<p>This<strong> </strong>qualitative essay discusses some of the issues surrounding the lack of knowledge companies have about the importance of meetings as a means for company development. Today, many meetings are carried out without a well defined purpose and aim. As a result of this, the meeting industry is slowly beginning to become aware that companies have a need for professional guidance when drawing up a meeting. Meetings carried out should be stimulating for the company as well as the co-workers.  Companies should come to an awareness of the importance of meetings, and the full capacity of the meeting can be made use of, through using meetings as a means of communication. When companies carry out meetings the focus should be on the quality of the meeting, rather than the cost.  Meetings should be regarded as an investment, comparable to investments in physical capital. We think that this new way to plan and carry out meetings is a new direction within the meeting industry. This direction takes focus on a professionalisation of the content and purpose of the meeting. This development will benefit companies both within and outside the meeting industry. With a professionalisation, companies outside the meeting industry will replace a lot of inefficient meetings with less, but more efficient meetings. The professional meeting should be used as a tool for reaching success, competition benefits and development. The meeting industry will benefit from this process, since more companies would like to turn to experts, which contributes to a new direction with new services generating higher revenue. </p> / <p>Denna kvalitativa uppsats belyser problematiken kring företagens bristande kunskap om mötens betydelse för företagsutveckling. Flera av de möten som genomförs idag saknar ett genomarbetat syfte och mål. Detta har lett till att mötesindustrin sakta börjar bli införstådd i att företagen har ett behov av professionell hjälp med utformningen av möten. De möten som genomförs ska vara utvecklande för både företaget och medarbetarna. Företag bör komma till insikt om mötens vikt, genom att använda möten som ett kommunikationsverktyg kan mötets fulla kapacitet utnyttjas. När företag genomför möten ska fokus ligga på kvalitén i mötet, snarare än kostnaden. Möten bör ses som en investering på samma sätt som en investering av en fysisk produkt. Det nya sättet att planera och genomföra möten tror vi är en ny inriktning inom mötesindustrin. Denna inriktning fokuserar på en professionalisering av mötets innehåll och syfte. Denna utveckling kommer att gynna företag både inom och utanför mötesindustrin. Företag utanför mötesindustrin kommer med en professionalisering att ersätta många ineffektiva möten med färre men effektivare möten. Det professionella mötet ska användas som ett verktyg för att nå framgång, konkurrensföredelar och utveckling. Mötesindustrin gynnas av denna utveckling då fler företag vill anlita professionell hjälp, vilket bidrar till en ny inriktning med nya tjänster som kan generera i en högre omsättning.</p>

This qualitative essay discusses some of the issues surrounding the lack of knowledge companies have about the importance of meetings as a means for company development. Today, many meetings are carried out without a well defined purpose and aim. As a result of this, the meeting industry is slowly beginning to become aware that companies have a need for professional guidance when drawing up a meeting. Meetings carried out should be stimulating for the company as well as the co-workers.  Companies should come to an awareness of the importance of meetings, and the full capacity of the meeting can be made use of, through using meetings as a means of communication. When companies carry out meetings the focus should be on the quality of the meeting, rather than the cost.  Meetings should be regarded as an investment, comparable to investments in physical capital. We think that this new way to plan and carry out meetings is a new direction within the meeting industry. This direction takes focus on a professionalisation of the content and purpose of the meeting. This development will benefit companies both within and outside the meeting industry. With a professionalisation, companies outside the meeting industry will replace a lot of inefficient meetings with less, but more efficient meetings. The professional meeting should be used as a tool for reaching success, competition benefits and development. The meeting industry will benefit from this process, since more companies would like to turn to experts, which contributes to a new direction with new services generating higher revenue. / Denna kvalitativa uppsats belyser problematiken kring företagens bristande kunskap om mötens betydelse för företagsutveckling. Flera av de möten som genomförs idag saknar ett genomarbetat syfte och mål. Detta har lett till att mötesindustrin sakta börjar bli införstådd i att företagen har ett behov av professionell hjälp med utformningen av möten. De möten som genomförs ska vara utvecklande för både företaget och medarbetarna. Företag bör komma till insikt om mötens vikt, genom att använda möten som ett kommunikationsverktyg kan mötets fulla kapacitet utnyttjas. När företag genomför möten ska fokus ligga på kvalitén i mötet, snarare än kostnaden. Möten bör ses som en investering på samma sätt som en investering av en fysisk produkt. Det nya sättet att planera och genomföra möten tror vi är en ny inriktning inom mötesindustrin. Denna inriktning fokuserar på en professionalisering av mötets innehåll och syfte. Denna utveckling kommer att gynna företag både inom och utanför mötesindustrin. Företag utanför mötesindustrin kommer med en professionalisering att ersätta många ineffektiva möten med färre men effektivare möten. Det professionella mötet ska användas som ett verktyg för att nå framgång, konkurrensföredelar och utveckling. Mötesindustrin gynnas av denna utveckling då fler företag vill anlita professionell hjälp, vilket bidrar till en ny inriktning med nya tjänster som kan generera i en högre omsättning.

