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Background: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is believed to contribute to the socio-economic growth of developing countries. However, many ICT-related development projects in developing countries are short-lived, i.e., they fail to sustain. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study what factors influence the sustainability of ICT-projects in developing countries. Method: The s
Oatly is a company that produces and sells oat based products. Their most selling product is the oat drink, which is a substitute to milk, and over 80 percent of the annual sales volume comes from this product. Since the foundation of Oatly, the main idea has been to sell their products on markets with low milk availability and milk consumption. Most recently, Oatly identified the Chinese market a
With a current financial crisis and a tough competitive environment, all units and departments within the companies have to keep up with the market and its demands. Every time Sandvik sells a machine to a mining company, the buyer faces the fact that they normally have to educate their operators from scratch. This, implicitly, means a period with high risks of failures and mistakes. Training with
Absorption chillers are energy saving, but low-capacity applications are not available yet. To become competitive with the established vapor-compression chillers, compact and inexpensive main component heat exchangers are required. In the respective capacity range, the conventionally used tube bundle heat exchangers can hardly fulfill that requirement - plate heat exchangers, however, could. The p
User Experience is a concept that recently has gained a lot of interest in the high-tech consumer products industry. While technology development has converged and is starting to become a commodity and, as markets mature and loyal customers become more important, User Experience has emerged as a way to gain a competitive advantage. By studying literature, cases and articles, as well as interviewin
The semiconductor industry is one of the most technologically advanced and complex industries in the world, not only because of the extreme development pace, but also because of the necessary production processes to create the finished product. The value increase from silicon as raw material, to integrated circuits (IC), is equivalent to the transformation of sand into a product worth more than it
Theory regarding capital investments with low uncertainty is well developed, but theory concerning investments characterized by uncertainty is vainer. Valuation of investments with great uncertainty is of special interest for companies within research intensive businesses like medical technology, where the dialysis company Alfa functions. For a long time, Alfa was unique about its front edge compe
To improve the reglllarity of the Capenhagen commute rrain, stag, by simulation. This is achieved by simulating different time schedules in a mode! of the S-tog network, and to develop an optimization heuristic that improves the abil!ty to simulate different time schedules. Even though desirable, it would be practically impossible to try out every single time schedule combination. Consequently we
The company, qpunkt GmbH, recently developed a concept for an “innovative” thermal manikin – the Klimadummy. Before a decision can be made whether to realize the production of their manikin, there is a need for a market research, describing the current situation of the thermal manikin market, including the competitors and customers. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyze the
The mission aims to investigate the possibility to systematically document the knowledge and experience within the context of the daily work in order to safeguard the human capital for more efficient resource allocation, and to prepare recommendations on how the firm Networks Logistics can achieve a more rational knowledge processing. Methodology In the spirit of investigating Networks current kno
The main research interest of this study is to explain how GSM technology transformed telecommunications industry in Sweden in terms of: a. prices, b. products and services, and c. new industry directions. The background assumption about transformative effect of GSM is inspired by Schön’s observations on the impact of the Second Industrial Revolution on electrification of the Swedish industry. Thi
Problem definition: When investing in bonds there are some fundamental things the investor needs to be aware of, such as how the bond is being priced, how the structure of the company's capital structure is affecting the risk of holding the bond and the dynamics that could change the price of the bond over time. When a company tries to get more finance through credit capital markets, the capit
The Panama Canal expansion is an external factor on the tanker freight market that is made to change cargo volumes, channel fee income, the average transit time and might also change or create new profitable transportation routes. Shipowners operating in the region will, in one way or another, be affected by this. For tanker shipping companies like Stena Bulk the challenge is to create robustness
What characterises diffusion of mobile applications? Is it possible to find certain factors that to a great extent affect the speed which an application is diffused? What implications do technical and cognitive difficulties have on a user’s distribution behaviour? How important is the social dimension when spreading content to others? . Purpose: The purpose of the master thesis is to give guidelin
