243 resultados para Kauko-Itä
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Kansainvälistyminen on yksi avaintekijä pienelle kasvua tavoittelevalle IT-yritykselle. Tämän diplomityön tavoitteena oli tehdä case -yritykselle kansainvälistymissuunnitelma ensimmäisten ulkomaan toimintojen aloittamiseksi. Tutkimuksessa selvitetään kansainvälistymismalleja, kohdemarkkinan valintamalleja sekä operaatiomuotoja pk-yrityksen näkökulmasta. Tässä työssä käsitellään malleja, joilla pk-yrityksen tulisi valita kohdemarkkinansa ja operaatiomuoto huomioiden pk-yrityksen usein rajalliset resurssit. Tutkimuksen ensimmäisessä vaiheessa tutustuttiin eri kansainvälistymismalleihin, kansainvälistymisen motiiveihin ja esteisiin. Toisessa vaiheessa käytiin läpi kohdemarkkinan valintamalleja sekä eri operaatiomuotoja. Tutkimuksen viimeisessä vaiheessa vertailtiin annettuja kohdemarkkinoita ja tehtiin case-yritykselle kansainvälistymissuunnitelma pohjautuen aiempaan tutkimukseen. Tutkimuksen tuloksena syntyneessä kansainvälistymissuunnitelmassa suositellaan potentiaalisinta kohdemarkkinaa ja operaatiomuotoa, sekä lasketaan investointikustannus etabloitumiselle.
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0-meridiaani : Helsinki
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Julkaisussa: Geographia classica : the geography of the ancients
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Yrityksen tietohallintoon kohdistuu tänä päivänä paljon vaatimuksia. Vaatimukset kohdistuvat tietohallinnon merkitykseen liiketoiminnan tukijana ja suorituskyvyn edistäjänä. ICT-toimialan rooli palveluiden tuottajana ja Suomen taloudellisen kas-vun tukijana ovat merkittävät. Tämän diplomityön tavoite on selvittää mikä on tietohallinnon rooli ja merkitys osana yrityksen suorituskykyä ja miten sitä tulisi kehittää. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen viitekehys koostuu yleisistä suorituskyvyn johtamisen malleista, suorituskyvyn joh-tamisen malleista tietohallinnossa sekä IT-strategian suuntaamisen malleista ja suuntaamisen vaikutuksesta yrityksen suorituskykyyn. Tutkimuskysymys on: miten strategian suuntaamista tulisi kehittää jotta tietohallinto pystyisi edistämään yrityk-sen suorituskykyä? Tutkimusstrategia on case-tutkimus ja empiirinen aineisto on hankittu teemahaastatteluilla. Case-tutkimuksen tulosten mukaan strategian suuntaamisen arvioinnin mallin valit-seminen on tärkeää. Strategian suuntaamisen kaikki näkökulmat tulee ottaa huomi-oon. Esimerkiksi osaaminen, kommunikaatio, kumppanuudet ja ihmisten käyttäy-tyminen saattavat jäädä ns. kovien näkökulmien varjoon. Strategian suuntaamisessa tulee kiinnittää huomiota suuntaamiseen kaikilla organisaatiotasoilla. Toiminnalli-sen tason merkitys tulee myös huomioida. Strategian suuntaamista kehitettäessä tulee arvioinnissa ottaa huomioon eri liiketoimintayksiköiden arvioinnit, koska ne saattavat poiketa vahvasti toisistaan ja siten vääristää kehittämiskohteiden valitse-mista.
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is a systems management product for managing large groups of computers and/or mobile devices. It provides operating system deployment, software distribution, patch management, hardware & software inventory, remote control and many other features for the managed clients. This thesis focuses on researching whether this product is suitable for large, international organization with no previous, centralized solution for managing all such networked devices and detecting areas, where the system can be altered to achieve a more optimal management product from the company’s perspective. The results showed that the system is suitable for such organization if properly configured and clear and transparent line of communication between key IT personnel exists.
