The number of ideas at innovative companies usually exceeds the amount of available human ormaterial recourses, this include ideas for development of new products. Since they are not able to doeverything they want to do they have to choose between ideas to develop new products. This includesthe decision on when to start, stop or kill a project as well as the thought process of prioritizing betweenongoing and potential projects.Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is an organizational process, with the purpose of systematicallyorganizing and running the activities that aim to evaluate, select and prioritize ideas and projects fordeveloping new products. PPM include four major goals to be fulfilled; Maximizing Value of thePortfolio, Achieving a Balanced Portfolio, Achieving a Strategic Alignment and Running the RightNumber of Projects.The purpose of the thesis was to develop a more visual and formal PPM process for the early stages inproduct development in one department at St Jude Medical AB, Sweden.The thesis was conducted by following a methodology known as Process Modules. The methodology isan approach for developing a PPM process that fits a specific company.

This study focuses on a specific organization of a Security Operations Center (SOC) as a case studyto first identify specific challenges related to the work process, preceding with identifying whichprinciples from various process models, such as agile and traditional methodologies from softwaredevelopment companies, can be implemented. Initially, the study presents relevant research on agile and traditional process models as well asresearch on SOC. Subsequently, six semi-structured interviews are planned and conducted withemployees within a specific SOC-type organization to identify the current work process and thechallenges affecting the organization?s work process. The results of this study indicate a description of the current work process in the organization aswell as a variety of challenges related to technical and organizational issues.

Målet med studien är tudelat. Å ena sidan är det en granskning av den strategiska kommunikationens utveckling och utbredning inom den svenska elitfotbollen; hur den allsvenska kommunikationen har förändrats de senaste åren med framförallt fokus på medierelationer och kommunikationsplanering. Å andra sidan är det en studie av informatörsprofessionens utbredning, eller den kommunikationsstrategiska utbredningen. Studien har som syftet att bidra till ett outforskat område inom den svenska fotbollsforskningen. Genomförandet av studien har skett på två olika sätt. För det första har vi granskat relevant forskning om strategisk kommunikation.

Genom det växande antalet kravställande intressenter måste företag finna nya vägar att utvecklas. För att uppnå tillväxt och värdeskapande måste företaget vara flexibelt och kan inte längre enbart fokusera på en typ av intressenter om avsikten är att säkra långsiktig framgång och konkurrenskraft.Att skydda miljön är ett område som får allt större uppmärksamhet i samhället. Företag kan inte längre ignorera detta område och allt fler röster höjs för att företag och organisationer måste integrera detta i sin ordinarie verksamhet för att nå framgång.Denna studie har som avsikt att undersöka möjligheterna att använda verktyget Balanced Scorecard som övergripande styrning av organisationers miljöarbete. Studien har genomförts genom en fallstudie på en större industriell organisation där syftet varit att undersöka möjligheterna att effektivisera dess miljöarbete genom användning av Balanced Scorecard.Resultaten i denna studie visar att verktyget är resurskrävande vid framtagandet och utmaningarna är många för en organisation att implementera detta på miljöarbetet. Verktyget kräver att vissa områden beaktas såsom uppmärksamhet, delaktighet och kommunikation.Ett Balanced Scorecard för miljöarbetet kan, om identifierade förutsättningar beaktas, förbättra kommunikationen, informationsflödet, redovisning av prestanda och öka möjligheterna till ett tvärfunktionellt miljöarbete.

The creation of Region Skåne, and the transfer of the development responsibility from the national administrative country board (Länsstyrelsen) has given the state new challenges. New structures have grown between Region and State, and also between different municipalities. These can be characterized as Policy-networks, and the goal of this study is to analyze the planning process of the regional infrastructure with these theories.This is a qualitative study of the infrastructure process in Skåne, and the actors that acts within this process. It has been studied with the eyes of the theories of Governance and Policy-networks. The main method to collect material has been through interviews with different actors within the process, and very little written material has been used.

A severe profitability decline in sugar beet production in all of Europe is one of the consequences of the latest reform of the EU sugar regime. In south of Sweden, sugar beets is the crop that has been the most profitable by far for the last decade. The high profitability has contributed to the high rate of increase in the price of land and has restrained the structural change towards a more effective agriculture. Because of the reform, all sugar beet producers are facing diminishing income and must find ways to compensate this. The aim of this master thesis is to study how Swedish farmers adapt to the sugar beet reform. A questionnaire was sent to 354 randomly selected sugar beet producers.

