla organisationers miljömässiga sociala och ekonomiska påverkan, har således blivit ett betydelsefullt verktyg att integrera i organisationskulturen. Genom detta koncept har en icke vinstdrivande organisation, Global Reporting Initiative tagit fram ett ramverk (G4) för att möjliggöra harmonisering mellan organisationers hållbarhetsredovisningar, samt för att öka hållbarheten genom hållbara styreffekter.

In the 90's the establishment of external trade centers had a strong growth in Sweden, primarily in large and medium cities. Gradually took smaller towns by this development. In larger cities with larger and growing customer base than in small towns were not affected by the trade centers heavily, but in the smaller towns where the customer base was smaller, there was a risk that it created a negative competitive relationship between external trade center and trade in the citycenter. In some cases, competition is a positive development for both the citycenter and external trade areas, but in some cases there was a risk that the center became impoverished. In such situation there are theories that the different variety of different types of goods should be at the center and in external trade center could lead to a balanced trade relationship.

This report is the result of a master thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Industrial and Economical Development, at Linköping University of Technology. The project was carried out on behalf of Fanerami AB, Mjölby and includes 20 weeks of full time schedule work.Cabinets with vertical mounted roller shutters all share the same problem, namely weight balancing. A roller shutter has an equilibrium area where the sum of the different forces acting on the shutter equals zero. As the shutter leaves that area it will pick up speed as it falls towards the bottom. When the shutter hits the bottom of the cabinet there is a potential risk of getting fingers caught and in this project a solution to prevent this from happening was to be presented.In this project, three concepts have been generated with the following different purposes:?In concept 1 the risk of getting any fingers caught when the shutter closes was to be eliminated in an efficient and inexpensive way.?In concept 2 the roller shutter had to be balanced at all time providing the possibility to keep the cabinet open in any position.?The last and most challenging task was to create a remote controlled TV cabinet.

This is a critical discourse analysis of the conformation of the conflict in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as constructed by Ekot, a news-show on Radio Sweden. The ambition of this bachelor thesis is to examine the production of a Congolese conflict for a Swedish audience and to find out how the construction differences with and without a reporter in the field. To obtain this purpose the narrative is studied as well as the use of voices that define the conflict. The construction of proximity between Swedish audience and the Congolese event and the meaning of sound to stabilize the formation of discourse within foreign news is examined as well. To conform and explain foreign news it must be put in relation to a starting point.

Sweden has distinct seasons with cold winter and temperatures down to minus 25 ?C andpleasant summers with temperatures above 20 ?C. During spring and autumn there could becomechallenges with precipitation. The diverse climate in Sweden affects many homeowners. For thepeople living in leisure boats and permanent housing boats the seasonal changes are clearlyimpacting their economy and the indoor climate.

Den privata sektorn har alltid sökt efter metoder för att effektivisera sin verksamhet och öka sin lönsamhet, detta har lett till att ekonomistyrningsmodeller har utvecklats. Sedan början av 1990-talet har även de icke-vinstdrivande organisationerna börjat snegla på den privata sektorns styrmodeller med en förhoppning om att kunna effektivisera sina organisationer. Denna nya trend med icke-vinstdrivande organisationer som anammar styrmodeller utvecklade för den privata sektorn kom att kallas New Public Management. Den kanske vanligaste styrmodellen de offentliga organisationerna tar till sig är The Balanced Scorecard eller balanserad styrning som den heter på svenska. Att många svenska offentliga organisationer väljer att implementera balanserad styrning är känt, däribland svenska landsting.

I början av 1900-talet fanns alla de viktiga komponenterna av den traditionellaekonomistyrningen och det var även vid denna tidpunkt som utvecklingen avden traditionella ekonomistyrningen stannade av. Efter andra världskrigetbörjade synen på ekonomistyrning förändras. Under denna period skeddestora förändringar i teknologi och många företag hade expanderat. Företagenbörjade inse att för att kunna konkurrera måste det till fler rapporter från olikadelar av verksamheten (Olve et al. 1999).År 1990 fick Robert S.

Chile and Santiago are struggling with heavy environmental problems as a consequence of urbanisation and industrialisation. In the Santiago region the air is seriously contaminated and most of the rivers are classified as heavily polluted.The aim of this thesis is to survey the industrial fluid waste situation in the Santiago region and to make suggestions on technological improvements or process changes. The purpose is also to study five different enterprises more closely and to give more detailed suggestions for improvement. Another purpose is to summarize relevant Chilean legislation.Information, provided by the supervisory authority, about the release of industrial wastewater to rivers has been analysed. Deep interviews have been made with authorities and consultants.

Bakgrund och problem: Historiskt har företagens system för prestationsmätning varitkortsiktiga och finansiella, men genom den skiftande konkurrensen har allt mer kritik riktatsemot dessa system. Som ett svar på denna kortsiktighet har det kommit flera nyamanagementtekniker som belyser företaget utifrån fler perspektiv än det finansiella. Det finnsidag forskning hur det balanserade styrkortet skapar värde (De Geuser et al, 2009). Dennaforskning har framförallt tillkommit under senare år och fanns således inte när många företagimplementerade sitt styrkort. Detta kan därför inte ses som ett svar på varför företagen valt attimplementera konceptet.Andra forskare förklarar spridningen genom retoriska argument, fads and fashion, imitationoch sampaketering med andra management innovationer.

Low stumps represent on their own up to 80% of the dead wood remaining on clear cuts and therefore supply suitable habitat for saproxylic insects i.e. insects depending on dead wood for their survival. Recent stump harvesting activities threaten this substrate of ecological importance and increase the anthropogenic negative impacts on these species. Because of technical and environmental reasons (nutrient leakage, erosion) guidelines for stump harvesting recommend to retain stumps standing in wet parts of clear cuts. However, stumps in wet positions might not be a satisfactory substrate for saproxylic insects and therefore might not be as much used as stumps in dry positions.

Title: Brain Gym®? An approach to increase self-knowledge in situations of learning?- A study at the Malmö Academy of Music from a teacher and student perspective. Brain Gym® is a method developed by Paul Dennison in his studies of physiology and aims to eliminate potential blockages during the process of learning. During the influence of stress, as in learning, we do not possess a total access to our perceptive ability. Instead we are limited to our so called dominance profile.

The district heating load is seasonally dependent, with a low load during periods of high ambient temperature. Thermal energy storage (TES) has the potential to shift heating loads from winter to summer, thus reducing cost and environmental impact of District Heat production. In this study, a concept of high temperature borehole thermal energy storage (HT-BTES) together with a pellet heating plant for temperature boost, is presented and evaluated by its technical limitations, its ability to supply heat, its function within the district heating system, as well as its environmental impact and economic viability in Gothenburg, Sweden, a city with access to high quantities of waste heat.The concept has proven potentially environmentally friendly and potentially profitable if its design is balanced to achieve a good enough supply temperature from the HT-BTES. The size of the heat storage, the distance between boreholes and low borehole thermal resistance are key parameters to achieve high temperature. Profitability increases if a location with lower temperature demand, as well as risk of future shortage of supply, can be met.

The competitiveness and profitability of swedish farm enterprises is frequently discussed in agricultural media. Increased exposure to the surrounding world with greater competitive pressure and considerable price fluctuations in the agricultural markets demand new ways of acting to secure the agricultural sector?s long-term survival and profitability. Structural change and/or diversification leads to increased numbers of stake-holders around the farm enterprise and thereby also the expectations of the farmers ability to lead and coordinate resources. Lean is the name of a management model developed by Toyota, influenced by the lack of resources in Japan during the post WWII period.