This report describes the background, approach, and the final results for the presentation tool PresenteraMera. PresenteraMera is an online-based, interactive presentation tool that is created to improve the quality of sales presentations and simplify the creation of presentations. The client for this project is Dempsey, a digital advertising agency and production company with headquarters in Stockholm. PresenteraMera consists of several features that make it easier for businesses to create, edit and display their presentations. The tool also allows the user to always be sure that the presentations created with PresenteraMera follows a specific design, based on their graphic manual for example.

The industry environment is more and more sharp and uncertainty, business only insist to innovation can create the value and search the excellence , alignment the strategy on time, non-stop to change the organization, set-up the profitable business model and then could be elevate the business growth and survive competition. Since, the IT industry is in the stage of maturity, standard technology, the technology entrance of threshold is decrease, and into the micro-profitable era. The most important thing are to create a new generation industry or upgrade the industry and transform, such like The ACER is focus on brand, and Hon Hai non-stop to vertical integration and horizontal demarcation employ the EMS extend. So, in the change situation, how to using the thinking of innovation dynamic management, to deal with the problem is the aim of this thesis. The conclusion is ¡§competition is learning capability and execution¡¨. Leader how to make strategy alignment, manager how to make effective management, industry how to positive innovation and integrate resources and country how to breakthrough the limitation and hobble, how to brave to cross the hyper-competitive were the key points. This thesis is search the business how to using the innovation to create the value, and take two large group of ACER and Hon Hai in the IT industry for the discuss object; because, the former is for the international brand to develop, the latter is forward the international EMS and technology R&D, the result are acknowledged and afford to be the business paragon and bench-maker. These are the right focus for national IT industry of knowledge-based develop model of the two directions of how to from ¡§faster follower¡¨ transform to ¡§innovation break-through¡¨. That is to search the Taiwan business how to by ¡§efficiency driver¡¨ transform ¡§innovation driver¡¨ process, discuss business how to using innovation as strategy to create value and win profit. Finally, this research according to the relate bibliography discussion and case analyze, using the combination of Allan Afuah (1998)¡AAllan Afuah¡AChristopher L. Tucci (2000) study result of the integrate model of how to from innovation obtain profit and e-commerce business model, devise a concept model of business innovation system, it according to the innovation management as kernel, then discuss the function and essentiality of technology, main study the three key elements of strategy, value and profit for business to set-up competitive.

Abstract; Finding needs of knowledge are important for universities but also for operation in the surrounding area. Teacher, student and other organization have to make efforts to create opportunities to develop knowledge. Without cooperate/ cooperation they can loose possibilities to develop valuable knowledge. How do the organization see upon meanings of the procedures of cooperation? How do they work with and for cooperation? What role should the universities play in the development of knowledge in todays community of change? The aim of this study is to create an understanding for the meaning of cooperation procedure by developing knowledge and how it might bring value. My interest in this is to find the means of procedure of cooperation and to create understanding. By using interviews, the interviewee can tell about their different experiences. In this study there is six interviews made with people who work with procedure of cooperation in six different operation. The result shows that opportunity to make a procedure of cooperation and developing knowledge depends on the operators work with planning of the procedure. By finding needs and the means to attain the goals depends on the different needs and demands of the operator. The procedure might bring both the development of knowledge but also values. It requires good communication and action from all parts involved. Both Universities and surrounding operators have to change their role by working towards cooperation. It is a matter of creating values for all in the procedure of cooperation.

