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Detta kandidatprojekt handlar om att skapa ett stadsdelshus för Spånga stadsdel i Stockholm. Spånga formades och präglades av trädgårdsstads-rörelsen vid förra sekelskiftet, vilket resulterade i en pittoresk, småskalig villabebyggelse. Det nya stadsdelshuset är tänkt att vara både ett centrum för stadsdelskontoret och en mötesplats för den lokala befolkningen. Projektet syftar till att introducera en ny urban karaktär för detta förorts-samhälle. Huset är en 70 meter hög struktur med varierade funktioner och en liten undangömd urban trädgård på bakgården. Stadsdelshuset är uppbyggt med vertikala 10 meters-enheter, som delas i två eller tre våningar. Projektet tillför kontorsplatser och offentliga mötesplatser för lokalbefolkningen, genom en heterogen vertikal och koncentrerad urban form. Detta är ett försök att uttrycka områdets pågående transformation, från suburban förort till urban stadsdel. Som en del av Spångas transformation skapas en plats för urbana aktörer och ett nytt utrymme för Stockholms internationella biblioteket har gjorts tillgängligt i huset. / This bachelor project is about creating a district council building for Spånga district in Stockholm, Sweden. A major part of Spånga was built and characterised by the Garden City movement during the end of the 19th century, which resulted in a picturesque, small scale suburban area. The new district council building is thought to be both a centre for municipal administration and a meeting place for the local community. The project aims to introduce a new form of urban character to this suburban community. The building is a 70 meter tall structure with varied functions and a small urban garden hidden in the backyard. The building is constructed with a system of vertical 10 meter units, which can be divided into two or three floors. The project provides administrative office spaces and public space for the local inhabitants, via a heterogenous vertical concentrate of urban form. It is an attempt to express the ongoing transformation of the area from suburban to urban and to help develop a collective local identity. As a part of Spångas transformation a place has been created for urban actors and a new space has been made available for Stockholms international library.

This dissertation presents an in depth investigation of the office furniture industry and of the factors that influence selection and purchase of office furniture. It also utilizes data obtained in a national survey of nearly 270 office furniture buyers to investigate several general conceptual marketing issues. The industry-specific investigation includes a look at the history of the office and at events during the past 2-1/2 decades that have impacted the market for office furniture. It also includes a comparative look at the relative performance of wood (SIC 2521) and metal (SIC 2522) industry sectors. The performance of the office furniture industry is also compared with the wood household furniture industry (SIC 2511). This report includes a detailed look at the industry's changing product mix and use of wood-based materials. While the total use of wood-based material inputs by the industry was at record levels for all material categories in 1987, use on a per unit of output basis declined in several material categories. Material preferences, as expressed by survey respondents, indicated that solid wood is still rated highly and is the material of choice for interior and exterior applications in conventional office furniture manufacture. Twenty-six attributes of office furniture and of dealer/manufacturer services were rated on dual 7- and 5-point Likert scales for importance and difference, respectively. The most important attribute was the ability of the dealer manufacturer to provide products free of defects. However, when differences in the performance of suppliers or products were taken into account, the top determinant attribute was the ability to deliver on schedule. Comparisons of quality and selection and purchase ratings suggested that respondents tended to rate attributes on the bases of their use in selection and purchase higher overall than they rated their use in assessing quality. However, the relative ranking of attributes within the two sets of ratings were highly correlated. Respondent ratings of the 26 attributes were utilized in a multivariate study of quality dimensions employing confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses. Results of these analyses supported operationalization of most of Garvin's eight dimensions of quality. / Ph. D.

This thesis project is a developing office building, designed for a start-up company. One character of the company is that its main projects serve China, but there are also few local projects. The main goal of this architecture is to provide a convenient and changeable place for this start-up company. There are a few disciplines during design process: 1. The building has a round shape and blocks add on when it grows. 2. In the middle of the building, it is a fixed courtyard which covered by skylight. 3. The blocks are in modules and the rooms function can be changed as needed. 4. The roof at the early stage of this architecture can be used as floors in the future. The site is located in the suburban area of Washington DC, which next to the Rock Creek Park. Surrounding buildings mostly are traditional residential architectures,with sloping roof and brick walls.This site is only 3 blocks away from the main street. Therefore, the site can provide an urban context which means clients and employees can easily get into. But people do not need to afford too high price for the land. What's more, people can enjoy a pretty view while working. The building has the steel frame as the primary structure and concrete covering for the floor slab. For the elevation, the adjustable wood panel and curtain walls are used to balance with local sun orientation. / Master of Architecture

