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- Bergström, Mattias, et al.
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Towards virtual co-location in functional product development
- 2008
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Ingår i: Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy. - : IOS Press. - 9781586039240 - 9781905824090 ; , s. 806-814
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The shift in industry towards Functional Product Innovation implies more collaborative efforts between the partners forming joint ventures, i.e. cross-company collaboration. Hence, new demands are put on collaborative technology. Insights into needs for both industry and collaborative design teams provide the possibilities for ‘virtual co-location' to be enhanced. Following a workshop format, the radical innovation workshop, industrial criterions for collaborative technology has been analyzed based on empirical data from five Swedish manufacturing companies. During the workshop three scenarios were put forward by the industry as most relevant; (1) the design review, (2) to on-site remotely collaborate with an expert and (3) the day-to-day communication. Based on these scenarios, three industrial criterions emerged, namely efficient collaboration, effortless setup of communication and the capability to create trust without touch. Technologies to support Functional Product Innovation seem to insist on meeting these criterions.
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- Edström Frejman, Anders, et al.
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Emerging and conflicting business models for music content in the digital environment
- 2008
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Ingår i: Collaboration and the knowledge economy. - : IOS Press. - 9781586039240
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As music listening is moving from tangible products to digital services, record labels seem to have difficulties in adjusting their business models to the new reality. This study investigates how Swedish record labels have changed their practices and habits when it comes to marketing, promoting as well as selling music. The 360-degree model - more or less used by all majors - where the label owns or partly owns related rights is one clear tendency. A contrary tendency is split risk cooperation found mainly among the independent record companies and their acts. This is one example of the different practises that can be observed in a market where long-time strategies seem to be hard to draw simply because there is not enough knowledge on how the market will evolve, not even on short-term basis.
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- Grönlund, Åke, 1954-, et al.
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Bangladesh virtual classroom : eLearning for all – today
- 2008
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Ingår i: Collaboration and the knowledge economy. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781586039240 ; , s. 1565-1572
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We developed low-cost, effective ICT to improve distance education in Bangladesh, using video and SMS to implement innovative pedagogy and to create a large-scale interactive learning environment for students, hitherto not existing. We develop sustainable strategies for ICT use in education including curriculum development, teacher education for interactive learning, and a new business model. Being the first of its kind world-wide, the project will serve as a role model for how to arrange low-cost distance tuition requiring only minimal ICT infrastructure, an example providing valuable experiences transferable to other developing countries. The project addresses technical factors (development of interactive technology) as well as social ones (introducing and sustaining interactivity in education) and the business model for distance tuition (engaging local learning centres, telecommunication management).
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- Hedestig, Ulf, 1962-, et al.
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Horizontal integration of local government : the case of the citizen service unit
- 2008
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Ingår i: Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781586039240 ; , s. 391-398
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to present empirical findings suggesting that it may be easier to develop a citizen service than to create more effective administrative procedures. Our starting point is a case study in which we followed a large strategically important development project in a Swedish municipality. The project aims to improve both citizen service and the municipality's internal effectiveness. Its main objective is to develop a Citizen Service Unit (CSU) that works as a one-stop-shop collecting service requests from citizens in one channel. According to the citizens the CSU clearly is a success. In the citizen survey we conducted the service of the CSU is rated very high. The answering rate has increased to 85%, every request is recorded in a document and workflow system and the citizen receives fast feedback from a handling officer at the responsible office. From an organizational perspective the CSU is not at all a success. On the managerial level there is a consensus on why and how they should change within their offices. On lower levels, however, clear roles, new work routines and routines for the communication between the CSU and handling officers to a large extent have been missing. Therefore, we suggest the following lessons to be learned: (1) Pay equal attention to the front-office and the back-office perspective. Reengineered business processes and new work routines will not show up by themselves, and (2) When developing one-stop-shops as the CSU make sure to also develop models for the relationship between the one-stop-shop and the rest of the organization.
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- Jimenez, Raúl, et al.
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CTracker : a Distributed BitTorrent Tracker Based on Chimera
- 2008
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Ingår i: Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781586039240 ; , s. 941-947
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are three major open issues in the BitTorrent peer discovery system, which are not solved by any of the currently deployed solutions. These issues seriously threaten BitTorrent's scalability, especially when considering that mainstream content distributors could start using BitTorrent for distributing content to millions of users simultaneously in the near future. In this paper these issues are addressed by proposing a topology-aware distributed tracking system as a replacement for both centralized and Kademlia-based trackers. An experiment measuring most popular open BitTorrent trackers is also presented. It shows that centralized trackers are not topology aware. We conclude that an ideal topology-aware tracker would return peers whose latency to the requester peer is significantly lower than of a centralized tracker.
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