Enterprise Agility: Why Is Transformation so Hard?

Enterprise agility requires capabilities to transform, sense and seize new business opportunities more quickly than competitors. However, acquiring those capabilities, such as continuous delivery and scaling agility to product programmes, portfolios and business models, is challenging in many organisations. This paper introduces definitions of enterprise agility involving business management and cultural lenses for analysing large-scale agile transformation. The case organisation, in the higher education domain, leverages collaborative discovery sprints and an experimental programme to enable a bottom-up approach to transformation. Meanwhile the prevalence of bureaucracy and organisational silos are often contradictory to agile principles and values. The case study results identify transformation challenges based on observations from a five-month research period. Initial findings indicate that increased focus on organisational culture and leveraging of both bottom-up innovation and supportive top-down leadership activities, could enhance the likelihood of a successful transformation

A Tuned Value Chain Model for University Based Public Research Organisation. Case Lut Cst.

The Porter´s value chain model was introduced for strategic business purposes. During the last decades also Universities and University based institutes have started to use actions similar to private business concepts. A University based institute is not independent actor like company but there are interest groups who are expecting them to act like they would be. This article discusses about the possibility of utilize tuned value chain to public research organizations (PRO). Also the interactions of tuned value chain model to existing industrial network are discussed. The case study object is the Centre for Separation Technology (CST) at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Finland

Direct measurement of the electron-phonon relaxation rate in thin copper films

We have used normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction pairs, known as SINIS structures, for ultrasensitive thermometry at sub-Kelvin temperatures. With the help of these thermometers, we have developed an ac-technique to measure the electron-phonon (e-p) scattering rate directly, without any other material or geometry dependent parameters, based on overheating the electron gas. The technique is based on Joule heating the electrons in the frequency range DC-10 MHz, and measuring the electron temperature in DC. Because of the nonlinearity of the electron-phonon coupling with respect to temperature, even the DC response will be affected, when the heating frequency reaches the natural cut-off determined by the e-p scattering rate. Results on thin Cu films show a $T^{4}$ behavior for the scattering rate, in agreement with indirect measurement of similar samples and numerical modeling of the non-linear response.Comment: to appear in Phys. Stat. Solidi (2005

A comonadic view of simulation and quantum resources

We study simulation and quantum resources in the setting of the sheaf-theoretic approach to contextuality and non-locality. Resources are viewed behaviourally, as empirical models. In earlier work, a notion of morphism for these empirical models was proposed and studied. We generalize and simplify the earlier approach, by starting with a very simple notion of morphism, and then extending it to a more useful one by passing to a co-Kleisli category with respect to a comonad of measurement protocols. We show that these morphisms capture notions of simulation between empirical models obtained via `free' operations in a resource theory of contextuality, including the type of classical control used in measurement-based quantum computation schemes.Comment: To appear in Proceedings of LiCS 201

Facebook-sivut mikroyritykselle : case Rmh

Toiminnallisen opinnäytetyöni tavoitteena oli luoda vuorovaikutteinen viestintäkanava, Facebook-sivut, tukemaan Rmh:n näkyvyyttä ja tunnettuutta Lapissa. Rmh on mikroyritys, joka tuottaa matkapuhelinten huolto- ja korjauspalveluita. Opinnäytetyöni pohjautuu teoreettiseen tietoon, jota etsin alan painetusta kirjallisuudesta, lehtiartikkeleista, internet-lähteistä sekä asiantuntijayrityksen koulutusmateriaalista. Facebook-sivujen toteutuksen apuna käytin teoriatiedon materiaalia sekä benchmarking-menetelmää. Menetelmän avulla löysin muiden yritysten Facebook-sivuja, jotka olivat innovatiivisia, laadukkaita, informatiivisia ja sisältökeskeisiä. Rmh:n Facebook-sivujen toteutuksessa huomioin yleisilmeen, informatiivisuuden, asiakaspalvelun ja sisällöntuotannon. Tein Rmh:lle jatkosuunnitelman, jonka avulla se voi kehittää Facebook-sivujaan kohti sen asettamia tavoitteita.The objective of this practice-based thesis study was to create an interactive communication channel, i.e. Facebook pages, to support Rmh’s visibility and recognition in Lapland. Rmh is a micro-business which produces and provides mobile phone services. The theoretical framework of my thesis study is based on information on digital marketing. I used material from printed literature, journal articles, Internet sources and the training material of a consulting firm. I created the Facebook pages by using both theoretical knowledge and the benchmarking method. Using the benchmarking method, I utilized Facebook pages of other businesses which were innovative, high-quality, informative and focused on content. When creating the Facebook pages for Rmh, I focused on the overall appearance, amount of information, customer service and content creation. I made a follow-up plan to Rmh, in order to make it possible for Rmh to develop its Facebook pages towards the objectives it has set

Book Review: The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence by Justin Parkhurst

In The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence, available open access, Justin Parkhurst provides a detailed synthesis of the debates surrounding evidence-based policy (EBP) as well as a governance framework for managing EBP. This is a comprehensive overview of the advantages and limitations of this approach that offers constructive insight into ensuring the judicious and careful use of evidence, writes Andrew Karvonen

Operational SAR-based sea ice drift monitoring over the Baltic Sea

An algorithm for computing ice drift from pairs of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images covering a common area has been developed at FMI. The algorithm has been developed based on the C-band SAR data over the Baltic Sea. It is based on phase correlation in two scales (coarse and fine) with some additional constraints. The algorithm has been running operationally in the Baltic Sea from the beginning of 2011, using Radarsat-1 ScanSAR wide mode and Envisat ASAR wide swath mode data. The resulting ice drift fields are publicly available as part of the MyOcean EC project. The SAR-based ice drift vectors have been compared to the drift vectors from drifter buoys in the Baltic Sea during the first operational season, and also these validation results are shown in this paper. Also some navigationally useful sea ice quantities, which can be derived from ice drift vector fields, are presented