An employed individual will spend between a quarter and a third of his or her waking life at the workplace. An estimated 40% of those in South Africa who are employed full-time work in offices. With the amount of time spend in buildings, the physical conditions in the workplace are important determinants of satisfaction, comfort, well-being, and effectiveness and can even play a role in mental health. The physical environment in offices should therefore be carefully planned, designed, and managed. This qualitative study, sought to develop an inter-cultural office design framework for South Africa combining Eastern and Western design principles. Specifically, it sought to obtain a better insight into design principles which can enhance the well-being of office workers; inter-cultural, gender neutral and age neutral design principles which can be applied in a South African context. To be able to answer these questions an intensive literature review was undertaken investigating both the Eastern design principles as expressed in feng shui and Western design principles as expressed in Environmental Social Science. The design principles of these two traditions were compared and all aspects where the two traditions did not support each other were included in the in-depth interviews. Twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted By relying on various design cultures (e.g. Eastern and Western) an environment can be created which are pleasing and can enhance the well-being of the users. Underlying design principles are universal, but the symbolic expression thereof can differ from culture to culture. One of the conclusions from this study is that three quarters of design principles are v universal. There is no one size fits all solution and compromise is necessary from all involved. The compromise applies to the roughly a quarter of design aspects where subgroup differences have been detected. Any design should take individual and group difference into account. The only way to do this is to get proper input from all stakeholders at all stages of the design. It is critically important that the input starts before the design process commences. There are many design principles which can be implemented to improve the quality of work life of office workers in the South African context. Design can for example play a very important role in encouraging and facilitating formal and informal interaction in the workplace – bridging the gap between heterogeneous groups. Without forcing relationships, design can assist in naturally integrating heterogeneous groups. The physical environment must support the image and identity which needs to be communicated, facilitate communication and enable task accomplishment. Most of all it must become a place with which employees can identify and where they can develop a sense of place. From this study it can be concluded that not only form follows function but also that aesthetics follow function – a principle that design should be based on the primary purpose of the building, the workspace based on the needs of the stakeholders and from this starting point aesthetics will flow. / Psychology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Consulting Psychology)

Submitted by Rafael Santana (rafael.silvasantana@ufpe.br) on 2017-08-30T18:08:16Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação_UM MODELO DE ESCRITÓRIO UNIFICADO DE PROJETOS E PROCESSOS_Caio_McIntyre.pdf: 6348725 bytes, checksum: fdf9ecef0d296e1cd7a6050411db2fdf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-30T18:08:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação_UM MODELO DE ESCRITÓRIO UNIFICADO DE PROJETOS E PROCESSOS_Caio_McIntyre.pdf: 6348725 bytes, checksum: fdf9ecef0d296e1cd7a6050411db2fdf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / FACEPE / O crescimento das iniciativas de gestão de projetos e de processos de negócio nas organizações tem deixado cada vez mais evidente o importante papel que essas disciplinas exercem no auxílio da condução das estratégias organizacionais. Tanto os escritórios de gestão de projetos (do inglês, Project Management Office ou PMO) quanto os escritórios de gestão de processos de negócio (Business Process Management Office ou BPMO) deixaram de ser somente guardiões dessas competências e se tornaram verdadeiros agentes de execução da estratégia, norteando a organização rumo aos seus objetivos estratégicos. Neste cenário, em que os dois escritórios deveriam trabalhar de forma coesa em prol da estratégia, é frequente que tenham discordâncias, duplicações de funções e prioridades conflitantes. Com o objetivo de criar uma maior sinergia entre a gestão de duas competências que são consideradas veículos da execução da estratégia organizacional, este trabalho propõe um modelo de implantação e atuação para escritórios unificados de projetos e processos. Para formular este modelo foram feitas revisões de literatura, proposto seis elementos para análise de escritórios e em seguida foram feitas análises comparativas de modelos de escritórios de projetos, modelos de escritórios de processos e das sinergias conhecidas entre os dois escritórios. Os seis elementos de análise foram passos necessários para estruturação, objetivos do escritório, posicionamento estratégico, local de inserção na estrutura organizacional, atividades desempenhadas e papéis e responsabilidades. O modelo unificado foi então proposto com diretrizes baseadas nos seis elementos e com uma estratégia de implementação do modelo que detalha os doze passos necessários divididos em quatro fases. Trata-se de um modelo adaptável, cuja aplicação deve ser feita de acordo com a realidade de cada organização. O modelo foi posteriormente submetido a um survey de validação com especialistas. Além de mostrar alguns pontos de melhoria, o resultado da validação serviu para ratificar a aderência do modelo de escritórios unificados de projetos e processos aos conceitos das duas disciplinas, sob os aspectos de utilidade e aplicabilidade do modelo. Palavras-chave: Escritório de Gestão de Projetos e Processos. Escritório de Projetos. Escritório de Processos de negócio. Modelo unificado de escritório. Diretrizes de escritório de gestão. / The growth of project management and business process management initiatives in the organizations has been making it more evident that these two disciplines play crucial roles in the roll-out of organizational strategies. The PMOs (Project Management Offices) and BPMOs (Business Process Management Office) are no longer only playing the roles of guardians of these competencies but have become true agents of strategic execution leading the organizations towards their strategic goals. In this scenario in which both offices should work in a cohesive manner to benefit the strategy, it is frequent to see struggles because of disagreements, duplicated functions and conflicting priorities. With the objective of increasing synergy between the management of these two disciplines that are considered vehicles for the execution of the organizational strategy, this work proposes a model for a unified project and process management office. To formulate this proposal, literature reviews were conducted, six management office analysis elements proposed and comparative analysis of project management office models, business process management office models and known synergies between both offices made. The six management office analysis elements were steps to implement a management office, office objectives, strategic positioning, insertion site in the organizational structure, activities and roles and responsibilities. The unified model was then proposed with its guidelines based on the six elements and an implementation strategy that outlines the twelve necessary steps divided in four phases. This model is an adaptable one and its implementation should be adapted according to the reality of each organization. The model was then submitted to a validation survey answered by specialists. The validation served its purpose by showing possible points of improvement and by ratifying its adherence to the concepts of both disciplines, its utility and its applicability. Keywords: Project and Process Management Office. Project Management Office. Business Process Management Office. Integrated Office Model. Management Office Guidelines.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The first chapter of this thesis provides the background of the Labor Branch and the OSS as a whole. From the OSS’s inception in 1942 through its postwar transformation into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), I cover the evolution of the foreign intelligence community in the United States. This includes sections on the politics within the OSS, the reasons the Labor Branch has not been a focal point of OSS research, and quirks about the Labor Branch that make it stand out from the rest of the OSS. The Labor Branch’s specific role in the infiltration of Germany is also discussed in chapter one. Chapter two is an extension of the materials presented in the first chapter. It focuses on a section of the Labor Branch called Bach Section. This section was devoted to making the infiltration of Germany possible by creating cover stories, forging documents, and preparing agents to go to Germany in the midst of Nazism and be able to survive, gather intelligence, and create resistance networks. The bravery, intelligence, and will of the Bach Section are clear in this chapter, and the reader will recognize that, without the Labor Branch and their colleagues at the Bach Section, no one, be they with the OSS or British intelligence, would have had much success in infiltrating Germany during World War II. My third chapter is a bit more complicated than the first two. In it, I discuss the nuances of writing historical fiction responsibly and as a viable means of public history. As guidance, I undertake a discussion of the OSS in published works of fiction. I give an overview of the way different novelists handle the bureaucracy, agents, accomplishments, and failures of the OSS, revealing what I feel each does effectively and poorly. While discussing each of the potential strengths and pitfalls of historical fiction, especially as seen in the OSS novels, I then provide real examples of how historical fiction might work with a case study involving the OSS Labor Branch. One particular OSS mission, known as the Hammer Mission, serves as my example. I detail different parts of the mission, the men who participated, their training, and the mission itself and discuss how to use these details within a novel.