本研究為了解企業會議進行過程中會議流程產生的無效率，造成會議溝通協調上之問題與障礙。首先針對會議流程相關影響因素分析，大致歸納出影響會議溝通協調以及會議進行效率的因素為何。再以個案分析的研究方法，透過對一間台灣營建產業的中小型企業長達半年會議實際參與觀察及訪談，進一步探究企業會議進行流程中影響會議溝通協調因素為何。歸納實際上影響個案公司會議溝通與效率的因素，並以增進會議溝通協調與效率為目標，針對個案公司會議流程進行改善與建議。 影響會議溝通協調及效率的會議流程因素包含以下三部分:第一部分為會議規劃設計、參與會議人員、會議人員準備與投入、會議人員角色定義、會議議程簡介等會議進行前影響因素。第二部分為專案進度說明、專案會議決策、專案進度追蹤、成員投入程度、目前溝通模式、衝突化解方式等會議進行中的因素。第三部分為會議流程外的影響因素: 任務型態、團隊組成與規模、組織因素。進一步以個案分析研究方法，將個案公司實際跨部門會議進行方式套入會議流程中的影響因素檢視，得出相關之研究結論有以下四點: 一、會議進行前的角色定義與權責分配流程，影響會議成員責任歸屬，對會議的溝通與決策流程影響高。 二、會議流程中的衝突來自於對責任範疇以及權責分配不明確，造成部門認知差異形成會議溝通上的障礙。 三、會議的組成包含組織部門及會議成員的選擇，影響組織會議溝通流程。 四、利潤中心制有助於提升成員對會議投入與貢獻，影響會議溝通流程。 文末針對個案公司會議流程改善給與建議，透過會議流程設計及相關配套措施設計改善會議溝通協調與效率。提供給其他企業進行會議流程改善作為參考。 關鍵字:會議、會議流程、會議效率、溝通、協調 / English abstract The research is trying to understand and find out factors cause ineffectiveness in meeting process and obstacle in communication and coordination. First, the research analysis factors related with meeting process, and generalize the factors which affect meeting process communication and coordination. The research is conducted through case analysis by surveying a Taiwan’s constriction company’s cross-functional meeting process, and attended cross-functional meeting from June 2011 to December 2011, also interviewed the company’s senior managers. Then use the result of the observation to generalize factors which affect cross-functional meeting process communication and efficiency, and try to find out solutions to improve the constriction company’s communication and coordination. The research conclude the factors affects cross-functional meeting process communication and coordination as three part: First part includes: meeting process design, meeting staff, group member’s involvement before meeting, role in the meeting, introduction of meeting process. Second part includes: Introduction of project schedule, decision process, tracking process, group member’s involvement in the meeting, communication model, conflict management. Third part includes: Task type, composition of the group, and organizational factors. This research use those factors to examine the cross-functional meeting process in the company, and conclude the research propositions as follows: 1.The process of definition of role in the meeting and division of responsibilities will affect meeting member’s responsibility, and also will affect decision and communication process. 2.Meeting process’s conflict comes from vague responsibility scope and division, which cause cross-function cognitive differences and communication obstacle. 3.The composition of meeting ,includes people attend the meeting and size of meeting, has great effect to meeting process communication and coordination. 4.If the company use profit center as a system will increase member’s involvement and contribution. This research make some suggestion for the construction company, through improve the meeting process and process design.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to create a deeper understanding of how meeting points can contribute to meaningfulness, good health and possess a preventive function of good ageing. Questions: In what ways does meeting coordinators believe that meeting points favors the well-being of elderly people, and do it satisfy their expectations? What function do the elderly who attend the meeting points feel that it fills in their lives and what do they find valuable with the participation? Theories: The sense of cohesion, the strength of weak ties, activity theory, continuity theory and the theoretical concept of loneliness. Method: The study used a qualitative method consisting of focus groups and semi structured interviews. Results and Analysis: Results and analysis were themed by the following themes: introduction to the meeting points, counteracting loneliness, meaningful existence and participation, the significance of a meeting coordinator, health-promoting activities and the importance of the meeting points for the elderly. The study showed it was largely elderly who experienced loneliness that visited the municipality-controlled meeting points. The results also indicate that meeting points are good places to counter loneliness and helps expand social networks and social ties. Results also showed that social ties to the meeting-coordinators are significant for the elderly to feel safe and, to a broader extent, participate in the meeting points. Elderly themselves felt that the most essential aspect of the meeting points were the prospect of social contacts and context. The study indicates that municipality-controlled meeting points contribute to meaningfulness in life and promote good health for the elderly through the social and physical activities offered there.

