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Titel: “Det är svårt att göra kurslitteratur sexigt” En jämförelse mellan kunders och företags syn på värde genom digitalisering och innovation   Författare: Amelia Johansson och Nils Svensson Handledare: Åsa Lindström Examinator: Christine Tidåsen Kurs: Examensarbete 15hp, Linnéuniversitetet Kalmar, VT 2018.   Forskningsfråga: Hur ser värdeskapande inom kurslitteratur ut hos kunden jämfört med företagen och hur ser de olika parterna på digitalisering och framtida innovationer som en möjlighet att påverka kundvärdet? Bakgrund och problemområde: 2007 var det endast hälften av alla högskolestudenter som köpte den obligatoriska kurslitteraturen då resten inte ansåg att de hade råd. Den övriga bokbranschen förändras och utdelningen av fysiska böcker samtidigt som digitala alternativ ökar. Detta ledde till funderingar kring modernare innovationer som skapar ett ökat kundvärde för studenter som inhandlar kurslitteratur. Ett övervägande av vad det finns för åtgärder för att minska gapet mellan företag och kund samt eventuella olikheter i värdeskapandeprocessen. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa en större förståelse för de likheter samt olikheter som finns mellan kunder och företag inom kurslitteratur och dess värdeskapande. Studien undersöker hur bokförlagen jobbar med att skapa kundvärde genom användning av potentiella digitala lösningar och nya innovationer. Metod: Den metod som använts i studien har varit kvalitativ med en induktiv ansats där datainsamlingen skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med både företag och studenter. Forskarna har intervjuat de två största förlagen på marknaden vid namn Studentlitteratur och Liber, men även 23 stycken studentintervjuer för att kunna göra en jämförelse om värdeskapande. Slutsats: Slutsatsen visar att förlagen vet vad studenter efterfrågar men har svårt att tillfredsställa behoven. Det är ett komplicerat område att skapa värde inom då förlagen inte är förmedlaren av värde, utan det är istället läraren. Det finns ett flertal sätt för förlagen att skapa mervärde för studenterna, men svaret på forskningsfrågan är att det finns stora utvecklingsmöjligheter genom digitalisering och innovation som kan skapa stort värde enligt båda parterna. Enligt studien kan en streamingtjänst likt Spotify vara lösningen på att skapa det värde och den digitalisering studenter efterfrågar och som kan balansera ut marknaden. / Title: “It’s hard to make course literature sexy” A comparison between customers and companies views on value through digitalization and innovation   Authors: Amelia Johansson and Nils Svensson Supervisor: Åsa Lindström Examiner: Christine Tidåsen Course: Bachelor Thesis 15hp, Linnaeus University Kalmar, VT 2018.   Research question: What does value creation look like with the customer compared to the company’s perspective and what are the two parties views on digitalization and future innovation as a possibility to increase customer value? Background and problem area: In 2007 only half of the students enrolled in a university bought the mandatory course literature because they assumed they could not afford it. The remaining book market is changing and the publishing of physical books is slowing down while digital options are increasing. This led to thoughts around what more modern innovations could do to create customer value for students who buy course literature. A consideration was what measures could be used to decrease the gap between customers and companies, and also potential differences in the value creation process. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to create a greater understanding of the differences and similarities that exist between customers and companies within the market of course literature and how value is created. The study is meant to research how the publishers work with creating customer value by using potential digital solutions and new innovations Method: The method used in this essay is a qualitative method with an inductive approach. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with both companies and customers. The researchers interviewed 23 students and two of the greatest publishers on the market today to be able to do a comparison between their views on value creation. Conclusion: In the conclusion, it was shown that the publishing companies knew what the students were requesting but have a hard time satisfying the needs, it is a hard area to create value within since the companies do not have direct contact with the students. Instead, they focus on the professors to sell their products. There are many ways for the companies who publish course literature to create value for the students. The answer to the research question is that there are huge possibilities for development through digitalization and innovation that can create value which both parties agree on. According to the study, the answer to creating value and satisfy the need the students are asking for with digitalization might be a streaming service much like Spotify, it can also create a balance in the market.

This thesis explores possible solutions to replace Adobe Flash Player by using tools already built into modern web browsers, and explores the tradeoffs between bitrate, quality, and delay when using an adaptive bitrate for live streamed video. Using an adaptive bitrate for streamed video was found to reduce stalls in playback for the client by adapting to the available bandwidth. A newer codec can further compress the video file size while maintaining the same video quality. This can improve the viewing experience for clients on a restricted or a congested network. The tests conducted in this thesis show that producing an adaptive bitrate stream and changing codecs is a very CPU intensive process.

Large text streams are commonplace; news organisations are constantly producing stories and people are constantly writing social media posts. These streams should be analysed in real-time so useful information can be extracted and acted upon instantly. When natural disasters occur people want to be informed, when companies announce new products financial institutions want to know and when celebrities do things their legions of fans want to feel involved. In all these examples people care about getting information in real-time (low latency). These streams are massively varied, people’s interests are typically classified by the entities they are interested in. Organising a stream by the entity being referred to would help people extract the information useful to them. This is a difficult task: fans of ‘Captain America’ films will not want to be incorrectly told that ‘Chris Evans’ (the main actor) was appointed to host ‘Top Gear’ when it was a different ‘Chris Evans’. People who use local idiosyncrasies such as referring to their home county (‘Cornwall’) as ‘Kernow’ (the Cornish for ‘Cornwall’ that has entered the local lexicon) should not be forced to change their language when finding out information about their home. This thesis addresses a core problem for real-time entity-specific NLP: Streaming cross document coreference resolution (CDC), how to automatically identify all the entities mentioned in a stream in real-time. This thesis address two significant problems for streaming CDC: There is no representative dataset and existing systems consume more resources over time. A new technique to create datasets is introduced and it was applied to social media (Twitter) to create a large (6M mentions) and challenging new CDC dataset that contains a much more variend range of entities than typical newswire streams. Existing systems are not able to keep up with large data streams. This problem is addressed with a streaming CDC system that stores a constant sized set of mentions. New techniques to maintain the sample are introduced significantly out-performing existing ones maintaining 95% of the performance of a non-streaming system while only using 20% of the memory.