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MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY, IDT
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN EARLY-STAGE PROJECT EVALUATION TOOL
ARTHUR GODFREY TUMUSHIME - MUGISHA
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Malardalen University
IDT: Faculty of Innovation Design & Technology
Master‘s Thesis
Development And
Validation Of An
Early-Stage
Project Evaluation
Tool.
2020.06.16
Mentor: Erik Lindhult
Author: Arthur Godfrey Tumushime – Mugisha
134 Pages
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Acknowledge ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Thesis Outline .................................................................................................................................... 8
Problematization .............................................................................................................................................. 8
Problem Discussion ........................................................................................................................... 9
Research Problem .......................................................................................................................................... 10
RQ. What are the perspectives and the process of an early stage tool for evaluating innovation
project ideas? .................................................................................................................................................. 11
Research Focus ............................................................................................................................................... 13
Business Case Focus .................................................................................................................................. 15
Research Aim ................................................................................................................................... 16
CHAPTER 2 ................................................................................................................................................... 18
Methodology ................................................................................................................................................... 18
Research Strategy............................................................................................................................. 20
Interactive Research ......................................................................................................................... 21
Research Quality .............................................................................................................................. 24
Quality of the Tool .................................................................................................................................... 25
CHAPTER 3 ................................................................................................................................................... 26
Convenience Sampling for the Early-Stage Evaluation Tool .......................................................... 26
First Systematic Search Analysis ..................................................................................................... 30
Project Evaluation ............................................................................................................................ 30
Pre-Project Evaluate......................................................................................................................... 31
Quality Assurance (QA) ............................................................................................................................ 32
Environmental Assessment (EA)............................................................................................................... 33
Creative Commons Methods ..................................................................................................................... 33
Cascade Hydraulic Pre-Project Evaluation ................................................................................................ 34
Pre-Network Evaluation Tool .................................................................................................................... 34
Block-diagram ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Recovery Energy Resources (RER) and Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS) ................................... 36
Main Inspiration For Early-Stage Evaluation Tool ................................................................................... 36
On-Going Evaluations ..................................................................................................................... 37
Post-Project Evaluation .................................................................................................................... 38
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Standard Deviation And Standard Error .................................................................................................... 39
Likert Scale ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Evaluation Literature Summary ....................................................................................................... 41
Business Case Systematic Literature Review .............................................................................................. 42
Second Systematic Search Analysis ................................................................................................ 44
Business Case Litreature Summary ................................................................................................. 44
CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................................................................... 45
Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Summary ....................................................................................................... 45
Hexagon Analysis ............................................................................................................................ 45
Lean Principals................................................................................................................................. 46
I. Market Trends Analysis ............................................................................................................ 48
Market Trends Analysis For On-Going Projects ....................................................................................... 50
II. Customer Survey ................................................................................................................... 50
III. Octagon Analysis .................................................................................................................. 52
IV. Projects Clustering ................................................................................................................ 53
Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation ...................................................................................... 54
Early-Stage Evaluation Tool and Sparbanken Rekarne ................................................................... 56
I. Market Trends Analysis ......................................................................................................................... 56
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Market Trends Analysis). ..................................................... 56
Competitor Analysis.of Projectmanager .......................................................................................... 57
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................... 58
Project Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 58
Project Organization .................................................................................................................................. 58
Project Plan ................................................................................................................................................ 59
Project Considerations ............................................................................................................................... 59
Appendix ................................................................................................................................................... 59
The Project Charter (Evaluation Tool Review) ......................................................................................... 59
Sparbanken Rekarne ........................................................................................................................ 60
Savings Bank Foundation Rekarne ............................................................................................................ 60
Appropriations Granted ............................................................................................................................. 61
Apply For Grants ....................................................................................................................................... 61
Social Responsibility ................................................................................................................................. 61
Sveriges Riksbank ............................................................................................................................ 62
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Block-Chain ............................................................................................................................................... 64
Sparbanken Rekarne Mobile Application, Instant Payments, PSD2, SEPA, Virtual Account ................. 67
II. Customer Survey ................................................................................................................................. 71
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Customer Survey). ................................................................ 73
Survey Scales............................................................................................................................................. 73
Likert and Semantic Differential Scales .................................................................................................... 74
Dichotomous.............................................................................................................................................. 75
Qualitative Open Questions ....................................................................................................................... 75
Participants and Customer Survey ................................................................................................... 76
Customer Survey Empirical Results ................................................................................................ 83
Questionnaire Results into Concept Project .............................................................................................. 83
III. Octagon Analysis ................................................................................................................................. 84
Octagon Analysis and Likert Scales Values .................................................................................... 85
Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation ............................................................................ 85
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Octagon Analysis). ............................................................... 86
Complexity of Project ...................................................................................................................... 87
Complexity Of Project Likert Scale .......................................................................................................... 91
Sustainability.................................................................................................................................... 92
Sustainability Likert Scale ......................................................................................................................... 96
Implementation ................................................................................................................................ 97
Implementation Likert Scale ................................................................................................................... 100
Marketability .................................................................................................................................. 100
Marketability Likert Scale ....................................................................................................................... 103
Digitalization.................................................................................................................................. 104
Digitalization Likert Scale ....................................................................................................................... 110
Distribution Logistics..................................................................................................................... 111
Distribution Logistics Likert Scale .......................................................................................................... 115
Timescale ....................................................................................................................................... 115
Timescale Likert Scale ............................................................................................................................ 116
Total Cost ....................................................................................................................................... 117
Total Cost Likert Likert Scale ................................................................................................................. 119
IV. Projects Clustering............................................................................................................................ 120
Organising Pre-Projects ................................................................................................................. 120
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Grouping Pre-Projects .................................................................................................................... 121
Eight Grouping Channels ............................................................................................................... 122
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Projects Clustering) ............................................................ 123
CHAPTER 5 ................................................................................................................................................. 125
Reflection ...................................................................................................................................................... 125
Validation from Interactive Research ............................................................................................ 125
Validation from Development ....................................................................................................... 125
Validation from Björn Fagerström (Mälardalen University) ......................................................... 126
Endorsement from Stefan Öhman (Sparbanken Rekarne) ............................................................. 127
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................... 127
Future Development....................................................................................................................... 128
References ..................................................................................................................................................... 128
Figures............................................................................................................................................ 128
Tables ............................................................................................................................................. 128
Articles ........................................................................................................................................... 129
Website .......................................................................................................................................... 134
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Abstract
This master‗s thesis is a journey of generating a prototype evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne,
the aim was to contribute to the emerging field as an innovation and design and specifically pre-
project management. The major stakeholder was Sparbanken Rekarne AB, they needed an
innovation model and the research question formulated was: What are the perspectives and the
process of an early stage tool for evaluating innovation project ideas? ‗The approach was gathering
theoretical knowledge in the development of the evaluation tool using a systematic literature review.
The theoretical knowledge building was done by carrying out a systematic literature review to
inspect different credible evaluation tool to use. Focusing specifically on pre-project evaluation tools,
a knowledge gap (Gap spotting) was soon discovered after reviewing some pre-project evaluation
tools. Firstly needed to see what pre-project evaluation tools are available. One stood out with stages
and that ended being the main inspiration for the early-stage evaluation tool. Still basing the tool on
theoretical knowledge, the solution was to hybridizing existing pre-project evaluation tools and tools
already developed. Merging interactive research with Agile principals was how the information was
gathered and how the project was planned. The data gathered was dissected and used in developing
the evaluation tool. Purpose of the pre-project evaluation tool is to bring clarity for Sparbanken
Rekarne in making decisions about choosing pre-projects to invest in. This master‗s thesis gives a
detailed description of how to implement the Early-stage evaluation tool (Chapter 4) from a
Sparbanken Rekarne developer‗s perspective. Results, a contribution to innovation and design,
specifically pre-project management. The early-stage evaluation tool can maturate idea‗s into
concept pre-project that are measured. Involvement with all stakeholder makes sure the pre-projects
entering the project planning phase has a market.
Keywords: Sparbanken Rekarne, Early-Stage Evaluation Tool, Market Trends Analysis, Customer
Survey, Octagon Analysis and Projects Clustering.
Acknowledge
I would like to thank all the core stakeholder that contributed to this master‘s thesis. My knowledge
production has expanded this summer 2020 semester. The development of a prototype evaluation
tool was only possible because of the collaborative endeavours of the mentioned bellow.
Benefaction, guidelines, feedback and advice from;
I. Erik Lindhult (Mentor/ Mälardalen University).
II. Ulrika Florin (Mälardalen University).
III. Karolina Uggla (Mälardalen University).
IV. Bengt Köping Olsson (Mälardalen University).
V. Björn Fagerström (Mälardalen University).
VI. Stefan Öhman (Sparbanken Rekarne).
VII. Johanna Tömmervik (Sparbanken Rekarne).
VIII. Sparbanken Development Team (Sparbanken Rekarne).
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
In this master‘s thesis, the focus is on evaluation tools, pre-evaluation tools to be specific. In the
early part of the stage-gate model, this is the first step of any project and the most crucial because it
sets the foundation of project development (Frishter, 2018). The main stakeholder that this tool is
developed for is Sparbanken Rekarne, based in Eskilstuna Sweden. Sparbanken Rekarne is one of
Sweden oldest savings bank and interested in creating innovative tools for their organisation needs.
With many regulations in the financial sector, this master‘s thesis approach is to develop a prototype
evaluation tool that facilitates the decision-making process. This approach in solving the bottleneck
of innovation, increasing the efficiency in the decision-making process. It is important to bring
clarity in this fuzzy stage because the more clear the fundamentals are in the project the likely hood
of success. The objective was to research into pre-evaluation tools initially to evaluate Sparbanken
Rekarne‘s project portfolio, but a gap was soon discovered. Most pre-project evaluation tools are
highly specialized to measure specific industries. These pre-project evaluation tools measured
qualitative and quantitative data but did not fulfil Sparbanken Rekarne needs. The next objective was
to find an evaluation tool that certain elements could be built on, the hybrid of an existing pre-project
evaluation tool; an amalgamation of systematic literature review to personalise a pre-evaluation tool
for Sparbanken Rekarne use-cases. My contribution to innovation and design is creating a prototype
pre-study or early-stage evaluation tool, the tool is categorised in innovation and design research
methodology and the wider umbrella is design science.
This master‘s thesis used a previous project the Hexagon Analysis as a starting point, performing a
systematic reviewing on existing evaluations tools in finding the gaps of how the (pg. 29 – 34)
evaluation tool could be hybridized for Sparbanken Rekarne business-case (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). The systematic literature review is important because the methodologies and
theories learnt are to be incorporated in the early-stage evaluation tool. This master‘s thesis has
contributed to the field of a pre-project evaluation tool by validating a pre- project in a project
portfolio. The pre-project evaluation tool developed in this master‘s thesis, uses the experience and
limitations of members in the organization. The research team using the early-stage evaluation tool
would have to use their work experience at Sparbanken Rekarne, knowing the limitation of previous
projects when using the early-evaluation tool. In perfect condition, it should take roughly 3 – 4
weeks to use this tool considering all four stages are completed properly (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). In co-production process of the master's thesis, all stakeholders involved alleviated
the development of the evaluation tool, identifying and justifying the need for knowledge of the tool
and showing the connection with the subject of innovation and design. The co-development and co-
production of the early-stage evaluation tool came from representatives from Sparbanken Rekarne
and Mälardalen University. While discussing and validating the tool, the need for further knowledge
related to the area developed. The prototype evaluation tool is based on using theories testing and
choosing the right research method. In the master's thesis, there are many stages of analysing,
evaluating and testing theories and data. The intent of using interactive research methodology which
was used widely in the thesis was intended for generating knowledge of design and innovation of an
early-stage evaluation tool. The planning timeline of the tool was agile and free; knowledge creation,
tool development and testing were done only when stakeholders were content with the evaluation
tool (Petrov & Samuylov, 2019). There are plenty of research behind the tool to refine its focus
towards a pre-project evaluation. It is also based on building knowledge of ‗Sparbanken Rekarne‘
and what the bank would need from an innovative tool for its business model. Lastly testing the pre-
project evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne business case because of the coronavirus (COVID-
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19) global pandemic, the evaluation tool only reached the second stage out of four (Government
Offices of Sweden, 2020).
Thesis Outline
Chapter 1 starts with introduction‘, a summary of the Sparbanken Rekarne stakeholders and
description of developing an early-stage evaluation tool. ‗Problematization‘, the section describes the
problems I faced when developing the prototype evaluation tool. ‗Problem Discussion‘, Open
conversations about the problems faced in gathering data, the exploration of different methodologies
to use for the master‘s thesis. ‗Research Problem and Research question‘, further exploration and
defining the key problems.‗Research Focus‘, Narrowing down the initial design brief of creating
‗Innovation for Sparbanken Rekarne use‘ to developing a pre-stage evaluation tool. ‗Business Case
Focus‘, To validate the tool, a use-case needed to be developed to test the tool. ‗Research Aim‘,
Setting the goals and projected outcomes of developing the evaluation tool. ‗Theoretical
Background‘, Is explaining the Agile management theories applied in the development of the
prototype evaluation tool. Chapter 2 starts with methodology‘, In the development of the early-stage
evaluation tool the different theories used in co-developing the evaluation tool with stakeholders.
‗Interactive Research‘, was the type of research methodology used in this master‘s thesis, divergent
and convergent conversations strategy. ‗Research Strategy‘, the steps are taken when gathering
qualitative and quantitative data. Decisions made in using more systematic literature review because
of the coronavirus (COVID-19) (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). ‗Research Quality‘, How
reliable and viable was the data collected, can the data be reproduced? Chapter 3 starts with
convenience Sampling for the early-Stage Evaluation Tool‘, an explanation of sampling technics
used in collecting, coding and decoding research findings. ‗Evaluation Tool Systematic Literature
Review‘, the need for systematic literature review invalidating the use of values in the prototype
evaluation tool. Researching into ‗Project Evaluation, Pre-Project Evaluate, On-Going Evaluations
and Post-Project Evaluation as a preliminary study (University M. , 2020). ‗Business Case
Systematic Literature Review‘, was developed because Sparbanken Rekarne did not allow us to use
an existing project, in the validation process a business was needed to be developed for the validation
process. ‗Business Case Literature Summary‘, is arbitrary of literature based on the interactive
conversation with Stefan Öhman (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Chapter 4 starts with early-
stage evaluation Tool Summary‘, a short description of the stages in the tool. Explaining the four
stages which are Market Trends Analysis, Customer Survey, Octagon Analysis and Projects
Clustering. The validating the tool using Sparbanken Rekarne business use-case invalidating the tool.
Chapter 5 starts with reflection‘, explaining the different validation techniques used in testing the
evaluation tool. ‗Conclusion‘, are the opinions of the stakeholders in the master‘s thesis project.
‗Future Development‘, describes where I would have liked the project go after the master's thesis.
Lastly, the ‗References‘, containing all the articles, books, website data used when developing the
evaluation tool.
Problematization
From Sparbanken Rekarne perspective the many legislation, red tap, institutions, Central bank
policies, in which every year they get more complicated. As the lead researcher contributing to
advancing the decision making process at the pre-project phase was my solution. Being able to react
faster to change and fast track pre-projects that customers needs were the best solution for this
bottleneck in innovation.
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The main issue in solving Sparbanken Rekarne business case of finding how to maintain market
share and increase new customers. Problems from my perspective, whether on to use existing
evaluation tools or make a hybrid evaluation tool designed for Sparbanken Rekarne. How will I gap
spotting in existing pre-project evaluation tools? How will I grade these tools, according to cross-
functionality or ability to generate data? What are the main problems with existing evaluation tools?
The main issue with project studies is they use multiple separate evaluation methods, are they
evaluation tools with one cohesive theory? Some evaluation methods can generate contradicting
data, how can I mitigate this potential risk? Most evaluation tools do not work together, why is this a
problem? Since problems were already identified in the pre-study (Hexagon Analysis) of this
evaluation tool, how can the data help in developing the early-stage evaluation tool (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007)?
There were a need to research into pre-project, ongoing and post-project evaluation tools, then
choose the right evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne‘s project portfolio and business case. After
narrowing down which type of evaluation tool to review, the next step is to spot the gaps within it.
This would lead to either choosing an existing tool for Sparbanken Rekarne‘s project portfolio or
develop an evaluation tool based on the systematic literature review. The main need was a tool
developed to increase the clarity and speed of the fuzzy front end stage-gate model
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). To narrow down the field of innovation of evaluation tools
further, the direction was to take inspiration from previous work. In a previous course, my teammate
and I developed an innovative tool, the ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The tool
is an pre-project evaluation tool, it evaluates projects before they had entered the project plan or that
are ongoing. There were many problems in the application of the tool, it lacked refinement and
academic sources in key elements of the tool (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The tool lacked any
validation metrics of data being reviewed, they were no feedback loop or involvement of
stakeholders in the construction of the tool. The tool also has an over-reliance on user experience
(subjective), that generated varying results. The tool has no use of qualitative or quantitative data in
its development and was not reviewed by its developers or other stakeholders. Gap spotting is a type
of research methodology, where the researchers constructing the research questions to find the gaps
in the existing literature. The research question aims to identify misunderstanding in the literature
and explain it (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). An interactive researcher needs to understand the value
of practice, expands theory, creating trust with participants. Despite this connection the researcher
needs to rely on the facts and results may have a negative impact on the participant‘s opinions
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The research focus was difficult to establish; to develop an
early-stage evaluation tool or critical market analysis of the bank to gain more customers from its
target group (Mugisha, 2020). Confusion spotting of another evaluation tool, critique the method and
discussion of the research quality of the different evaluation tool. Understanding why specific
evaluation can only work for specific use-cases. Critique the ‗Hexagon Analysis and findings was to
first find knowledge gaps then how to make a hybridisation evaluation tool that satisfies Sparbanken
Rekarne stakeholders (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Problem Discussion
Organisations usually carry out market research before they spend resources on developing a good or
service. In most cases of the organisation carry out traditional market research early in the project to
see what competitors are doing and to see where gaps are in the market. All markets are different,
with different rules, restrictions, standardization laws and customer behaviour. This market data
analytics is costly and time-consuming to read, market research identifies saturation as well as gaps
within the target market (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
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Problematization is to disrupt the reproduction and continuation of established knowledge, literature
methods or theories. Specifically, problematization aims to question current knowledge, remove the
underlying assumptions, existing theory to contribute to knowledge creation (Sandberg & Alvesson,
2011). Detailed evaluation tools cover many subject areas that create a detailed understanding of the
market, from the context of an economic zone, country, region or city. These tools are relevant but
need a lot of time to collect, code, decode and evaluate. Multiple tools create the same conclusion,
focusing on critical tools within the market research would streamline the design process of an early-
stage evaluation tool. Using Agile methodology didn't apply, the lean project developed needed to be
implemented in the development of the evaluation tool (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007).
The tool increases the efficiency of the organisation and provides a competitive edge in being able to
adapt in the context of a market. Disruptive technologies need a lot of time, stakeholder involvement
and capital resources, an early-stage evaluation tool mitigates the unknown within the project. Lean
principles in market research allow the researcher to develop results faster that is based on empirical
evidence.‗First come, first served‘ is a terminology in the context of the organisation, first to produce
a product or service that balances value and quality gain monopoly of the market. Being able to adapt
to the market would maintain relevance to the market, customer loyalty and improves organisation
image. Applying Lean principles in the evaluation tool provides the organisation to respond to
market pressure, market change, consumer behaviour, product or service reception. The organisation
can be early in developing projects, offer competitive products or service, maintain market share and
gain market share (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). The co-operation and interaction between researchers
and practitioners will generate many problems about control, practitioners will question authority,
power and contribution. The researchers need to takes thins into account in the planning and conduct
of a research study (Ellström, 2008). Developing different innovations like disruptive technology
without deploying a thorough series of evaluation can lead to a financial burden. Thorough market
research takes a lot of time, manpower and resources, a tool that can reduce time, manpower and
resources is my research focus (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). What if there was a tool that leads the
organisation in creating successful products yet reducing the expenditure of capital, time and
manpower? Is there a tool that makes sure an organisation keeping up with the competition, entering
a new market or creating a disruptive technology (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007)?
Research Problem
The main problem is systematically co-developing an evaluation tool using interactive research and
systematic literature review. The academic literature needs to validate and support the sequences and
process of the tool when applied. The tool needs to solve data gathering methods into concept
projects, combining theoretical knowledge, organization‘s database and experience from developers,
as well as qualitative and quantitative data. The early-stage evaluation tool needs to be able to bring
certainty in Sparbanken Rekarne pre-projects (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The evaluation
also needs to be clear, easy to use with a detailed explanations manual (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson,
2020). This poses a challenge because the tool needs to have a use-case for Sparbanken Rekarne. It
needs to not just be a copy-paste from competitors, but to draw inspiration or endorse certain
concepts. It should also have a competitive edge from other evaluation tools and needs to bring
clarity in the early fuzzy pre-projects stage. If the tool has several stages, each stage needs to connect
with evaluation concepts, theories and methodologies applied. The tool also needs a visualization in
conveying its intent, because when you can visualize an innovation tool the developer has a clear
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understanding of how it works and how to use it (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Interactive
research is described as a joint learning process between the researcher and the participant. The
researcher and participants co-create and contribute at an equal level. Conducting interactive
research also needs participants during the complete research process (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin,
2007). This includes the stages in the early stage evaluation tool as well. Creating an opening for
contribution indicates the proficiency of the researchers and the ability to construct research
questions using empirical material when gap spotted (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011).
There is also a problem in projects where knowledge of what the customers want only appears at the
very end of the project. There is a need for pre-study in both big and small projects to mitigate all
possible risks. The researcher must acknowledge the limitations and capabilities in handling
complexity, motivate the study, imaginary pseudo-problems and lack grounding in reality (Ven,
Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Conducting interactive
research before the definition of the problem is important to the diffusion of desired outcomes
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Sparbanken Rekarne functions in a complex financial industry
such as the involvement of Central Banks and economic zones creating the framework for different
forms of payment to happen. The Swedish Central Bank (Riksbanken) has been developing the E-
krona digital currency since 2016. The underline technology behind this is block-chain technology.