Bakgrund: Digitalisering har förändrat hur vi möts, var vi möts och hur våra möten uttrycks. Arbetsmöten förekommer i alla organisationer och då många arbetsuppgifter inte längre är bundna till en särskild geografisk plats hålls arbetsmöten i allt större utsträckning digitalt. Med allt fler digitala arbetsmöten ställs således organisationer inför nya möjligheter såväl som utmaningar och tidigare forskning menar att organisationer behöver anpassa sig till den nya digitala arbetsmiljön, inte minst rollen som m tesledare. Vad som behöver anpassas och hur det ska göras framgår dock inte, men är av stor relevans att förstå. Studien avser därför att kartlägga vilka faktorer i ett digitalt arbetsmöte som är avgörande för att det digitala arbetsmötet ska bli välfungerande. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att skapa ökad förståelse för det digitala arbetsmötet genom att belysa dess utmaningar och möjligheter, samt förklara hur rollen som m tesledare anpassas till ett digitalt mötessammanhang. Metod: Denna tvärsnittsstudie har en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi med utgångspunkt i ett realistiskt perspektiv. Studiens empiri har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta ledare med god vana av digitala arbetsmöten. Slutsats: Det digitala arbetsmötet medför resursbesparing i form av tid och pengar, en flexibel arbetsplats samt en mer demokratisk möjlighet att delta. Samtidigt identifieras vana, mötesplats, val av kommunikationsverktyg, störningar och brus, avsaknad av kroppsspråk och relationsskapande som det digitala arbetsmötets stora utmaningar. Det välfungerande digitala arbetsmötet är således ett möte där de identifierade utmaningarna har reducerats eller allra helst eliminerats och på så sätt skapat rätt förutsättningar för både mötesdeltagare och mötesledaren. För att ett digitalt möte ska vara välfungerande fordras ett anpassat mötesledarskap, vana och erfarenhet, fungerande teknik, rika kommunikationsverktyg, engagemang samt riktlinjer. / Background: Digitalization has changed how we meet, where we meet and how our meetings are expressed. Meetings occur in all organizations and since many work tasks are no longer tied to a specific geographical location, meetings are increasingly being held in a digital format. As more meetings become digital, organizations are faced with new opportunities as well as challenges. Previous research suggests that organizations need to adapt to the new work environment, not least the role of a meeting leader. What needs to be adapted and how it needs to be done is not stated, however, it is of great relevance to explain. The study therefore aims to identify which factors in a digital work meeting are important for its well-functioning. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of the digital meeting by highlighting its challenges and opportunities, and to explain how the role of a meeting leader is adapted to a digital meeting context. Methodology: This cross-sectional study has a qualitative approach based on a realistic perspective. The empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with eight managers with experience of digital work meetings. Conclusion: The digital work meeting saves resources in the form of time and money, a flexible workplace and a more democratic opportunity to participate. At the same time, the experience, meeting place, choice of communication tools, disturbance, lack of body language and relationship creation are identified as the major challenges. The well-functioning digital work meeting is thus a meeting where the identified challenges have been reduced or, most preferably, eliminated, creating the right conditions for both meeting participants and the meeting leader. A well-functioning digital meeting requires an adapted meeting leadership, experience, working technology, rich communication tools, commitment and guidelines.

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The purpose of this thesis is to identify the destination site selection criteria for internationalconferences from the perspectives of the three main players of the conference industry,conference buyers (organizers and delegates) and suppliers. Additionally, the researchidentifies the strengths and weaknesses of the congress cities of Stockholm and Vienna.Through a comparison with Vienna, the top city for hosting international conferences, a roadmap for Stockholm has been designed, to strengthen its congress tourism opportunities, thus,obtaining a higher status as an international congress city. This qualitative research hascombined both primary and secondary data methods, through semi-standardized expertinterviews and secondary studies respectively, to fulfil the study’s aim. The data have beenanalysed by applying the techniques of qualitative content analysis; the secondary dataadopting an inductive approach according to Mayring (2003) while the expert interviewsusing a deductive approach according to Meuser &amp; Nagel (2009). The conclusions of thesecondary data have been further compared and contrasted with the outcomes of the primarydata, to propose fresh discoveries, clarifications, and concepts related to the site selectioncriteria for international conferences, and for the congress tourism industry of Stockholm. Theresearch discusses the discoveries of the site selection criteria, the implications of thestrengths and weaknesses of Stockholm in comparison to Vienna, recommendations forStockholm via a road map, and future research areas in detail. The findings andrecommendation, not only provide specific steps and inceptions that Stockholm as aninternational conference city can apply, but also propose findings, which can aid conferencebuyers and suppliers to cooperate, to strengthen their marketing strategies and developsuccessful international conferences and destinations to help achieve a greater competitiveadvantage.

