Academic literature on the topic 'Front Administration'

I’ve built an Internet based administration front-end for the company Allt I Brand in Jamjö. Allt I Brand’s main goals are maintenance and sale of fire preventive equipment. This front-end is programmed mostly in PHP, connected to a MySQL database. Because both Allt I Brand’s main page and my administration front-end use the same database and the database is designed to virtually fit any type of company, the result is both dynamic and powerful. The front-end design is made to make it easy to understand and nice to look at. The functionality has given my client the power to manage their main page on their own. The result, a complete administration system.<br>Jag har tillverkat ett Internetbaserat administrations gränssnitt åt företaget Allt I Brand i Jämjö. Allt I Brand är ett företag som är inriktat på underhåll och försäljning av brandförebyggande utrustning. Detta administrations gränssnitt är programmerat till största delen i PHP som är kopplat till en MySQL databas. Eftersom både Allt I Brand´s huvudsida och mitt administrations gränssnitt använder samma databas och databasen är designad så att den kan passa till olika sorters företag så blir resultatet både dynamiskt och kraftfullt. Designen på administration sidan är gjord så att det ska vara lätt att förstå och trevligt att se på. Funktionaliteten har givit min kund kraften att själv sköta och underhålla sin huvudsida. Systemet är helt enkelt komplett.<br>Adress: Utridarevägen 1B 370 40 Karlskrona Tel: 0709 57 32 54 E-mail: hapr02@stundent.bth.se

Sammanfattning Titel: En studie om hur Front-of-packaging påverkar konsumenters attityder. Nivå: C-uppsats, examensarbete i ämnet företagsekonomi. Författare: Alexandra Ekstrand och Jasmine Wiberg. Handledare: Jonas Kågström och Benny Berggren. Datum: 2019-05-24. Syfte: Vårt syfte är att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur konsumenter värderar sötnings-relaterade hälsopåståenden på livsmedelsförpackningar. Metod: I denna studie har en kvantitativ metod använts där 186 enkätsvar samlades in via en webbaserad undersökning som publicerades på sociala medier. Enkätsvaren analyserades i data- och statistikprogrammet Jamovi där deskriptiva analyser samt faktoranalyser genomfördes. Resultat &amp; diskussion: Ett genomgående drag för i stort sett alla faktoranalyser är att WTP inte påvisar något starkt samband gentemot övriga variabler. Det finns dock ett tydligt samband mellan köpintention och de specifika påståendena i samtliga av faktoranalyser. Det vi funnit är främst att natur- och närvarofokuserade sötningspåståenden på produktförpackningar genererar högst WTP samt att vetenskaps- och närvarofokuserade påståenden ger lägst WTP hos konsumenterna inom denna produktkategori när sötning är i fokus. Uppsatsens bidrag: Undersökningen har främst bidragit genom att utveckla och fördjupa det teoretiska ramverk som André et al. (2018) skapat. Studien har även skapat en djupare inblick i huruvida FOP:ers utformning och karaktär påverkar konsumenters preferenser och WTP samt givit granola-producenter viss vägledning kring vilken karaktär hos påståenden som preferens. Förslag till vidare forskning: Ett exempel på vidare forskning är att ge studien en ny vinkel genom att följa Bonilla (2010, s. 11) tes om att utföra experimentella studier för ett mer verklighetsförankrat resultat. T.ex. genom att utföra ett experiment som innefattar respondenternas interaktion med verkliga produkter och verkliga pengar.

<p> This qualitative exploratory single case study was completed to analyze the role of how middle managers evaluate coaching ability of front-line supervisors, address unsuccessful coaching, and learn how those determinants factor into the manager&rsquo;s employment decision respective to retaining or hiring a front-line supervisor. The investigation occurred at a regional company in the Midwest of the United States that had previously attempted to enact a coaching culture program. Focus was placed on senior leaders and hiring/middle manager viewpoints and interviews were conducted with nine middle managers and three senior leaders. Additional data points included document analysis, direct observation, and expert testimony from a consultant who had worked with over 100 companies to implement a coaching culture. Data were analyzed through an eclectic two-phase coding system with emphasis upon hypothesis coding, word frequency, and thematic coding reassembly. Identified themes were then investigated through a lens of assertion development, and decision modeling. Five critical conclusions emerged and those findings aligned to how companies evaluate coaching ability and use those assessments in hiring decisions. Each of the five findings have a direct effect on the success of implementing a coaching culture. (1) Leaders should fully align on organizational coaching expectations, behaviors, and definitions. (2) Organizations need a robust coaching supervision program to evaluate current front-line supervisors. (3) Companies need to develop a comprehensive interviewing process to ascertain the coaching ability of potential candidates for the front-line supervisor role. (4) Leaders should also mitigate factors that inhibit coaching activity particularly emphasizing the importance of the coaching dyad. (5) Companies need to ensure the quality and consistency of coaching throughout the organization.</p><p>

