Many innovative businesses have discovered an added value in collaborating with experts, users or other stakeholders in developing innovative products or services. Not all collaboration with stakeholders, however, corresponds to the criteria for opening up an innovation process to the needs of societal actors under the terms of responsible innovation. The question of what makes collaboration meaningful in the sense of responsible innovation was presented and discussed in a 75 min workshop at the European Science Open Forum (ESOF) in Toulouse, France in June 2018. Identified success factors and challenges for making a collaboration process meaningful for the collaborating parties highlight the importance of competent process preparation and facilitation, investment of time and effort to enable mutual understanding and the development of trustful relationships as well as the collaborating partners' willingness to implement changes that result from the collaboration process.

I ett tidigare genomfört examensarbete gjordes en förstudie på hur en människa-robot samarbetscell skulle fungera i en laboratoriemiljö. I Arvid Bobergs ”HRC Implementation in laboratory environment” skulle cellen tas fram på uppdrag av Eurofins för att arbeta med kemikalie- och mikrobiologiska analyser inom jordbruk, mat och miljö. För att verifiera de lösningsförslag som togs fram skulle en implementering behöva utformas i en fysisk miljö.  Projektets huvudsyfte var att ta fram en samarbetscell som skulle utföra arbetsuppgifter i en labbmiljö. För detta ändamål har en station, arbetsmoment och komponenter tagits fram och implementerats på ASSAR. Stationen har programmerats för att visa upp möjligheterna som roboten har att erbjuda i en samarbetscell med hjälp av ABB RobotStudio och online programmering.  Valet av robot var om möjligt att använda sig av ABB:s YuMi robot. Detta för att det var roboten som förstudien som arbetet bygger på använde sig av i dess modell samt byggde sin teori på och eftersom förstudiens arbete ligger till grunden för detta projekt.  Implementationen av stationen har genomförts i steg för att kunna testa olika upplägg och erhålla bättre förståelse av robotens egenskaper och vad den är kapabel att utföra i förhållande till räckvidd och flexibilitet. För att skapa de mer avancerade funktionerna i programmet användes offline programmering i ABB RobotStudio kombinerat med hjälp av online programmering. Funktionerna blir för avancerade för att skriva i en TeachPendant eftersom det blir långa rader med kod för att skapa de avancerade funktioner som roboten använder sig av för att utföra sina arbetsuppgifter.  Arbetet på ASSAR har lett till att ett flertal olika lösningar har tagits fram och tänkts över tills ett koncept valts och implementerats på ASSAR. Detta i form av en samarbetscell som visar upp olika funktioner för att utföra arbetsuppgifter i en labbmiljö med hjälp av YuMi-roboten ifrån ABB och ett arbetsbord som skapats under projektets gång.  Projektet har uppnått flertalet uppsatta mål för arbetet men några har inte uppnåtts, detta på grund av förseningar som uppkommit under projektets gång. Förseningarna har gjort att arbetsgången ändrats och det resultat som författaren försökt uppnå förändrats för att ta fram en samarbetscell och ge ett resultat åt projektet. / In a previous final year project, a study was carried out on how a robotic collaborative cell would work in a laboratory environment. In Arvid Bobergs "HRC Implementation in laboratory environment" the cell would be developed on behalf of Eurofins to work with chemical and microbiological analyses in agriculture, food and environment. To verify the suggested solutions, an implementation would need to be designed in a physical environment. The main purpose of the project was to develop a collaborative cell that would perform tasks in a lab environment. For this purpose, a station, work operations and components have been developed and implemented at ASSAR. The station has been programmed to showcase the possibilities the robot has to offer in a collaborative cell with the help of ABB Robot Studio and online programming. The choice of the robot was if possible, to make use of ABB's YuMi robot. This is because it was the robot that the pre-study that the work is based on used in its model and built its theory on and because the work of the feasibility study is the foundation of this project. The implementation of the station has been completed in steps to be able to test different structure and obtain a better understanding of the robot's characteristics and what it is capable to perform in relation to range and flexibility. To create the more advanced features of the program was used offline programming in ABB Robot Studio combined with the help of online programming. The functions become too advanced to write in a TeachPendant because there will be long lines of code to create the advanced functions that the robot uses to perform its tasks. The work at ASSAR has led to several different solutions being developed and thought over until a concept has been chosen and implemented at ASSAR. This in the form of a collaborative cell that showcases various functions to perform tasks in a lab environment using the YuMi robot from ABB and a worktable created during the project. The project has achieved several goals for the work, but some have not been achieved, because of delays that have arisen during the course of the project. The delays have made the workflow change and the result that the author has tried to achieve has changed to develop a collaborative cell and give a result to the project.