An innovative tool would be a solution to the organisation's challenge using an unorthodox
methodology for the financial industry. Developing an evaluation tool while simultaneously solving
a challenge through knowledge building and the reflection of the challenge, would help to validate
and shape the tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
When setting the research question, the researcher has to define the scope parameters, the population,
intervention, comparator and outcome. Who are the stakeholders looking for? Who are the sub-group
within a given population? What is the researcher looking to impact? What is the particular kind of
programme, events or challenges? What are the comparison groups using to match the outcomes of
the intervention stages (Hagen-Zanker & Mallett, 2013)? Complex questions involve co-operating
processes and influencing elements, timing, exposure, literature and different views (Sandberg &
Alvesson, 2011). Since financial projects take an exorbitant amount of resources, capital and human
capital also strict legislation can stifle innovation. Reduction of risk management at a pre-project
stage would allow core and primary stakeholder in deciding for a specific customer in a particular
time in the market. A need to develop an early-stage evaluation tool helps a bank in deciding on
project concepts and validating the tool by testing it in a business case study (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). Developing the evaluation tool is the creativity of acceptable knowledge and
collaborative research. It addresses the issues in creating educative duties that enhance competencies,
third parties, research process and the overall learning‘s (Ellström, 2008). When formulating the
research question there was a need to narrow down the project scope. Creating an evaluation tool is
difficult because there are many rules in the finance industry (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
RQ. What are the perspectives and the process of an early stage tool for evaluating innovation
project ideas?
The development of the Evaluation Tool took inspiration from a previous project, the ‗Hexagon
Analysis‘ that was co-developed by Arthur Tumushime and Annika Thunberg (Mugisha &
Thunberg, 2019). This evaluation tool was designed to be a pre-project evaluation tool for
researchers. The tool had a limitation, the idea being evaluated would have already been decided
without a pre-study, without this first step of validation, ideas would be based on opinions.
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Using a tool based from previous projects addresses the issue of the interactive researcher‘s need to
have a good knowledge of own disciplines and strive for interdisciplinary understanding (Svensson,
Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Theses interactions encounter personal opinions and the researchers
should be ignoring differences in identities, competencies and responsibilities (Ellström, 2008). It is
important to ground the research problem in reality, by first stating the key features of the problem
and then gathering information. These steps overlap when developing a detailed problem formulation
(Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). The interactive
researcher must be malleable in questioning one‘s point and viewpoint, be able to adopt a limited
perspective and link holistic understanding and analytical structures (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin,
2007). A research problem has many stakeholders, from the core, primary and secondary
stakeholders. Stakeholders vary by individual, group, organization and industry (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). During that course, used
interactive research identified areas about the tool that needs to be developed. The standalone
Hexagon Analysis tool is an early-stage evaluation tool for any type of project. Action research
cycles were the methodology used when developing the tool (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). A data is
gathered in solving the research problem, the scope of the problem should reduce and become more
manageable as the question develops (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and
Social Research, 2007). The Hexagon Analysis was first introduced and tested in 2019, as it was
presented in a class workshop at Malardalen University. The workshop was to evaluate group
projects using the Hexagon Analysis as individual‘s and then as a group, to see if they came up with
similar results based on a group project they were doing (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). This tool
covered the core aspects of an organisation and not all the main features of a project, based on
Annika Thunberg‘s work experience in Customer Resource Management (CRM) tools.
The missing step of the ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ was gathering qualitative and quantitative data to
evaluate instead of using assumptions to evaluate a pre-project (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The
main shortcomings with Hexagon Analysis tool were the lack of input and output of data in helping
the researcher ranking tasks on measurements. They were no supporting qualitative, quantitative and
documentation data in the decision-making process. This made measuring/ grading the activities
risky because they were subjective and often changed among researchers. Researchers in the
workshop had different rankings of tasks based on their perspective working on the project. They
also did not have quantitative documentation that reinforced the decision-making process, this
discord led to believe they were no consistency and could pose a high risk in managing massive
projects (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The diagnosis is the research process is done by organising
and observing a phenomenon into known categories and research problem categories (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007).
The constructive sign of learning the research problem of interest is larger than initially predicted
and it plays into a massive problem (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and
Social Research, 2007). There was no feedback loop from any core and primary stakeholders or
customers. The tool relied mainly on group members work experience and little use of systematic
literature review to develop the tool; there was a research gap. The focus was only on the critical
elements of any type of project. This research gap is worth researching further and to be developed in
an evaluation tool. Using literature that is more academic and with a broader focus of mixed
methodologies and theories, then testing the tool as in a validation cycle, the evaluation tool would
evolve with a combination of real-world use and systematic literature review. Co-creating and co-
developing with mentors, stakeholders and literature would create a useful tool in measuring early-
stage projects. This evaluation tool being developed would be designed for the development team or
research team. In industrial design, the focus is to always carry out market research before the
development of the product. There is also academic literature to support this approach (Frishter,
2018). In industrial design, once the knowledge building of a market is established, identifying key
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market topics to research in, feedback from potential customers is the next step (Mugisha &
Thunberg, 2019).This is a very human-centred design process. Intended to integrate this as well,
getting feedback from customers aftermarket research has been done. This would provide qualitative
and quantitative data on the idea‘s that work and don‘t work for a particular target market. This
approach has been done before. Some evaluation tools in the previous literature used methods such
as qualitative survey or interviews as the evaluation tool its self (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The
Craft of Research, 2008). The research focus has been co-developed with Stefan Öhman, that solves
the business case and is supported by the research method. The challenge is to create an evaluation
tool for Sparbanken Rekarne (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Part of the research problem is implementing interactive research cycles, the investigation that leads
to new research areas. Researching Instant Payments lead me to understand the complexity of the
financial industry, the involvement of central banks and economic zones creating the framework for
different forms of payment to happen. Researching PSD2 lead me to build knowledge on the Single
Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and Virtual Account Management (VAM) (Commission, Payment
services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). After the decisions, I thought a way to create an
innovation tool would be to solve the organisation's challenge using an unorthodox methodology for
the financial industry. Developing a tool why simultaneously solving a challenge, knowledge
building, refection of a challenge to validate and shape the tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Orthodox literature reviews conclude a ‗non-representative sample‘, state the shortcoming lays in the
methods of the review phase. Thou the data extraction and analysis of research material carried out
proves variable and non-transparent ways (Jessica Hagen-Zanker, 2013). How do social norms
director the researchers in constructing the research questions in a specific way (Sandberg &
Alvesson, 2011)?
Research Focus
No researcher can represent all features and viewpoints of a research problem, the internal, external
regulations (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007).
Investigation of Data is the evaluation of the questions, the approach and the research focuses. The
evaluation stages are in increments, short-term, mid-term and long-term outcome. Build knowledge
of inquiry skills and ability to implement inquiries based on the instruction from the short-term
outcomes is important (Newton, P., & Jr, 2019), which the evaluation tool has been built on as well.
Neglect spotting, finding something neglected in the systematic literature review, identify research
areas where inadequate research has been carried out. Scholar uses neglect spotting to develop
knowledge in the virgin territory, a white spot on the knowledge map (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011).
The Research Focus is based on evaluation management tools and pre-project evaluation tools
specifically. It has learnings from the short-comings, success points of project evaluation. The
evaluation tool bridges market research as an early-stage evaluation tool, that focuses on the
fundamentals, addresses the core of marketing and issues in a swift precise manner. There is a need
to research into different kinds of evaluations tool, primarily the evaluation (Mitchella, Israelb,
Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). Integrative Task is the what, ways and when that outlined the
research focus, different from action research, based on qualitative data, what has been said rather
than quantitative data (Ellström, 2008). Relationships during the research process generate mutual
trust and an open and liberal climate. This is vital for the interactive research process (Svensson,
Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The researcher does not lead the development work, makes them
vulnerable in the long term of the group dynamics, the co-dependence on participants contribution
takes away for the leadership responsibilities (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). There are three
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sub-groups of evaluation tools; pre-project, on-going and post-project evaluation. For this early-stage
evaluation tool, the focus is in pre-project evaluation. Pre-project evaluation, usually for massive
investment projects a pre-project evaluation is performed to develop an understanding of the scope of
the project (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). On-going evaluation tools can critic a products life cycle,
building relationship and learning‘s from the primary stakeholders to the clients. Post-project
evaluation, most commonly used evaluation tool, after the completion of a project, learning, success
and failures are addressed in a report. This report is used as a feedback loop to make improvements
for the next project (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research,
2007).
Reflexive knowledge is a research process that no longer defines as ‗objective‘ investigation and
reductionist interrogation of arbitrarily defined ‗others‘ (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). The
evaluation tool is based on theoretical and methodological knowledge about early-stage evaluation
using academic literature. Systematic literature review can show how evaluation tools can be used in
a real-world situation for different scale projects (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Research on science and
technology is not designed to build systematic connections between the micro-worlds (scientific
practice) and the macro-categories (sociology and political theory). Science studies advancement has
increased its scope, depth and complexity in the field of scientific practice, sociology and political
theory (Jasanoff, 2004). Evaluations usually have measurables, either for quantitative or qualitative
decoding. The researcher needs to understand different evaluation tools, numeric clustering,
parameters, linear and rate equations. (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
The research focus should document how the evaluation tool is developed, the skills for the research
team, stakeholders and systems for the organisation. An effective pre-project evaluation tool
identifies gaps in the market and highlights innovations from competitors (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
A pre-project evaluation can review previous projects and shows what is needed to be redeveloped or
improved. Pre-project evaluation tool uses data to recognize parts of a project that may be
overlooked and uses qualitative or quantitative measurable in the findings (Booth, Colomb, &
Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). The researcher needs to understand how pre-project
evaluation tool can set boundaries, goal creations and define activities that are needed to be carried
out (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016), as well as understanding how customers feedback is used in
evaluation tools, at what stages in the project and how understandings can be developed from it.
Lastly, the evaluation tool will be built on a previous evaluation tool co-developed the ‗Hexagon
Analysis‘ but the research and data gathered will be used to modify it (Booth, Colomb, & Williams,
The Craft of Research, 2008).
The research focus, methods and research question was decided together with Stefan Öhman, the
Lead Business developer at Sparbanken Rekarne and the main contact to do with this master's thesis
project. Stefan Öhman has over 30 years of work experience with Sparbanken Rekarne and his
contributions were pinnacle in the development of the early-stage evaluation tool
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The research focus was going to be both an evaluation tool and
critical market analysis of current technology used by banks and how to gain customers from certain
groups of society. The main issue was to find ways to get this target group to open more accounts
with Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne. Firstly there was a need to carry out interviews with employees
and customers and this qualitative data would be important in understanding the context of the
problem. Interviews with employees would be done either face-to-face, through Skype calls or
telephone interviews (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Once understanding was established from
the employees perspective, the questionnaire for the customers could proceed. (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). The timeline for developing the evaluation tool was based on the semester duration.
An agile flexible approach in the timescales, with no fixed dates to perform particular tasks, provided
a work pace that focused on the continuous development of the thesis direction and bottlenecks,
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problems, communication problems and unforeseen situations could be worked around. ‗Not
everything goes according to plan‘, so when the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic started having a
flexible project methodology was important. The prototype evaluation tool was to be tested,
gathering data through interviews and surveys. When the Swedish government began setting new
stricter restrictions for businesses in Sweden, it was a matter of time Sparbanken Rekarne had to
comply with the new restrictions and consequentially affecting the master‘s thesis (Government
Offices of Sweden, 2020).
After the 50% master‘s thesis review, the research focus had to be changed, gathering data content
and focusing on systematic literature review instead of practical content creation was the only
solution in delivering a credible thesis. The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic for this master‘s
thesis made it impossible to gathering data, performing practical qualitative, quantitative interviews
with the set key start and end dates (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). The organisation
Sparbanken Rekarne could not carry out these tasks with the new ‗social distancing‘ protocol‘s and
stakeholders had to focus on the essential services of the organisation (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). To wait for the Swedish government to lift the social distancing restrictions of the country and
allow businesses to go to work would have taken months and the master‘s thesis would be
incomplete and data gathering and evaluation of data (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). To
perform a successful qualitative and quantitative research study with Sparbanken Rekarne
stakeholders involvement would, the master‘s thesis development would have wait months before
gathering information. Gathering that data would have taken months as well, generating questions,
holding focus groups, or surveys then coding, missing June 2020 deadline by weeks (maybe months)
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). With confirmation with Stefan Öhman contact at Sparbanken
Rekarne and Erik Lindhult mentor at Mälardalen University to change the master‘s thesis direction
mid-semester solidified the decision to focus on a systematic literature review to support the design
process. A new direction needed to be drafted that focusing on academic theory in the development
of the prototype evaluation tool. The academic literature focus was already available and no delays
would mean the master‘s thesis would be completed in time. With theory-based knowledge,
information was already available, coding & decoding data was possible to justify, develop and aid
the design process of developing the tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Business Case Focus
The validation process of testing the early-stage evaluation tool would need a business case to work
on, developing a business case to test the tool was the original plan. This master's thesis intends to
create a mutually beneficial relationship from research and co-production partners in developing the
innovation tool. But due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, this approach was not possible
(Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Working on personalizing the evaluation tool will be done
using interactive research and building only on the early-stage evaluation tool and hopefully
satisfying both stakeholders. As a result, the interactive co-production of the evaluation tool is
categorised as a new design science and focuses more on the literature to support claims. After the
interview with Stefan Öhman, the conclusion was to find a way to bring in more customers. Based
on previous meetings, the direction of the problem focus and research question was already there;
how to increase the market in particular target groups (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
It is impossible to solve current problems with the same thinking, doing what we have always done,
will generate the same problems. Thinking outside the box, looking for inspiration form market
trends, market behaviour, spotting the gap in markets, analysing competitors and developing concept
projects based on the findings is the best risk reduction strategy (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). The
evaluation tool develops concept projects in to pilot studies or prototypes, to facilitate innovation of
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projects. These concept projects could potentially be disruptive and a golden opportunity for the
organisation. Not being able to react fast enough (cause of size, organisation structure) is guaranteed
reduction of market share (Cho & Young, 2020). Using a lean early-stage evaluation tool allows the
organisation to react faster using current reliable data and not assumptions, or forecasting
methodologies. Using real-world applicable data, identifying early trends and developing concept
projects would allow the organisation to release a project before the market matures, maximising
participation and ultimately profits (Swinson, Cockerill, Colby, Tuberty, & Gu, 2015). The steering
of the research priorities is the first step in transforming the research process is to the increasing the
desire of the priorities, at three levels; supranational level, national level and system level.
Supranational level refers to the grand European Community Framework programmes. The national
level is the research and development programmes within a country, programs like ministries of
health, defence, or agriculture. The system level is the Research Councils level, adopted pro-active
research priorities in place of reactive policies (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003).
By narrowing the scope, we can define a problem that needs to be solved. Currently, Sparbanken
Rekarne is trying to simultaneously keep its current customers and market position while looking for
new customers (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Scientific theories are built and evaluated with
precise intentions, research is used to enlighten decisions about theory and practice (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Ideas derived from the
communication between researchers and end users are defined as the idealistic situation,
emphasizing the subject-to-subject relationship (Ellström, 2008). The formulation of a research
problem is frequently more essential than the solution, a solution is a typically mathematical or
experimental skill (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research,
2007). The prototype evaluation tool should make the decision-making process faster, target group
feedback loop that should lead to increasing customer‘s satisfaction and gaining new customers is the
centre of the master's thesis (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Research Aim
The aim is to convey an intention or aspiration of the research focus, defining the desired outcomes
or purpose to achieve at the end of a research project. Explaining, in short, the idealistic results in
solving the research questions and identifying what has to be achieved (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The research aim for this master's thesis is to develop an evaluation tool using Interactive research.
Reading on the diverse project portfolio of Sparbanken Rekarne, the evaluation tool would need to
be able to appraise projects Sparbanken Rekarne, such as organisation grant's, social work
projects, Valvet projects, angle investor projects, software development and licences projects, events
sponsorship and fundraising projects in Eskilstuna, Strängnäs and Mariefred. The evaluation tool
would need to support an array of project, so multiple subject areas, parameters and metrics need to
be researched. These metrics would allow the user to measure a bunch of projects and pick projects
based on the organisation's direction (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Sparbanken Rekarne needs an innovation model, my solution was to focus on the pre-stage
evaluation model. Theory background of this master‘s thesis was gathering relevant data for the
development of a pre-stage evaluation tool. Since the systematic literature review helps define the
evaluation tool most of the theoretical knowledge is in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Initially to see if
there were evaluation tools to satisfy Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio. After reviewing
different pre-project, on-going and post-project evaluation tools, the conclusion was to hybridise
evaluation tools from academic literature and the Hexagon Analysis. This approach allowed the
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project to continue when delays occurred, other parts of the project can be progressed to maintain a
constant pace development. What is the perspective concerning this master‘s thesis as a concept of
clarifying to the per-stage evaluation tool? The evaluation tool is designed to generating different
viewpoints of within the early stage of a pre-project (Stage 0 in Stage-gate model). What is the
process of the tool and why the need for different stages? Most evaluation tools generate data that
does not necessarily relate to each other, this research gap is where the evaluation tool sits, using
only relevant data is validated then sent to the next stage. This stage-gate process can only generate
results once the stage is complete if the stage is not completed data cannot be generated, this builds
credibility within the tool. What is Early-stage evaluation tool? It is a hybridization of an evaluation
tool that had stages, these stages work together not like your typical evaluation tool in generating
data based on in the stage, this refining process brings more clarity in the pre-project stage. Agile
Interactive research in project planning consists of planning, Designing, Testing and Launching,
since this is a prototype tool the Sparbanken Rekarne would have to carry a pilot study for further
development (reference that has pre-stage evaluation tool). The process used was Agile Interactive
research was three main sprints used in this master‘s thesis were defined;
Planning, Interactive research that defines subject data to research on (pg. 21). Reviewing subject
data for the evaluation tool and pre-project evaluation in particular.
Designing, Overview of pre-stage evaluation tools (pg. 31 – 36) within the master‘s thesis document.
Hybridising the early-stage evaluation tool based on interactive research, systematic literature review
and convenient sampling. Developing the framework and correlation of stages in the evaluation tool.
Defining and refining each stage of the evaluation tool which are Market Trend Analysis, Customer
Survey and Octagon Analysis and Project Clustering.
Testing, the evaluation tool using Sparbanken Rekarne business use-case, the business case would
verify stages in the evaluation tool can generate (Chapter 4) results (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The original plan was to develop the evaluation tool and business case, the business case would act
as a verification process in testing the tool. But the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic created
difficulty and two out of four stages were performed. The other two stages would rely mainly on
systematic literature review. Agile Interactive research helped alleviate the unforeseen coronavirus
(COVID-19) epidemic was by steering the development more in academic literature because the
database was ready and available (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). This flexibility theory
allowed me the lead researcher to maintain development and strengthen the evaluation tool with
more academic literature. Applying Agile Interactive research and Agile principles and focusing on
systematic literature review led me to hybridize the hexagon analysis with an existing evaluation tool
that had staged. Process Market Trend Analysis, using interactive research keywords and knowledge
from the hexagon analysis, the tool needed a front end data gathering technique lacking in the
hexagon analysis. Process Customer Survey, working closely with the development team in
generating questions, sending emails bank and forth, convenient sampling methods when selecting
and eliminating questions. Process Octagon Analysis, using interactive research and the previous
results from the hexagon analysis and literature to increase its complexity than can generate useful
data in measuring any type of pre-project. Process Project Clustering, using interactive research
keywords that lead to the academic literature that entered portfolio management. Since the business
case is managing many projects, organising these projects was paramount and a necessary stage in
the early-stage evaluation tool. The Agile Interactive research worked cohesively with interactive
research and the research strategy, they complimented each other because they were no strain on
stakeholder‘s participation or negligence.
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CHAPTER 2
Methodology
The design and innovation master‘s program helped me gain project management knowledge of how
organisation work, project methodologies and theoretical learnings have helped me write the master's
thesis (University M. , 2020). The main inspiration for the master's thesis came from one of the
courses, INO402. Innovation And Creativity Management (Autumn 2019). Working with Annika
Thunberg in developing a workshop evaluation tool, this was the starting point of the early-stage
evaluation tool reimagined in this master‘s thesis (University M. , 2020). By using interactive
research in creating a business case, a problem that needs to be solved. Then developing the main
inspiration ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ evaluation tool into a hybrid evaluation tool that is validated and
developed using systematic literature review. Based on interactive research with Stefan Öhman,
finding ways to make decisions faster was what I thought was the best choice. Developing an
evaluation tool that reduces the fuzzy confusion in pre-project development. This co-creation
synergy of interactive research and the convergent and divergent information from Sparbanken
Rekarne and Mälardalen University stakeholders and Mälardalen University database was the
methodology used (University M. , 2020). ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ as the starting point, interactive
research as the methods combined with the verification and testing of other evaluation tools. Other
evaluation tools were researched on a questioned to see if they could solve the Sparbanken Rekarne
business case (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The hybridisation of other academic literature,
‗From plan to action: Adapting evaluation to serve the developmental needs of a newly-funded
multidisciplinary research centre‘ by Rachel Claire Mitchella then personalising and customising the
early-stage evaluation tool to measure, Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio (Booth, Colomb, &
Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). The interactive research methodology offers a bridge
between stakeholders, theoretical data and practice (Kealy, 2019).
The methodology chosen for the thesis was interactive research was done in defining a knowledge
focusing on academic literature in developing the early-stage evaluation tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). Implementing interactive research working closely with stakeholders fo an
organisation, co-developing knowledge creation, methodologies, research focus, research direction,
defining target groups, problem areas, methodologies. In pursuit of explore issues and develop
solutions in the context of an organisation and its customer issues (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The
Craft of Research, 2008). Interactive research was applied in the development of the Hexagon
Analysis and the learning from that study was the foundation of this early-stage evaluation tool
(Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). In modern empirical research studies try to address the need to invent
a new language of research and comprehensive analysis of research trends (Nowotny, Scott, &
Gibbons, 2003). Evolution in design research focus is user-centred and co-designing is changing the
roles of the designer, users are having a say in the design direction (Sanders & Stappers, 2008).
Equal important to involve and inspire the participation of stakeholders of the organization.