The present study investigates the role of the Front-End phase within the context of Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through the project management lens, focusing on what practitioners can do to manage this phase. Taking a cue from the assumption that the Front-End phase of a project is a very critical and important stage, this study begins with a literature review on innovation and on its role among the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and moves to the identification of the main challengesthat an Innovative Italian Small and Medium Enterprise has to face in the Front-End phase. Particularly, the research focuses on the strategies that a project manager can implement to deal with the fuzzy nature of the Front-End phase, originated by uncertainty, equivocality and complexity. The study has an inductive approach and a cross-sectional time-horizon. A case study strategy has been employed, together with semi-structured interviews as data collection technique, involving six Italian Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises identified through the framework of legal requirements provided by the European Union. Although literature poses on the same level all three elements, results show that there is a general consensus about the main role played by uncertainty. Practitioners identify several strategies to employ in order to deal with uncertainty, while the number of strategies identified to reduce equivocality and complexity is limited. Furthermore, this study identifies a correlation between the size of a company and the type of strategies employed to deal with the fuzziness. The more resource a company allocates on a project, the wider is the range of possible strategies project managers can adapt.

This thesis addresses different aspects of how to manage product development and process development. Two research studies have been conducted, both within the process industry. In the first study, the focus was on management control in collaborative product development and process development projects, whereas the focus in the second study was on managing the fuzzy front end (FFE) of product development and process development. Content-wise, the thesis comprises an introductory text and five appended papers with the overall purpose to increase our understanding of how process firms can improve the management of product development and process development, with a special emphasis on the fuzzy front end.The background to the first study was that it is difficult to manage collaborative development projects and that few empirical studies address accounting and control issues in such projects. However, the main focus in this thesis is on the FFE of the innovation process (the second study). The FFE is acknowledged as being one of the most critical stages of the whole innovation process, because the quality of emerging product- or process concepts is determined there. For example, improved product concepts can increase the overall speed of the innovation process as well as cutting costs. The costs of imposing changes in the FFE are still relatively low compared to changes in later stages. However, the FFE is difficult to manage because it implies a significant degree of uncertainty, and it is often characterised by ad-hoc decision-making and conflicting organizational pressures which make it difficult to plan and conduct. The existing research on the FFE has primarily focused on product development, but little is known about how to manage the FFE in other contexts. This thesis aims to shed light on the FFE in non-assembled product development and process development, mainly by means of multiple case studies.The first study of this thesis (paper I) shows that both informal and formal control mechanisms are important when firms conduct collaborative product development and process development projects. A central contribution in the first study is that it explores how the firms' motives affect the selection of formal and informal control mechanisms. For example, financial short-term motives (such as sharing development costs) were typically controlled by formal control mechanisms. On the other hand, informal control mechanisms were the main form of control if the motive was to build long-term relations with their customers. The main findings from the second study (papers II-V) were that the FFE phase of non-assembled product development and process development was conceptualized. These conceptualizations were done at a relatively detailed level and key activities in different sub-phases were thus identified. By conceptualizing the FFE of non-assembled product development and process development, a first and important step towards exploring how the FFE can be better managed was taken. In addition, the second study identified several managerial problems in the FFE, and the negative impact of many of these could arguably be decreased if more formal control mechanisms were introduced and applied. The empirical findings suggest a more formalized process for managing the FFE of non-assembled product development and process development. These findings are important in the light of a growing theoretical and managerial interest in the FFE phase of the innovation process.