Thesis advisor: Diana C. Pullin / It is widely accepted that school leadership has both a direct and indirect impact on student achievement. Hitt and Tucker’s (2016) unified leadership framework summarized a decade of work by numerous researchers identifying the five most effective leadership domains that influence student learning. Using that work as a conceptual framework, this qualitative case study analyzed one of the five interdependent leadership domains in an urban elementary school that succeeded in educating traditionally marginalized students and outperformed other schools with similar demographics in the district. This study identified and explored the second leadership domain which is described as building professional capacity, focusing specifically on the principal’s actions. Building professional capacity is defined in this study as developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of teachers and is important for expanding leadership responsibility for student learning and increasing student achievement. The study resulted in identifying all seven dimensions of the domain present in practice at the school and explored the actions taken to embed them into the culture. Data were gathered through the review of district and school level documents and open-ended interviews with district leaders and members of school administration, faculty, and staff. Findings indicated that the school principal performed several specific and tangible actions to build professional capacity in the school including implementing professional practice, messaging consistently high expectations with faculty and staff, modeling expected professional behaviors and habits, and coaching faculty and staff. Many staff believed the success of the school was a result of the culture of collaboration, dedication, and high expectations forged by the principal. Recommendations for building upon this work included selecting and hiring teachers who offer evidence of effective instruction despite different philosophical viewpoints, addressing levels of trust with those who express conflicting levels of collaboration and commitment, and expanding the effective leadership practices with other school leaders throughout the district. / Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

Thesis advisor: Rebecca Lowenhaupt / This qualitative study examined the organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs) used by school district educational leaders to improve the implementation of curriculum reform. This portion of the study focused on the OLMs used by central office boundary spanners to help school principals implement curriculum reform chosen by school district leaders. Drawing from interview and document data analysis, the results of this study indicated that OLMs used by central office boundary spanners are critical to the successful implementation of school reform. Examples of the OLMs used by central office boundary spanners included utilizing online technology and providing whole and small group support as well as individualized coaching to help school principals implement curriculum reform. Frequent communication, collaborative opportunities, and consistent messaging with school principals surfaced as the key OLM techniques used by central office boundary spanners to consistently improve the implementation of school reform. / Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

This study proposes criteria to diagnose, to analyse and to evaluate the extent of cooperation and collaboration between supply chain members within extensive inter-firm relationships in supply chains. A case study context examines cooperative and collaborative relationships between shipping companies and shippers as suppliers, manufacturers, distributers, retailers, exporters and importers. The components of cooperation and collaboration are analysed through literature reviews, interviews with industrial experts, content analysis, two-rounds of Q-sorting, and pilot testing. Cooperation is a subset of collaboration comprised of transparency, fairness, and mutuality, and cooperation and “relational strength” such as trust and sustainability constitute collaboration. A questionnaire survey generated 167 responses from shipping companies in South Korea. Exploratory factor analysis underpinned cooperative and collaborative spirit indices (CCSIs) that varied within the shipping industry, types of shipping registered, and vessel types. Confirmatory factor analysis supported good model fit, convergent and discriminant validity, and unidimensionality. A “target coefficient” identified second order factors and path analysis showed that fairness, mutuality and cooperation can foster trust, and mutual trust can cultivate sustainability although transparency does not necessarily lead to trust. CCSIs indicated modest cooperation and collaboration in the shipping industry and MANOVA revealed differences according to vessel types and contract periods. This research clarifies theories of cooperation. Enhanced CCSIs between shippers and shipping companies imply that shippers should extend two-way communication, mutuality, distributive fairness and sustainability with shipping companies. Maintaining relationships brings long run benefits. Further, shipping companies should continuously strive to gain trust from shippers and government should organise consultative groups, develop and disseminate exemplary cases and foster institutions to promote collaboration. The constructs and items deployed herein are generic, implying that the research model and CCSIs methods will be widely applicable.

Esta pesquisa investiga as possibilidades metodológicas do campo do design que possam lidar eficientemente com sistemas complexos que servem de contexto a vários problemas contemporâneos. Entendemos que os problemas propostos à área projetual estão se tornando progressivamente mais complexos, sem que tenha havido uma contrapartida na sofisticação da reflexão dos métodos projetuais. Partimos então de uma pesquisa das correntes metodológicas de projeto -- especificamente da corrente Design Methods anglo-americana, que desde sua criação nos anos 1960 colocou a necessidade de novos métodos para o design contemporâneo -- que pudessem dar conta de novos níveis de complexidade. Num segundo momento, procuramos fundamentação na teoria dos sistemas, a respeito dos fenômenos típicos dos sistemas complexos -- emergência, robustez, grandes eventos --, suas características e desdobramentos para o mapeamento das soluções dos problemas de design. A partir desta fundamentação identificamos estratégias para o tratamento de problemas complexos. Também procuramos analisar e inferir, das várias iniciativas da web colaborativa, os elementos que geram soluções para problemas de grande complexidade. No decorrer da pesquisa foi possível perceber que as iniciativas existentes na web que tratam de problemas complexos se utilizam de certas estratégias que possibilitam abordagens de projeto mais efetivas. Ao final do estudo, procuramos elaborar uma síntese dessas estratégias e lançar sugestões de abordagem que possam ajudar projetistas no enfrentamento dos problemas complexos típicos de nossos tempos. / This research investigates the possibilities of a design methodology that can deal with complex systems that serve as the backdrop to many contemporary problems. We think that the problems posed to design field are becoming increasingly complex, without any correspondent counterpart in the sophistication in design methods. Therefore, we started with a survey in design methodological theories -- specifically the Anglo-American Design Methods movement, which since its creation in the 1960s put the need for new methods to contemporary design -- that could deal with new levels of complexity. As a second step, we seek grounding in systems theory, about the typical complex systems phenomena -- emergence, robustness, major events -- its features and developments for the mapping of solutions of design problems. From this foundation we identified different strategies to solve complex problems. We also seek to analyze and infer, based on the various collaborative web initiatives, the elements that generate solutions to problems of great complexity. During the research it was revealed that existing web initiatives that address complex problems make use of some strategies that enable more effective design approaches. At the end of this work, we sought to develop an overview of these strategies and proposed suggested approaches that can help designers in addressing the complex problems typical of our times.