Practitioners have to manage the responsibilities of the research process and take action in changing
the organization (Ellström, 2008). Gathering data and co-production methods used as interactive
research, combining Stefan Öhman 30 year work experience at Sparbanken Rekarne,
Erik Lindhult mentor and leadership at Mälardalen University. Having access to Mälardalen
University academic databases, lead me to have all the necessary tools needed to develop a prototype
evaluation tool with multiple functions for multiple projects. Erik contribution for the master's thesis
was steering the direction of the prototype evaluation tool, making sure the base fundamentals were
in place and providing me with clarity in which methodology to use for the type of project, research
focus, research strategy and defining the research problem (University M. , 2020). In the 50%
presentation Bengt Köping Olsson gave a brilliant review of the master's thesis draft and addressed
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the master‘s thesis s direction needed to change because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) global
pandemic (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Stefan contribution using interactive research was
in the development of the business use-case, information about the organisation and co-creating the
prototype evaluation tool during the master‘s thesis. The tool evolved around the contributions of
stakeholders mentioned. Interactive research focuses on practical research, this approach lacks
acceptance, legitimacy traditional academic communities (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Interactive research was used when gathering information about the financial industry, working
closely with stakeholders in gathering data, convergent and divergent methodologies were applied in
developing the evaluation tool and business use case (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Since more time is
spent in practical research work, the researcher's proficiency is tested in caring out all features of
interactive research (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Friction from co-operation between
researchers and practitioners will question the objectivity, validity of research process and
organizational processes (Ellström, 2008). Interactive research is increasingly popular in Sweden and
Nordic countries because it coincides with the flat organisation structures of the region (Svensson,
Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The researcher needs to be disciplined when diagnosing the application of
models or theories in developing the research problem in context (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A
Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). What measures are used, when to use
mathematical formulas, equations, qualitative or quantitative data collection methods? What is the
theoretical thinking/ design thinking, testing and determining what tools to use and when in the
early-stage evaluation tool (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008)?
Developing a new insight into a topic from a broad topic perspective and then narrowing down and
focusing on one area to develop. Once the narrowing of the project scope has been done, its easier to
develop research or topic questions. The writer needs to develop interesting questions and sub-
questions in dissecting the main problem. This exploration is important in widening and creating
significance in the research problems (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Research Methods can be used to emphasize the rationalised priority of the research question over
research design and procedures (Newton, P., & Jr, 2019). The new research process is being
transformed, this transformation has multiple fundamentals at different novelty and intensity
(Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Basic spotting, researchers review existing systematic literature
review to spot gaps in the literature and frame specific research questions (Sandberg & Alvesson,
2011). Gap-spotting traditionally indicates knowledge growth and crediting Academia (Merriam &
Tisdell, 2016). The commercialization of ‗engaged research‘ is an element of transformation,
researchers increasingly turned to alternative sources of funding for the development of programs
and projects (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Research institutions and Contemporary journal
encourage gap-spotting, they are three versions of gap-spotting Basic Confusion, Neglect spotting
and Application spotting (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). Interactive research is a philosophy and
practices of applying research in the context of social sciences. Changing its position with
stakeholders based on the knowledge gained, transforming position through the process of
researching in action and reacting to the new research (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of
Research, 2008).
In interactive research, the learning process is defined and the instrument changes in the research
process using an interactive research cycle of planning, acting, observe, reflect and repeat (Svensson,
Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The research is continuously validated making new links to new findings,
by critical reflection (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Interactive research
has risks of proximity and personal involvement of participants makes it more difficult to conduct
critical analysis. A focus on understanding experiences and less emphasis on general analysis lead to
a low level of scientific productivity (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). New Production of
Knowledge offers a greater diversity of channels of how knowledge is produced, and in the types of
knowledge developed (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Early-stage evaluation tool was
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developed from the learning by doing, gained experience and validation process improve the tool.
The tool was simultaneously researched, for the use case and to the tool. These parallel research
topics worked as a cycle in validating reagents to each other (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Knowledge creation through interactive research can be done form two interlocked learning cycles,
Research System and Practice System. Research System comprises of the problem issued theories
and concepts generated, data assembled, analysis and conceptualized. Practice System begins with
the problem issues, local theories produced, lastly organisational action of the conceptualized
product or service (Ellström, 2008). Seeking public funding from universities or research institutes
because they are increasingly becoming more aware of the value of the ‗intellectual property‘
generated by their research studies. They understand the commercial application use case, this
research data could be used to develop programs at supranational, national or system levels
(Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). interactive research cycles are a methodology involving
stakeholders of refining a research focus, steps are taken in cycles that use the research to define and
refine the research focus. The main cycles are Plan, Act, Reflect, Observe and Reflect. The Plan
stage research area is directed, in the Act stage, the researcher begins researching an area. In the
Observe stage, the researcher gathers qualitative and quantitative data. The reflecting stage the
researcher evaluates the research content and future research directions, the cycle repeats (Merriam
& Tisdell, 2016). The intersection between the Research System and Practice System are processes
of interactive research produced and conceptualizations. The interpretations of the research object
fed back as ―cognitive input‖ as the next cycle of problem-solving and research process activities
(Ellström, 2008). How and when would applying interactive, action research or mix research needed
in the master's thesis? What is the best method in collecting qualitative or qualitative data for the
research project? How and when would inductive and deductive research be applied and at what
stage or topic (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).? What research
methodology to use for the development of the evaluation tool since action research was used in
developing the Hexagon Analysis (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020)?
As stated early in the master‘s thesis, coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic made collecting empirical
qualitative data impossible, other methods of collect data for reviewing existing evaluation tools had
to be made (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Qualitative and quantitative data that develops
the Hexagon Analysis had to be done. Erik Lindhult (mentor) suggested conducting systematic
literature review would provide apple data for this master‘s thesis. The systematic literature review
form the Mälardalen University database can act as a validation process when developing the early-
stage evaluation tool and the literature will support claims, stages and decisions made in the tool
(University M. , 2020).
Research Strategy
The research strategy is a step-by-step plan of action of the design process, in this case, the steps
taken in developing a prototype evaluation tool. The research strategy directs and documents the
researcher thought process, efforts made and decisions made. The research strategy shows
communication with intent, conduct research systematically on a schedule that produces quality
(Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). The process used in developing the
evaluation tool had Agile principles, flexible timeline interactive research techniques. As stated early
the theoretical and methodological findings are integrated into Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, used to in
explaining the values, use-cases and measurements methods of the early-stage evaluation tool. In this
master‘s thesis, the project managerial and theoretical background was Agile principles. Elements of
Agile Project management are a flexible approach to developing a project. In the planning of this
early-stage evaluation development, there was a stage-gate timeline defined but with no fixed dates.
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The primary challenges or problems in developing the prototype evaluation process are defining the
technical functions and specifications. The design process of the early-stage evaluation tool began
with interviews with stakeholders, using interactive research with both mentor and Sparbanken
Rekarne. The next stage was to develop theoretical knowledge, performing an systematic literature
review research strategy. By cross-referencing the data done with the data received, this interactive
research design process satisfied all stakeholders (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Before the
coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020), the research strategy
was to develop an evaluation tool based on the bank‘s project portfolio, but the new research focus
that leans to more academic research would provide an alternative solution. As stated early in the
research focus, Agile project management was the strategy used in developing the prototype
evaluation tool. The previous strategy was ambidexterity, that developed an early-stage evaluation
tool based on two problems.
Creating a new business case had to be done because of confidential projects at Sparbanken Rekarne,
there was no possibility to use existing projects or pre-projects in testing or validating the prototype
evaluation tool. The simultaneous development of the business case and the prototype tool was
customised and personalised to evaluate Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). The simultaneous strategy had to stop because validating the tool would not be
possible due to the coronavirus. Focusing on the academic literature was then the new research
strategy, through interactive research to fill in the knowledge gaps in the development and validating
process (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Implementing interactive research defined the research gaps,
problem areas and knowledge areas that needed to to be explored. Interactive research was pivotal in
setting the direction and research focus of the master's thesis, exploitation of databases and
stakeholder inputs.
The exploitation of academic literature was the main systematic knowledge-gathering methodology
in developing critical theoretical and practical aspects of the prototype evaluation tool. Interactive
research led me to exploitation and exploring fintech technologies, digitization, project development,
project analytics, evaluation and pre-project evaluation tool. Learning about the complex problems
with multiple rules and regulation restrict innovation, the same methodologies and theories would
only generate the same outcome. Researching into new fintech technologies that could be first tested
as a pilot studied then scale up the successful concept project is the early-stage evaluation tools goal.
Methodologies and theories done in the past will only generate content that applies to the past.
Combing Interactive research and academic literature in this master‘s thesis generated a prototype
early-stage evaluation tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The exploitation of information was
also partly the divergent and convergent interviews and conversations with Stefan Öhman, Johanna
Tömmervik (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Erik Lindhult and Mälardalen University database
(University M. , 2020). The exploration was interactive research information gathered from the
interviews and meetings. The systematic literature review needs to support the development of the
evaluation tool. Interactive research sampling progress the keywords in which aid in the development
of the tool. This sampling will make sure the evaluation tool is reliable and can meet all expectations
of the stakeholders. The interactive research methods set the objectivity of the tool being developed,
critically reviewing the ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ in an open discussion can spawn keywords for the
literature review (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Interactive Research
Interactive research can be defined as the continuous joint learning process between the researcher
invested stakeholders and participants. The process of evolving information is co-developed with the
researcher and stakeholders involved. This changes of information lead towards knowledge creation
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and a sustainable critical reflection of data is performed. Another sustainable fact of Interactive
research is the analysis in the joint learning process (Kealy, 2019). Interactive research is popular in
Nordic countries because of the human-centred approach of merging developers and stakeholders,
this increasingly collaborative methodologies increases, contribution, the wellbeing of participants
involved, a positive ethical contribution for members in the process. Building on participants
knowledge and experience increases the proficiency and efficiency of a solution focus strategy (Ven,
Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Interactive research
approach builds on participants who have theoretical knowledge or experience and uses theses
background qualification in seeking innovation. Interactive research can be conducted in close co-
operation with an organisation, it was the case for this master's thesis, working closely with Stefan
Öhman. His financial knowledge steered the development of the early-evaluation tool (Nowotny,
Scott, & Gibbons, 2003).
Co-developing the framework of the tool in the context of Sparbanken Rekarne of a critical and
reflective Eskiltuna community. The interactive research approach used, knowledge from invested
stakeholders and supported by systematic literature review in development and dissemination the
early-stage evaluation tool (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Interactive research was the
methodology used of this master's thesis in generating theoretical knowledge in order to identify and
understand pre-project evaluation tools and how the tool can be built on those findings (Ven,
Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Interactive research
narrowed down the wide cope of innovation for Sparbanken Rekarne. agreeing to work on an
evaluation tool and re-engineered for Sparbanken Rekarne business portfolio. The process of
Interactive research develops mechanisms for a sustainable work environment and Interactive
research creates a high level of participation before, during and after the early-stage evaluation tool
has been developed (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). To ensure effective communication
methods, we used different forms of communication, face to face, emails, Skype calls and phone
calls. Utilising stakeholders time and scope for development for the evaluation tool (Nowotny, Scott,
& Gibbons, 2003). The production logics of Stefan was to create small agile groups that work
independently and collaborate on set stages in the project, this information exchange creates trust and
openness in order to enable a critical discussion of the evaluation tool (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin,
2007). Stages in the early-stage evaluation tool where developed, the refining process was both
convergent and divergent interviews, discussions and analyses the ongoing development of the
evaluation tool (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). The interaction developed rapid feedback in
setting the research aim, research focus and business case for the development of the evaluation tool
(Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007).
Interactive research was the base the work on developing the business case that in turn develops the
evaluation tool, Interactive research process in this master's thesis demonstrates knowledge creation
on variations implementation stages of the evaluation tool, facilitate the learning and reflection of the
evaluation tool (Kealy, 2019). This experience gained developed the key concepts of the stages,
information gathering steps, the involvement of customer feedback and analysis models that provide
new use case of market trends into concept projects (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Interactive research addresses what methodology take in
practice, the different levels of methodology during the development processes of the early-stage
evaluation tool. Interactive research addresses the level of contribution of the researcher and
participants, data generated that relates to the joint development of knowledge (Newton, P., & Jr,
2019). The knowledge that occurred between the researchers and participants, their efforts,
contributions and a joint understanding of a complex evaluation tool. Interactive research relates to
the development of knowledge that occurred between the researchers, mentors and primary
stakeholders and customers, the organisation structure, business case and innovation tool
development (Kealy, 2019). Interactive research co-creates a joint development process of
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knowledge gathering, that took place between the research group and representatives of the practical
sphere in the various aspects of the research material that would build the evaluation tool (Svensson,
Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Interactive research is a ‘human-centred design‘ approach that can be
applied from macroeconomics to microeconomics organisations or governmental institutions,
governmental authorities, county councils, municipalities, private companies, other research
institutes, universities, corporate and occupational healthcare services (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons,
2003). Interactive research aims to produce good scientific results with high accuracy, fidelity and
practical ability or applicability of knowledge, methodologies or theories developed (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). In Interactive research, the
researcher assigns tasks for and with participants, that there is a clear division of interests,
responsibilities, powers and expertise between stakeholders involved (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin,
2007).
In Interactive research, the researcher has to take the lead and create a framework of the
collaboration of participants involved. In the case of the early-stage evaluation tool, the tool was co-
developed with stakeholders and Stefan was sent out a questionnaire but because of the coronavirus
(COVID-19) epidemic steps in the validation of the tool had been affected. The validation process of
the evaluation tool would stop on the second stage but the solution of the tool will continue
(Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Using academic literature and Interactive research in
developing the next two stages (the early-stage evaluation tool has four stages) (Newton, P., & Jr,
2019). In Interactive research, there is a clear reflection of the division of work between the
stakeholders. A clear connection and interaction with both the research system and practice system in
the development of the evaluation tool (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and
Social Research, 2007). In Interactive research the researchers and participants have the
collaboration of a project, discussing the issues, respective parties, interests and in examining
findings. Jointly reviewing new data, investigated data and analysing any issues that stakeholders are
interested in (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). In Interactive research the lead researcher has been
democratic in decision-making but needs to be firm on the decision-making process, using a
theoretical referenced framework that aid in choosing elements of the project, based on data
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Interactive research like action research does not have a particular methodology, yet in the process
uses a fusion of interviews, focus groups and questionnaires (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
To demonstrate how interactive research is conducted within close co-operation the use of
frameworks that promote co-development of critical and reflective outcomes (Svensson, Ellström, &
Brulin, 2007). Information about the problem supplied, alternative solution models. What is the
chosen strategies and search techniques? How can the evaluation tool being to develop help facilitate
their innovation needs.? What new data is received and how is it relevant? How the data should be
used to make inferences? How does the researcher decide which inference path to believe (Ven,
Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007)? The meeting was a
form of interactive research, I asked Stefan the research areas that I would need to explore the fintech
(financial technologies) when developing an innovative tool for the bank (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). Relationships during the research process generate mutual trust and an open and
liberal climate, this is vital for the interactive research process (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Stefan suggested looking into Sparbanken Rekarne History, PSD2, Instant Payments and Riksbank‘.
Participants need to have a level of capability, interest creative depth and analytical understanding of
the studies (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). When using the interactive research cycle it builds
more knowledge about the fintech based on these subject areas. After every reflection with
stakeholders a new door to research areas would open, this interactive research cycle was the
approach for solving both intertwine‘s the research questions (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). It
is difficult to assess the research texts and how the researchers generated the research questions. How
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the researcher began the projects and the key stage of the preparation of research questions
(Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). In the second stage of the prototype evaluation tool, interactive
conversation with Stefan leads to the development of an online survey. The online survey was the
chosen platform in communicating with a large customer pool directly. The questions were co-
developed from interviews with Stefan and the data collection in the first step of the prototype
evaluation tool. The questions, intended for costumers answer, was a mixture of closed quantitative
questions and open qualitative questioned. The purpose of the online survey was to provide feedback
for the development of pre-projects. The customer's input gives the development team insight into
the ideology and customer expectations for specific markets (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Conducting interactive research has eight intervention stages. Stage one includes establishing a set of
outcomes or results, setting and constructing a feasible research question, which sets the overall
direction of the project. Stage two involves developing a protocol, documenting previous experiences
and drafting the research strategy before searching begins. Stage three focuses on defining the
specific inclusion and exclusion criteria this process works with; the research strategy protocol in
identifying relevant material to review. In stage four, the important step of academic literature has
been collected which documents the journey of collecting that data. Drafting the search strings right
is extremely important. Reviews of your work will use it when evaluating what material the
researcher retrieved. Stage five, includes retrieval research material under one's experience,
documenting this data a vital stage in the review process. Stage six focuses on filtering the relevant
Academic literature is called screening by using inclusion and exclusion criteria, reading the
publication in detail the researcher chooses articles that reflect or oppose concepts in the master‘s
thesis. Stage seven, once the research completed, Academic literature, retrieves the next step
comprises relevant studies need to be defined and classified. The analysis of the data is in the last
stage of the process, stage 8, which summarise and synthesise in summarising and answering the
overall research question (Jessica Hagen-Zanker, 2013).
The validity of interactive research and ambition in the development of the research is often
criticized, this encourages researcher and participants to create a critical-realistic foundation. The
critical learning between the researcher and participants can supportively increase the reflexivity
validity of the research (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). We discussed how Riksbank‘Sweden
Central Bank is developing E-krona and how that might affect the Swedish banking industry.
Riksbank has been developing the E-krona digital currency since 2016. Talked about Central Bank
Digital Currencies (CBDC) creating a digital currency and the underline technology behind this is
block-chain technology. I decided to read up more about block-chain (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). The interactive researcher set the climate and creates closeness but should also keep distant
and not impose personal perspective. Has to listen, participate and understanding local perspective,
yet dedicate time seeking generally valid knowledge (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The main
challenge in situating a research problem is deciding who are the stakeholder groups to be researched
on, the reality perspectives and desired outcomes (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007). The interactive researcher has to prepare participants
with sporting data, activities data collection, dialogue, meetings, feedback and generally spends more
time and resources on the research process (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Research Quality
The research quality refers to how the reader is sure the research is acceptable or creditworthy.
Focusing on the research contributory facts from stakeholders, was it sufficient or bias? As the lead
researcher in this paper, it was paramount for me to be objective at all times and to make judgements
about the research direction and focus that benefits the development of the tool for Sparbanken
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Rekarne. Competent research is credible and reliable, using the research to lead the direction of the
research was my approach. Divergent and convergent conversations that focussed on continuous
reflections lead to credible research keywords and eventually credible articles. Using the Hexagon
Analysis as a starting point, dissecting it and using other evaluation tools to have its development.
the same results from researcher to researcher is only possible with consistent research quality. The
relation to Hexagon Analysis values was investigated and discussed on their viability and usability in
developing the early-stage evaluation tool. Hexagon Analysis values became keywords for the
research string, reflecting (gap spotting) on the need for another project valuation was done.
Reviewing other pre-project evaluation tools lead me to discover other aspects of a typical project.
As the evaluation tool became complex so did the research findings. The needs of the early-stage
evaluation dictated the path of the research quality. Because of the need for the evaluation tool to
measure bank project the measurements needed to be customised for the business use-case.
Credibility was a big concern and using Scopus database was chosen not because of its large data on
pre-project evaluations but because of its IEEE certification Articles. Most of the Articles used to
have IEEE certification Articles, this adds to the reliability of the chosen articles (University M. ,
2020). The filtering method of me the lead researcher was to narrow down the language and limit
document type to Article and Conference Paper, doing this because these carry more trustworthy
weight. Limit Source type Articles to Journals and Conference Proceedings because these articles
generate more useful data for the tool. Then focusing keywords that deal with project management
because the tool needs to look at a different perspective of a typical project. Lastly limiting articles
from 2016 – 2020, this means all findings are modern and current techniques, theories and
methodologies (University M. , 2020).
Still, several Articles were found and the difficult part happen. Reading abstracts and introductions
and deciding whether they could contribute to the development of the paper or does it give new
insight into validating projects. After chosen articles where read cross-referencing was done to see if
the articles provided similar information. This push and pull factors when choosing articles reflected
in the development of the tool. Articles that explain where the current financial industry is going,
from different pre-project, ongoing and post-project evaluation methodologies. The systematic
literature review literature validated aspects about the tool, providing more information on how to
use the evaluation values and numeric qualities. Gave more insight to corresponding values to
numeric measurements that bring clarity in evaluating pre-project fuzzy end. The quality of the
literature used in defining each stage and sub-stages was done by using current prevalent modern
insights and applications.To reciprocate this early-stage evaluation tool, other researchers would
need to start with the Hexagon Analysis as a starting point then reviewing the pre-project stage
evaluation tool because of its oversimplified nature (University M. , 2020).
Quality of the Tool
The research quality of the tool is finding out whether the tool is functional. This prototype tool is
categorized as in innovation and design as a pre-project evaluation tool. The research quality of this
tool is the functionality of measuring pre-projects for Sparbanken Rekarne. What is its functionality?
This evaluation tool takes ideas and relevant data and formulates this data into concept projects with
the use of stages. Each stage data confirmation and reflection solidifies pre-project's overall
complexity. This solidifying process converts qualitative and quantitative data into data that is
measured with Likert scales. Making it valuable in measuring any type of project scope in an
organizational project portfolio. Each reflection after each stage uses current and relevant data and
the development team experience in that organization in increasing the efficiency of the decision-
making process. Another proof of quality is at each stage the relevant data increasingly produces
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beneficial credible data in aiding the decision-making process. I might be subjective when rating
how good is the evaluation tool, because of large amount research done, the systematic review
focused on every aspects of the tool including all the keywords and use of measurement scales. The
research quality of the systematic literature review made it possible to validate every metric in each
stage of the evaluation tool.
Stage 1 Market Trend Analysis, the research quality systematically reviewing competitors, gaining a
deeper understanding of the organization, research into market trends and the implementation of lean
principals based on lean principles.
Stage 2 Customer Survey, the research quality is systematically researching into different survey
solutions, researching into Likert, semantic differential scales, Dichotomous style questions,
quantitative and qualitative open questions styles.
Stage 3 Octagon Analysis, the research quality is systematically researching into Likert scales values
to be integrated into the stage, systematic research into each keyword (Complexity of Project,
Sustainability, Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization, Distribution Logistics, Timescale and
Total Cost) in this application.