<br>Avhandlingen innefattar olika aspekter vid ledning och organisering av produkt- och processutveckling. Två forskningsprojekt har genomförts, båda inom process industrin. Det första behandlar styrning av produkt och processutvecklingsprojekt, som bedrevs i samarbete med externa parter. Det andra forskningsprojektet fokuserar på ledning och organisering av den tidiga fasen vid produkt- och processutveckling. Avhandlingen är en sammanläggningsavhandling och innefattar således en inledande text och fem artiklar. Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen är att öka vår förståelse för hur processindustriföretag kan förbättra styrningen av produkt- och processutvecklingsprojekt, med särskilt fokus på den tidiga fasen. Bakgrunden till det första forskningsprojektet var svårigheten att styra produkt- och processutvecklingsprojekt som bedrivs i samarbete med externa parter. Få akademiska studier har undersökt vilken typ av styrning som används för att styra dessa projekt. Merparten av avhandlingen fokuserar på ledning och organisering av den tidiga fasen vid utveckling av nya eller förbättrade produkter och processer. Tidigare forskning har visat att denna fas är den mest kritiska i hela innovationsprocessen, eftersom en stor del av kvaliteten på nya produkter och processer bestäms där. Till exempel kan ett väldefinierat produktkoncept öka hastigheten i innovationsprocessen som i sin tur även leder till minskade kostnader. Detta eftersom kostnaderna för att genomföra förändringar i den tidiga fasen är relativt låga jämfört med att genomföra förändringar i senare skeden av processen. Den tidiga fasen är dock svår att leda eftersom den ofta kännetecknas av en hög grad av osäkerhet, ett osystematiskt beslutsfattande, motstridiga organisatoriska målsättningar. Dessa bidrar till att göra den tidiga fasen svår att planera och genomföra. Den befintliga forskningen om tidiga faser i innovationsprocessen har främst fokuserat på produktutveckling och lite är känt om hur man hanterar den tidiga fasen i andra sammanhang som t.ex. vid utveckling av företagets produktionsprocess. Avhandlingen syftar till att belysa ledning och organisering av den tidiga fasen vid utveckling av icke-sammansatta produkter, som t.ex. metall och stål, samt utveckling av företagens produktionsprocesser. En fallstudieansats har använts i båda forskningsprojekten.Det första forskningsprojektet i avhandlingen (artikel I) visar att företag använder sig av både formella och informella kontrollmekanismer när de leder inter-organisatoriska samarbetsprojekt. Ett centralt bidrag i detta projekt är att visa hur företagens motiv påverkar valet av kontrollmekanismer. Till exempel ekonomiskt kortsiktiga motiv (såsom att dela utvecklingskostnader) var oftast styrda genom formella kontrollmekanismer. Ifall målet var av mer långsiktig karaktär (som t.ex. att skapa och bygga relationer till sina kunder) användes informella kontrollmekanismer för att styra samarbetsprojektet.De viktigaste resultaten från det andra forskningsprojektet (artiklarna II-V) var att den tidiga fasen vid utveckling av icke-sammansatta produkter och processer har beskrivits. De två faserna har beskrivits på en relativt detaljerad nivå ett antal olika delfaser och nyckelaktiviteter har identifierats. Att beskriva vad som händer i den allra tidigaste fasen när man utvecklar produkter och processer var ett första viktigt steg för att kunna förstå hur företag kan bli bättre på att leda och organisera dessa tidiga faser i innovationsprocessen. Vidare så har flera svårigheter och problem identifierats i tidig fas vid utveckling av både produkter och processer. Flertalet av dessa skulle kunna minskas ifall företag tillämpade en mer systematisk process och tillämpade några formella kontrollmekanismer. Avhandlingen bidrar till det växande teoretiska intresse som finns för den tidiga fasen av innovationsprocessen genom att presentera vad som sker i den tidiga fasen vid utveckling av icke-sammansatta produkter och processer.<br>Godkänd; 2010; 20101207 (monika_k); DISPUTATION Ämnesområde: Företagsekonomi Opponent: Docent Maria Elmqvist, Chalmers tekniska högskola Göteborg Ordförande: Docent Johan Frishammar, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag den 28 januari 2011, kl. 13.00 Plats: A109