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Esitys Suomen yliopistokirjastojen neuvoston sisällönkuvailun asiantuntijaverkoston, Kansalliskirjaston ja Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston järjestämässä sisällönkuvailuseminaarissa 20.11.2014.
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Knowledge and competence are in important role in today’s demanding business environment where hard competition forces everyone to specialize and concentrate more to core competencies. Companies are outsourcing services, making processes more efficient and utilizing better their staff and available knowledge capital. It requires good strategic planning, process measuring and management and motivated staff, who is willing to continuously learn and absorb new information. This Thesis examines almost total IT service outsourcing to international service provider in situation where company previously had own IT. Work contains problematic situations during the change and suggestions how to improve services and understand the new model in a better way.
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The target of this thesis is to evaluate a bid, project and resource management IT tool for service delivery process via proof-of-concept (POC) project to assess, if the tested software is an appropriate tool for the Case Company’s business requirements. Literature suggests that IT projects implementation is still a grey area in scientific research. Also, IT projects have a notably high rate of failure, one significant reason for this being insufficient planning. To tackle this risk, the Case Company decided to perform a POC project, which involved a hands-on testing period of the assessed system. End users from the business side feel that current, highly tailored project management tool is inflexible, difficult to use, and sets unnecessary limitations for the business. Semi-structured interviews and a survey form are used to collect information about current business practices and business requirements related to the IT tool. For the POC project, a project group involving members from each of the Case Company’s four business divisions was established to perform the hands-on testing. Based on data acquired during the interviews and the hands-on testing period, a target state was defined and a gap analysis was carried out by comparing the features provided by the current tool and the tested tool to the target state, which are, together with the current state description, the most important result of the thesis.
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So-called sin industries are often related to harmfulness, unethical business, and unproductiveness. Nowadays, the alcohol, gambling, and tobacco industries are most often considered to be part of sin industries, which is also the context of this study. However, the definition of a sin industry is always related to time and culture. Despite the controversies of sin industries, there are studies that have shown that corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement is even more important for sin industries than for normal industries and that CSR has a positive effect on firm value in sin industries. With CSR this study refers to an ideology where company takes mostly voluntary actions towards various groups of stakeholders and the environment. In other words, the company goes beyond the legal norms and regulations. In particular, the purpose of this thesis is to find out how companies, operating in the online gambling industry, communicate about their CSR actions to consumers at their web pages. The online environment is essential for this study as online gambling environment is a source of many controversies in comparison to the traditional gambling halls and casinos. These include, for example, greater accessibility, anonymity, and availability of the service. This study uses qualitative textual analysis as its approach, more precisely the discourse analysis. In addition, as this study focuses on large international companies and their actions, also case study approach will be presented. The cases studied are Mybet, Unibet, and Bwin.Party. In order to study the subject, elements from discourse analysis are combined with insights of essential CSR theories, and the specific characteristics of the online gambling industry. As a background for the framework, this study uses the framework of Du & Vieira (2012). After analyzing the discourses of CSR communication and CSR practices, it seems that all of the case companies still do not use all the potential that the online environment provides in terms of CSR or stakeholder communication. There are large differences between different communication tools used at different web pages (gambling pages vs. corporation pages) and between the firms’ CSR profiles. Moreover, there are large differences in the CSR practices used in the web pages of the case companies. The findings of this study are partially alarming as the case companies represent the largest companies in the industry. There are major varieties between the companies’ CSR communication and clear shortcomings in some parts of the online communication. Moreover, the trust of the consumer was broken in some places. If this is the standard that the biggest players in the industry have set with regards to CSR communication, it is probable that the smaller players are performing even worse. Moreover, the regulators are most likely concentrating on the larger companies, so the smaller companies might have fewer incentives and pressure to perform according to the regulations or exceeding the legislation. The conclusions of this thesis provide insights to managers, regulators, and scholars. Suggestions for future studies are provided as well.