Baigiamojo magistro darbo tyrimo objektas – investicijos į Vilniaus biurų rinką. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas yra atlikti investicijų į Vilniaus biuro paskirties nekilnojamąjį turtą tyrimą. Baigiamąjį magistro darbą sudaro trys pagrindiniai skyriai. Pirmame skyriuje analizuojama įvairi literatūra ir moksliniai straipsniai apie biuro paskirties nekilnojamąjį turtą, investicijas į nekilnojamąjį turtą ir biurus, biurų plėtros tendencijas, Vilniaus investicinį potencialą ir biurų rinkos analizę. Antrame skyriuje atliekamas Vilniaus ir Amsterdamo biurų rinkos palyginimas. Trečiame skyriuje atliekama investicijų į Vilniaus biuro paskirties nekilnojamąjį turtą PĮSETA analizė. Darbo pabaigoje padaromos darbą apibendrinančios išvados ir pateikiami pasiūlymai. Gauti rezultatai parodė, kad Vilniaus biurų rinka neišnaudoja savo potencialo ir dabartinė plėtra yra tikslinga. Darbo apimtis yra 70 psl. be priedų, 20 paveikslų, 6 lentelės, 85 bibliografiniai šaltiniai ir 1 priedas. / Object of the final master thesis is investments in the office market of Vilnius. The aim of work is to make a study of investments in the office real estate of Vilnius. The master thesis consists of three main chapters. Different literature and scientific articles about the office real estate, investments in real estate and offices, development tendencies of offices, investment potential of Vilnius and office market analysys are analyzed in the first chapter. Office market comparison of Vilnius and Amsterdam is fulfiled in the second chapter. PESTEL analysis of investments in the office real estate of Vilnius is done in the third chapter. Conclusions and proposals that summarize the work are made in the end. The results showed that potential of office market of Vilnius is not used and current development is expedient. Scope of the work is 70 pages without appendices, 20 figures, 6 tables, 85 sources of literature and 1 appendix.

This study described the operation and organization of the United States Army's Second Armored Division's Public Affairs Office, with emphasis on the differences between garrison and field operations. The study found that the function of the division, public affairs office is to keep both the internal and external public(s) of the division informed concerning the activities of the division. The office is organized into three branches: command information, public information, and administration. During garrison operations, all members of the office operate from a building at Fort Hood, Texas. During field operations, office personnel organize into teams in order to provide information to all public(s), internal and external.

Cheng Kai Tung Crispian. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report."