Organisaatioprosessin muutos

Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin sähköiseen arkistointiin siirtymisen muutosprosessia Lahden kaupungin organisaatiossa vuosien 2013 – 2015 välillä. Tavoitteena oli sel-vittää kunnallisen organisaation sähköiseen arkistointiin siirtymisen vaatiman muu-tosprosessin toteutuksen ratkaisut sekä muutoksen vaikutukset hallinnollisiin pro-sesseihin. Työ on metodologialtaan kvalitatiivinen tapaustutkimus, jonka tutkimus-aineistona käytettiin haastatteluja sekä organisaation sisäisiä asiakirjoja. Tutkimuk-sessa haastateltiin kohdeorganisaation muutoksen suunnittelun sekä toteutuksen avainhenkilöitä. Tutkimustulokset osoittivat, että muutosprosessi noudatti tieteellisen tutkimuksen kuvaamaa muutoksen vaiheittaista etenemistä, vaikkakin vaiheet me-nivät osittain päällekkäin. Muutosprosessissa tulisi tulosten perusteella kiinnittää huomiota muutoksessa ilmenevien vastakkaisten mielipiteiden vaikutukseen muu-toksen hidastavana tekijänä ja ottaa jo suunnitteluvaiheessa tämä huomioon esi-merkiksi miettimällä toimiva kannustinjärjestelmä tukemaan muutoksen toteutusta. Merkittävimmät havainnot prosessien muuttumiseen liittyen olivat, että arkistointia ei voi ajatella erillisenä prosessina asiakirjan elinkaaren lopussa, vaan sähköisessä toimintaympäristössä arkistointi sulautuu kiinteäksi osaksi organisaation kaikkea toimintaa. Arkistoinnin tapaa muutettaessa on otettava huomioon eri toiminnoille asetetut vaatimukset, kuten tietoturva, allekirjoitus, arkistointi, arkistossa asiointi se-kä hävitys. Sähköiseen arkistointiin siirtyminen muuttaa organisaation eri toimijoi-den rooleja ja jossain kohden tuo säästöjä, mutta toisaalta vaatii organisaatiolta muuttumiskykyä. Osaltaan muutos vauhdittaa myös erilaisten toimintojen keskittä-misen mahdollisuuksia.

Quadcopter assistant for a mobile assembly robot

Science has revolutionized the human life. The advance progress in science and research is making human life easier and more comfortable. The new and emerging technology of micro drone is penetrating and widening the scientific research. This thesis is a part of work in which a unique work is carried out, although related research paper and journal are available. Design and development of automatic charging station for a ready to fly quadcopter is rare and unusual work. The work is carried out as an standard engineering process that include requirements gathering, creating the required document (this thesis is a part of required document as well), selection of suitable hardware, configuring the hardware, generate the code for software, uploading code to the microcontroller, troubleshooting and rectification, finalized prototype and testing. Thesis describe how mechatronics engineering is useful in generating a customized and unique project. At the starting phase of this project (before purchasing a ready to fly quadcopter) every single aspect of this work was known. The only unknown alternatives was a battery and charger. Several task was achieved including design and development of automatic charging station, accurate landing and telecast a live video on additional screen. At starting it was decided that quadcopter should follow the mobile robot, during study it was concluded there is no such quadcopter available in market to auto follow a robot indoor. This works starts with a market survey and comparing the different brands of quadcopter that meets all the requirements and specifications of the mobile robot assembly. Selection of quadcopter is a result of discussion and meeting with the team members, supervisor, professor and project manage.

Marketing a Mobile Application in a Highly Competitive Global Marketplace

The purpose of this research was to study the marketing of mobile applications. The main objective was to find out what are the most efficient ways of marketing to increase the sales for a mobile application within a highly competitive marketplace. The marketplaces, app stores, are studied from the perspective of size, ease of entry, competition and customers and their purchasing process. The study also includes research on what are some of the main marketing methods used in mobile app marketing in general. The study consists of two parts, theoretical and empirical research. Theoretical research was done by studying past scientific research on the chosen subjects. As the subject is very new, the research was also extended to other publications from the field of mobile technology. The empirical part was done through interviews and empirical experiments with a case-company, which were used to answer the main objective of this study. These experiments showed that the chosen methods of mobile app marketing, app store optimization, localization and selected social media marketing activities, created the most sales when used together. Positive results were seen also when the activities were conducted by themselves, but together they were able to push the case company to their all time best results. However the key to succeeding and hitting high positions in the app store rankings would most likely require creating a solid marketing strategy, trying out other marketing activities alongside the ones used here, without forgetting to stay on top of mobile technology trends.