La nutrition est un facteur de risque modifiable pour le cancer puisqu'environ un tiers des cas pourraient être évités en adoptant une meilleure alimentation. La relation entre nutrition et cancer est complexe, et son étude est enrichie par de nouveaux défis apportés par les récentes avancées technologiques dans le domaine des « -omiques ». Cette thèse a pour but de développer de nouvelles approches biostatistiques afin d'étudier la relation entre nutrition et cancer au sein de la cohorte EPIC. Pour ce faire, l'applicabilité de nouvelles méthodologies multivariées dans le domaine de l'épidémiologie nutritionnelle a été étudiée.Une nouvelle méthode multivariée pour la réduction de la dimensionnalité, le Treelet Transform (TT), a été examinée afin d'extraire des patterns de nutriments issus de questionnaires. Les patterns ainsi obtenus par le TT étaient plus facilement interprétables que par les méthodes classiques. Ensuite, un cadre analytique pour implémenter le concept du « meeting-in-the-middle » (MITM) a été développé et appliqué dans 2 études cas-témoin nichées sur le cancer hépatocellulaire avec des données métabolomiques. Le MITM cherche à identifier des biomarqueurs qui soient à la fois des marqueurs de certaines expositions passées et des prédicteurs de maladies. L'implémentation s'est focalisée sur l'application de la PLS et de l'analyse de médiation.Enfin, nous avons examinés la relation entre les niveaux plasmatiques de 60 acides gras issus de biomarqueurs et le risque de cancer du sein dans une étude cas-témoin nichée dans EPIC.Cette thèse servira de base pour des applications épidémiologiques futures examinant la relation nutrition-cancer / Diet is a modifiable risk factor for many cancers. It has been estimated that about a third of cancer cases can be prevented by complying with a healthy diet and adhering to the recommendations in terms of nutrition. The nutrition-cancer relationship is a complex one, and its study is currently at a turning point with the opportunity and challenges brought by the recent technological advances in the fields of « -omics ».This thesis aims to develop new biostatistical approaches to investigate the nutrition-cancer relation within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC) study. To do so, the applicability of new methodologies in the field of nutritional epidemiology has been examined.First, a new multivariate dimension reduction method, the Treelet Transform (TT) was applied to extract nutrient patterns relying on questionnaire data. The extracted patterns were more easily interpretable than those obtained with more classical methods.Then, an analytical framework was conceived for the « meeting-in-the-middle » (MITM) principle and applied to two nested case-control studies on hepatocellular carcinoma, with targeted and untargeted metabolomics data. The MITM aims to identify overlap biomarkers of certain exposures that are at the same time predictive of disease outcomes. The implementation focused on the application of partial least squares and mediation analyses. Last, the association between 60 plasma fatty acids levels assessed from biomarkers and breast cancer risk was examined in a nested case-control study in EPIC. This thesis will serve as a basis for future epidemiological applications looking into the nutrition-cancer relation

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and increase the understanding of a present function of today´s public library in a societal context. My aim is to examine how the role of the public library is discussed in Swedish media between 2012 – 2019. I want to get a broader understanding of the public library as a physical place and a space, through the theoretical frameworks of Raber´s ideological model. The theoretical frameworks are used in this study to examine these questions: How is the public library as a room discussed in present Swedish media? The functions of the public library of today is many, how is the different themes actualized in the library as a meeting place? What consequences does the debate contribute regarded to the picture of the public library and is it connected to the work for the legitimacy of the public library? The research field within Library and Information Science (LIS) is interdisciplinary with many references to social science theories. My qualitative study of content analysis builds upon theories of generating social capital. The aspect of the library as a space for inclusiveness and belongingness is a subject that is clearly stated in my study. My conclusion is that Raber´s social strategy is the dominant curse in the debate of the functions of the Swedish public libraries in present media. The legitimacy within the function as the hegemonic literacy discourse meets the legitimacy of the library as an open meeting place in my study.

This master's thesis describes design, implementation and testing of online voting system. Based on the research of existing solutions, as well as the identification of their shortcomings for the target user group, the requirements for the new system are specified. This information system is primarily intended to be used for assembly of unit owners, members meeting of building housing cooperative, or meeting of the municipal council, general meeting of shareholders and similar.