Stage 4 Project Clustering, the research quality is systematically researching into project portfolio
management than using lean principals based on interactive research. Then expanding those findings
to organising, grouping and developing channels to funnel the pre-projects.
CHAPTER 3
Convenience Sampling for the Early-Stage Evaluation Tool
When carrying out a literature review keywords need to be formed. The keywords were generated
from interactive research convergent and divergent conversation with stakeholders. Conducting
academic literature would aid the development of the tool because the literature can support the
clams of the evaluation tool. The ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ which this tool is based on did not have a
tougher literature review, this left knowledge gaps in the tool and where evidenced when trying to
use it. Because empirical data was not available invalidating the tool, the literature would have to
have a feedback loop in validating perspectives of the tool. This convenience sampling interview
method was used because of the vast knowledge in this specific industry would be applicable when
developing a tool for Sparbanken Rekarne‘s project portfolio. The keywords generated from these
discussions would develop knowledge of Sparbanken Rekarne‘s project portfolio, increase the clarity
of what the tool needs to measure (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Convenience sampling conversations focused on the ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ and its metrics, what was
there and what wasn‘t included and why? Critique of ‗Hexagon Analysis‘ was done discussing the
research quality need to develop the early-stage evaluation tool. Drawing from the knowledge gaps
from ‗Hexagon Analysis‘, the numeric values of the tool also needed to be researched on because
this numeric valuation brings clarity to subject matters. The stakeholders have work experience that
helps shape the keywords which were later used in the ‗Octagon Analysis‘. The ‗Hexagon Analysis‘
had seven metrics of understanding and this was a starting point. Interactive research and the
literature expanded the values from seven Project Measurement Tools to thirty-two. This clearly was
too much so conversations that focused on the elimination of Project Measurement Tools. This lean
approach is evidenced in the tool. Eight where chosen, these eight are Complexity of Project,
Sustainability, Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization, Distribution Logistics, Timescale and
Total Cost (which later became the keywords). Since the master‘s thesis focused on the evaluation
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tool and specifically pre-project evaluation tools became keywords. Interactive research sampling
conversation encouraged a modern 'Lean Principles', this feedback loop aided the development of
early-stage evaluation tool. Making the tool lighter and more applicable for measuring Sparbanken
Rekarne‘s project portfolio (The literature also supported this approach) (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020).
Evaluation Tool Systematic Literature Review
A characteristic for ‗New Production of Knowledge‘ is the highly reflexive knowledge, the research
process no longer defined as ‗objective‘ investigation and reductionist interrogation of arbitrarily
defined ‗others‘ (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Since the development of the prototype
evaluation would specifically on academic literature and not empirical data, a more robust analysis
of different attributes of projects also needs to be done.
The first Systematic Literature Search Strategy was to develop the early-stage evaluation tool and the
second was to develop the business case (University M. , 2020). A systematic review, is a rigorous
and transparent method of reviewing the literature, the core principals of a systematic review are
rigour, transparency and replicability. The first step is to increasing the breadth in the literature and
retaining focus. The second step is to focus on empirical evidence and not preconceived knowledge.
The third step is to be transparent and replicable about knowledge creation (Jessica Hagen-Zanker,
2013). The solving the paradigmatic camps are by fading gaps in the literature to formulate detailed
research questions (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). The Database used was Scopus, sourcing modern
academic literature related to the Project Evaluation, the search word used was Project Evaluation,
Complexity of Project, Timescale, Total Cost, Sustainability, Implementation, Marketability
Penetration, Digitalization Implementation and Distribution Logistics (University M. , 2020).
Keywords Search Strategy
Project
Evaluation
‘Project Evaluation‘ as a search string, resulting in 148 957
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 136,968
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 125 837 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 118 530 documents. Limit
keywords to Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences
resulting in 25 139 documents. Document year limit to 2020, resulting in
196 documents, read 120 documents and used 9 (University M. , 2020).
Pre-Project
Evaluation
‗Pre-Project Evaluation‘ as a search string, resulting in 102
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 96 documents.
Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper, resulting in 89
documents. Keywords limited to Project Management, Project
Evaluation, Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Cost-Benefit
Analysis, Decision-making, Design, Environmental Impact Assessment,
Life Cycle, Planning, Pre-project Planning, Project Planning, Surveys,
Adaptive Management, Computer Software Selection And Evaluation,
Economics, Investments, Organizational Innovation, Post-project
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Appraisal, Project Assessment, Risk Management, Capital Investment,
Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developing Countries, Doctor-Patient
Relation, Ecosystems, Environmental Assessment, Environmental
Management, Environmental Technology, Fuzzy Mathematics, Human
Relation, Information Management, Information Processing,
Management, Project Execution, Quality Improvement, Quality
Requirements, Questionnaire, Questionnaires, Regression Analysis,
Requirements Engineering and Scheduling. Resulting in 57 documents.
Read 23 documents, and used 7.
(University M. , 2020).
Complexity of
Project
‗Complexity of Project‘ as a search string, resulting in 42 382
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 40 429
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 35 057 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 35 057 documents. Limit keywords
to Product Design, Product Development, Decision-making , Problem
Solving, Methodology, Reliability Marketing, Probability and
Information Technology resulting in 7 073 documents. Document year
limit from 2019 – 2020 resulting in 414 documents, read 51 documents
and used 4 (University M. , 2020).
Timescale ‗Timescale‘ as a search string, resulting in 57,691
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 57,155
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 52,683 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 51 481 documents. Limit keywords
to Timescale and Time-scales resulting in 8,377 documents. Document
year limit from 2019 – 2020 resulting in 513 documents, read 31
documents and used 2 (University M. , 2020).
Total Cost ‗Total Cost‘ as a search string, resulting in 253,168
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 234,791
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 220,055 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 220,055 documents. Limit
keywords to Costs, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cost Control, Cost
Effectiveness, Cost Reduction, Cost-benefit Analysis resulting in 49 691
documents. Document year limit to 2020 resulting in 606 documents,
read 80 documents and used 3 (University M. , 2020).
Sustainability
‗Sustainable‘ as a search string, resulting in 82,151
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 78,126
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 67,132 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
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Conference Proceedings, resulting in 58,696 documents. Limit keywords
to Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Recycling, Sustainable
Production and Optimization resulting in 25,230 documents. Document
year limit to 2020 resulting in 782 documents, read 48 documents and
used 4 (University M. , 2020).
Implementation ‗Implementation‘ as a search string, resulting in 1,283,339
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 1,203,682
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 1,015,158 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 1,015,158 documents. Limit
keywords to Optimization, Design And Implementations, Risk
Assessment, Problem Solving, Sustainable Development,
Implementation and Parameter Estimation resulting in 95,426
documents. Document year limit to 2020resulting in 1,076 documents,
read 36 documents and used 3 (University M. , 2020).
Marketability ‗Marketability‘ as a search string, resulting in 2,810
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 2,660
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 2,333 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 2,072 documents. Limit keywords
to Marketability, Marketing, Economics, Product Development,
Sustainable Development and Sustainability resulting in 249 documents.
Document year limit to 2018 - 2020 resulting in 512 documents, read 62
documents and used 3 (University M. , 2020).
Digitalization ‗Digitalization‘ as a search string, resulting in 11,253
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 9,291
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 7,842 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 7,189 documents. Limit keywords
to Digitalization, Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, Decision-making,
Big Data, Sustainable Development and Digitization resulting in 2,309
documents. Document year limit from 2016 – 2020 resulting in 883
documents, read 91 documents and used 4 (University M. , 2020).
Distribution
Logistics
‗Logistics‘ as a search string, resulting in 495,858
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 467,994
documents. Limiting Document type to Article and Conference Paper,
resulting in 452,770 documents. Limit Source type to Journals and
Conference Proceedings, resulting in 437,252 documents. Limit
keywords to Logistic Models, Logistic Regression Analysis, Time
Factors, Logistics and Logistic Regression resulting in 175,655
documents. Document year limit to 2019 - 2020 resulting in 8,628
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documents, read 17 documents and used 3 (University M. , 2020).
Likert ‗Likert‘ as a search string, resulting in 28,552
documents. Limit Language to only English, resulting in 26,662
documents. Limiting Document type to Article resulting in 23,664
documents. Limit keywords to Questionnaire, Information Management,
Quality Control, Knowledge Management , Marketing, Human Resource
Management , Project Management, Supply Chain Management ,
Questionnaire Surveys, Total Quality Management and Risk
Assessment resulting in 413 documents. Document year limit from 2018
- 2020 resulting in 129 documents, read 62 used 3 documents
(University M. , 2020).
Table 1. Evaluation Tool Systematic Literature Review (University M. , 2020).
First Systematic Search Analysis
Fig 1. First Systematic Search Analysis (University M. , 2020).
Project Evaluation
Project evaluation was the first research focus and the keyword as my research topic. Project
evaluation is a systematic assessment of a project at different stages. The project evaluation has
process done in a systemic order of analysis data that was gathered, reveal new understandings,
theories and methodologies. Project evaluation is an appraisal tool to manage a project, making the
project effective and efficient. Project evaluation are tools in design science of project management.
Project evaluation is a crucial exercise that minimises risk, ensures the projects on track, informs
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stakeholders of progress and learning can advance similar projects in the future. The sampling
method is a batch reactor problem, the optimization parameters focus on temperature and processing
time. The kinetic parameters of the model's system work under the rules of mixing isothermal
operation (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz, 2019).
The outcomes are determined, at different stages of a project. Project evaluation can measure pre-
project, medium-term and end evaluation, recording the effects of project outputs. Observing the
outcomes and the changes that happen and documenting the linking the transformation evolution
interventions. Project evaluation provides participation for stakeholders involved in a project, at
different levels of involvement, internationally, national or within an organisation. Reinforce
communication through data-driven results, clarification of methods, technologies and strategies can
be verified and agreed among stakeholders. Also gives stakeholders a sense of joint ownership
(Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Goals are usually set in the project plan, and some project evaluation
record, the achievements and failures of the project. These evaluation link the intended impact and
what actually happened. The outcomes are the results that link and described events in the project
document (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Impact in an evaluation is
defined as the positive and negative outcome of an event. The impact is events in a project that are
labelled as primary and secondary short, medium and long-term (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Using
evaluation effectively produces an intervention, directly or indirectly and recording the intended or
unintended as results. This impact is a result of linked events that develop the project, documenting
the objective described in the project document. Because projects can take years to develop and
executed there is a reason to document, goals, tasks and objective of the project. Documenting the
plan for impact, recognizing that the project will likely achieve outcomes (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Using Interactive research in
gathering data about different project evaluation then reviewing these evaluation methodologies.
These different evaluation tools measure and breakdown projects down. Others measure the during
the life cycle of one project and some measure the end of a project. Project evaluation is broken
down into three main types: pre-project evaluation, on-going evaluation and post-project evaluation
(Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Pre-Project Evaluate
Using interactive research cycles lead me to Pre-Project Evaluate, it is a tool that measures aspects of
projects before the project plan has been drafted. Pre-Project Evaluate (0 of the stage-gate model)
tool uses different kinds of the measurable set to achieve the deliverables and variables in the project,
tools vary in use of mathematical equations, algorithms, quantitative and qualitatively measurable
(Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Pre-Project evaluations reinforce
accountability because the pre-project data-driven results promote transparency and highlight
potential risks within a project. By assessing possible bottlenecks improvements to the project plan
can increase the performance, contributes and organizational learning‘s. Pre-Project evaluations
learning‘s can dramatically change a project plan, design process, timelines and dynamic review
process (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). To reduce development for large projects and risks, the solution
is to develop algorithms that communicate directly with each other, by running various algorithms in
simulations (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Pre-Project Evaluate measures the validity of new methods and tools used in the project. Identifying
the different categorise in the evaluation tool measures the failures and success of methods and tools
used that worked in stages of the project (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Orthodox literature reviews do not accept pre-defined methods for assessing or arranging evidence,
more concerned with the evaluation results of studies than the research questions. Orthodox literature
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reviews are not concerned about the research design, methods used and the quantitative and
qualitative data. Orthodox literature reviews do not represent trustworthy findings (Jessica Hagen-
Zanker, 2013). Pre-Project Evaluate Identify problem, analyses data, Agreement with stakeholders,
Timelines and deliverables (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Pre-Project
Evaluate is generally the pre-study used to validate massive projects and are used to develop the
project plan. Pre-Project Evaluation methods first need to defined core and primary stakeholders,
define the research area, evaluation questions and related activities (Frishter, 2018). Pre-Project
Evaluation need to ask; What lessons can we learn? How can we improve communication and
collaboration? How can we incorporate stakeholder insights? Mainly what are the setting,
parameters, metrics and measurements used? What are the collaborative resources used, the format
and metrics used in defining the parameters? What is the evaluation process? How can we improve
efficiency, decrease the spending and create systems to compare? What trends, methodologies and
theories need to be taken into consideration? What connection to literature does the evaluation tool
have? How is the evaluation tool used in a project? At what level does the evaluation tool have
centre-level logic model activities in the outputs and outcomes (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The
Craft of Research, 2008)? Pre-project evaluation is the backbone of a well-executed project plan,
pre-evaluating a project are steps in measuring tasks and activities within the project. You cannot
effectively project plan, without pre-project evaluation that includes a contribution from the
stakeholders enfolded. The developer team involvement, participation and contribution discuss and
evaluate the pre-project‘s before initial investments are made. In some cases pilot studies are done at
a smaller scale to measure the viability of a massive project (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). This
pre-project evaluation is the only method to determine the effectiveness of a massive and highly
complex project before executing it (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Pre-project evaluation are
usually done with project‘s that consume an immense amounts of capital, manpower and time.
Validating these investments is through as a highly credible, independent and transparent process
(Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Pre-project evaluation describes the
design process of a particular project and the technical administrative roles for stakeholders. Pre-
project evaluation is conducted to promote data sharing in an ethical way and including tasks and
stakeholders in charge of tasks and responsibilities. This information is highly sensitive and handling
the confidential information is reserved for the development team organisations (Merriam & Tisdell,
2016). Reviewing different kinds of a pre-project evaluation tool that I could use for Sparbanken
Rekarne needs, Quality Assurance (QA), Environmental Assessment (EA), Creative Commons
Methods, Cascade Hydraulic Pre-Project Evaluation, Pre-Network Evaluation Tool, Block-diagram,
Recovery Energy Resources (RER) and Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS). Decided to create a
hybrid pre-project evaluation tool base on an existing evaluation tool.
Quality Assurance (QA)
The Quality Assurance (QA) evaluation tool aims to improve the quality of a product or service
(health care in this use-case) of the population in the regional. The Quality Assurance (QA) pre-
project evaluation collected qualitative data from medical records, interviews stakeholder (staff,
managers, focus groups) conducted in the communities. Factors contributing to the success of a
Quality Assurance (QA) is the synergy of activities that development teams that optimises the impact
of supervision. Implement the coaching system and district coordination system structures.
Supported teams, improving standards, increasing training, support systems addressing the
integration of the entire health system and related support functions. Quality Assurance (QA)
evaluations aim to validate the achievement of Teamwork and communication, documenting the
keys to success that fostered a culture of quality and motivated stakeholders. Quality Assurance
(QA) evaluations focus on the user‘s awareness and respect for customer‘s rights, needs, and
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satisfaction became the ‗yardstick‘ by which organisation stakeholders measured their success.
Quality Assurance (QA) evaluations bring clarity of roles through standardization efforts. The work
on standardization efforts establishes clarity about the who, the needed, the what was, and how?
Quality Assurance (QA) is a useful tool for measuring qualitative metrics, identifying the needs and
satisfaction levels (Legros, Tawfik, Abdallah, Crespin, Djingarey, & Catsambas, 2002). But the tool
I need for Sparbanken Rekarne business case would need to do more than measure user‘s awareness.
It would need to measure the different aspects of pre-projects and on-going projects.
Environmental Assessment (EA)
A pre-project evaluation focuses on a restoration project that conducted in-depth qualitative
interviews with project sponsors, performed an Environmental Assessment (EA) and construction
plans. The pre-project data used justified the restoration and development and project plan. This pre-
project evaluation data can be used for project implementation, conducting valid post-project
assessments and future projects. The pre-project goals listed in the Environmental Assessment (EA)
improve the aquatic and riparian habitat, reducing financial disaster, preventing greenway loss and
restore a degraded system. Qualitative Pre-project evaluation tool Measuring the Motivations &
importance, Expected outcomes, Data used for planning and Monitoring plan. Pre-project
evaluation‘s highlight issues of the relevant data used to justify restoration complex projects. Post-
project Monitoring and Evaluation project‘s sponsor's official monitoring project goals. The
evaluation data justifies the project develop using environmental assessment and project plan. This
presents an end solution that may preclude to the conducting of valid post-project assessments. Pre-
project assessments measure the most effective specifications for a complex project, accounting for
representing multi-scale processes. This key data makes the researcher accurately understanding
existing problems. The ramifications of not collecting immaculate pre-project data can be significant,
leading to diminished success or complete project failure. The longevity of the planning and design
process a successful project plan from ideation to inception and implementation relies upon an
adequate pre-project database. The pre-project evaluation tool was used in showcasing and
highlighting the disconnects from perceptions, project goals, defining costs, potential barriers and
data used to design and implement. Environmental Assessment (EA) is a useful evaluation tool, used
to projects with a big project scope. It measures the overall cost, specifications for a complex project
and helps planning and design process in the project plan (Swinson, Cockerill, Colby, Tuberty, &
Gu, 2015). But it does not have qualitative inputs of stakeholders. This is an important stage of
creating a human-centred pre-project evaluation tool and the early-stage evaluation tool should
include this feedback loop (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Creative Commons Methods
In a stage-gate model, the pre-investment stage of project design justifies and aids decisions making
process. This pre-investment data determine the feasibility of further investment, the transition to the
next stage, choosing the design process and stages of development in the project documentation. Pre-
project evaluation tools estimate the model of the total cost, calculations of each stage of investment.
Using data to justify the need of help indicating the improvements, accuracy and validity of the
stages of the pre-design studies. The Creative Commons methods (pre-project evaluation tool)
formulate the specific cost, defines the natural indicators that improve the validity of pre-design
solutions and capital expenditure planning. Creative Commons methods (pre-project evaluation tool)
defines the investors and developers roles to meet customers desired outcomes within the investment
projects plan. Based on financial prospects, not focusing on issues justifying the increase of capital
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investments. At the pre-project stage, the situation parameters are structures that have not been
determined but capital investments can be evaluated. Creative Commons methods (pre-project
evaluation tool) aims to optimization total cost, improving informed design decision, using
quantitative and qualitative indicators. These indicators mitigate probabilistic risk assessment, the
complex of facilities and address artificial obstacles. Basic assumptions method and algorithm (pre-
project evaluation) are tools that bring order to predict changes in cost over time. Also clarifying
predict changes in the coordinate system. Drafting the correlation fields in constructed visualization
of graphs that coordinate the values of effective featuring total cost and abscissa axis of time values
in years (that are postponed). In the visualization, the based correlation fields signify the hypothesis
(of the General population) and the relationship between 'y' and 't' values is linear. The estimated
model (pre-project evaluation tool) measures the total cost, calculations of the fuzzy stage of
investment. Visualising and justifying findings with enlarged indicators that increase the accuracy,
validity and calculations at the stage of pre-design studies. Creative Commons methods is a brilliant
evaluation tool, measuring the overall cost, setting Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of a project is
important for investor‘s to allocate funds for projects (Kirillova & Gorelova, 2018). But they are
many other factors that need to be measured when coming up with the total cost of the project. An
evaluation tool that can measure not only the cost but overall complexity of multiple projects would
be an idea for Sparbanken Rekarne use case (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Cascade Hydraulic Pre-Project Evaluation
A pre-project evaluation data can be used to bring clarity that inspects technical condition and
engineering structures technical condition. Pre-project evaluation brings possibilities for further
development of a project plan. The evaluation data reinforces the structural framework of the pre-
project. Pre-project evaluations highlight the structures of technical challenges in the design process
of modelling and design of large projects. Pre-project inspection for on-going project needs to gather
empirical data aims at describing the framework structures, confirming areas to develop and
highlighting possible areas for future development. Pre-project evaluations aid the technical
developer‘s team in projects that need a level of safe operation that comply with safety regulations.
These standardization safety regulations are usually determined according to legislation set by the
governmental, institutional or organisations. Pre-project evaluations aid the technical developer‘s in
developing a project plan that considers all safety regulations and quality requirements that comply
with the legislation. The pre-project evaluations for complex engineering structures need technical
inspection form, primary stakeholders, that analysis the operation of the structures construction
projects. Construction pre-project evaluations transferred knowledge findings to the developer of the
project, this data is then adapted to the project plan.This Cascade Hydraulic Pre-Project Evaluation
was developed to measure the technical condition and of safety level for the hydraulic structures. It
does this with the guidelines of the Russian Register Of Hydraulic Engineering Structures (RRHES)
(Frishter, 2018). This evaluation too stood out to me because the evaluation tool was built to gather
qualitative and quantitative data. The knowledge gathered evaluation tool was custom, it‘s possible
to build or hybridise an existing evaluation tool for a specifically Sparbanken Rekarne. This would
be my approach because there are many methodologies needed for the prototype evaluation tool
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Pre-Network Evaluation Tool
Developing a thorough pre-network pre-project needs the copious amount of empirical research data.
These large construction projects are funded by governmental institutions or multinational
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organisations. To develop a transport network project the study of transport and non-transport effects
needs to be investigated. A pre-project evaluation addresses the capital investments for infrastructure
development, documentation of different aspects of infrastructure operational efficiency. In the pre-
project evaluations, a Standard method of time-linear allocation of money flow is not enough. A
detailed pre-transport network and a design process development from raw material, technical
equipment, labour, logistical constraints and resources allocation. A pre-project evaluation
calculation can provide a rationale for an allocation of resources, providing an empirical database
that supports after-action for a rationalized pre-projects into projects. Approving pre-projects for
development is doe once the core stakeholders have agreed, the pre-project needs to meet the
organisation's strategic development goals. Once the core stakeholders have ranked the goals and the
pre-project has met economic efficiency, the go-ahead can be done. As the industry regulations
become stricter, promoting technological advancement into (criteria adaptation for the industry) pre-
project‘s is necessary. This increases cost in complexity but usually reduces overall running costs,
reduces material and labour within the project in the long run. Pre-project evaluation determines the
social-economic priorities and relations damaging by the modernization of strategic development.
