BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND FUNCTIONALITY DESIGN FOR CONNECT COOPERATIVE

This thesis was aimed at establishing what were the business requirements for a small start-up company in the name of Connect Cooperative. The commissioning body of the thesis is HAMK UAS indirectly doing so on behalf of the Connect Consult start-up which itself generated from the Connect project in which students and staffs of HAMK contributed by running various sub researches and information. From this business requirement a set of technical requirements were being generated with a major restriction placed on the project or research scope limiting the project to the soft-component of the system in accordance to Sun Java’s guide on deployment planning clearly stating the importance on placing boundaries so as to avoid infinite scenarios or situations. The search starts by clearly identifying the adopted organization structure of Connect cooperative and presenting and classifying the proposed start-up’s services. The thesis further goes on to articulate how this organization structure and proposed services could be integrated into an online or virtual portal aimed at various purposes but with a major aim of assisting the start-up deliver value and services to its customers. Information gathering was done verbally by attending various meetings with the start-up’s members and also requesting information from the start-up directly such as their previous research results like the one they did in order to identify their human resources. In order to achieve results of standards, guides were being used so as to give a step by step method used in result achievements with a major use of the Sun java’s enterprise deployment plan –white paper guide. The business requirements were identified as the business constrains and a technical requirement with respect to the project from which the use cases were used representing and designing the system's functions

BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND FUNCTIONALITY DESIGN FOR CONNECT COOPERATIVE

This thesis was aimed at establishing what were the business requirements for a small start-up company in the name of Connect Cooperative. The commissioning body of the thesis is HAMK UAS indirectly doing so on behalf of the Connect Consult start-up which itself generated from the Connect project in which students and staffs of HAMK contributed by running various sub researches and information. From this business requirement a set of technical requirements were being generated with a major restriction placed on the project or research scope limiting the project to the soft-component of the system in accordance to Sun Java’s guide on deployment planning clearly stating the importance on placing boundaries so as to avoid infinite scenarios or situations. The search starts by clearly identifying the adopted organization structure of Connect cooperative and presenting and classifying the proposed start-up’s services. The thesis further goes on to articulate how this organization structure and proposed services could be integrated into an online or virtual portal aimed at various purposes but with a major aim of assisting the start-up deliver value and services to its customers. Information gathering was done verbally by attending various meetings with the start-up’s members and also requesting information from the start-up directly such as their previous research results like the one they did in order to identify their human resources. In order to achieve results of standards, guides were being used so as to give a step by step method used in result achievements with a major use of the Sun java’s enterprise deployment plan –white paper guide. The business requirements were identified as the business constrains and a technical requirement with respect to the project from which the use cases were used representing and designing the system's functions

Design of a knowledge management tool for mastery of Finnish professional vocabulary: An application of Nam Suh's axiomatic design principles

A language component which is very absent in the lecture-composition of integration programmes in Finland, is the teaching of Finnish professional vocabulary. This gap leads to a very pertinent issue of poorly equipped immigrants: with respect to the mastery and use of Finnish professional vocabulary. From a suggestive perspective, this problem can negatively influence Finland's integration efforts and leads to the waste of valuable resources. The aim of this thesis is to solve this problem from technology perspectives and by applying design thinking. To address this problem, this thesis applied the principles of axiomatic design. This thesis identified a set of stakeholders and customer attributes (CA). Most CAs were identified from a reputable secondary source and thus, increasing the designed solution´s reliability. With respect to the research problem and identified CAs, axiomatic design was applied to generate an original solution, framed on the learning loops concepts. Due to the exploratory nature of the applied design technique: axiomatic design, this thesis is both exploratory and applied. The result of this research is a conceptual solution: a knowledge management tool that enables immigrants to learn independently and master relevant Finnish professional vocabulary. The solution is an information and communication technology (ICT) - based tool that can positively affect masses. Its prime value is that it can contributes to employee empowerment and boost integration in Finland. Finally, the designed solution is systemic in nature and due to this, the solution is graphically demonstrated with reference to a sample use case process. The graphical illustrations: mock-ups, demonstrate and justify the main design choices, as well as illustrate the solution´s sample applicability.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format