Världen har blivit mer digital och människor blivit mer beroende av att teknik alltid finns nära tillhands. Verksamheter använder sig av informationssystem för att utföra uppgifter mer effektivt och mindre kostsamt. För att informationssystem ska underlätta för användaren måste dessa vara användbara. För att uppnå användbarhet har designprinciper skapats, dessa principer är riktlinjer eller direktiv för att uppnå en god design. När problematik uppstår för användare måste dessa användare ofta komma i kontakt med kunnig IT-personal. Kontakten mellan användare och IT-personal brukar ske via ärendehanteringssystem.  Syftet med studien var att utifrån användarens perspektiv identifiera vilka designprinciper som är viktigast för ett ärendehanteringssystem för att uppnå användbarhet. Studien var begränsad till att undersöka Nielsens 10 heuristiska designprinciper.  Studien utgick från en deduktiv ansats med en kvalitativ datainsamlingsmetod. Det utfördes intervjuer på ett fallföretag för att samla in åsikter från användare av ett ärendehanteringssystem. Bredd och variation användes som metod för urval då det var av intresse att informanterna hade olika förkunskaper. Syftet med den insamlade empirin var att komma fram till viktiga egenskaper för att uppnå användbarhet för ett ärendehanteringssystem. Med denna information gick det att undersöka hur väl designprinciper uppnår dessa egenskaper. Även användares åsikter kring specifika designprinciper undersöktes, vilket också kom att påverka resultatet.  Studiens resultat visade sig innebära fyra viktiga egenskaper som användarna ansåg bör uppfyllas för att uppnå användbarhet. Hittbarhet, navigerbarhet, informationsstruktur och enkelhet menar användarna bör uppnås. Vidare när designprinciper utvärderades framkom fem principer som användare ansåg vara viktigast, anknytning mellan systemet och verkligheten, flexibilitet och effektivitet av användning, användarkontroll och frihet, överensstämmelse och standard och att känna igen sig snarare än att minnas. Dessa principer var även de som ansågs uppnå egenskaperna för användbarhet på bästa vis. / The world has become more digital and people have become more dependent on that technology always is accessible. Businesses are using technology to perform tasks more efficient and less costly. For information systems to facilitate the user, the systems must be useful. To achieve usability, design principles have been created. These principles are guidelines or directives to achieve a good design. When problems arise for a user, these users often must get in touch with knowledgeable IT-staff. The contact between user and IT-staff usually occurs via case management systems. The purpose of the study was to identify design principles that from the user's perspective are the most important for a case management system to achieve usability. The study was limited to examining Nielsen's ten heuristic design principles. The study was based on a deductive approach with a qualitative data collection method. Interviews were conducted on a case business to collect the views of users of a case management system. Width and variation was the method used for the selection of informants as it was of interest that the informants had different previous knowledge. The purpose of the empirical data was to identify important characteristics to achieve usability for a case management system. With this information, it was then possible to examine how well the design principles achieve these characteristics. The study also examined the users’ opinions about specific design principles, which also contributed to the results. The result of the study included four characteristics which the users felt should be met to achieve usability. Findability, navigability, information structure and simplicity are the characteristics users thought should be met to achieve usability. Furthermore, when design principles were evaluated, four principles emerged that users considered to be the most important, link between system and reality, flexibility and efficiency of usage, user control and freedom, compliance and standard, and to recognize themselves rather than remembering. These principles were those who were considered to answer the usability characteristics best.

