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- Ahlin, Karin
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Approaching the intangible benefits of a boundary object
- 2014
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Today´s information society is constantly increasing the quantity of digital information that organisations have access to and depend on. Despite this dependency, few descriptions exist of the benefits which this digital information can provide the organisation with. Examples of what the organisation can use the information for include business intelligence or in a business process. The absence of such benefit descriptions results in missed opportunities in organisational management and a failure to cultivate the artefact. In terms of a practical operational work role, this means that the artefact just exists and that there are no decisions, communication and discussions connected to it. Earlier research about benefits in the Information Systems field is focused on describing the process of finding benefit factors from different IT investments and how these investments can be measured financially. The result of this was that it was only the measurable benefits that were taken into consideration. Later benefit management research has shown interest in the intangible benefit factors as well and added this as an activity in the evaluation process. Today´s view is that the benefit consists both of tangible and intangible benefit factors. This thesis emphasises benefit factors found by means of qualitative research in organisations producing Technical Information (TI). TI isinformation connected to goods and services and is a part of a product. The intangible benefit factors found which are connected to TI are semantic interoperability and knowledge. Semantic interoperability is beneficial both for the organisation and the individuals – in the first case exemplified by a uniform working process and in the second as efficiency in the internal communication. Knowledge also provides benefit both to the organisation and the individuals – the organisation can operate without depending on certain individuals and information gives the individuals mobility in their profession.The next part in the thesis discusses information management´simpact on benefit factors. In the case of an autocratic approach, it is the organisation that benefits most, whereas a decentralised management style provides the individual co-workers with a greater number of benefit factors. This proves that information management is an important and decisive ingredient, and that it affects benefit factors.One step in the direction of converting the intangible benefit factors into tangible ones is to visualise them. In this work the theoreticallens provided by a boundary object has been used. This lens adds a qualitative view on cross-boundary information and has efficiency approaches. These approaches are the syntactical, semantic andpragmatic. Via interpretations from the thesis´s two empirical cases, those approaches are "measured" by interpretations and visualised by the three leaves of a clover. This gives the opportunity to describewhat information efficiency, in this case connected to a positiveexpectation, can contribute to the organisation or the individuals. By this procedure, different cases or time aspects can be compared,thereby providing a basis for decision-making, communication and discussion. Future research in this area can be made in different directions – one is to investigate whether the intangible benefit factors can be turned into measurable ones. In this way, the internal organisation can be provided with better knowledge of the digital information's impact. Another research direction is to investigate how the passage of time affects the benefit factors that digital information gives the organisation.
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- Amcoff Nyström, Christina, 1957-, et al.
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Boundless collaboration : Distributed concurrent design in an inter-regional collaboration between emergency authorities
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference. - : The Design Society. ; , s. 1621-1630
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is to evaluate how Distributed Concurrent Design works during collaboration in a distributed system development project. We studied collaboration between emergency authorities in Sweden and Norway developing a demonstrator for emergency training. Evaluation criteria were people, processes, and tools. We have used a multi-method approach with the evaluation criterion as a lens. Findings has so far shown that distributed concurrent design works as a method in system development projects but much effort must be put on planning, management and training in available tools.
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- Amcoff Nyström, Christina, 1957-, et al.
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Virtual Teams - Support for Technical Communication
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Organizational Transformation and Social Change. - : Intellectbooks. - 1477-9633. ; 10:1, s. 87-103
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To work together in virtual teams has increasingly become a natural changein how organizations work. Due to demands from the environment,organizations have had to transform from traditional ways of working tobecoming more flexible and adaptive. The aim of this article is to identifyobstacles, problems, and presumptions in order to enable the virtual team tobe successful. A project — The TIC-project — is described, and results froma study concerning collaboration and networking among companies withinTechnical Communication are presented. Results show that, to a greatextent, experiences from networking are lacking. Furthermore, trust must beembedded in the teams, meaning that personal meetings must precedevirtual meetings. Most interviewees declared a wish to collaborate despitebeing competitors. Finally, questions and topics for further research arepresented.
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- Asproth, Viveca, et al.
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A decision support procedure in physical planning based on fuzzy logic modelling
- 2004
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Ingår i: NAFIPS 2004. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE. - 0780383761 ; , s. 163-168
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to enhance the possibility of making a good decision in complex decision situations concerning localisation of the most suitable physical position for an activity or a building. This will be accomplished by integration of the three procedures, CFD-Tool (Continuous Fuzzy Decision Management Tool), the MAD-Tool (Multi-Actor Decision Management Tool) and the CSL-Tool (Cross System Level Decision Tool), Where all three methods using a fuzzy approach. The result is the FAS procedure, a procedure that handles the problems mentioned above with a fuzzy approach. The FAS-procedure is also the starting point of a computer based decision support for physical planning
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- Asproth, Viveca, et al.
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A Model for Management of Critical Situations Caused by Flooding
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the The Seventh International Symposium on Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2008). - 9789051550443 ; , s. 1137-1145
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globally flooding is one of the natural catastrophes that every year causes most victims and the greatest economical effects. In case of flooding many authorities and organizations become involved and there is a problem to take in the whole situation and have a common picture when many incidents happen at the same time. Established models of organizational control are insufficient to cope with the management of such complex situations. In this paper we will discuss, from a systemic management perspective, model requirements for management of flooding situations where several independent organizations have to collaborate. Simulation techniques are used as a research method throughout the project. We conclude that the CRISSI simulation system or at least its principles should be relevant for the international bodies. The system has an open design so it is adaptable and can be characterized as an adaptable and learning system.
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- Asproth, Viveca, 1948-, et al.
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Accessibility in Crisis Management
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Ingår i: European Sociological Association Research Network 22 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty RISK, UNCERTAINTY AND POLICY Midterm Conference 2011.
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- Asproth, Viveca, 1948-, et al.
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Anticipatory Modeling and Simulation for Inter-Regional Security
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Ingår i: The 21st European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The idea of anticipatory modeling and simulation with subsequent learning from the outcomes is here applied on inter regional security work. In this setting, multiactors have to both cooperate and make coordinated decisions with just partial information about each other. With help of netAgora, a net based environment for simulation, learning, and communication, the goal of training, preparedness and continuous improvement of decisions is met.
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- Asproth, Viveca, 1948-, et al.
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Anticipatory Modeling andSimulation for Inter RegionalSecurity
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Ingår i: Systems. connecting matter, life, culture and technology. - 2305-6991. ; 1:1, s. 21-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The idea of anticipatory modeling and simulation with subsequent learning from the outcomes is here applied on inter-regional security work. In this setting, multi-actors have to both cooperate and make coordinated decisions with just partial information about each other. With help of netAgora, a net based environment for simulation, learning, and communication, the goal of training, preparedness and continuous improvement of decisions is met.
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