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<p>Abstract; Finding needs of knowledge are important for universities but also for operation in the surrounding area. Teacher, student and other organization have to make efforts to create opportunities to develop knowledge. Without cooperate/ cooperation they can loose possibilities to develop valuable knowledge. How do the organization see upon meanings of the procedures of cooperation? How do they work with and for cooperation? What role should the universities play in the development of knowledge in todays community of change? The aim of this study is to create an understanding for the meaning of cooperation procedure by developing knowledge and how it might bring value.</p><p>My interest in this is to find the means of procedure of cooperation and to create understanding. By using interviews, the interviewee can tell about their different experiences. In this study there is six interviews made with people who work with procedure of cooperation in six different operation.</p><p>The result shows that opportunity to make a procedure of cooperation and developing knowledge depends on the operators work with planning of the procedure. By finding needs and the means to attain the goals depends on the different needs and demands of the operator. The procedure might bring both the development of knowledge but also values. It requires good communication and action from all parts involved. Both Universities and surrounding operators have to change their role by working towards cooperation. It is a matter of creating values for all in the procedure of cooperation.</p>

Titel: En kvalitativ fallstudie hur aktörer skapar och bibehåller förtroende i organisationer med fördelat ansvar   Nivå: Kandidatuppsats   Författare: Jens Bergvik och Hanna Eriksson   Handledare: Stig Sörling och Tomas Källquist   Datum: 2015 – januari   Syfte: Enligt tidigare forskning är förtroende grunden för många av organisationens resultat och basen i fungerade relationer och samarbeten. Sambandet mellan förtroende och den ansvarsfördelade organisationen är identifierad men saknar praktisk forskning, då en ansvarsfördelad organisation kräver samarbete beroende på att många har befogenhet till ansvar och beslutsmakt. Syftet med denna studie är därmed att ge en ökad förståelse för hur aktörer skapar och bibehåller förtroende samt att belysa förtroendets roll i ansvarsfördelade organisationer.   Metod: Studien har utgått från ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv och fenomenet som studerats ses vara av socialkonstruktivistisk art. Med hjälp av deduktion har teori och empiri arbetats fram där grunden för studien har varit i form av en fallstudie som antar ett kvalitativt angreppssätt genom semistrukturerade intervjuer.   Resultat &amp; slutsats: Studien tyder på att förtroende är svårt att beskriva då det uppfattas som en abstrakt fenomen och därav avsaknaden av konkreta verktyg. De faktorer som istället anses ha inverkan på förtroendenivån är också de faktorer som används för att skapa och bibehålla förtroende, vilka är kompetens, kommunikation och förståelse.   Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Förtroende har en betydande roll i samtliga organisationsstrukturer och denna studie är avgränsad till en ansvarsfördelad organisations struktur. Dessutom finns även infallsvinklar om hur och genom vem förtroende skapas.   Uppsatsens bidrag: Studiens bidrag är hur aktörer skapar och bibehåller förtroende samt betydelsen av förtroende i ansvarsfördelade organisationer. Studien tyder på att uppfattningen om förtroende är ett fenomen som är svårt att beskriva eftersom det är abstrakt. Och visar på att vikten av förtroende i ansvarsfördelade organisationer för att samarbeten och delegering av ansvar ska fungera. De faktorer som studien bidrar med för att skapa förtroende är kompetens, kommunikation och förståelse. För att bibehålla förtroende är studiens bidrag att arbeta kontinuerligt med kompetens och kommunikation.   Nyckelord: Decentralisation, distributed responsibility, organisational trust, trust, create trust, retain trust / Title: A qualitative case study research on how operators create and retain trust in organisations with distributed responsibility   Level: Bachelor thesis   Author: Jens Bergvik och Hanna Eriksson   Supervisor: Stig Sörling och Tomas Källquist   Date: 2015 – January   Aim: According to earlier research trust is important to many of the organisations results and the base in relationship and collaboration. The connection between trust and organisations with distributed responsibility is identified but there is a lack of practical research. With distributed responsibility there will be a need of collaboration, when a lot of people have responsibilities and authority to make decision. The purpose of this report is to increase understanding about how operators create and retain trust and to highlight the role of trust in organisations with distributed responsibility.   Method: The report adopts a hermeneutic perspective and the studied phenomenon assumes to be a social construction. A deductive approach have been used to collect theoretical and empirical information. The base for the report is a case study with a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews.   Result &amp; Conclusions: The report implies that trust is difficult to describe because it is perceived as an abstract phenomenon and therefore there is an absence of concrete tools. Instead, the factors that is considered to influence trust is also the factors that is being used to create and retain trust, which is competence, communication and understanding.   Suggestions for future research: Trust has an important role in organisations and this report is limited to a specific organisational structure. Another suggestion is to study the different operators’ role in the process of creating trust.   Contribution of the thesis: The reports contribution is how operators create and retain trust and highlight the role of trust in organisations with distributed responsibility. The report indicates that trust is difficult to describe because it is perceived as an abstract phenomenon. Also shows the importance of trust in organisations with distributed responsibility, because trust makes relationships and delegation more effective. Competence, communication and understanding are factors that the report present as factors that has influence on creating trust. To retain trust the report argues that continuously work with competence and communication will be needed.   Key words: Decentralisation, distributed responsibility, organisational trust, trust, create trust, retain trust

