At the moment, one of the biggest problems BONEGA company is dealing with is blocked access to wholesale networks by strong multinational corporations. One of the solutions is to introduce such unique and different products that customers force wholesales to offer BONEGA products as other competitors would not provide comparable devices. This thesis evaluate existing approaches to differantiation. The most suitable solution for current situation of BONEGA is blue ocean strategy. However, it has several unsolved issues, especially when applied to manufacturing firm with wide range of products, that are being solved in this paper. In order to gain long term competitive advantage based on value innovation, blue ocean strategy must be implemented into company's culture. Therefore a pilot realization of the process was undertaken. It brought several new ideas for differentiation and also valuable knowledge about adoption of the process into day-to-day company life. Those findings are also part of this work.

This article is about social workers that assess disabled people’s needs and their abilities to implement a new way of working. The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) in Sweden are developing a new way of working in these cases and it’s supposed to make the social work more evidence based. The National Board of Health and Welfare has already developed this kind of instrument for the social workers who assess needs of children and elderly people and now it’s time for those who work with disabled people. Therefore, I have chosen to study which possibilities these social workers have to implement this new method called IBIC (Individens Behov I Centrum - The individual’s needs in focus, my translation). I have based my study on three factors that are important that the persons involved in an implementation have in order for the implementation to succeed. They are: comprehension, capability and willingness. The aim was to get an understanding based on the three factors comprehend, capability and willingness of which abilities the assessment workers have to implement IBIC and how this would affect the profession. To reach that aim I have interviewed six social workers who assess the needs of disabled persons. The social workers were chosen because of their work title and after approval by their managers. I was able to get one who has worked 22 years, two who has worked around 10 years and three who has just started working. This meant that I got a good distribution in length of experience. In my sample there is also one who has worked with the standardized work method for children that I mentioned earlier. The results show that most of the social workers comprehend IBIC but it is doubtful whether or not they have the capability and the willingness to implement it. The result also shows that an implementation of IBIC most likely would mean that the profession which now is based on occupational values would move towards organizational professionalism.

As part of the current fast growing development of digital technologies, collaborations between professions such as neurosciences, robotics, big data processing and artificial intelligence offer new possibilities for healthcare. For these new technologies to reach clinical practice, there is an increasing need for interdisciplinary organizational work to support decision-making over their introduction. In the field of neurorehabilitation, exoskeletons are an example of a robotic tool that can be used to regain locomotion abilities after a neurological injury. They are part of an umbrella term, Robot-Assisted-Rehabilitation (RAR), that stands for neurological recovery techniques assisted with robotic tools. For these tools, the introduction, evaluation and implementation in clinical practice have not been evaluated. In many cases it is also not taken into account that tools such as rehabilitation robotics are context-dependent. In other words, the needs, opportunities and challenges that come together with working efficiently with this new technology can widely vary between clinics, regions and countries. Lastly, it appears that smaller hospitals consider themselves in need of tools to support their decision-making in the RAR introduction phase. In collaboration with Hälsostaden and Region Skåne, we set out to develop a tool to support Ängelholm Hospital (ÄH) in their decision-making over a test-bed trial of RAR in their clinical setting. A tool that we coined the Co-Strategy Process (CSP), was developed based on identified needs related to this stage of the process, using a blend of interdisciplinary scientific methods. It integrates internal and external interdisciplinary expertise and includes four steps: Preparation, Knowledge Empowerment, Exchange & Development and Synthesis & Report. The current Master thesis presents the development and assessment of the CSP at ÄH. In the present context, it results in a new tool for supporting organizations implementing new technologies, optimized based on its application in a Swedish clinical setting. This tool aims at serving this introductory process, so that new technologies can be implemented meeting the needs of both the clinic and patients. / e Rehab-robotic project in collaboration with Uppsala University, Basel University and ETH Zurich

Definition of enterprise risk management (ERM), key point of implementation, application techniques in key areas. Use some concrete application techniques in real organization - Huhtamaki Česká republika, a.s.