These productive forces facilitate the accelerated acceptance of development. Result in more
competition and increased investment requirements in pre-projects (Petrov & Samuylov, 2019).
Pre-project evaluation strategically assorts and evaluate tolerable ranges for risk management of
single (inter-network) development resource. Pre-project evaluation Identify alternate, inter-
changeable project strategy, or methodologies to optimise the pre-project design development. This
allows the development team to set criteria‘s of comparative efficiency to choose the most effective
option. Pre-project evaluation can be designed to project‘s, forecasting desired conditions. This data
is designed to equality the effects of time-bound values of transport flow volume (independent from
fluctuations of transport costs) and structural networks. The pre-project evaluation provides data for
pre-capital investments in complex infrastructure projects. This data highlights aspects of
infrastructure operational efficiency, total construction investment from the federal budget.
Dissecting the costs into operational costs and material costs meeting the corporate budgets that that
is passed onto the customers. Pre-Network Evaluation Tool is a tool developed specifically to
measure transport networks. This tool has a standard method that measures cost but also the total
cost of raw materials of a project. It is useful for the strategic development of the organisation that
deals with transport networks (Petrov & Samuylov, 2019). This evaluation tool would not be useful
for Sparbanken Rekarne because of the diverse project portfolio it has. The evaluation tool would
need to measure project that has a wide and narrow project scope (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020).
Block-diagram
Pre-project evaluation results can ensure rationality, safety and efficiency of complex project
management. Implement integrated pre-project evaluation at the pre-project stage from
technological, financial, ecology preparedness. Gathering pre-project evaluation data to uncover
unmeasured data is done by using interviews, data analytics, qualitative and quantitative surveys.
Pre-project evaluation tool like Block-diagram is an algorithm for integrating pre-project evaluation
data reserves. Setting goals for preparedness that are efficient for scaling up project development at
industrial scale: τi preparedness criterion capacity and ash content.The complexity of the pre-project
evaluation signifies preparedness, defined instructions and guidelines on the implementation of the
project plan. The pre-project evaluation provides proof of conformity between the extent of
exploration and exploration of the available database. Results define the optimum objectives for the
design choices for sustainability, efficiency, performance, maximising profit margins project,
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reducing risk and investment cost. Pre-project evaluation is aim to decrease risks, implement
sustainable utilization of resources, increase wealth management and promote innovative
technologies across all industries. Block-diagram uses complex algorithm‘s that measure the coal
deposits for mining projects (Shaklein & Pisarenko, 2019). This is a specialised evaluation tool to
measure only one quantitative detail. The evaluation tool aims to decrease risks and increase profit
margins. This evaluation tool would not be useful because Sparbanken Rekarne does not have
projects in that industry to my knowledge (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Recovery Energy Resources (RER) and Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS)
The development and modernization of the massive energy complex of Oil Gas Condensate Raw
Materials (OGCRM) production, transportation, processing and storage enterprises need pre-studies
(pre-project evaluation) to measure and validate the total cost. The pre-project evaluation would have
to direct and create its sources of electric and thermal energy based on Combined Cycle Plants
(CCGT) and renewable resources. Performing a pre-project evaluation of effectiveness addresses
other alternative options available for the project. Pre-project evaluation tools depend on the type of
project. A pre-project that focus on energy and water supply system that utilizes low-pressure gases
and thermal neutralization of industrial wastewater management. A complex pre-project that
develops methanol recovery plants and designs a multi-purpose oil and gas condensate processing is
a massive enterprise that needs multiple pre-project evaluation metrics in providing proof for the
investment strategy. A pre-project evaluation brings clarity of effectiveness to develop structural
solutions carried out according to multi-criteria indicators. This multi-criteria indicators of the pre-
project evaluation reflect the effectiveness of the Oil And Gas Enterprises (OGE) as an economic
asset. Pre-project evaluation projects guidelines for effective implementation of priority areas for
improvement. Priority areas like resource-saving, minimizing consumption of energy and water,
reducing reliance on external sources. Pre-project evaluation data increases environmental safety,
reliability of energy and water supply management from own resources. The pre-project evaluation
provides an assessment of the effectiveness and provides an Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS)
for Oil And Gas Enterprises (OGE) carried out. This large project needs a two-dimensional model to
validate the optimum use case, reduce cost and risk, the evaluations tools are Energy Resources (ER)
and Recovery Energy Resources (RER). Pre-project evaluation tools that measuring Energy
Resources (ER), these measures total electricity, thermal energy, cold sources including using
thermal dynamics measurements. Recovery Energy Resources (RER) pre-project evaluation tool
measures overall performance and records efficiency indicators. Early Warning Scoring System
(EWSS) is a pre-project basement tool which results can be developing into visualization‘s that
including vector criteria for technological, energy, economic and environmental effectiveness and
efficiency. Recovery Energy Resources (RER) and Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS) are both
useful tools for measuring Oil Gas Condensate Raw Materials (OGCRM) production (Dolotovskij,
Dolotovskaya, Larin, & Semenov, 2019). The evaluation tool can provide a form of forecasting that
is important for large investment projects. But these tools are highly specialised and would be
difficult to customise the evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne business use case
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Main Inspiration For Early-Stage Evaluation Tool
Early-stage evaluation tool‘s main inspiration called ‗From plan to action: Adapting evaluation to
serve the developmental needs of a newly-funded multidisciplinary research centre‘ by Rachel Claire
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Mitchella, Glenn D. Israelb, David C. Diehlc and Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalezd. The developmental
evaluation principle they created has five steps. Step one, Engaging all stakeholders and agree on the
focus and evaluation program. Step two, Collect significant data from the research hubs from
individual research projects to cores research fields. Step three, evaluate and interpret the data in
establishing the quality, effectiveness, and impact of the research hub and individual research
projects. Step four, making reports and sharing the evaluation findings from key stakeholders. Step
five, Maintaining multiple channels of communication for engagement concerning the evaluation
programs (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). This developmental
evaluation tool showed me the researcher can have multiple stages in the evaluation process. That
included qualitative and quantitative information. The tool had a knowledge gathering stage with a
human-centred design element, involving all stakeholders was an element missing in the Hexagon
Analysis. Another stage in the tool was an evaluation portion, making reports and developing
channels of communication. To me, this was a complete evaluation tool designed specifically to
measure complex, large data. This evaluation tool is the main inspiration and Hexagon Analysis
evaluation tool (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The hybridization of this tool using other academic
literature and interactive research is the methodology for the early-stage evaluation tool for
Sparbanken Rekarne use cases.The aim of this master‘s thesis is not to re-inventing the wheel but
making a hybrid evaluation tool for an organisation‘s strategic development (Mitchella, Israelb,
Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019).
On-Going Evaluations
On-going evaluations work within the design process in analysing the data during the project cycle,
documenting the success and failures in the project. Continuously documenting and evaluate the
project documents during the project. Documenting what actually happen, comparing the project
forecast. On-going evaluations also identify any shortcoming and success within stages of a project
(Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). On-going evaluation introduces a theory and methodology that
interrelated cycles of a project, the planning, action taken, observation and reflection of millstones in
the project (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). To make sure your project is on track and
proceeding as planned, on-going evaluations are used. These evaluation tools document all
scheduling, budgets and milestones set. It is crucial that monitoring and reporting tasks completed,
any delays, bottlenecks in real-time (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). On-going evaluations using project
metrics in the evaluation process, these metrics, algorithms or equations are used to measure the
success of the project. Whether goals where meet or not meet in the project (Booth, Colomb, &
Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). On-going evaluation promotes knowledge gathering and
transfer gained in the projects, this data is shared during the project to improve stakeholders
performance for current and future projects (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
On-going evaluation measure aspects during a project, they monitor and focuses on activities, stages
and document results of outputs and the contribution to desired outcomes. On-going evaluation
monitoring the continuous observation of the projects, the systematic progress of gathering key
performance and indicators for evaluation purposes (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). In on-going
evaluation, documenting and appraising team member‘s performances, contribution, involvement,
participation and interactions are monitored. Accountability is monitored, assessed and progress is
tracked and evaluation data for the duration of the project (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Discriminant Validity testes the correlation with other tests designed to measure theoretically diverse
concepts (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). On-going evaluation of interactive research show
advantages because it allows participants to effectively collaborate between the evaluator, core and
primary stakeholders throughout the project cycle (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Composite
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Reliability similar to ‗Cronbach's alpha‘ a mathematical formula of measuring the internal
consistency, how closely related a set of. Composite Reliability is designed to measure the scale of
reliability (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). On-going evaluation promotes knowledge gathering
and transfer gained in the projects, this data is shared during the project to improve stakeholders
performance for current and future projects (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007).
Post-Project Evaluation
Post-Project Evaluation usually happens towards the end of a year also called annual project reviews
focusing on outputs and outcomes of projects carried throughout the year. These reports act as a
summary of pre-projects, on-going projects or post-projects. Usually occurs at the end of a project
cycle, a self-evaluation of the project. Where core and primary stakeholders reflect the learning from
stage, achievements and progressing of the project. The stakeholders also reflect on the project in
progress, objectives, and individual‘s accountability within the project as well as assessing
productivity done in the design process. Post-Project Evaluation at the end of a project, a report on
the outcomes of the project plan and what happened (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Generalized Method
Of Moments (GMM) is an evaluation tool implemented in econometrics and statistics, determining
the generic methods for estimating an array of parameters in statistical models (Nadler & Guo,
2019).
Post-Project evaluation tool share lessons learnt from the project, giving suggestions of further
development based on the findings, suggestions methodologies and technologies for future
development. Post-project evaluation is when the development team and principles analyse all
relevant data and understanding what worked and what went wrong. Once the development team has
resolved arguments based on data-driven conclusions, the next iteration would have overcome
lessons learnt and would use findings in the project plan of upcoming projects (Booth, Colomb, &
Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Examples of complex post-project evaluation tool are;
Average Variance Extracted (AVE) is a statistical analysis that measures the amount of modification
in a construct and the relation it has to the amount of variance due to the measurement of errors
(Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Generalized Least Squares (GLS) is a financial evaluation
model, used to approximate unknown parameters as a linear regression model. This defined degree
of correlation creates residuals in a regression model (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020). The
evaluation methods used uses data from Wind turbine renewable energy measurements.
Measurement methods used are Analogue/Digital Energy Measurements, Power Quality and Energy
Benchmarks (Kealy, 2019). Preindustrial (PI) control simulation studies the natural and unforced
variability of the climate system. UK CMIP6 Preindustrial investigates the climate simulations using
the Preindustrial (PI) control simulation with the HadGEM3-GC3.1 model on two different High-
Performance Computing (HPC) platforms (Guarino, Sime, Schroeder, Lister, & Hatcher, 2020).
Post-Project evaluation tools focus on results, analysing the data and building methodologies and
theories for the projects. Evaluation tool uses systematic project aims, in identifying, quantify and
calculating the achievements based on set goals from the project plan (Booth, Colomb, & Williams,
The Craft of Research, 2008). Generalized Method Of Moments (GMM) uses qualitative data to
approve the conclusions of the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimation (Gurdgiev &
O‘Loughlin, 2020). The quality of desired outcomes comes for the Post-Project evaluation, this is the
assessing if deliverables where met. The results from a report project show if aims and goals were
achieved and address the ones which have not been achieved (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). The
Conceptual Framework for the evaluation categories is the end-users and TAM framework. End-
users need to have knowledge of the technology, be able to trust, change behaviour and compatibility
when using the technology (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). The evaluation is called Repeated
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Load Triaxial (RLT) testing protocol, based on the range of relevant applied stresses, capping the
materials while using standard proctor energy. The application process of RP was the blending of
C&D aggregates including RCA and CB in created and the blends were evaluated. RLT evaluation
measured the geotechnical properties, particle breakage, compressibility behaviour, resilient modulus
of materials and stress-strain characteristics of the material (Arulrajaha, Naeinia, Mohammadiniaa,
Horpibulsukb, & Leong, 2020). There different evaluation tools method determines the successful
implementation of using NFC technology in mobiles. The evaluation tools measure the Discriminant
Validity, Composite Reliability, Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and Structural Equation
Modelling (SEM) (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) uses a
diverse set of mathematical models, computer algorithms, and statistical methods. These methods are
used to validate the networks data construction. The evaluation methods have an array of factors to
analysis, path analysis, confirmatory composite analysis, partial least squares path modelling, and
latent growth modelling (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018).
Standard Deviation And Standard Error
Standard deviation and Standard error are evaluation tools that measure provided data, they can be
used to measure the various amount of data that determine key points in the data provided. The
standard error is a statistics analytical model that sets the standard deviation of its sampling
distribution. This estimates the standard deviation on a set of values. Standard deviation is statistics
analytical model that measures the amount of variation or dispersion in set values in any quantitative
research study. When validating data a low standard deviation indicates that the values are close to
the mean (average) of the set of values. When the set of values are high the standard deviation
indicates that the values are spread out, the scales have a wider range. Using both Standard deviation
and Standard error when validating data provides the researcher empirical data and accessible
information that aids in the decision-making process in creating satistical models requirements for
pre-projects development (West, Mongea, Dowlinga, Wakelina, Richard T. Yaoa, & Payna, 2020).
Likert Scale
Likert scale is a based evaluations tool that uses flexible fuzzy numeric based methodology. The
Likert scale uses users experience or opinions and combines the reaction or experience with a
correlated number. They do this to enhance the reliability of user data. Likert scale traditional related
to measurements and evaluation of service quality (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scale can be
used for sample testing, purpose tools and statistics testing gathering mean scores data necessary
for determines there are notable differences between certain variables (Madhavan Devadas, 2019).
Likert scale proposed fuzzy rating scale based methodology that built on the novelty of representing
multiform of fuzzy numbers. Means the inherent uncertainty, subjectivity and vagueness
characterising opinions, experiences or perceptions related to product or service could be reflected,
pivotal for the decision-making process. Likert rating scale measures service quality, important
features, satisfaction level of stakeholders feedback that relates to the development of a project.
Likert rating scale converts experiences into quantitative data (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert
scale can be used in knowledge-gathering for equity investment aiding the decision-making process
(Madhavan Devadas, 2019). Likert rating scale methodology can be easily conducted, utilisation of
user-generated data can be applied across many industrial sectors but mainly product development
(Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales are used in various sources of investment, assimilating
information essential for the decision of investing (Madhavan Devadas, 2019). Likert scales
methodological contains a high degree of fuzziness and also consider participants feedback input true
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and the judgements in crisp numbers are the data studied (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales
results can display factors which influence investment decision-making inequities (Madhavan
Devadas, 2019). When using the application of Likert scales the researcher needs to interpret the
evaluation measurements details metrics and results. The researcher also deals with the definitions of
the product or service, the quality of the evaluations depend on a clear explanation of the tool (Tóth,
Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). When investors invest they look at the organisation's structure and financial
history, information including Expected Dividends, Financial Statements, Annual Reports, Expected
Earnings, General Press Coverage, Firm Reputation, Local Operations, Recommendation, Perceived
Ethics of Firm, Recent Price Movements, Risk Minimization, Share Price Affordability, Personal
Financial Needs and Tax Consequences (Madhavan Devadas, 2019).
Likert rating scale utilisation of flexible fuzzy numbers for evaluation purposes can enhance the
reliability of the metrics that correspond to each numeric measurements. The researcher needs to
define the fuzzy numeric rating scale with an experience for the participant to give accurate feedback
(Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales evidence generates investing opportunities, stating the
difference of opportunity, miss fortune, fields including stockbrokers and potential risk minimization
(Madhavan Devadas, 2019). The Likert evaluate tool attributes provide user data experience of all
stakeholders. This feedback tool is a spectrum of satisfactory experience, can express a positive
experience down to uncertainty. The tools offer contrasting perceptions and variability of the rating a
product or services attributes in a quantitative format (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales can
measure the difference in the thought process of both genders about recent price movements,
perceived ethics of the organisations or strategic partners (Madhavan Devadas, 2019).
Likert scales application tool for evaluating products or service user experience, a human-centred
tool that measures the quality of feedback. Likert scales utilities fuzzy terms such as attitude,
perception and satisfaction with correlated numbers (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales are
used in surveys, or questioners where the respondents fill out the questionnaire subjectively based on
their unique experience.This subjective user experience is vital in the assessment tool. The subjective
data is intrinsically for the researcher. The feedback data is imprecise and ambiguous but aids in the
decision-making process (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales by using crisp values and
measurements rates for participants to mark their subjective experiences. The participants mark their
feelings and perceptions related to specific dimensions (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert-type
scale organisation surveys intended for internal use reports for both cost of leadership and values for
differentiation (Mura, Longo, & Zanni, 2019). Likert scales have problems when applying the tool.
The reliability of Likert-type scales decreases as the numeric responses options is reduced, the
variability of the scale is also reduced when the numeric scale increases (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes,
2019). When an organisation uses a Likert-type scale to measure internal relations measures the
performance dimensions, multiple variables for adapting them for its correlation with values and
metrics (Mura, Longo, & Zanni, 2019). The researcher needs to be able to use a specific scale for
precise questions. The researcher needs to use the numeric scale rating that correlates with value
defined (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019).
Likert-type scale business relations survey measures the overall performance, customer satisfaction
and achievement of full business potential (Mura, Longo, & Zanni, 2019). Likert scales have
problems, developers carrying out the analysis of these evaluations would have difficulties in
understanding the participates. Confusion in the differences and uncertainties in humans semantic
expression (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert-type scale business relations survey measures
innovation performance consists of the development of new generations of products and services,
developments that expand existing products or services also opening up new markets (Mura, Longo,
& Zanni, 2019). Likert scale based evaluations also assess specific product or services feature and
attributes. The approach is to use the data values in the decision-making process. Values on a Likert-
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scale are represented by fuzzy numeric that can be used instead of expressing an opinion. The
researcher can use numeric categories of opinions on visualization (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019).
Likert-type scale business relations survey measures new technological areas, operational
performance, making processes efficient and reducing costs (Mura, Longo, & Zanni, 2019).
Likert scale based evaluations aim at assessing specific product or service attributes accurately.
Likert evaluation tool inherent uncertainty, subjectivity and vagueness characterising stakeholders
when expressing and tries to digest complex emotions into qualitative data. Likert scale fuzzy
evaluation environment aims to bring stakeholder feedback to the decision-makers. Likert scale
quantitative data facilitates effective and efficient strategies related to the development of a product
or service. Increasing efficiency of the design process, employ ethics, manufacturing techniques,
product or services, supply chain and quality. Identifying improvements by identifying which service
features require more consideration (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales contains flexible
fuzzy numbers, the framework establishes the measurement and evaluation of participants.
Measuring and addressing perceptions, opinions and statements of the organisations pre-projects, on-
going projects, and post- projects (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert-type scale diagram can be
designed to reveal how organisations position themselves organisations involvement, reported values
are the numeric scales used for both for cost leadership and differentiation (Mura, Longo, & Zanni,
2019).
Evaluation Literature Summary
What measures are used, when to use mathematical formulas, equations, qualitative or quantitative
data collection methods? What is the theoretical thinking/ design thinking, testing and determining
what tools to use and when in the early-stage evaluation tool (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft
of Research, 2008)? The researcher needs to be disciplined when diagnosing the application of
models or theories in developing the research problem in context (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A
Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Narrowed the scope and creating a project
direction, the methods used would be loosely based on literature and co-creation with members at
Sparbanken Rekarne (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The early-stage evaluation tool would need to measure, bring clarity to all pre-project with different
attributes. The project values that were researched where; Complexity of Project, Sustainability,
Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization, Distribution Logistics, Timescale and Total Cost.
These project characteristics were identified from Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The complexity of Project, understanding the complexity of a
product or service makes the developing team know the extent of involvement of specific
stakeholders involvement, value chain, manufacturing techniques, sustainable, implementation,
marketability, digitalization, logistics, methodologies, theoretical and practical technologies needed
in the design process. The complexity of the product addresses and identifying production constraints
and design issues for the development team. This predictions tool are used to clarify technical issues
that need to be resolved for the development of a concept project (University M. , 2020).
Sustainable, production focuses on the production methods used when mass producing product or
service. The modern methods that were used, the sustainable approaches put in the design process,
using renewable energy in the manufacturing process or recycled materials. This also applies to
servitization the measure taken in improvement in energy consumption of factories or offices. Or the
organisation's environmental policies and goals set in reducing carbon emissions. This predictions
tool are used to identify sustainable technics needed for the development of a concept project.
Marketability, penetration addresses market penetration of a project, the area of the project looks into
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market research tools needed in marketing the product or service to the right market and target
market. The different tools, advertising techniques for sealing a product or service directly to the
customer. This could be marketing from business to business or business to customer. Being able to
have a product or service that communicates the right information to the customer makes it
competitive. This predictions tool are used to address marketing strategies needed for the
development of a concept project (University M. , 2020). Digitalization, we enter the digital age,
Digitalization of servitization evens the market playground. Start-ups or Small to Medium
Enterprises (SME) can compete with Multi conglomerates in offering a product or service to
customers directly. Digitalization implementation can be integrated into the design process and
supply chain of a project. All projects being developed need to co-develop digitalization strategies if
it is a product or service. This predictions tool are used to allocate ample digitalization technologies
for the development of a concept project. Distribution logistics, different projects have different
distribution channels, digital service, for example, don‘t have many stages in the supply chain, often
can move from final digital service direct to the customer. Some projects that have a manufacturing
process need a detailed supply chain process with defined supply management protocols. Large
organisations usually have multiple projects that have different logistical constraints when
implementing lean manufacturing technics (University M. , 2020). Timescale, various projects have
different time constraints, empathetic knowledge on the duration of a project aids the development
team in drafting a successful project plan. This stage is possible when all aspects of the project have
been addressed and a timeline can be designed based on completing tasks in the design process.
Calculating and analysis product life cycle and planning mid-cycle updates to projects. This
predictions tool are used to allocate ample time management for the development of a concept
project. Total Cost, Once all aspects of the projects that have been diagnosed, the overall cost of the
project can be addressed. Calculating the labour costs, the complexity of the product, sustainable
production, marketability, digitalization and distribution the total risk and potential costs can be
forecasted. All previous project management methodologies aimed at reducing risks and overall
costs in the pursuit of maximising profits and customer satisfaction. This predictions tool are used to
allocate capital resources for concept project to be developed into project plans. The Likert tool is a
method of using scales in the questioner, complex questions with multiple opinions and experiences
can be measured using this method. Provides the researcher qualitative data that visualizations can
draft a clear understanding of the participants. Being able to measure qualitative opinions of
participants is a useful tool for evaluation purposes. The Likert scale survey tool could be used at
different stages of a project, pre-project, ongoing or post-project evaluation use-cases (University M.
