People today are less physically active than ever before, thus health related issues and overweight has risen to record levels. People also use more IT than before; it can be argued that IT is one of the main factors people’s activity levels have dropped. Au contraire IT has found its way into most people’s training routines and the amount of IT-artefacts aimed at exercise has exploded. However, most research studying IT and exercise, only studies single artefacts. Though, current research shows that it is impossible to view an artefacts impact as single artefact, it must instead be looked up on as part of an information ecology of interconnected artefacts. Thus, this study aims to find out: How does IT interconnect in artefact ecologies to motivate to exercise? The findings of this study suggests that in order to understand how IT motivate to exercise it should be looked upon as a dynamic ecosystem of artefacts. And that the artefacts should be analysed from its function, rather than as individual artefacts. It also shows that functions are not always linked to a single artefact and can span over several different artefacts, and that an artefact function is not static over time. It shows that, we need to be aware that different sports require different functionality, and even form should be viewed as a function. It also shows that functions for collecting quantitative data and social interacting have a place in most people's artefact ecologies. However, this may not occur in designated training applications, but instead in any of the artefacts people uses. Therefore, is an awareness also required that people’s motivation to exercise does not have to come out of training artefacts, but it can spring out of all the artefacts people uses.

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El proyecto de negocio es constituir una empresa dedicada a brindar un servicio completo en el cuidado de vehículos que brindará diversos servicios siendo el lavado de autos de manera clásica (pañoleros) el servicio ancla seguido por servicios complementarios como el lavado de autos en las instalaciones de los clientes corporativos, la venta de accesorios de mejora, mantenimiento mecánico preventivo, planchado, pintura y otros; este proyecto es innovador dado que nace también con el fin de generar una cadena de servicio consolidada a nivel regional en el cuidado de vehículos . Este proyecto se desarrollara en las ciudades de Trujillo, Chiclayo y Piura inicialmente, ya que estas ciudades son el eje económico y comercial del norte del País; en donde se obtuvo que en promedio el 70% de los usuarios del servicio de lavado y venta de accesorios de mejora no se encuentran satisfechos con el servicio que reciben actualmente, ya sea la por la baja calidad de servicio, infraestructura y/o garantía. A raíz de la existencia de una demanda insatisfecha en el rubro mencionado, una alta competencia informal –aquellos que no ofrecen un buen servicio ni la garantía adecuada- y la ausencia de cadenas regionales que desarrollen estos servicios nace nuestra idea de negocio que llevara el nombre de ”WASH IT!”. Como monto de inversión inicial se estimó S/. 50,000 por sucursal; esta cifra comprende alquiler de local, implementación de infraestructura y compra de los equipos necesarios y relacionados. Por otro lado se calcularon los indicadores financieros del proyecto dándonos como resultado un Valor Actual Neto (VAN) de S/ 73,892.12 y una Tasa Interna de Retorno (TIR) igual al 166 %, así como la relación costo-beneficio que nos indica que por cada nuevo sol invertido en el proyecto se recuperaría S/. 4.96 al cuarto año, lo que garantiza bases sólidas de rentabilidad, siendo el periodo de recuperación del capital en base a las utilidades en el 3er año. El análisis de sensibilidad demuestra que en una disminución del 10% en los ingresos del proyecto no lo hace sensible lo que indica que su creación es factible o un incremento del 12% en los gastos del proyecto tampoco lo hace sensible y no presenta pérdidas; en efecto, los indicadores financieros ubican a la empresa con tendencias favorables respecto a las de la industria a partir del primer año; por lo tanto, teniendo en cuenta los factores antes mencionados puede afirmarse que el proyecto “WASH IT!” es viable.

The research field argues for the importance of aligning business and IT, since organizations that has conducted a high degree of alignment in general perform better than other organizations. This is not easy to achieve, aligning business and IT is still one of the top challenges for organizations. This study aims to examine previous research to identify and describe scientifically validated ways of achieving and keeping business and IT aligned. To do this a systematic literature review is conducted. The result from the systematic literature review is processed to identify similarities between the different ways of achieving and keeping business and IT aligned. The study contributes with a theoretical ground for future research and for interested students and practitioners who want to gain insights in the field.