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Presentation of Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen at the LIBER Board meeting, February 19, 2015 in Helsinki.
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Itä-Porin kerrostalolähiöt ovat Porin suurin lähiöalue. Ne syntyivät kasvavan ja teollistuvan kaupungin tarpeisiin ja edustavat aikansa aluerakentamista. Asukkaat ja rakennuskanta ovat vuosien varrella ikääntyneet, mutta alueiden rauhallisuutta ja luontoa arvostetaan. Lähiöiden asukastoiminta on monipuolista, Itä-Porista löytyy myös vireää taidetoimintaa ja arvokasta rakennusperintöä. Turun yliopiston maisemantutkimus on tehnyt Itä-Porin lähiöiden laajan kulttuurikartoituksen, jossa kerättiin tietoa asukasryhmistä, toiminnasta, ympäristöstä ja tarpeista. Tulosten pohjalta tuotettiin yhdessä asukkaiden, taiteilijaryhmä T.E.H.D.A.S. ry:n ja kaupungin edustajien kanssa toimenpidesuunnitelma lähiöiden kehittämiseksi. Itä-Porin tulevaisuudelle on tärkeää, että lähiöitä kehitetään tasapuolisesti muun kaupungin kanssa. Tähän vaaditaan kaikkien osapuolten panostusta ja yhteistyötä.
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Over the last 30 years, new technologies and globalization have radically changed the way in which marketing is conducted. However, whereas their effects on business in general have been widely discussed, the focus of the effects on marketing remains without clear recognition. Global research has been made to shed light onto the issue, but it has widely concentrated on the views of executives as well as the consumer markets. In addition, a research gap is existent in applying the concept of marketing change in a specific business-to-business (B2B) industry. Therefore, the main research question this study seeks to answer is: “How is contemporary marketing conducted in the high-technology industry?” In this research, the researcher considers the specific industry of high-technology. However, as the industry is comprised of differing markets, the focus will be given to one of the industry’s prime sectors – the information technology (IT) markets, where companies offer other firms products or services manufactured with advanced technology. The growing IT-market is considered of critical importance in the economies of technologically ready countries such as Finland, where this research is also conducted. Through multiple case studies the researcher aims to describe how the changes in technology, customer engagement and future trends have shaped the way in which successful high-tech marketing is conducted in today’s marketplace. Then, results derived from the empirical research are presented to the reader with links to existing literature. As a conclusion, a generalized framework is constructed to depict and ideal marketer-customer relationship, with emphasis on dynamic, two-way communication and its supporting elements of customer analytics, change adaptation, strategic customer communication and organizational support. From a managerial point of view, the research may provide beneficial information as contemporary marketing can yield profitable outcomes if managed correctly. As a new way to grasp competitive advantage, strategic marketing is much more data-driven and customer-focused than ever before. The study can also prove to be relevant for the academic communities, while its results may act as inspiring for new focus on the education trends of future marketers. This study was limited to the internal activities done at the high-tech industry, leaving out the considerations for co-marketing, marketing via business partners or marketing at other B2B-industries.