abstract: This thesis introduces the Model-Based Development of Multi-iRobot Toolbox (MBDMIRT), a Simulink-based toolbox designed to provide the means to acquire and practice the Model-Based Development (MBD) skills necessary to design real-time embedded system. The toolbox was developed in the Cyber-Physical System Laboratory at Arizona State University. The MBDMIRT toolbox runs under MATLAB/Simulink to simulate the movements of multiple iRobots and to control, after verification by simulation, multiple physical iRobots accordingly. It adopts the Simulink/Stateflow, which exemplifies an approach to MBD, to program the behaviors of the iRobots. The MBDMIRT toolbox reuses and augments the open-source MATLAB-Based Simulator for the iRobot Create from Cornell University to run the simulation. Regarding the mechanism of iRobot control, the MBDMIRT toolbox applies the MATLAB Toolbox for the iRobot Create (MTIC) from United States Naval Academy to command the physical iRobots. The MBDMIRT toolbox supports a timer in both the simulation and the control, which is based on the local clock of the PC running the toolbox. In addition to the build-in sensors of an iRobot, the toolbox can simulate four user-added sensors, which are overhead localization system (OLS), sonar sensors, a camera, and Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR). While controlling a physical iRobot, the toolbox supports the StarGazer OLS manufactured by HAGISONIC, Inc. / Dissertation/Thesis / Model-Based Development of Multi-iRobot Toolbox (version 1.0) / M.S. Computer Science 2012