In today's highly competitive business environment, innovation and new product introduction are recognized as the sustaining forces of corporate success. The early phases of new product development, collectively known as the 'front-end', are crucial to the success of new products. Building a fuzzy front-end decision support system, balancing the needs for analytical soundness and model robustness while incorporating decision-maker's subjectivity and adaptability to different business situations, is a challenging task. A process model and a structural model focusing on the different forms of uncertainties involved in new product introduction in a global telecommunication market are presented in this dissertation. Fuzzy measure theory and fuzzy set theory are used to build a quantitative model of the executive decision-process at the front-end. Solutions to the problem of exponential complexity in defining fuzzy measures are also proposed. The notion of constrained fiizzy integrals demonstrates how the fuzzy measure-theoretical model integrates resource allocation in the presence of project interactions. Forging links between business strategies and expert evaluations of critical success factors is attempted through fuzzy rule-based techniques in the framework of the proposed model. Interviews with new product managers of several American business firms have confirmed the need for building an intelligent front-end decision support system for new product development. The outline of a fuzzy systems development methodology and the design of a proof-of-concept prototype serve as significant contributions of this research work toward this end. In the context of executive decision making, a usability inspection of the prototype is carried out and results are discussed. A computational analysis, based upon methods of tactical systems simulation, measures the rank order consistency of the fuzzy measure theoretical approach in comparison with two competing fuzzy multiple attribute decision models under structural variations of the underlying models. The results demonstrate that (1) the modeling of the fuzzy numbers representing the linguistic variables, (2) the selection of the granularity of the linguistic scales, and (3) the selection of the model dimensions significantly affect the quality of the decisions suggested by the decision aid. A comprehensive plan for future validation of the decision aid is also presented.

<p> The purpose of this study is to understand the extent to which marketing efforts help the survivability of early-stage innovations. The locus between the phases of Research and Development (R&amp;D) and New Product Development (NPD) is defined as the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation (F²EI). Frequently called the "Valley of Death," this early stage of innovation is typified by high risks and scarcity of project resources. The challenge for a firm as it develops an early-stage innovation is securing adequate financial, human, and physical project resources. For this study, the focus is specifically on National Institutes of Health (NIH) licenses accorded to small- to medium-size firms. </p><p> By using a mixed-method approach comprising qualitative interviews and quantitative survey results, this study develops firm profiles that describe combinations of marketing efforts that enable innovation continuation during the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation. Profiles are evident in terms of marketing variables, firm attributes, and project resources. These profiles vary for type of firm and also by the firm's life cycle. </p><p> The contributions of this study are to: 1.) Develop combinations of variables and profiles for predicting early-stage innovation continuation, 2.) Provide pragmatic information to potential stakeholders about how to identify and foster early-stage innovations, and 3.) Help small- to medium-size firms understand how to position and promote themselves in order to obtain resources and advance early-stage innovations.</p>

Abstract A Front-End Analysis Study of the Perceived Correlation Between Educational Leadership and Student Success. Kathyleen Wyatt, 2016: Applied Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler College of Education. Keywords: Organizational Leadership, Student Success, Higher Education, International Student Success, Faculty-Student Interaction, Sustainability, Student Retention, Student Engagement. The problem addressed in this qualitative case study concerned the challenges of student success in the four-year degree program at a multicampus institution of higher learning in northern Florida. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to assist leaders in the institution of higher learning in northern Florida in determining if a leadership growth plan could be a valuable component of a future and comprehensive professional development plan to increase student success. The triangulated case study was designed in order to generate unbiased, rich, and in-depth information from those involved in degree programs at the study site. Students, administrators, and teachers were surveyed and interviewed and provided information pertinent to the impact of leaders and leadership skills on student success. In conjunction with the qualitative analysis and case study approach, a front-end analysis was conducted to provide school leaders with reliable and valid information on which to base their future decisions. Success for this study was defined as the percentage of students in the four-year college study site who remain in school, increase their mean grade point average and, thus, eventually graduate or choose to transfer to another institution of higher learning. The researcher developed and implemented this front-end analysis study using qualitative methods of data collection. The emergent themes from the data analyzed enabled the researcher to provide school leaders with the information and, based on the findings, how it could be used to maximize the resources available at the institution in order to allow college students to reach their full potential. The narrative information and survey results in this final report provide a synthesis of the perceptual correlation between organizational leadership and student success and the implications of developing a shared leadership organizational model within the organization and its probable effects on measures of student outcomes.