Mapping and Evaluation of Supporting Documents
(2010) MIO920Production Management
- Abstract
- The purpose of this article is to describe the
Master thesis “Mapping and evaluation of
supporting documents” performed at IKEA of
Sweden. Supporting documents (SD) is used as
an umbrella for all kinds of steering and
supporting activity descriptions for IKEA coworkers.
This project is needed mainly due to
tremendous growth during the last decade,
when IKEA has managed to significantly
increase the turnover. The focus on expansion
has caused the internal structure to centre on
the daily business problems. This has caused
the spotlight on strategic issues, for example
how to handle the supporting documents and
organise the company, to seize.
The objectives were mainly to map IKEA’s
supporting documents according to their
... (More) - The purpose of this article is to describe the
Master thesis “Mapping and evaluation of
supporting documents” performed at IKEA of
Sweden. Supporting documents (SD) is used as
an umbrella for all kinds of steering and
supporting activity descriptions for IKEA coworkers.
This project is needed mainly due to
tremendous growth during the last decade,
when IKEA has managed to significantly
increase the turnover. The focus on expansion
has caused the internal structure to centre on
the daily business problems. This has caused
the spotlight on strategic issues, for example
how to handle the supporting documents and
organise the company, to seize.
The objectives were mainly to map IKEA’s
supporting documents according to their
processes and to evaluate the use of those
and find factors affecting the use.
The use of supporting documents inside IKEA
is too low and needs to increase. Thru the
master thesis project this have been enlighten
for the IKEA organisation and there is now
awareness among the managers. Factors
influencing the use of these supporting
documents have been found and analysed. (Less)
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- author
- Alingfeldt, Lars-Henrik and Cullin, Melker
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MIO920
- year
- 2010
- type
- M1 - University Diploma
- subject
- other publication id
- 10/5351
- language
- English
- id
- 1971729
- date added to LUP
- 2011-06-17 08:10:28
- date last changed
- 2011-06-20 12:18:26
@misc{1971729, abstract = {{The purpose of this article is to describe the Master thesis “Mapping and evaluation of supporting documents” performed at IKEA of Sweden. Supporting documents (SD) is used as an umbrella for all kinds of steering and supporting activity descriptions for IKEA coworkers. This project is needed mainly due to tremendous growth during the last decade, when IKEA has managed to significantly increase the turnover. The focus on expansion has caused the internal structure to centre on the daily business problems. This has caused the spotlight on strategic issues, for example how to handle the supporting documents and organise the company, to seize. The objectives were mainly to map IKEA’s supporting documents according to their processes and to evaluate the use of those and find factors affecting the use. The use of supporting documents inside IKEA is too low and needs to increase. Thru the master thesis project this have been enlighten for the IKEA organisation and there is now awareness among the managers. Factors influencing the use of these supporting documents have been found and analysed.}}, author = {{Alingfeldt, Lars-Henrik and Cullin, Melker}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Mapping and Evaluation of Supporting Documents}}, year = {{2010}}, }