在傳統的企業思維中，價值乃是由企業創造的，由企業單獨決定其產品和服務提供什麼價值，消費者僅僅代表對公司產品的需求；但隨著產業環境的發展，尤其是網路經濟時代的來臨，生產者與消費者之間的界限開始模糊。而在過去資訊單向流通的網路世界中，人們在網路上代表的僅僅是一個創造流量的虛擬人物，但隨著資訊科技的進步，網路技術的發展，人們在網際網路中開始彼此協作，發揮集體智慧向全世界發聲；在這樣的發展情況下造就了Web2.0名詞的誕生。 根據台灣網路資訊中心所公佈的2007年一月「台灣寬頻網路使用調查」報告顯示，台灣目前的網路普及率已達到67.77%，全世界的上網人口也已經超過了4億5千萬人；而在2006年第一季，美國Web2.0相關廠商即獲得8億7000萬美元的創投資金，在這樣的熱潮中，有許許多多創業者爭相投入網路市場當中。因此本研究目的在於窺探台灣的 Web 2.0 網站如何進行事業模式創新，讓目前仍停留在Web 1.0時代的網站業者，或是目前欲投入網路產業的創業家瞭解Web2.0網站的成功之道。本研究首先整理學者、網路趨勢家們對於Web2.0概念的討論與分析，歸納出Web2.0之定義；並以Hamel（2000）所提出的事業觀念創新為基礎，並結合Prahalad & Ramswamy（2003）共創價值理論與Brush, Greene, Hart & Edelman（1997）所提出之新創事業資本架構，建構出本研究的研究架構，並以網站內容由使用者提供的Web2.0網站為研究標的，深入探索其創新概念之形成、創業歷程，以及其如何進行與顧客共創價值之事業模式創新。 本研究之發現顯示，網站內容由使用者提供之Web2.0網站，其創新概念的生成並非單純來自創業者本身，而是由下而上，且參與創新之來源相當廣泛；Web2.0網站的核心策略會依創業者本身是否為領先使用者而有所不同，且其目標市場的策略乃是由利基市場進行擴散，最終以大眾市場為目標；另外，這些網站發展初期的策略性資產並非是關鍵，但隨著網站的成長，策略性資產則直接影響核心策略的建構與執行；而Web2.0網站亦在平台中提供與顧客共創價值之顧客介面，並且透過內容提供、互補性功能之建構、價值交換與其他結盟等四種關係建立其價值網路。 / In the past business mindset, people think that the value was created by enterprises. Enterprises decide what value their products and services provide, and the consumer only means the demand of their product. With the industry environment changes and the internet economics’ coming, the boundary between producer and consumer is getting more and more indistinct. This kind of situation also takes place in the internet. The website only provides the information with their desires and the users for the website are just the flow creator. As the progress of the information technology and the internet technology, people are getting to cooperate by their collective intelligence through the internet. And the phrases“Web2.0”is born to represent this new internet development. According to the research of July 2007 Taiwan broadband transmission investigated by TWNIC, the internet popularity rate of Taiwan has reached 67.77%, and there are more than 450 million network users around the world. In this kind of trend, the Web2.0 companies in the US has received $ 870 million from venture capitalists, and under the trend, plenty of start-up companies has devoted themselves in the business. So this study’s objective is to give a preliminary study on how the Web2.0 websites in Taiwan construct the innovative business model, and to let the new followers or the old Web1.0 websites know how to succeed in this competitive market. This study will focus on the aggregator type Web2.0 website, research how the innovative concept come into being, start-up history, and how they create the business model of the value co-create with customer. At the beginning, this study will generalize the definition of the Web2.0 in this study by reviewing discusses and analyses which were proposed by scholars and internet trend observers, and then propose the research construct base on the business concept innovation (Hamel, 2000), value co-creation theory (Prahalad & Ramswamy, 2003), and the start-up capital construction. After the case study and research, there are five research results: 1.The aggregator web2.0 website’s innovative concept is not only come from entrepreneur but also the website users. And there are many people participate the concept create process. 2.The aggregator web2.0 website’s core strategies will depend on if the entrepreneur is the lead user. Their target market strategy is to focus on one single niche market at the beginning, then extend to other niche market, and finally aim at mass market. 3.The strategic assets for the aggregator web2.0 website are not the key component. But with the website’s growth, the strategic assets will affect the core strategies’ construction and implementation. 4.The aggregator web2.0 website provides the value co-creation designed customer interface on its platform. 5.The aggregator web2.0 website builds their value network by content construction, complementary functions construction, value exchange and other alliances.

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The thesis is the result of an inquiry into the experiences of a group of people engaged in a Buddhist inspired creative meditation program, the main practice of which is the recognition and honouring of the spiritual dimensions, the divinity of self and others. The study employed a heuristic process of examining 'inner world' experiences. The inquiry was collaborative in the sense that its findings were not those of one person alone, but were a compilation of the results of interactions within the group. The inquiry was based on the hypothesis that creative meditation can facilitate changes in a person's perception of self and the external world. The principal aim was to explore into that possibility and investigate the group members' thoughts and feelings as to the main function, significance and eventual outcome of their practice. The investigation seemed to show that for the core group participants there were changes in self-understanding involving more self-acceptance. Changes in attitudes to relationships of various kinds also took place and these also seemed to involve the development of a greater degree of acceptance. With some participants the association of the practice with favourable co-incidence was an interesting but inexplicable feature. For some there was an identification of mind sets which seemed to have a bearing on the quality of meditation experience and its outcomes. The title of the study refers to the manner in which the meditations were often generated. A mandala, a symbolic picture, was designed by each participant and the features of this were imagined to move, sometimes dancing, through the meditations which followed. The second sub-title refers to an integral feature of the practice which was an attempt to arouse a sense of the wonderful as a quality of the people who were imagined to appear in the meditations. / Master of Science (Hons) (Social Ecology)