The students participating in my development work will work with a process book for handicraft studies. In the beginning of their studies, the students need practical knowledge about the development of the profession itself, but they also need to be challenged and learn how to solve problems on their own which will help them gain a deeper knowledge of the subject.    I focus on open questions to create a process with the students. This process is created when working with Solution-Focused-Education. Through ?assessment for learning? we can help the students to improve their self-assessment and understanding of the learning process.

To make a company or an organization reach a goal it requires the right way of thinking when recruiting new employees. One mistake and one wrong recruitment can cause a company or an organization huge expense, which are possible to avoid. A right recruitment is about having a good recruitment process which will support the right decision when choosing new employees. The purpose of this thesis is to do an analysis on three recruitment companies recruitment process and show the significance of the recruitment process for hiring the right person for the right position. The information for this paper has been collected through interviews and literature which concerns this subject.

The acquisition process as an object for research and empirical studies have increased in importance during the past decade. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate this process further. This was done by reviewing previous research covering the area of mergers and acquisitions. Seven key factors that should be considered in an acquisition process emerged; acquisition project management, planning, communication between the acquirer and the potential target, goal alignment within management, company-cultures, a trade-off between a certain speed in integrating the companies and consideration of the employees, and finally the follow-up. These factors have been shown to increase the likelihood of value creation in acquisitions.

The aim of this thesis is to study a job-searching process and elements that affects it. The elements I have focused on are gender, class and social network. The study is based on interviews and a survey study with students from the educational program of Social work (Socialomsorgsutbildningen), that graduated 3 years ago. Through the survey I have examined their social-background and their job-searching process. The interviews are the main focus in the study.

Nutrient enrichment is the main cause of the increasing eutrophication process in the Baltic Sea during last century. A prerequisite counteract this process the load of nutrients to the Sea must be investigated. The large contribution of nutrients to the Sea is caused by emission from the rivers within the drainage basin. For the total emission of nutrient into the Sea the retention process in the rivers has big influence. This process in the river system has been assumed as a not important part of the nutrient cycle.

The purpose of this Bachelor?s thesis is to describe and analyze the implementation of Facebook in a public library. A case study consisting of qualitative interviews and studies of documents containing goals for the library has been conducted at a public library going through the process of implementing Facebook in their operations. The theoretical framework for this study consists of Everett M. Rogers?s stages of the innovation-decision process and his characteristics of innovations as perceived by individuals.

Det här arbetet ämnar att studera kommunikationspolicyn och -programmet för Stockholms stad. Mot bakgrund att kommunen har tagit fram det nya kommunikationsprogrammet som ersätter den gamla kommunikationspolicyn undersöker jag följande; vilka deltagare som realiseras i texterna och vilka av de som utgör påverkan samt hur kommunen framställer på sig själv och sin kommunikation. Jag undersöker även huruvida det i samband med framställandet av det nya dokumentet och övergången till en strategisk kommunikation har synen på kommunikationenoch på sig själv förändrats och vilka kommunikationskriterier som realiseras i dokumenten. Som metod för min analys använder jag ett verktyg såsom den systemisk-funktionellagrammatiken (SFG) har att tillämpa. Inom SFG har jag tillämpat den ideationellametafunktionen till min analys däri jag har tagit del av transitivitetsystemet och ergativitetssystemet samt satskomplex.

The aim with this literature review is to describe the ensilage process in a bunker silo. The process from harvest and chopping to filling and unloading the silo is explained. The sealing of the bunker silo plays an important role for the final quality of the silage. This review covers some of the techniques used. There are many silage additives on the market, some of them are presented including how they act in the ensilage process.

This essay describes a single case self-study of a music composer in order to track the compositional process in real time. In the study the subject and the researcher are the same person. The study builds on previous empirical studies that have used methodological approaches such as analysis of computer-based digital data collection, verbal protocol and video observations. It deals with issues of the compositional process related to for example time consumption, number of artistic decisions, the different roles and skills of a music composer, and methods of research in the musical composition process. During three shifts the researcher worked as a music composer dealing with the issue of converting an audio sketch of a composition into a representative finished audio product.