In the last decade, the rapid development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has forced its government to implement modern management styles such as Total Quality Management (TQM) to ensure continuous improvement in the provision of healthcare. There is a considerable body of literature that shows the benefits of implementing TQM in hospitals, but there are few empirical studies that show TQM implementation efforts in the healthcare sector. Furthermore, the healthcare literature did not explore the implementation of TQM in a context of gender segregated environment such as the case in KSA. This research project is an exploratory investigation assessing the impact of TQM in a gender segregated healthcare environment such as KSA. The research design used triangulation methods to investigate the problem at hand. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used through field-work and external comparisons. The approach was based on the following: (1) Assessing the level of perception and understanding of TQM principles in several KSA hospitals, taking into account the differences and similarities between the different gender population, (2) Examining the approach to TQM implementation and its degree of effectiveness in four Saudi hospitals to highlight critical factors for effective implementations using the Baldrige assessment method; (3) Benchmarking the Saudi hospital experiences to UK and USA hospitals to highlight key facilitating and inhibiting factors; (4) Using key findings from the previous steps to identify the critical factors and propose a model for TQM implementations in a segregated healthcare environment such as the case in the KSA. The survey research findings show a weak appreciation, awareness and understanding of TQM in managing healthcare organisations by the respondents in the KSA. It clearly shows that many employees in the organisations do riot understand TQM. The degree of emphasis for each quality activity varied and thus more research needs to be done to investigate the importance of each quality activity to a TQM implementation process, as there are varying degrees of emphasis across the board. The KSA case studies show that in implementing organisations, TQM intentions and TQM policy frameworks are generally acceptable. However, the implementation process is generally weak and lacks coordination in the majority of these organisations. It is clear that the majority of the KSA cases have not succeeded in total commitment towards a total quality culture. When compared to the UK and USA hospitals, the majority of the KSA cases show deficiencies in most of the critical activities that form the foundation of a successful quality process. Furthermore, the study indicates three critical factors in KSA hospitals that either did not exist or were not given full attention. The importance of these factors were further validated in the literature. The factors were continuous top management commitment, continuous education and training, and culture awareness. These factors were then used to develop a model for TQM implementation for a segregated healthcare environment. / King Saud University

In the last decade, the rapid development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has forced its government to implement modern management styles such as Total Quality Management (TQM) to ensure continuous improvement in the provision of healthcare. There is a considerable body of literature that shows the benefits of implementing TQM in hospitals, but there are few empirical studies that show TQM implementation efforts in the healthcare sector. Furthermore, the healthcare literature did not explore the implementation of TQM in a context of gender segregated environment such as the case in KSA. This research project is an exploratory investigation assessing the impact of TQM in a gender segregated healthcare environment such as KSA. The research design used triangulation methods to investigate the problem at hand. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used through field-work and external comparisons. The approach was based on the following: (1) Assessing the level of perception and understanding of TQM principles in several KSA hospitals, taking into account the differences and similarities between the different gender population, (2) Examining the approach to TQM implementation and its degree of effectiveness in four Saudi hospitals to highlight critical factors for effective implementations using the Baldrige assessment method; (3) Benchmarking the Saudi hospital experiences to UK and USA hospitals to highlight key facilitating and inhibiting factors; (4) Using key findings from the previous steps to identify the critical factors and propose a model for TQM implementations in a segregated healthcare environment such as the case in the KSA. The survey research findings show a weak appreciation, awareness and understanding of TQM in managing healthcare organisations by the respondents in the KSA. It clearly shows that many employees in the organisations do riot understand TQM. The degree of emphasis for each quality activity varied and thus more research needs to be done to investigate the importance of each quality activity to a TQM implementation process, as there are varying degrees of emphasis across the board. The KSA case studies show that in implementing organisations, TQM intentions and TQM policy frameworks are generally acceptable. However, the implementation process is generally weak and lacks coordination in the majority of these organisations. It is clear that the majority of the KSA cases have not succeeded in total commitment towards a total quality culture. When compared to the UK and USA hospitals, the majority of the KSA cases show deficiencies in most of the critical activities that form the foundation of a successful quality process. Furthermore, the study indicates three critical factors in KSA hospitals that either did not exist or were not given full attention. The importance of these factors were further validated in the literature. The factors were continuous top management commitment, continuous education and training, and culture awareness. These factors were then used to develop a model for TQM implementation for a segregated healthcare environment.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-03-01T14:12:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dinishilarioguibundana.pdf: 963274 bytes, checksum: 0ecf6ac8dd72f2a20a3cc157ba80fb40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-03-03T14:39:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dinishilarioguibundana.pdf: 963274 bytes, checksum: 0ecf6ac8dd72f2a20a3cc157ba80fb40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-03T14:39:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dinishilarioguibundana.pdf: 963274 bytes, checksum: 0ecf6ac8dd72f2a20a3cc157ba80fb40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-12 / O presente trabalho, intitulado “Gestão da implementação do novo currículo de ensino básico em Moçambique: o caso das escolas do distrito municipal KaMaxakeni”, na cidade de Maputo, em Moçambique, tem como objetivo avaliar a gestão da implementação do novo currículo do ensino básico, com destaque para as inovações introduzidas, particularmente ao ensino básico Integrado. Os gestores do distrito foram submetidos a entrevistas, e os das escolas do distrito onde ocorreu o estudo responderam a questionários. A investigação desses sujeitos foi fundamental para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa. As reflexões sobre as políticas curriculares foram fundamentadas nos seguintes autores: Delors (1996), Libâneo (1998), Pacheco (2000), Sacristán (2000), Mainardes (2006), Lück (2008), entre outros. Foram também utilizados como referência os documentos oficiais do Ministério de Educação, designadamente, o Plano Curricular do Ensino Básico e o Regulamento Geral das Escolas do Ensino Básico. Este estudo teve como foco as ações dos gestores escolares e professores na sua árdua tarefa de implementar as inovações curriculares do ensino básico. Naturalmente, a proposta de intervenção apresentada indica um conjunto de ações a serem desenvolvidas pelo distrito de KaMaxakeni, para que, com a capacitação dos gestores e professores a implementação dessa proposta curricular tenha os níveis de realização desejados. / The present work “implementation management of the new curriculum in elementary schools of Mozambique” aims to monitoring and assessing its implementation in elementary education taking into account the innovations introduced in the integrated elementary education. The managers of the district have undergone an interview, while the managers of schools answered a questionnaire. The information provided was fundamental for making this research. The reflections concerning curriculum policies have been discussed by following authors. Delors (1996), Libâneo (1998), Pacheco (2000), Sacristan (2000), Mainardes (2006), Luck (2008), and others. Official documents from Ministry of Education have been used (curriculum of elementary education and general rule of elementary education).This study focused on both school managers and teachers, in recognition of their effort due to curriculum innovation in the elementary education .Of course this proposal also emphasizes that some actions must be developed by the district of KaMaxakeni.