It has been recognised that there is a need to get a better understanding of the user of technology in work as information technology progressively saturates users' everyday working environments. One motivating force has been a perceived need to link the design of new technology with the work actually being done. One way to do this has been to turn to ethnography as an analytic approach when studying work, and then try to relate the results to design in different ways. The main question in this thesis is precisely how technology is being used in everyday work activity. The individual papers include discussions about what the resulting analyses can do for design. The contributions from the analyses do nog guide design in any 'linear' way but can be brought to the 'design table' and serve as points of departures for design considerations.

Denna studie baserar sig på tre olika metoder som behandlar hur lärare på en skola i förskoleklass till årskurs 3 använder IKT i sin undervisning i ämnet svenska samt deras inställning och kompetens inom IKT. De metoder som utfördes i denna studie var en enkätstudie, två intervjuer och två observationer. Huvudfokus på metoderna var att undersöka lärares användande av IKT i undervisningen i ämnet svenska f-3 samt deras inställning och kompetens inom IKT. I det insamlade materialet redovisas bland annat att lärare anser att de behärskar alla digitala verktyg som de använder sig av i undervisningen i ämnet svenska och att IKT är något som lärare använder dagligen eller flera gånger i veckan.

Considerando a importância da TI no ambiente de negócios e os riscos inerentes ao emprego dessa tecnologia, este estudo visa buscar evidências de melhoria de desempenho de empresas com a realização de gerenciamento de riscos de TI (GRTI). A pesquisa em curso seguiu a metodologia da Hipótese de Eficiência de Mercado, na sua forma semiforte, isto é, utilizando o método de janela de eventos. Com essa metodologia estimaram-se os retornos anormais na valorização das ações de empresas, oriundos da publicação de eventos de GRTI pelas empresas de capital aberto brasileiras, obtidos a partir do site da BMF&BOVESPA. Foram analisadas todas as empresas listadas em todo o período disponível no site, isto é, de 2003 até 2016, perfazendo um total aproximado de 400 empresas em cada ano. Essa análise utilizou ferramentas de busca do próprio site para encontrar anualmente todos os documentos que contivessem menção à palavra risco. Todos os documentos públicos obtidos com essa filtragem foram examinados detalhadamente para identificar evidências de que a empresa realizou, pela primeira vez, ações de GRTI, isto é, de que a empresa anunciou ao mercado que o GRTI passou a fazer parte de suas rotinas operacionais e administrativas. Depois dessa análise pormenorizada de todos os documentos publicados por essas empresas no site da BMF&BOVESPA, chegou-se a 22 empresas que evidenciaram ao mercado que fazem GRTI. Essas 22 empresas foram examinadas à luz da metodologia de janela de eventos. Os resultados obtidos indicam que, no cenário brasileiro, não é possível afirmar que o GRTI traz uma melhora no desempenho financeiro das empresas, uma vez que a hipótese nula de alteração do valor do retorno das ações não foi invalidada. Infere-se que o mercado não percebe uma diferença de valor nas ações dessas empresas, em função dos eventos de GRTI. Com intuito de suportar teoricamente esta pesquisa, foram reunidas as principais pesquisas em governança de TI e GRTI e relacionando-as a um desempenho financeiro empresarial. / Considering the importance of IT in the business environment and the risks inherent in the use of this technology, this study aims to seek evidence of improved performance of companies with IT Risk Management (ITRM). The research followed the methodology of the Market Efficiency Hypothesis, in its semi-strong-form, that is, using the event window method. This methodology was used to estimate the abnormal returns on the valuation of companies' shares, resulting from the publication of ITRM events by Brazilian publicly traded companies, obtained from the BMF&BOVESPA website. All listed companies were analyzed throughout the period available on the site, that is, from 2003 to 2016, approximately 400 companies in each year. This analysis used search tools from the site itself to find annually all documents that contained mention to the word risk. All public documents obtained by this filtering were examined in detail to identify evidence that the company held, for the first time, ITRM actions. That is, the company announced that ITRM became part of their administrative and operational routines. After this detailed analysis of all documents published by these companies from Brazilian stock exchange, 22 companies evidenced to the market that do ITRM. These 22 companies were examined under the event window methodology. The results indicate that, in the Brazilian scenario, it is not possible to affirm that the ITRM brings an improvement in companies’ financial performance, since the null hypothesis of change shares’ return values was not negated. It is inferred that the market does not notice a difference in these companies’ share values due to ITRM events. In order to theoretically support this research, the main studies in IT governance and ITRM were gathered and related to a business financial performance.