, 2020).
Business Case Systematic Literature Review
Convenience Sampling for Business Case was also done by using interactive research. These
divergent and convergent conversations generated topic areas that needed to research. These research
areas are the keywords for this literature review, Block-chain, Instant Payments and Riksbank. Pre-
project data was not available for this master‘s thesis so a business case needed to be drafted, this
business case would also validate the need of stages of the early-stage evaluation tool
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). New Production of Knowledge trans-disciplinary dimension
makes a fundamental contribution to the development of new methodologies, concepts and theories
(Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). A case study investigates a phenomenon in detail and the
context of the real-world. A case study based on a shortage of real-world renewable energy data
reflects on the context of renewable projects (Kealy, 2019). Systematic reviews have challenges and
methodological when applying the practice. Needing widespread databases and peer-reviewed
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journals, when conducting Systematic reviews (Jessica Hagen-Zanker, 2013). The Database used
was Scopus, sourcing modern academic literature related to the financial industry. The search word
used was based on the interactive convergent and divergent conversational topics which were about
Block-chain, Instant Payments and Riksbank‘ (University M. , 2020).
Keywords Search Strategy
Block-chain ‗Block-chain‘ as a search string, resulting in 9 161 documents. Limit the search to
2020 and English only, resulting in 444 documents. Next step was to limit Articles
and Conference Papers, resulting in 324 documents. Lastly limiting search by
keywords ‗Bitcoin, Cryptography, Security, Cryptocurrency, Proof Of
Work, Decentralised and Disruptive Technology‘. Reading 94 documents and used
4 documents (University M. , 2020).
Instant
Payments
‗Instant Payments‘ as a search string, results where 124 documents. Limiting articles
from 2017 – 2020 resulted in 85 documents. Then read 10 documents and refined it
to 3 documents (University M. , 2020).
Riksbank ‗Riksbank‘ as a search string, the first results were 70 document results. Then Limit
document from 2016 – 2020, resulting in 25 documents. After reading those
documents 4 were used (University M. , 2020).
Table 2. Business Case Systematic Search Strategy (University M. , 2020).
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Second Systematic Search Analysis
Fig 2. Second Systematic Search Analysis (University M. , 2020).
Business Case Litreature Summary
Block-chain technology is a tool where digital services can be developed. It is a tool that focuses on
security and validation of information. Block-chain uses timestamp and a distributed ledger. This
makes it very difficult to tamper with and data, more secure network. Data can also be easily
accessible and verified from members of the network (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Instant
Payments is developed by the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) of a country. Instant Payments
allows people to able to make payments every day at any time. People can make payments use a
bank card, computer or mobile as a form of payment instead of cash. Enhanced risk management for
customer, banks, central banks and business. Lower overall costs for institutions and real-time
payments from peer to peer or from individual to an organisation (Bank, 2020). Riksbank is the
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) of Sweden, they regulate and distribute fiat currency within
the country. Making sure the fiat currency retains value for payments while making it safe and
efficient. Sveriges Riksbank is simplified to Riksbank is the world's oldest central bank and the third
oldest bank that is still in operation. Sveriges Riksbank create monetary policy is to maintain price
stability within the country, the objective is to lower and stabilize the rate of inflation (Szyszko &
Rutkowska, 2019).
Researching Instant Payments lead me to understand the complexity of the financial industry, the
involvement of central banks and economic zones creating the framework for different forms of
payment to happen. Researching PSD2 lead me to build knowledge on the Single Euro Payments
Area (SEPA) and Virtual Account Management (VAM) (Commission, Payment services (PSD 2) -
Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). After the decisions, I thought a way to create an innovation tool
would be to solve the organisation's challenge using an unorthodox methodology for the financial
industry. Developing a tool why simultaneously solving a challenge, knowledge building, refection
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of a challenge to validate and shape the tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Orthodox literature
reviews conclude a ‗non-representative sample‘, state the shortcoming lays in the methods of the
review phase. Thou the data extraction and analysis of research material carried out proves variable
and non-transparent ways (Jessica Hagen-Zanker, 2013). How do social norms director the
researchers in constructing the research questions in a specific way (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011)?
CHAPTER 4
Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Summary
Pre-project evaluation tools bring clarity from data available for the researcher, this data is measured
using algorithms, equations to clarify the fuzzy front stage of a project. In your typical stage-gate
model project the front stage needs improvement in the case of Sparbanken Rekarne developing a
pre-project evaluation tool will make a decision the decision-making process more efficient.
Speeding up decision (Lean decision-making) in developing pre-projects into workable projects will
give the Sparbanken Rekarne a competitive edge (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). This Early-
stage Evaluation Tool could be categorised as a ‗Pre-Project Evaluation‘ tool. In a sense, this pre-
evaluating of the market analysis and develops concept projects that can be to pitch to the
stakeholders before the deployment of a project plan. You cannot effectively plan, staff and control a
new project if you‘ve first not evaluated it. Pre-project evaluation or early-stage evaluation determine
the effectiveness of the project before any project plan or resources have been allocated (Mugisha,
2020).
Hexagon Analysis
The Hexagon Analysis did not have this step, most organisations have multiple projects. This stage
would cluster ideas into groups of possible projects. Grouping projects based on complexity, this
helps identify a project to develop based on the organisation or market constraints (Mugisha &
Thunberg, 2019). The new research process is being transformed, this transformation has multiple
fundamentals at different novelty and intensity (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). The research
team can choose different types of projects and develop a thorough project plan based on empirical
data. Sparbanken Rekarne can choose evaluated concepts pre-project stage, reducing the overall cost
of, ensure valuable project based on data and a foundation for the development of an effective
project plan (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The demand for a quality research material is often
difficult, the range and scope are demanding. Action research usually develops research directions
that have conflicting demands and differences of interest (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). An
element of accountability in science, the transformation of research is the emphasis on managing the
research. Managing the evaluate process, effectiveness, assess the quality, application use case,
patience‘s and ownership (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Majority of systematic reviews
recently have become a set of rigid protocol, though some have taken the flexible approach (Hagen-
Zanker & Mallett, 2013).
The literature supports theories and aspects of a project life cycle, coving the product form a circular
economy perspective, the relation of product to its environment. Using research with closely related
subjects of the tool. The literature is to aid the research on how to understand the measurements and
scales, knowledge reference in using the early-stage evaluation tool, coving different kinds of
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projects with different scopes. The early-stage evaluation tool would have to be customised for
Sparbanken Rekarne use case, the evaluation tool used in Sparbanken Rekarne Project Portfolio in
measuring pre-projects in Eskilstuna, Strängnäs and Mariefred (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Market research has many analytical tools to assess the different markets but this market evaluation
tool dedicated tool to clusters market trends, receiving qualitative data, develop concepts, evaluate
concepts then clustering of concepts on feasibility (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of
Research, 2008). The aim of ‗Early-stage Evaluation Tool‘ is to determine the relevance of market
trends and evaluate idea‘s possibility, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. An
overview of the market trends on these key topics, one can generate theoretical questions, target
market, markets average selling price, markets average sales cycle, social economics, psychographic
and geographic region data. simplified then directed to an average customer (Merriam & Tisdell,
2016). This feedback from customers is a key indicator of possible market adoption of concepts and
identifies what concepts should be developed to satisfy the target market. An early-stage evaluation
is used before a project plan has been developed, a tool that proves why market research is not
enough and why an early-stage evaluation tool is necessary for risk management (Booth, Colomb, &
Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Lean Principals
A detailed market research tools cover international market size, domestic market size, market
growth rate, domestic and international customers, customer statistics and demographics, industry
data of competitors and leaders, competitors product or service, parallel markets, overlapping
markets, market pain, markets barriers, market penetration, market volatility, industry life cycles,
product life cycles, point of entry into a market, supply and demand of the market, identify a market
opportunity, notifies organisation market position within the market, target market, markets average
selling price, markets average sales cycle, social economics, psychographic and geographic region
data. When developing the Early-Stage Evaluation Tool I took into consideration ‗Lean principles‘.
Where is the value and the Value Stream Mapping? The tool would need to be lean in each process,
focusing on specific value information and brings clarification to market trends. The Early-Stage
Evaluation Tool would need to identify value in market research and formulate concept projects in
teams of review different projects that are either product or service (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Lean principals need to eliminate some tools but address tools, picking the one that does the best job
for the time given. Does the tool accomplish the specific mission, develop concept projects or brings
clarity in the concept projects? In determining lean tools in the academic literature one needs to
determine the unique value the tool produces and clarity it brings. Does each step lead to solving the
business use-case? Are their steps in the process that could have been eliminated. Why and when
does each step in the early-evaluation tool is used and why is it need it? Does the early-stage
evaluation tool fulfil that need of the Sparbanken Rekarne? The early evaluation needs to identify
Sparbanken Rekarne value stream, solve the business case by using market trends in developing
concept projects that could be used to maintain or gain market share (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). The Early-Stage Evaluation Tool value stream mapped the market research exercise
concerning Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio. Taking into account previous projects and the
process for each part of the businesses. The value creation of the early-stage evaluation tool is
identifying market trends and developing concept projects based on specific customer feedback and
needs. Value stream mapping processes can be defined as the production, research and development,
marketing and human resources (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Value Stream Mapping in the context of the evaluation tool, questions that review the design process
and supply chain of Sparbanken Rekarne. Where does the literature theories or organisation practices
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correlate, when it is applicable for the early-stage evaluation tool? What process and when would
Sparbanken Rekarne need or use the early-stage evaluation tool? What systematic literature review
and interactive research contribute to the co-create of the early-stage evaluation tool ? Is there a
design process in the early-stage evaluation tool and how many stages are there? Are all the stage of
the early-stage evaluation tool necessary for developing concept projects? Are there other existing,
formulas, equations or algorithms used in the early-stage evaluation tool need in the development
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020)? Why does the Sparbanken Rekarne need an evaluation tool and
why did you choose to develop a pre-project evaluation tool? How does the evaluation tool provide
innovation to Sparbanken Rekarne? What academic literature was used in knowledge creation of
developing the evaluation tool? What design processes have been designed and what lean principles
were applied to the evaluation tool? Which stakeholders feedback in the evaluation tool and what
lean questions, formulas and mathematical equations were used in the evaluation tool? In this
evaluation tool only literature, interactive research meetings, qualitative and quantitative of
customers were used in the development of the early-stage evaluation tool. When the Sparbanken
Rekarne use the ear-stage evaluation tool, would it aid them in the decision-making process? The
plan is to present to the tool to Stefan and his development team to test, this would another way of
validating the early-stage evaluation tool (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The lean approach to market research allows the user develop a clear picture of concept projects, the
data may not use all the tool in developing a detailed analysis but more focus was done in measuring
each project. The lean Early-Stage Evaluation Tool approach coordinates the user to create a clear
understanding of the market (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Testing the
tool during the production stage, validates each step, using a business case to appraise the early-stage
evaluation tool verifies usability, essential, compulsory and necessary of the tool. The testing process
also creates an opportunity for the tool to be customised and edited. Using academic literature
database, Sparbanken Rekarne business case, qualitative and quantitative data work in ancient in
shaping and forming the evaluation tool specifically for Sparbanken Rekarne needs. The early-stage
evaluation tool identifying market trends to measured concept projects for future development
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The progressive logic used to establish the context for
contribution was characterized by the network of studies. The link between the progressive logic is
shared theoretical perspectives and methods working (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). Developmental
evaluation principle involves developmental purpose, evaluation rigorousness, utilization focus,
innovation niche and complexity perspective (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd,
2019).
Prototype Evaluation Tool
Lean Principles Evaluation Tools
(Lean Principles Researched)
Pre-project evaluation tool, Likert and
Semantic Differential Scales, online
quantitative and qualitative questioner.
Pre-project evaluation, On-Going evaluation,
Post-Project evaluation, Interviews
questioners, Focus groups, Observation,
Standard deviation, Standard error, Justifying
conclusions, Gathering credible data,
Algorithm evaluation tools, Jacobi method,
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Equation evaluation tools, Repeated Load
Triaxial (RLT), Consensual Assessment
Technique (CAT), Generalized Linear
Regression (GLS), Mean Reverting Model
(MRM), Risk management evaluation,
Heteroscedasticity, Cross-sectional
correlation and Monte Carlo-based algorithm
and Stochastic diffusion processes.
Table 3. Prototype Evaluation Tool and Lean Principles (Mugisha, 2020).
Early-stage Evaluation Stages
Early-stage Evaluation Tool has four stages which are in developed and tested in this master's thesis
project, a tool used to satisfy the Sparbanken Rekarne business case. For the first stage ‗Market
Trends Analysis‘, researching into Sparbanken Rekarne business case (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The research elements are financial market research, a market analysis of international and domestic
markets, competitor analysis, financial technologies and central bank overview. A case study of
Sparbanken Rekarne is performed to understand its background and objectives, this data would be
added to the market research (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Early-
Stage Evaluation Tool is necessary due to the ever-increasing market pressures and ever-tightening
requirements of the market. This pressure encourages competitiveness but increases the complexity
of the organisation in developing these ever-complex products and services (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007).
I. Market Trends Analysis
A full Market Trends Analysis was not performed, a lean methodology was applied, picking relative
and critical tools of market research in the development of the evaluation tool. Focusing on
international market size, domestic market size, customer statistics and demographics, industry data
of competitors and leaders, competitors product or service, markets barriers, market penetration,
product life cycles and target market (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Interactive research has been said to
be the continuation of action research but the methodologies focus on objectives, preferences and
diverse research direction (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Market conditions can vary from
fixed feed-in tariffs, tender systems that increase costs and reduce profit margins (Wiener & Nicoleit,
2019). In modern empirical research studies try to address the need to invent a new language of
research and comprehensive analysis of research trends (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Collect
significant data from the research hubs from individual research projects to cores research fields
(Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). Market trend analysis is conducted to
identify and validate current challenges into the potential for product development (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019). Total addressable market (TAM), sometimes called the total available market, is a
market terminology that references to a revenue opportunity that is available for a product or service.
TAM framework is based on two-dimensions Perceived Ease of use and Perceived of usefulness
(Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). The market trends toward higher quality, inexpensive goods and
services affect all industries and the global industry (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Market trend analysis need interviews with core and primary stakeholders in determining the goals
for product development (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Market Trends Analysis and Feedback is the
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first evaluation stage, only current and specific information is collected, only market trends and
customer feedback (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Systematic reviews
need rigorous methods to map base as unbiased and assure the quality of the indication and
synthesise it. Systematic reviews consider offering the most consistent and comprehensive statement
proof of work (Hagen-Zanker & Mallett, 2013). Mix 8P‘s Marketing Mix 8P‘s is a set of objectives
that companies use when conducting a SWOT or competitive analysis. The 8P‘s is the framework
that evaluates by assessing element about a market. The 8P‘s are; Products, Prices, Place, Promotion,
Physical Evidence, People, Partners and Productivity. Products, the question about how an
organisation can develop products or services. Prices, what an organisation does to change the
pricing model of the product or service? Place, how an organisation distributes goods or services to
the customers. Could be distributing a product to a location, a brick-and-mortar store or online.
Promotion, how customers gain awareness of the product or service can and what media channels
should be used. Physical in the context of a store, what was the customer's reaction to the store and
the staff. If online, how was the usability of the website and was there customer service. People,
understanding who the stakeholders are, what role they play and what skills gaps your employees
have? Partner‘s examinees business partners, does the organisation need more or fewer partners to
maintain market share or enter new markets? Productivity and Quality, What is the organisation
offering to the customer ? What are their skills in cost management and how can they pass on the
economies of scale to customers (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020)?
This refining process of projects allows the development team to constantly develop and provide
innovation across the Sparbanken Rekarne project portfolio. Refection of project portfolio provides
the development with credible data to not only keep up with market trends in making continuous
developed of projects to satisfy the market. Because previous and on-going projects generate real-
time data, accessing this database for plotting risk areas, conflict areas, knowledge gaps and missed
opportunities for development. Focuses on Sparbanken Rekarne portfolio researching into a lesson
learnt from the previous and on-going project then combining this data with a market trend focus. If
applied properly and on-time, this provides the development team to learn and constantly develop
project‘s making the organisation competitive, maintain market share (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). In the first stage of the early-stage evaluation tool ‗Market Trends Analysis‘ instead of
performing a fresh market research direction, having an accessible database of previous or on-going
projects can be combined with a lean market research approach. This lean market research approach
could be done by focusing on the results of the previous evaluations of the project and combining the
data with innovation research into competitor analysis, Fintech 2.0, regional market trends, customer
behaviour trends and measuring how these technologies complement on-going projects. Analysing
how could bring value addition to on-going projects. Measuring and allocating resources into the
exploration of pilot studies into the integration of value-added tools, methodologies, technologies
into on-going projects (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Market Trends Analysis
Lean Principles Market Research Tool
(Lean Principles Researched)
Online Data Analytics, Domestic Market
Size, Market Growth Rate, Domestic And
International Market Size, Domestic Market
Size, Market Growth Rate, Domestic And
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International Customers, Customer Statistics
And Demographics, Competitors Product Or
Service, Markets Barriers, Market Volatility,
Industry Life Cycles, Product Life Cycles
and Target Market.
International Customers, Customer Statistics
And Demographics, Industry Data Of
Competitors And Leaders, Competitors
Product Or Service, Parallel Markets,
Overlapping Markets, Market Pain, Markets
Barriers, Market Penetration, Market
Volatility, Industry Life Cycles, Product Life
Cycles, Point Of Entry Into A Market,
Supply And Demand Of The Market, Online
Data Analytics, Identifies Market
Opportunity, Notifies Organisation Market
Position Within The Market, Target Market,
Spot Pricing, Competitive Pricing, Markets
Average Selling Price, Markets Average
Sales Cycle, Social Economics,
Psychographic and Geographic Region Data.
Table 4. Market Trends Analysis and Lean Principles (Mugisha, 2020).
Market Trends Analysis For On-Going Projects
For Sparbanken Rekarne, innovation for the organisation‘s strategy is to find innovation on existing
projects. Resources allocation is for finding value addition on ongoing or previous projects. Parent
company Swedbank has the resources to develop projects from ideation to finished project and
Sparbanken Rekarne customises these projects for their customer's use-cases. Sparbanken Rekarne
needs to develop innovation on previous and ongoing projects because of the large costs, financial
legislation and permits and difficult communication strategies to develop. There is complexity in
redeveloping previous and ongoing projects, this involves core and primary stakeholder contribution,
looking into new methodologies, theories and technologies (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
II. Customer Survey
The Customer Survey was based on the lean Market Trends Analysis, measurables of quantitative
and qualitative questions were addressed. This is part of market research and vital in developing the
concept projects in the next Octagon Analysis stage (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of
Research, 2008). Customer Survey is a methodology of researching and analysing markets behaviour
for a particular product/service. Investigation and understand customer inclinations, their
characteristics, expectations, and requirements of the product or service. Customer Surveys are
qualitative and quantitative questions directed to collect feedback from the target audience, target
market or target group (Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc, 2019).
Likert scales and early-stage evaluation tool. Likert scales were the chosen instrument when
evaluating values with numeric indicators. Likert scales measurements were liberally used in the
early-stage evaluation tool because of its simplicity, understandability for multiple risk calculation
for multiple projects with different project scopes and stakeholders. Likert scales application tool for
evaluating products or service user experience, a human-centred tool that measures the quality of
feedback. Likert scales utilities fuzzy terms such as attitude, perception and satisfaction with
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correlated numbers. Likert scales are used in surveys, or questioners where the respondents fill out
the questionnaire subjectively based on their unique experience. This subjective user experience is
vital in the assessment tool. The subjective data is intrinsically for the researcher. The feedback data
is imprecise and ambiguous but aids in the decision-making process (Tóth, Tamás, Dénes, &
Veronika, 2019).
Likert scales by using crisp values and measurements rates for participants to mark their subjective
experiences. The participants mark their feelings and perceptions related to specific dimensions.
Likert scales have problems when applying the tool. The reliability of Likert-type scales decreases as
the numeric responses options is reduced, the variability of the scale is also reduced when the
numeric scale increases. The researcher needs to be able to use a specific scale for precise questions.
The researcher needs to use the numeric scale rating that correlates with value defined (Tóth, Tamás,
Dénes, & Veronika, 2019). Analysis of the current market conditions is done by researching about
the challenges, identifying and quantifying data gathering methods like interviews with different
manufacturers (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). An online survey is a good implementation tool for
developers to be aware of the importance of guidelines without policy set in place (Sousa, Maia,
Rocha, & Viana, 2020). By reviewing the research texts, we can identify the actual influences that
emerged from the research question during the research process, the researcher organized existing
studies into a context for contribution (Sandberg & Alvesson, 2011). A questionnaire shows
developers need to review the code snippet issued and reported. Documenting the implementation
problem or exception design and in the semi-structured interview (Sousa, Maia, Rocha, & Viana,
2020). Concept of collaborative research is the idea refers to the idea that combining research aims,
tasks contribute and practices. Concept of collaborative concerns, how to handle practical and issues
in managing change (Ellström, 2008).
This use of interviews and analysis software, the mixture of deductive and inductive codes, this
enabled the extraction of data segments coded with multiple relevant codes used as the material for
knowledge building (Cass, 2018). Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a set of process tools used
in defining the customer requirements and convert them into detailed engineering specifications. The
process tool plans to develop the products that fulfil the requirements (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack,
2019). Questions on Customer Surveys with clients is derived from the Market Analysis data. A
survey is then developed based on the analysis researched, theories are built and concepts are
questioned (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Morden design practice is influenced by the shifting
landscape of human-centred design processes (Elizabeth Sanders, 2008). This cross Analysis of
Market Trends and Customer Surveys would allow the researcher to identify projects that the target
market needs and identifies gaps in the market (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007). The final evaluation research process were
data/statistical analysis, model data, evaluate a model, identify statistical errors and open survey
responses (Xiaoxia A. Newton, 2019). These data gathering methods are jointly analysis with
researcher and participants, dialogue analysis seminars, participatory experience and self-evaluation
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Co-designing needs creative individuals in a team, members
are researchers, designers, clients and users who contribute qualitative and quantitative experiences
(Elizabeth Sanders, 2008).