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Successful management of rivers requires an understanding of the fluvial processes that govern them. This, in turn cannot be achieved without a means of quantifying their geomorphology and hydrology and the spatio-temporal interactions between them, that is, their hydromorphology. For a long time, it has been laborious and time-consuming to measure river topography, especially in the submerged part of the channel. The measurement of the flow field has been challenging as well, and hence, such measurements have long been sparse in natural environments. Technological advancements in the field of remote sensing in the recent years have opened up new possibilities for capturing synoptic information on river environments. This thesis presents new developments in fluvial remote sensing of both topography and water flow. A set of close-range remote sensing methods is employed to eventually construct a high-resolution unified empirical hydromorphological model, that is, river channel and floodplain topography and three-dimensional areal flow field. Empirical as well as hydraulic theory-based optical remote sensing methods are tested and evaluated using normal colour aerial photographs and sonar calibration and reference measurements on a rocky-bed sub-Arctic river. The empirical optical bathymetry model is developed further by the introduction of a deep-water radiance parameter estimation algorithm that extends the field of application of the model to shallow streams. The effect of this parameter on the model is also assessed in a study of a sandy-bed sub-Arctic river using close-range high-resolution aerial photography, presenting one of the first examples of fluvial bathymetry modelling from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Further close-range remote sensing methods are added to complete the topography integrating the river bed with the floodplain to create a seamless high-resolution topography. Boat- cart- and backpack-based mobile laser scanning (MLS) are used to measure the topography of the dry part of the channel at a high resolution and accuracy. Multitemporal MLS is evaluated along with UAV-based photogrammetry against terrestrial laser scanning reference data and merged with UAV-based bathymetry to create a two-year series of seamless digital terrain models. These allow the evaluation of the methodology for conducting high-resolution change analysis of the entire channel. The remote sensing based model of hydromorphology is completed by a new methodology for mapping the flow field in 3D. An acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is deployed on a remote-controlled boat with a survey-grade global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver, allowing the positioning of the areally sampled 3D flow vectors in 3D space as a point cloud and its interpolation into a 3D matrix allows a quantitative volumetric flow analysis. Multitemporal areal 3D flow field data show the evolution of the flow field during a snow-melt flood event. The combination of the underwater and dry topography with the flow field yields a compete model of river hydromorphology at the reach scale.
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Toisen maailmansodan päättymisen ja Potsdamin sopimuksen seurauksena Saksa jakautui Länsi- ja Itä-Saksaksi. Länsi-Saksan hallinnosta vastasivat Yhdysvallat, Iso- Britannia ja Ranska. Itä-Saksasta puolestaan tuli kokonaisuudessaan Neuvostoliiton hallinnassa ollut alue. Neuvostoliiton ja länsivaltojen näkemykset siitä, miten sodanjälkeistä Saksaa tulisi hallinnoida, erosivat suuresti toisistaan alusta lähtien, ollen yksi merkittävimmistä tekijöistä kylmän sodan syttymisen taustalla. Koko kylmän sodan ajan mahdollisen aseellisen konfliktin nähtiin alkavan Euroopasta, mitä todennäköisimmin Saksasta. Tämän vuoksi länsivallat ja Neuvostoliitto sijoittivat alueelle paljon sotilaallista voimaa. Kyseisen sotilaallisen voiman keskittymän seurauksena syntyi kaksi maailmanhistorian suurinta sotilasliittoutumaa: Nato ja Varsovan liitto. Näistä kahdesta sotilasliitosta ensimmäiseksi luotiin Nato vuonna 1949. Vuonna 1955 Neuvostoliitto vastasi tähän uuteen strategisen tason uhkaan luomalla Varsovan liiton. Varsovan liiton perustamista seurasi Itä-Saksan kansanarmeijan eli NVA:n perustaminen. NVA:n joukot olivat Neuvostoliiton sotilasjohdon alaisuudessa toimineita joukkoja, ja ne varustettiin Neuvostoliiton parhaimmalla kalustolla läpi kylmän sodan. Tästä esimerkkinä NVA:n varustaminen ydinaseilla 1960-luvulla. Itä-Saksan miehitystä kesti vuoteen 1994 asti, jolloin viimeiset Neuvostoliiton aikaiset miehitysjoukot poistuivat sen maaperältä. Neuvostoliiton kaatumiseen asti Itä-Saksan miehitysjoukot olivat ylivoimaisesti suurin Neuvostojoukkojen keskittymä sen omien rajojen ulkopuolella. Aluetta miehitti jatkuvasti noin 16–24 divisioonaa, jotka olivat täysivahvuisia ja hyvin koulutettuja. Näiden joukkojen liikkeellelähtövalmius oli jopa alle 24 tuntia, joka antaa hyvän kuvan siitä, miten kriittinen alue Itä-Saksa Neuvostoliitolle todellisuudessa oli.