Företag ställs inför höga krav att ständigt leverera produkter med hög kvalitet. Ett kvalitetsledningssystem med en ISO 9001:2015 (ISO 9001) certifiering är generellt fördelaktigt för att öka företags konkurrenskraft. Eftersom kvalitetsledningssystem och Enterprise Resource Planning-system (ERP-system) har olika fokus och funktioner, är det nödvändigt att undersöka hur de kompletterar varandra för att förbättra företags prestanda.    Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka om och hur ett SME (Small Medium Enterprises) med erfarenhet av ett ERP-system kan effektivt bli ISO 9001 certifierade. Studien har genomförts på ett fallföretag som har många års erfarenhet av ett ERP-system och har som avsikt att ansöka om en ISO 9001 certifiering. Arbetet började med en analys och identifiering av hinder och utmaningar som små och medelstora företag kan möta när kvalitetsledningssystemet implementeras med ERP-system som stöd.   En litteraturgenomgång genomfördes först för att få en större inblick av de olika ISO 9001 krav som ställs på företag som ska certifieras. Litteraturgenomgången gav också en bättre förståelse för vad och hur ett ERP-system kan fungera i olika sammanhang. Med litteraturgenomgången som utgångspunkt utfördes intervjuer och observationer för att förstå nuläget hos företaget och de olika funktioner som finns i ett ERP-system. En certifieringsmodell skapades för att vägleda företaget att bli ISO 9001 certifierade med stöd av ERP-system. Den föreslagna modellen kan tillämpas på andra liknande små och medelstora företag även om studien genomfördes på ett fallföretag. De viktiga resultaten av denna studie indikerar att dokumentation, spårbarhet och kontroll är huvudelementen i ett ERP-system för att stödja företag att bli ISO 9001 certifierade. Men det finns också hinder och svårigheter som resulterar i att ERP-system inte fullt ut kan stödja små och medelstora företag att bli certifierade eftersom deras egen planering och beslut krävs under certifieringsprocessen. / Companies are facing high demands to constantly deliver products with high quality. A quality management system with an ISO 9001:2015 (ISO 9001) certification is generally thought to be beneficial for increasing the company's competitiveness. Since Quality management systems and Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP systems) have different focuses and functions to play, it is necessary to examine how they complement to each other to improve the company performance.    The purpose of this thesis work is to investigate if and how a SME (Small Medium Enterprises) with experience of an ERP system can effectively become ISO 9001 certified. The study has been carried out at a case company that has had many years’ experiences of an ERP system and has the intention to apply for an ISO9001 certification. The research started with an analysis and identification of obstacles and challenges that SMEs may face when the quality management system is implemented under the support of an ERP systems.   A literature review was first carried out to gain a greater insight into the various ISO 9001 requirements that are placed on the company to be certified. The literature review also provided a better understanding of what and how an ERP system can function in different contexts. With the literature review as a starting point, interviews and observations were taken to understand the current situation at the company and the functions of an ERP system. A certification model was created to guide the company to become ISO 9001 certified under the support of ERP. The proposed model can be applicable to other similar SMEs though the study is implemented at one case company. The important results of this study indicate that documentation, traceability and control are the main elements of an ERP system to support companies becoming ISO 9001 certified. However, there are also barriers and difficulties that ERP systems cannot fully support SMEs to become certified because their own planning and decisions are required during the certification process.

グローバル教育の内容編成について、グローバリゼーションとグローバル教育の関係性を述べたうえで、日本の国際理解教育および英米のグローバル教育を取り上げ、教科構造論とシティズンシップ育成論の視点から、教科融合型、教科統合型、教科超越型という、３つのカリキュラムとしての内容編成の可能性と、目標としてのグローバル・シティズンシップの育成を明らかにし、それに応じた筆者の３つの授業実践について論じた。 / The thesis is a study on the organization of discipline based contents of global education. Firstly, I describe about relationship between globalization and global education. Secondly, Analyzing education for international understanding in Japan, and global education in United Kingdom and United States of America, I make clear three approaches of the organization of discipline based contents which are multidisciplinary approach, interdisciplinary approach, and transdisciplinary approach. Thirdly, I identify the goal of global education is to foster global citizenship and examine three implementation on three lesson units which I practiced according to global education. / 博士(教育文化学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Education and Culture / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University