Customer Survey
Lean Principles Project Measurement Tools
(Lean Principles Reserached)
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Mixture of all the tools.
More closed quantitative questions and a few
qualitative questions because of participates
concentration.
Face to face interviews, Written questions,
Online Questionnaire (Netigate), Qualitative
questions, Quantitative questions,
Dichotomous questions, Directed questions,
Indirect questions, Open questions, Closed
questions, Semantic differential scales, Likert
and Semantic Differential Scales.
Table 5. Customer Survey and Lean Principles (Mugisha, 2020).
III. Octagon Analysis
Evaluating a project needs many measurable because they are many aspects of a project, the lean
approach was appalled to this step. Only the aspects of a project where researched into, eight subject
areas were explored. The subject areas of dissecting a project where the Complexity Of The Product,
Timescale, Total Cost, Sustainability, Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization and Distribution
Logistics. Evaluate and interpret the data in establishing the quality, effectiveness, and impact of the
research hub and individual research projects (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd,
2019). Octagon Analysis is the second evaluation stage, the researcher sends out questioners to many
clients with different ages and gender. This data would systematic reviewed, coding and decode the
Feedback based on the Market Trends Analysis (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The researchers develop research questions from existing concepts, using prior data as a foundation,
building contribution to the scientific field on the shoulders of previous concepts (Sandberg &
Alvesson, 2011). Co-creation involves interviews with stakeholders and the development team to
gain insights, avoid pitfalls and strengthen collaboration while documenting the evaluation process
(Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). This is a long process because qualitative
and quantitative questions are in the questionnaire. This stage should prove what projects customers
in a particular market are interested in (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Setting parameters and criteria for creativity is in the context of a specific domain. Problem-solving
process and scientific theories aim to increase our perception of complex problems, phenomena and
uncertain condition (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research,
2007). Performing diversity convergent, divergent methods in an open complexity and cohesion
discussions and. Sustainable leadership performs restraint and renewal of an organisations resources.
Cultivate talent, maintain the legacy of the organisation and contribute to the organisation's history
(Fonsén & Soukainen, 2019). Highlighting the most popular ideas the customers would like to see,
and the Octagon Analysis would identify the feasibility of all ideas generated in the Market Trends
Analysis (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Diagnosis and cataloguing
data is done by theory building, research design, data studies, and problem-solving (Ven, Engaged
Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). Performing diversity
convergent, divergent methods in an open complexity and cohesion discussions and. Sustainable
leadership performs restraint and renewal of an organisations resources. Cultivate talent, maintain the
legacy of the organisation and contribute to the organisation's history (Fonsén & Soukainen, 2019).
Utilization focus, evaluating the teams need in identify the end-users, ensuring the evaluations and
activities focused on the collection of actionable data. The project leaders assess the process
evaluation of the team (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019).
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Octagon Analysis
Lean Principles Used Project Measurement Tools
(Lean Principles Researched)
Complexity of Product, Timescale, Total
Cost, Sustainability, Implementation,
Marketability, Digitalization and Distribution
Logistics.
Timeline, Goals, Budget, Social, Cultural,
Ethical, Environmental, Educational, Risk
Management, Quality, Project Scope,
Benefits, Complexity of Product,
Technology, Ecology, Schedule, Distribution
Logistics, Marketability, Development
Procedures, Supply Chain, Design Process,
Project Managerial Methodology,
Technology, Skilled Labour, Workflow,
Resource Management, Strategy, Business
Alignment, Project Prioritization and Total
Cost.
Table 6. Octagon Analysis and Lean Principles (Mugisha, 2020).
IV. Projects Clustering
The inspiration of Projects Clustering was from ‘Portfolio Analysis‘, systematized organisation of
multiple pre-projects and planning which concept projects are going to be developed. Portfolio
Analysis, Collection of different kind of projects of the company, these projects could be categories
as pre-projects, on-going and post-project. In the Portfolio Analysis develops can evaluate the
potential success or success of a project and perform an elimination process, keeping successful
projects and removing unsuccessful ones (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). It is possible to see multiple
pre-projects based and the researcher can arrange the projects based on any of the eight elements of
the octagon analysis (Complexity Of The Product, Timescale, Total Cost, Sustainability,
Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization And Distribution Logistics). Projects can be arranged
from difficult to easily implement concept projects (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The pre-
project database helps in the decision-making process, increasing the ability to compete. Pre-project
that attract potential customers. Pre-project improve on organisation sustainability image. Pre-project
develop sustainable technologies. Pre-project develop sustainable methodologies. Pre-project
develop sustainable environmental awareness. Pre-project develop sustainable socio-economic
involvement with the organisation and citizens. Pre-project that build value. Pre-project that increase
market share. Pre-project that achieve performance targets and organisation goals. Pre-project that
create innovation.Pre-project that improve on current goods or services. Pre-project that promote a
healthy work environment. Pre-project that retrain employees. Pre-project that enter niche markets.
Pre-project that are disruptive and lead the market. Pre-project that improve organisations in-house
IT service. Pre-project that improve organisations administration. The organisation has access to pre-
project Database. The organisation can choose what pre-project has been developed. The
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organisation can see what pre-projects need to be developed (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The knowledge created during the design process of the early-stage evaluation tool creates a database
of research areas, qualitative and quantitative data for project development (Merriam & Tisdell,
2016).
Projects Clustering
Lean Principles Portfolio Management Tool
(Lean Principles Researched)
Organising Pre-Projects
Grouping Pre-Projects
Portfolio management, Organisation strategic
alignment, Professional management, Risk
minimization, Portfolio optimization,
Portfolio Saturation, process, Performance
management, Process Improvement, Process
Execution, Process compliance, Client
objectives, Board members objectives,
Execution management, Strategic
management, Operational management,
Organising projects and grouping projects.
Table 7. Projects Clustering and Lean Principles (Mugisha, 2020).
Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation
Using illustrates in developing new approaches by presenting examples of change within the projects
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Re-Thinking Science tried to fill some of the cracks and
argument in The New Production of Knowledge (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Visual
information describes the properties of objects, shape, form, colour, shape, material, and texture
(Suha & Cho, 2020). Drafted using Autodesk software showing the four stages of the Early-Stage
Evaluation Process, from a pre-project stage to a project plan stage. Meta-model data for evaluation
tools can be illustrated as in graphic visualization. The exhaustive sampling method, result in
numerous documented data points, resulting in a high-quality visualisation. The visualization
showing the highly detailed distribution of rejected and accepted points. The visualization shows the
types of different method used, different colours to show rejected, accepted and points
(Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz, 2019).
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Fig 3. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Mugisha, 2020).
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Early-Stage Evaluation Tool and Sparbanken Rekarne
In this master‘s thesis validation of the early-stage evaluation tool is performed, this co-developing
and co-editing of the tool using interactive research customise the tool for Sparbanken Rekarne
project portfolio and uses-cases. Validating the early-stage evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne,
this was an on-going evaluation, as knowledge building happens using academic literature was used
in theory building and implemented in the assorted configuration of the evaluation tool. Validation
from the tool came from using the business case to test the evaluation tool, Market Analysis and
Customer Survey were completed during the master‘s thesis timeline. Octagon Analysis and
Portfolio Clustering is not validated from using the business case due to the time limitation of the
coronavirus (COVID-19) global epidemic (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020).
I. Market Trends Analysis
To carry out an effective Market Trends Analysis, one needs to know an expert in the field of
research, this can save time and effort in collecting data about an industry. A lean perspective on
using market research tools was applied, focusing only on the critical tool, these tools were discussed
and narrowing down to a few critical tools. The tools used were domestic market size, market growth
rate, domestic and international customers, customer statistics and demographics, competitors
product or service, markets barriers, market volatility, industry life cycles, product life cycles and
target market (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). For this Sparbanken Rekarne business case I interviewed
Stefan Öhman. We discussed market trends in the financial space and identified key topics need to
carry out critical market research. The critical market research focused only on particular elements of
the market. The three areas were ‗Block-chain technologies, Sveriges Riksbank and Payment
Services Directive 2 (PSD2)‘. After I read about Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden Central Bank), I
noticed they are the entity that governs innovation in the banking sector of Sweden. The payment
industry is going through a renaissance because the industry is going digital. The knowledge creation
about PSD2 leads me to connect topics like ‗Single Euro Payments Area‘ (SEPA), ‗Instant
Payments‘ and ‗Virtual Accounts‘. The Market Trends Analysis is based on the business case, the
financial industry. The areas of knowledge creation were Block-chain, Sveriges Riksbank, Payment
Services Directive 2 (PSD2), Instant Payments Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)and Virtual
Accounts (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Market Trends Analysis).
Market Trends Data will enter the top then a questioner developed by the research team will derive
questions based on the market trend analysis. This Customer Survey would be directed to customers
of the bank, asking them a mixture of questions that question the day to day running of the bank,
future technologies that could be implemented in the bank as well as in the own words what
improvements would like in the bank services.
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Fig 4. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Market Trends Analysis) (Mugisha, 2020).
Competitor Analysis.of Projectmanager
An organisation Projectmanager has an online evaluation tool called ‘the project charter‘. The project
charter is the pre-evaluation of a project pitch to the investors, core or primary stakeholders. A
detailed plan mentioning staff tasks in the project. Project Manager's Pre-project evaluation is a tool
that determines the effectiveness of the project before any investment. When using project charter a
web-based template needs to be filed, all phases and scope of the project needs to be defined. The
developer needs to identify project objectives, deliverables, resource, financial and quality plans. The
project charter shows why a project plan is important and how those objectives will be addressed.
The project charter initiating a project, outline reasons and projected returns on investment. The
project charter includes the project structure and how it intends to meet the goals, phases and stages
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in the project. In my opinion, this evaluation tool is more like a project plan there is an assumption
that the developer already has this information (Projectmanager, 2020).
The project charter highlights the vision, objectives, scope and deliverables of the project. The
documented needs to address all stakeholders responsibilities in the project, from the core to the
primary stakeholder. The developer needs to explain the design process strategy of taking on the
project, what resources needs for specific tasks, quality of the product or service and the financial
expectations of the project. The project charter template is a document that follows the creation of
the project, the document can be present to investors or stakeholder in an organization. In the project
charter, the business case and feasibility study once approved the developer is ready to begin the
project (Projectmanager, 2020). The project charter defines boundaries for the project, a detail
projects scope that accounts expected deliverables of the project. In the project charter documenting
the project team, planning, executing, tracking and reporting of the project. The project charter
documents in details the roles of stakeholders and responsibilities of the project team. The project
proposal identifies risk areas and how to maintain or fix opportunity in the project plan. The steps in
The project charter are Executive Summary, Project Definition, Project Organization, Project Plan,
Project Considerations and Appendix (Projectmanager, 2020).
Executive Summary
Is were the developer summaries the various sections, outlining expected outcome and table of
contents. The document covers the definition of an organization, the plan, risks, issues, assumptions
and addresses constraints (Projectmanager, 2020).
Project Definition
Project Definition is were the developer state that purpose, the vision of the project, key objectives
are and how the developer is going to achieve goals. Defining the scope of the work, how to achieve
deliverables and describing the vision of the project. Each objective in the project needs to state in
detail were the project need to go to achieve goals. Goals with specific measurable, achievable,
realistic and timelines. Defined objectives and sub-objectives need to be defined, include business
objectives, business-specific and technology-specific technology objectives. A detailed project
scope, design processes, challenges, locations, impacted and what could affect the project
(Projectmanager, 2020).
Project Organization
Is the stage of describing the deliverables, who and how of the project, describing the target
customers, target groups and the deliverables and matching the requirements of the customers.
Explaining stakeholders roles and a list of invested individuals of the project, their key interest and
inputs. Information about the organization and the project, the executives, legislative bodies and
regulatory bodies. All stakeholders roles in the project and how they relate with the organisation, the
various team members needed to take on the project. The information about the organisation
structure, form the board members to core, primary stakeholders, the review group, upper and middle
managers, responsibilities, team member and team leader of the project. Information about members
in the organisation, resource name, assignment status and assignment date. Clear documentation of
responsibilities, performance criteria and skilled stakeholders required. Preferably an organization
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flow chart showcasing and connecting stakeholders key roles and the connection of the project
(Projectmanager, 2020).
Project Plan
The project plan is a detailed description of phases listed in chronological order, The overall design
strategy of the project, a plan with scheduled tasks like the Gantt chart. At this stage a summarize the
plan, outlining the sequence of each phase mentioned, a collection of tasks to achieve the desired
outcome. Defining the milestones and the course of the project‘s lifecycle, marking key points in a
project when a phase is completed. In the Project plan or Gantt chart, explaining the impact of
defined tasks and how non-delivery will affect the next stages. A summary of the duration and effort
for each project team member in the project plan, members role, a clear start and end dates. Break
down in category the cost and the value of each task. A brief financial statement, refecting the costs
in the plan of the stages in the project. Then a quality plan to listing the process change management,
risk management and issue management (Projectmanager, 2020).
Project Considerations
For your investors in the project, concerning the risks of the project. Describe any form of risk that
might come in the project. Risks should be categorised in likelihood probabilities, from high,
medium or low. Stating the risk impact it will have and the mitigating actions that need to be done to
resolve all risks. Addressing any issues, listed by priority, issues, probability and risk affecting the
project. Describing what actions to take in resolving bottlenecks or list the constraints
(Projectmanager, 2020).
Appendix
The last step is attaching all supporting documentation, this stage verifies the information been stated
earlier is valid. The documentation is inspected by a representative in assessing the pre-project
(Projectmanager, 2020).
The Project Charter (Evaluation Tool Review)
Projectmanager ‘The Project Charter‘ is a pre-project tool but it does not address many I faced with
the Hexagon Analysis. There is no market research, more emphasis on project details, stakeholder
needed, overall complexity, finance and risk management. The tool seems to lean more to a project
plan because there is no information gathering stage, no evaluation process in the tool or project
measurements. The tool is useful once the developer has already collected the data needed. This tool
is the project plan and the tool I've developed in this thesis is an early-stage evaluation tool used in
gathering data and providing vital information in developing concept projects that showcase risks
and overall complexity of the project. The evaluation tool is the precursor to the project plan. The
evaluation tool could be used first then the ‘The Project Charter‘ (Projectmanager, 2020).
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Sparbanken Rekarne
Sweden‘s first savings bank was founded in 1820 in Gothenburg, founded by a German merchant,
Eduard Ludendorff as a business venture. Savings bank became popular, and entrepreneurs in
Eskilstuna decided to create a regional. Eskilstuna Stads & Fristads Sparbank was founded in 1827.
Eskilstuna's wealthy residents where the firs to signed up undertook to create a base plate for the
savings bank. The venue was City Hall for a statutory meeting on 10 July 1827 (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). As time passed and many mergers and acquisitions were later called Sparbanken
Rekarne in 2009. Sparbanken Rekarne has positions its self as a positive force in society, a bank that
protects the heritage, countryside and cultural references. Sparbanken Rekarne has activities that are
non-profit with a very strong social pathos, funding countryside project and supporting weak
community (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Sparbanken Rekarne AB is a 50% owned by
Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne and 50% is owned by Swedbank. Sparbanksstiftelsen foundation
manages capital from Rekarne Sparbank, which consists partly of 50% shares in Sparbanken
Rekarne AB and shares in Swedbank. The core values are to promote savings in Eskilstuna and
Strängnäs municipality, re-paying returns that the savings bank capital has provided. The Board of
Directors is a group of people in charge of the foundation's assets and statutes of the organisation.
The members are Kerstin Ehn the President, Mattias Nathansson the Vice Chairman, Ida Gäfvertthe
Commissioner, Helena Hallgarn the Commissioner, Håkan Johansson the Commissioner, Göran
Pettersson the Commissioner, Helen Wretling the Commissioner and Christina Wetterberg the
Executive officer (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Sparbanken Rekarne has about 100 employees and est. 100 000 customers, they also have 50%
market share of the customer in Eskilstuna. The registered customers are companies and individuals,
registered businesses are about 5 000 and 80/90% are private individuals. These individuals‘
professions are a wide range from the service industry to the farming industries. Sparbanken Rekarne
is a saving institution but they offer similar services to financial institutions, services like pensions,
mortgages, risk management advisory, loans and provide credit for companies (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). The Swedish banking sector has one of the strictest legislation with numerous laws
to also follow, these rules impede innovation and the development of innovative concepts in the
banking sector. The bank has also developed software it licences to other banking institutions in its
innovation strategy. The software it licences keeps previous and new legislation, rules and standards
in the banking sector (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Savings Bank Foundation Rekarne
Sparbanksstiftelsen works with Sparbanken Rekarne, to implement a positive force in Eskilstuna and
Strängnäs municipalities. The aim is to be a positive force Eskilstuna‘s society, that is why they take
an active part in funding local business, agro-business and cultural heritage (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). Sparbanken Rekarne AB is half-owner of Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne but they both
work in regional specific projects and promote the savings culture, Sparbanker and Föreningsbanker
are connected fundamentally to Sparbanken Rekarne. Sparbanken Rekarne promotes savings in
Eskilstuna and Strängnäs municipalities. Sparbanken Rekarne provides grants in specific projects
that deal with business, research, education, sports and culture within the municipal boundaries.
From 1996 to 2020 they have distributed over SEK 280 million, showing a positive force in
Eskilstuna and Strängnäs municipalities (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
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Appropriations Granted
Applying for grants is the main revenue stream for the Sparbanken Rekarne, these grants are
evaluated though the Sparbanken Rekarne staff and applicants have to fill in forms in detail. The
evaluation process can take some time but the existing customer‘s evaluation process is faster due to
a level of trust in the business relations. When both parties agree on the amount, payment plan and
the terms of conditions, the revenue is put in an account with Sparbanken Rekarne where the
business or individual can access. If the individual does not have an account with the bank, an
account is open for the agreed grant. Sparbanken Rekarne can monitor the account behaviour,
transactions and payments for the loan (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Apply For Grants
This is targeted to business owners, project managers, private person, individual team or groups
requesting capital investment. When applying for grants you have to fill in an application form. The
form online is a downloadable PDF asking for personal information about the business. The form is
detailed the business owner or project manager has to fill in information like company name, project
owner's name, telephone number and email address. Next is the project description, the name of the
project purpose and project time, goals, a detailed project plan. The project plan should consist of the
organisation's previous financial recorders, payment instruction and a detailed budget for the project.
A complete financial plan with specific amounts for the project purpose, categorised in the name and
amount, the amount should factoring VAT (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Social Responsibility
Sparbanken Rekarne characterizes as a savings bank with the great social responsibility for the
countryside. What Sparbanken Rekarne does with its profits separates itself with other banks in the
region. Social responsibility is Sparbanken Rekarne core business and part the historical basic ideas
of the organisation. Sending a positive social inclusion of actives that range from sports, charities,
schools, universities, hospitals and festivals in Eskilstuna and Strängnäs municipalities
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).Social sciences have historically criticised traditional research
models while promoting interactive research as the use case (Ellström, 2008). The corporate social
responsibility has been going since 1996, the foundation has generated over SEK 280 million on
local development. Sparbanken Rekarne is investing in Eskilstuna, Strängnäs and Mariefred because
of the rich diverse sports and cultural heritage. Sparbanken Rekarne also has launched crowd-
funding platforms for entrepreneurs and local organisations. This constant innovation gives
Sparbanken Rekarne the title as the largest private and corporate customer‘s bank in Eskilstuna,
Strängnäs and Mariefred. To meet all customer needs Sparbanken Rekarne offers services form its
lawyers and insurance specialists. Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) benefit greatly from the
additional services. All services are available in all of their branches, in Eskilstuna, Strängnäs and
Mariefred. Telephone bank is available 24/7 and cash bank deposit available in Eskilstuna
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The main focus is providing financial services for the municipalities, individuals and companies in
the Eskilstuna, Strängnäs and Mariefred reign. Sparbanken Rekarne takes on the financial
responsibilities for various social activities. Such as teaching children a saving culture and good
spending habits. Providing customer activities, in 2019 a partnership with Parken Zoo and
Sparbanken Rekarne. Combining Zoo attractions and activities for the whole family with season
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discounted tickets to customers. Activities like ‗Picnic in the Park‘ in 2018 Sparbanken Rekarne was
the primary sponsor of Eskilstuna's music festival. Social responsibility with AFC Heroes Eskilstuna
local soccer team, sponsoring young soccer enthusiast training with AFC players and the children
visit different areas of the municipality. Sparbanken Rekarne social responsibilities do not stop at the
youth. They also initiated ‗The Clown Club‘, activities for children's clinic‘s, and visits to care
elderly from Tunagården and Marielund (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The ‗All On Snow‘ is
an invent where Sparbanken Rekarne supports Tunafors Ski and Vilsta ski stations in making sure
the attractions have snow and other services. In 2019 ‗Cup of Cups‘ is a sponsorship agreement with
Sparbanken Rekarne and the local clubs. Eskilstuna Gymnastikförening and Sparbanken Rekarne
make sure the association cultivates the best gymnastics squad with male and female artists.