This Thesis presents ethnographic data collected through multi-sector, multi-level purposive sampling in a longitudinal qualitative case study between 2008 and 2010. A pilot study had discovered the changing role of government in building capacity for responses to civil emergencies, against a context of changing risks and resources for UK Emergency Management. The Thesis explored the increasing involvement of non-statutory agencies by focussing on the ‘Third Sector’: voluntary, charitable, faith, or community organisations and communities. The Thesis reports (1) the relationship between multi-organisational arrangements and resilience, (2) the role of Third Sector organisations in implementing resilience, and (3) the role of the Third Sector in community resilience. (1) The data suggested that the process of implementing resilience involved operationalising the resilience concept as a philosophy for Integrated Emergency Management [IEM], and consequent changes to the governance and organisation of Scottish and UK emergency management. The research linked the role of the Third Sector in resilience and community resilience to the dynamic between preparedness and response. It explored (2) the impact of implementing resilience on organising and organisations in the Third Sector, and (3) policy development and capacity-building for an emergent role in community resilience. The Thesis makes a distinctive contribution to the discipline of Public Management. Firstly, the findings represent a novel empirical and theoretical contribution regarding the role of the Third Sector in community resilience and in the resilience paradigm of emergency management. This data is used to extend existing theory about the proactive role of Third Sector organisations in collaborative emergency management. Secondly, the Thesis argues that the meso-level of analysis is neglected in the emerging field of resilience studies. Network and collaboration theory in Public Management are used to make a novel theoretical contribution, describing the relationship between multi-organisational arrangements and the operationalisation of ‘resilient’ emergency management. Thirdly, the Thesis contributes to the study of collaborative emergency management from this longitudinal perspective. This data is used to extend our understanding of (a) the applicability of Public Management theory to this context and (b) the relevance of data from this context to theories of collaborative public management.

For users away from the office or home, there is an increasing demand for mobile solutions that offer effective collaborative facilities on the move. The mobile cellular device, or “smart phone”, can offer a ubiquitous platform to deliver such services, provided that its many physical and technological constraints can be overcome. In an effort to better support mobile collaboration, this thesis presents a contributing Mobile Exchange Architecture (MEA) designed to improve upon the capabilities provided by mobile devices to enable synchronous exchange of digital media during a phone conversation using wireless networks and cellular devices. This research includes the design and development of one such MEA in the form of a fully functional Photo-conferencing service, supporting shared remote interaction techniques, simultaneous voice communication and seamless digital media exchange between remote and collocated mobile users. Furthermore, through systematic design, experimental evaluations and field studies we evaluate the effects of different shared remote interaction techniques – 'pointing', 'scaling', 'mixed' and 'hybrid' – assessing the task effort required by users when interacting around shared images across resource constrained mobile devices. This thesis presents a direction for the future development of technologies and methods to enable a new era of scalable always-to-hand mobile collaborative environments.

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Globalization, rapid technological change, shorter product life cycles, changing customerpreferences, and hyper competition are just some characteristics of today’s businessenvironment. As a result, organizations have become aware of the fact that working alone isalmost impossible. Therefore, they began to understand that building relationships are keys toa successful business. In fact, as the business processes become more specialized,organizations prefer to focus on their core competencies and outsourcing becomes a relevantstrategy. Consequently parts of the value adding processes are displaced outside the four wallsof the firm which in turn, need a closer partnership (collaboration) between the partners.In today’s world logistics which includes transportation, inventory, order processing,purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, and much more, must continuouslybe developed to meet those described challenges. In fact, an effective logistics system is amust in order to meet and satisfy the customer demand. These developments require aconsiderable effort and significant capital. Accordingly, outsourcing the logistics activitiesbecome common and many companies leave these tasks to those who have availableresources and are competent to perform them. However, as mentioned, outsourcing withoutcooperation is inefficient.The objective of this research project is to introduce and describe collaborative logisticsmanagement and investigate its consequence on the supply chain. This purpose necessitates aframework to support the collaboration between the entities in the chain especially in terms oflogistics activities. Besides, the potential benefits (in terms of cost and services) in logisticscollaboration are supported by a lot of literatures. Despite the identified needs and potentialbenefits, there are still barriers through which is not started or not successful enough.Therefore, while those barriers must be identified, possible enablers should be designed andimplemented to attain desired benefits. This has been done through both a theoretical reviewand also a case study.