Transition to adulthood is a complex phenomenon, yielding varying outcomes for young people in different environments. Hence, adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care are a heterogeneous group with varying transition experiences and livelihood outcomes. Studies suggest that adolescents leaving care have less desirable outcomes compared to their counterparts in familial care (Vaughn, Shook & McMillen, 2008). Therefore, adolescents in the institutional context need specialised transition programmes as they traverse to adulthood and independent living (Storm, Porter & Macaulay, 2010:307). Unfortunately, institutions fail to provide well-structured and gender-sensitive transition programmes that promote the achievement of sustainable livelihoods during and after leaving care (Powell, 2006:143). As a consequence, adolescents are vulnerable to negative social and economic outcomes beyond institutional care. iii. The goal of the study was to evaluate the effects of transition programmes on the livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls post institutional care in Highfield, Harare. This study, which is participatory action research, evaluated the transitions and livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls transitioning from two institutions in Highfield, Harare. To conceptualise the transition phenomena, sustainable livelihoods and feminist theoretical frameworks were applied. Mixed methods approaches were used and qualitative as well as quantitative data were collected, analysed and interpreted concurrently. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty-two adolescent girls, two superintendents and a district social services officer. Focus group discussions were held with participants from Institutions A and B and observations made on their counterparts discharged from the same institutions. A gender assessment questionnaire was administered to superintendents to establish whether the programmes being provided were gender-sensitive. Findings from the study showed that adolescent girls in the two institutions have access to more assets (55.55%) compared to those outside with 49.2%. Hence, adolescent girls leaving institutional care lose 6.35% assets, making them poorer than their counterparts in care. Adolescent girls in the institutional context face increased gender-based constraints resulting in limited access to livelihood opportunities. Findings also indicate that adolescent girls living in resource-constrained institutions and households have more complex and harder transitions compared to those in well-resourced institutions and households. The study concluded that the transition programmes being provided are not adequately preparing adolescent girls for life beyond care and they are also not gender-sensitive. Thus, they have a negative impact on the transitions and livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls. Furthermore, stakeholders in the transition process lack financial and human resources to develop and implement gender-responsive transition policies and programmes, thereby affecting adolescent girls’ access to different kinds of livelihood assets. iv. To facilitate successful transitions, this study recommends the development of gender-sensitive transition policies, transformation of the case management system and more investments in participatory policy development, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of transition programmes. Key words Adolescent girls Assets Case management system Evaluation Feminist approaches Institutional care Livelihood outcomes Poverty Sustainable Livelihoods Approach Transition programmes / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015. / tm2015 / Social Work and Criminology / Unrestricted

Detta examensarbete har utförts på uppdrag av Posten Scanning AB, ett helägt dotterbolag till Postnord-koncernen, tillsammans med sina systerbolag, Data Scanning A/S i Danmark och Data Scanning Finland AB. Företaget arbetar med scanning, datafångst och dokumenthanteringstjänster. Posten Scanning använde sedan 2013 av ett kundärendehanteringssystem, Customer Information System (CIS), för all hantering av ärenden som berör kunder och/eller intern utveckling. Efter ca 1,5 år som företaget har använt sig av CIS 1.0 önskas nu ett underlag för planering av version 2.0 av CIS. För att kunna planera för CIS 2.0 behövde uppdragsgivaren att undersöka, sammanställa och prioritera de nya krav som olika intressenter ställer på systemet. Utvärderingen har fokuserat på de interna och externa kundernas krav och kända förändringsbehov. Målet var att utifrån utvärderingsresultatet ta fram ett beslutsunderlag i form av en sammanställd, prioriterad och tidsestimerad kravspecifikation som även kan utgöra ett underlag för ett utvecklingsprojekt. Den relativa betydelsen av behoven avgjordes med hjälp av metoden om översättning av kundernas behov till verkställande kravspecifikationer som grundade specifikationen för förändringsarbetet. Resultatet av arbetet visade att kundärendehanteringssystemets kravlistor kunde prioriteras baserad på vad CIS användes mest till och samt efter hur ofta förändringar upprepades av olika användargrupper. / This thesis has been carried out on behalf of Posten Scanning AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of PostNord Group, together with its sister companies, Data Scanning A/S in Denmark and Data Scanning Finland AB. The company works with scanning, data capture and document management services. Posten Scanning has been since 2013 using a client case management system, Customer Information System (CIS) for handling all matters pertaining to customers and/or internal development from 2013. After about 1.5 years that the company has used the CIS 1.0, they wish to develop a gathered basis for planning the version 2.0 of the CIS. In order to plan for the CIS 2.0, they wanted to investigate, compile and prioritize the new requirements imposed by various stakeholders in the system. The evaluation has focused on internal and external customer requirements regarding usage of CIS and known need for changes in the system. The goal has been based on evaluation findings to develop a decision support in the form of a compiled, prioritized and time estimated requirements specification that can also serve as a basis for a development project. The relative importance of the needs was determined using the method of translation of customer needs for managing requirements document based specification for change. The results of this project showed that customer case management system requirements lists could be prioritized based on what CIS were mostly used to and how often changes were repeated by various user groups.