‗Eskilstuna Blacksmiths‘ is a collaboration of Eskilstuna Smederna, Rinmangymnasiet's school and
Sparbanken Rekarne. Where teaching and granting the opportunity to form individuals to participate
in the range of sports regardless of individuals conditions. ‗Eskilstuna Stadsmission‘ is a sponsorship
between Sparbanken Rekarne and Food Team, providing summer activities for children in
economically disadvantaged families during the summer (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
‗Eskilstuna United DFF‘ is a social work organization in partnership with Sparbanken Rekarne uses
football as a social tool for integration. Sparbanken Rekarne is the main sponsor for ‗Eskilstuna
Simklubb‘ swimming club activities. ‗Rich Mathematics‘ is Sweden's first research-based, the
project is a joint venture of the Sparbanken Rekarne, Mälardalen University and Eskilstuna
municipality. Sparbanken Rekarne has a sponsorship agreement with Sebastian Larsson Football
Academy and local soccer clubs. ‗Lifeboat‘ is a project of Sparbanken Rekarne and Sea Rescue
Society in Strängnäs where they bought a new rescue boat for Lake Mälaren. ‗Strängnäs IBK‘ is a
collaboration of Sparbanken Rekarne and Strängnäs IBK, they take night walks in Strängnäs that
promote security within the society. ‗Warm on the Heart‘ is a crowd-funding service, enabling local
projects in Eskilstuna and Strängnäs municipalities in developing concepts into real-world use
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Sveriges Riksbank
Sveriges Riksbank is one of the world‘s oldest bank, holds a close relationship with the Swedish
Parliament, internationally the European Union and International Monetary (Hanusch & Biermann,
2019). Riksbank is the central bank of Sweden since Sweden is increasingly becoming one of the
first cashless society they have been developing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) called "E-
krona". Traditional cash has been seen as a store of value rather than a means of commercial
exchange, the evolution of cash in Sweden is the digital currency the E-krona (Riksbank, 2020). In
the past, Sveriges Riksbank general council were members of the Swedish Parliament and which is
present today. Sveriges Riksbank provides safeguard financial stability to local and international
organisations (Hanusch & Biermann, 2019). In my opinion, new legislation for economic zones
would have to ban the use of stable coins (Not backed by Central Banks) because these technologies
occupy the same market and could pose a treat to the economic security of the economic zone.
Current stable coins are regulated, monitored and managed by organisations with an organisation's
strategic goals which could pose a conflict of interest for the general public use-cases.
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus share the 2018 Economic Sciences by Sveriges Riksbank. Paul
Romer research focuses on the demand for public intervention will be beneficial in creating
technological. Nordhaus research focuses on the significant costs of addressing global climate and
temperature change (Fremstad, Petach, & Tavani, 2019). Implementing Inflation Targeting (IFT) is
based on forecasts as the intermediate target of monetary policy that evolves with time. It is very
difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of MPC‘s, the impact and involvement of IFT in the economy
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(Szyszko & Rutkowska, 2019). Cash and sales circulation has drastically decreased, across the
country the private sector increasingly prefer card payment than cash payments. Technological
change, consumer behaviour and legislation circumstances and most importantly Swedish consumer
are confident and trust in being early adopters of technology (Riksbank, 2020). Multi Option
Payment System (MOP) is the different types of transaction methods through mobile, cash, internet
banking, debit or credit card payment and cheque (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). Total addressable
market (TAM) framework develops the technology that provides services that make NFC payment
possible, the wireless connection is from a bank account to another bank account (Putra, Fifilia, &
Juwitasary, 2018). Initially, the development of Industry 4.0 technologies would take years, human
resources, high risk and capital resources to develop (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Macroeconomic forecasts are based on economic climate, rates and assumptions which keep
changing with time. The central banks need to adjust the MPC following the economy (Szyszko &
Rutkowska, 2019). Sveriges Riksbank central bank would have to develop the technology,
legislation and framework for how the E-krona would be implemented from Commercial banks and
central banks. The E-krona would have to be a digital standardized unit of account and means of
exchange, accepted across the commercial banks. The E-krona would need to be counterfeit free and
in my opinion, it would use some kind of block-chain technology, similar to that used in crypto-
currency (Riksbank, 2020). Sveriges Riksbank credibility lies in its ability to implementation of IFT
tools especially in stronger disinflation and higher inflation volatility (Szyszko, 2017).
Sveriges Riksbank also carries out high interdependences of inflation expectations and inflation
forecasts on its citizens. Sveriges Riksbank uses IFT, implementation and verification, these tools
include the importance of inflation forecasts, the decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC),
inflation forecast results, decision timing and decision justification (Szyszko, 2017). When trading
traditional stokes, bonds or crypto-currencies, they are particular terminologies for how markets
behave, the main terms are Bullish or bearish. Bullish is a term for the market who believes the value
is going up and bearish believed the market is going down (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020). The
comparative analysis of previous records helps in plotting a forecast, including all operations in
inflation and targeting framework. Sveriges Riksbank is one of the most experienced tackling
inflation they use comparative analysis, Implementing Inflation Targeting (IFT) and forecasting
inflation (Szyszko, 2017).
European Central Bank (ECB) launched Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) this infrastructure
service facilitate in real-time monetary transactions goods and service in the European Economic
Zone. From a central bank perspective, mobile payment system improves the circulation of money in
the country. The Eurosystem single currency makes cross border transactions real-time and across all
platforms. The ECB promotes third-party developers to develop fintech services that integrate their
TIPS payment solutions (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). Inflation forecast can help Sveriges
Riksbank to create tools of managing expectations and develop a modern monetary policy. Sveriges
Riksbank continuously searches for tools that enhance their opportunity to influence and focuses on
inflation expectations (Szyszko, 2017). Sveriges Riksbank publishes their macroeconomic forecasts,
these data are used to create the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The macroeconomic forecasts
help other central banks and reduce transmission lags to other institutions and counties (Szyszko &
Rutkowska, 2019). Paul Romer and William Nordhaus share the 2018 Economic Sciences by
Sveriges Riksbank. Paul Romer research focuses on the demand for public intervention will be
beneficial in creating technological. Nordhaus research focuses on the significant costs of addressing
global climate and temperature change (Fremstad, Petach, & Tavani, 2019). Sveriges Riksbank
presents a detailed description of the macroeconomic forecasts and discloses the decision-making
process to the public. Sveriges Riksbank constantly has a forward-looking mind-set, the evidence is
in modern monetary theory. Which states the expectations of economic agents are the driving factor
in the transmission and mechanism of IFT (Szyszko & Rutkowska, 2019). E-krona uses block-chain
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technology is a digital ledger where digital currency, smart contracts, crypto-currency, goods or
services can be tracked with a high level of proficiency and security. Currently, there are no
decisions agreed on issuing an e-krona for commercial use (Riksbank, 2020).
Sveriges Riksbank has joined the European Central Bank (ECB) Real-Time Settlement Platform
called Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS). The Electronic payments mean the Krona can now
use the platform for instant payments in parallel to the Euro, this grants Sweden access into the
Eurosystem. Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) is an economic market infrastructure service
for the Eurozone Eurosystem, the Swedish Krona would use this instant payment service, called
‘RIX-INST‘. The European Central Bank (ECB) agreed for the Eurosystem because this increases
the potential market and strengthen the Eurozone. Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) was
originally designated for countries in the European Union (EU) that used Euro. Target Instant
Payment Settlement (TIPS was also designed to receive other fiat currencies, so the European Union
(EU) member states can be integrated into the Eurosystem framework. Sweden advanced economies
and monetary policies allow a smooth integration of instant payments, with a daily average of 1.5
million instant payments per day. The real-time settlement platform is a pivotal contribution to
Europe, the increasing demand for faster, cheaper and convenient payment services and high
security (Magnates, 2020).
Block-chain technology is gaining popularity in all economic sectors, relating to block-chain and
smart ledgers. Block-chain technology is becoming popular because of uses cases like
cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin for example (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Financial Technology also
known as fintech is designed to analyse market behaviour and to develop technology to be used in
financial practices and the finance sector. The financial sector services use platforms like Internet
banking, mobile banking, ATM, cash deposit machines, instant payment services, online trading in
stock markets, online funds transfers and wealth management. Fintech is creating new digital
financial tools with artificial intelligence, digitalisation, E-wallets, peer to peer lending, block-chain
technology is various Fintech products and services being developed (J.Katyayani &
Ch.Varalakshmi, 2019). In block-chain once a transaction is committed on a Block-chain , in order to
make any change one would have to change every transaction in the block from the beginning of the
system, this also requires users in the decentralised community to agree with it and an extreme
amounts of computing power (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Analysing Finance 1.0 and 2.0
securities prices can be done using three core frameworks which are the Efficient Markets
Hypothesis (EMH), Fractal Markets Hypothesis (FMH) and Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH).
Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) refers to the theory in the financial economics that mentions
asset prices reflect information available. Fractal Markets Hypothesis (FMH) is a dictates that
financial market tool, especially for the stock market by creating and following cyclical and
repeatable patterns. Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH) is merging economic theories based on
efficient market theories (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020).
Block-Chain
Fintech trends are looking into the user making a transaction with their mobiles and without the need
for a SIM card. Is the development of digital currency or current crypto-currency being the solution
(Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019)? The rise of cryptocurrency tokens as a new asset class has shaken
the global financial market. Cryptocurrencies openly and publicly tradable on crypto-exchanges,
central banks and European Central Bank ECB classify them as a new asset class. The ability to
make cross-border payments without government intervention affects all central banks in every
country. How do central bank‘s draft legislation on a decentralised asset class (Nadler & Guo,
2019)?
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Block-chain mining is when users allow computers in a network to perform a transaction on the
network. Miners are users connected to a network, these transactions are in blocks of nonce values to
achieve hash values in the network. This miner in the networks need high computation speed to
achieve and obtain the reward is given to miners after performing a transaction (Tanwar, Parekha, &
Evans, 2019). Crypto-currencies acts as a means of exchange and a store of value can be used to
purchase goods or services like fiat currencies. Crypto-currencies generally do not offer cash flow,
the underlying valuations depend on investment returns from the capital gains alone. Crypto-
currencies do not produce Crypto-currencies, profits are only obtained from one's investment
strategy (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020). Formless channels like the internet, with no governance of
any organization yet users, perform contemporary social transactions (Jasanoff, 2004). The underline
technology in Block-chain characteristics are Distributed ledger, Consensus mechanism, Provenance,
Immutability, Finality and Smart contract (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Scarcity or increased
use cases or investors not selling increase value and the market becomes Bullish. Fear, volatility,
instability and uncertainty impacting the market, the value drops making it bearish (Gurdgiev &
O‘Loughlin, 2020).
Distributed ledger refers to the transactions being joined to the distributed system network and the
ledger is available to users on the network (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Block-chain
technology uses a distributed decentralised network, containing transactions that are only updated or
added through the creation of new hash values. This makes the transactions secure because the
previous transactions cannot be modified. Each transaction is connected to the previous one, these
transactions, a bunch of transaction are grouped together in blocks and a bunch of blocks that are
connected is called a chain, hence the name ‗Block-chain ‘ (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
Bitcoin protocol launched on January 9, 2009, and block-chain technology underlying all
cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin remains the dominant cryptocurrency to date, in 2010 was USD$ 0.003 as
of 1st May 2020 1 Bitcoin equals USD$ 8 835.41 (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020). Bitcoin was the
first cryptocurrency using block-chain technologies because crypto-currency is volatile forecasting
methods like Vector Autoregressive (VAR) analysis has been proven Bitcoin transaction show
temporarily in higher returns. Traditional pricing financial models do not work on crypto-currency
asset class because the most crypto value is based on the demand and supply of the crypto-currency.
Bitcoin value rises when they are high demand and drops when the market is saturated (Nadler &
Guo, 2019).
Block-chain technology comprises various techniques and services, called Consensus Protocol, Hash
Cryptography, Immutable Ledger, Distributed P2P Networking, and mining (Tanwar, Parekha, &
Evans, 2019). Added robust block-chain technologies provide access, trust and security also promote
third parties development services to work in synchronization (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar,
2019). Block-chain is a database that can be stored and shared in a distributed ledger, this ledger is
trusted, unchallengeable and removing intermediaries. This database does not require centralized
storage and is transparent and decentralised (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Crypto-currency
investment does not follow the financial fundamentals, extreme volatility and big investors can alter
the valuation depending on their investment strategy (Gurdgiev & O‘Loughlin, 2020). The internet
grants millions of people information in diverse ways and a sense of belonging to social units such as
the family, community, organisation, region or nation (Jasanoff, 2004). A distributed P2P network is
when all transactions in the Block-chain is broadcast to users on the network, update and verify the
network database (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Security in the block-chain is the use of smart
contracts in the Block-chain , information transactions are exchanged autonomously. Inter-device
communication is possible with a high level of security (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Participants in crypto markets are pricing in risk factors determined by Bitcoin If the value of Bitcoin
rises other altcoins do the same (Nadler & Guo, 2019). Reliability in the block-chain is how
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integration is enabled, user‘s verification, authentication of a transaction with high levels of
accountability (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Immutable ledger, this is what makes block-chain great. All transactions are recorded in a block-
chain network, the ledger can be shared but it is impossible to modify or tamper with the transactions
because every transaction has a piece of a previous transaction and so on. Immutability refers to the
transaction records on the network, they cannot be modified or tampered providing a level of trust
and security (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Secure code deployment is the immutable ledger,
transactions are stored as nods and can be traced in the history or update. Provided a secure
framework for the update of IoT devices (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Block-chain
technology is transparency and is easy to accesses a ledger-based transaction over networks. Block-
chain networks connect multiple computers forming multiple nodes for the network, making the
network extremely fast and powerful (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
The integration of block-chain technology builds trust, reduce overall cost, accelerate transactions of
data and supply chain management efficiency. Build Trust, the use of a ledger in block-chain
technologies builds trust between users and devices, reducing risk, collision and tampering. Reduce
Cost and the removal of overheads while the increased speed of transferring value or information.
Accelerate transactions refers to the speed of transfer times of value or information from days to
make a Telegraphic Transfer (TT) with high fees, to near-instantaneous with virtually no fees
(Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). The core Block-chain based framework is called hyper
ledger fabric, and its sandbox (testing environment), called hyper ledger composer. They are used to
test and develop smart contracts algorithms to execute actions on pre-existing electronic systems
(Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). The consensus protocol is when particular users in the block-
chain network have individual access rights, the ability to grant transactions that are updated in the
system (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Autonomy is terminology in Block-chain , where devices
can interact with each other without any input of a user. Smart contracts can be programmed to work
automatically in the block-chain and IoT-based industrial applications (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, &
Kumar, 2019). Hash cryptography refers to when a block-chain uses Hashs for adding transactions.
Theses Hash algorithms features are one-way cryptography, deterministic, faster computation,
avalanche effect and must withstand collisions (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
Identity or universal is a term used in the block-chain where devices on the block-chain have
identification, authentication and authorization. The Identity of a device can be traced to location and
information about the device as well. Moreover, it can also provide a trusted means for
authentication and authorization of IoT devices (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). The
consensus mechanism is verified transactions on the network, users review the transaction on the
network and agree on the validity of the transactions. Provenance refers to the completion of the
block in the network or asset‘s history available on the network (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
The potential use for the case of smart contract in block-chain technology is a disruptive technology,
all sectors primary, secondary and tertiary industry can develop countless uses cases. All aspects of
the industry from raw material, research and development, automation production and distribution of
a good or service (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Internet Of Things (IoT) is the development of
centralized database systems connected online devices, client-server connected to cloud servers,
providing a network that is strong, reliable for different devices to communicate with seamlessly on
the Internet (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). A smart contract, this is when block-chain
use-case becomes apparent. Codes are created on the network, the computers and nodes execute
actions on a triggered event. The codes are automatically implemented very fast and with block-
chain data verification (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
The computer reshapes society by yet lacks the understanding of intersections like science and
knowledge with politics and culture (Jasanoff, 2004). IoT shares and communicates information
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between different devices, devices would need WIFI embedded sensors and sufficient network
coverage. To create this infrastructure massive robust IoT protocols, data transmission and
processing power at various stages have to be developed (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Smart contract in the Healthcare 4.0 era, healthcare providers have access to smart technologies
improved record management, tracking, decision-making process and utilization of insurance
agencies using block-chain technologies (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). The block-chain
network clinical data information about the patient IDs will not contain personal information and
transactions will be used in the immutable ledger. The block-chain technologies can be designed to
integrate Electronic Health Record (EHR) sharing system, configurations for the block transaction.
The network can share symmetric keys and private keys enabling HER systems to distribute
transaction in the block-chain network. The Block-chain -based sharing algorithms with EHR system
will have access to create a medical record, access to a clinician, access to the lab records, revoke
access, access to the lab database and inventory (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
Apply Healthcare 4.0 in the healthcare industry can be done in stages. The first stage, connection
block-chain to all clinical data like Patient ID‘s and records stored in the existing health IT systems.
The block-chain system using smart contract will use the clinical data in the transactions of the
network. Healthcare 4.0 and the use case of a smart contract led to improved management tasks like
medical records, insurance billing, enabling permanent access to a secure database and providing a
distributed database of transactions (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Business process
management (BPM) systems it is the driving engine for Industry 4.0 to digitize, automate business
processes and increase efficiency, effectiveness and profits. A use case would be to implement
automation in BPM systems using block-chain systems (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Healthcare 4.0 use of block-chain infrastructure would provide a digital database that increases
access to patient medical records, device tracking, prescription databases, clinician, lab database,
administration systems and hospital assets. Ability to access to patients medical histories instantly is
essential, correctly prescribe medication with the advent of block-chain technologies in the
healthcare services framework (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). Internet Of Things (IoT) is the
development of centralized database systems connected online devices, client-server connected to
cloud servers, providing a network that is strong, reliable for different devices to communicate with
seamlessly on the Internet. IoT shares and communicates information between different devices,
devices would need WIFI embedded sensors and sufficient network coverage. To create this
infrastructure massive robust IoT protocols, data transmission and processing power at various stages
have to be developed (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). The next wave in digitalization
would be introducing block-chain computer technologies in the design process of digital services
(Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019).
Sparbanken Rekarne Mobile Application, Instant Payments, PSD2, SEPA, Virtual Account
Decentralized applications (DApps) are applications that do not need a central server to work, are
available online which two types of technologies needed IoT and block-chain (Mistry, Tanwar,
Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Swedbank offers a mobile application that increases features as mobiles
become ever powerful. NFC offers contactless payments with one‘s mobile. The new feature like
biometrics certification for login the application and confirming payments with a fingerprint or face
ID. A widget on the home screen of a mobile showing one‘s account balance without logging in
(Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). 5G high-speed connectivity on IoT devices using block-chain
applications possess challenges, Device to device communication, scalability, interoperability is not
in development (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Offers users a mobile application for their
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bank services, developing the software is capital intensive, so they used their strategic partner
Swedbank (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Near-field communication (NFC) is a technology of
connecting devices wireless but within a short distance (4 cm), the technology was developed to
facilitate instant payment. Typical payments with a credit or debit of a good or service can be made
with mobile with an NFC chip (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Block-chain -based industrial
applications like 5G-enabled IoT use case industry for application are in development in Smart City,
Smart Home, Healthcare 4.0, Industry 4.0, Fintech, Agriculture, Autonomous vehicles and Supply
chain management (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Mobile Payment System (MOPS) co-
developed with financial institutes and mobile companies enabled the provision of automated
payments without the need to handle cash, bank cards or other payment methods. Limitations are
new updates to the system often need customers to replace the SIM card or handsets (Obaid, Bayram,
& Saleh, 2019).
The banking application grants the user access to accounts and cards pay and transfer keeps track of
expenses, loan, save and place money in funds, pension, purchase mobile credit, messages, Help and
contact (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Phone manufacturers like Apple, Google, and Samsung
invested in developing mobile payments services, entering into the fintech services. The
diversification of goods and services resulted in products like Google Wallet, Apple Pay, and
Samsung Pay (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). The mobile bank application interface is logically
layout, simple, practical and functional, using the corporate colours (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). Banks have developed a mobile application that connects one's bank account offering a digital
wallet (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Bank security is provided by login into account with
BankID. BankID is an electronic identification offered to people living in Sweden, this digital
solution acts as a proof of identity (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Point-Of-Sale (POS) is a
modern cash register for business, with the adoption of the Pin Pad system mobile and cards
payments are instant and reliable (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). Allowing users services offered
by the country, benefits like social services provided by government authorities (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). Fifth Generation Wireless Technology (5G) enabled mobiles connected to the
Internet Of Things (IoT) with the framework system of block-chain technology is a technology that
would allow us to enter the age of information. Block-chain technology is entering different
industries, sectors like industrial automation, smart city, Smart Home, Healthcare 4.0, Smart
Agriculture, Financial technology, Autonomous vehicles and Supply chain management (Mistry,
Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Microfinancing is the services of targeting individuals or businesses who lack access to conventional
banking services. Fintech mobile services can open a digital bank account connected to a phone
number provides low-income individuals access to some financial services. This disruptive payments
service is popular in third world economies systems that would make such services accessible to a
large consumer‘s base. Users have to open accounts in a bank institution connect the account via a
mobile application to conduct Real-Time Person-to-Person (RT P2P) transactions. Bank accounts are
dependent on one‘s telephone number, customers have to operate accounts that are different from
ones managed by their banks, replenish the account is done either by cash deposits or credit cards. In
Kenya, Vodafone network developed M-PESA a mobile phone-based financial transfer tool (Obaid,
Bayram, & Saleh, 2019).
Constant innovation is the driving force that develops new service for the users, services like the
personalization of bank card, connect bank card to the mobile device, scan invoices, track finances,
manage savings and keep track of subscriptions connected to the bank account (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020). All financial institutions have a revenue-sharing agreement with mobile payment
companies, from every cash transaction made on mobile phones a percentage of the profit is given to
the mobile payment companies. Since they develop the hardware for these services to be used,
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profits are used to maintain the mobile payments infrastructure (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019).
NFC not only brings payment integration seamless, opening the doors for mobile applications
developers in the financial industry (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Instant Payments was
industrialized by the European Banking Authority (EBA) implements and delegates regulatory
complex standards for the organisations in the European Economic Zone (Bank, 2020).
NFC mobile payment systems offer a higher level of security and protect sensitive data and for
cryptographic processing, the payment systems permit money to be sent digitally from the payer‘s
bank to the payee‘s bank (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Instant payment makes cross-border
payments immediate and with most stores offering NFC in-store payments at retail outlets, the
transaction is fast and safe (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Fintech services include P2P, C2B,
and B2B transactions, microfinance services, and mobile banking. Consumer-to-business (C2B) is a
business model when consumers a product or service form businesses. Peer-to-peer (P2P) digital
assets or workloads are shared via a computer network. The distributed application is divided among
peers. Popular in the decentralised crypto-currency industry. Business-to-business (B2B) is a
situation where one business customer is another business, the commercial transaction is done
between them (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). Managing information between regulatory
authorities and provide services of payment institutions like PSD2 and Instant Payments (Bank,
2020). NFC technologies and Instant payment create additional opportunities for organisations,
developers and entrepreneur‘s new business perspectives, mobile technical hurdles and new services
can be developed in this place (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018). Instant Payment is a progression
from electronic payment, electronic payment can take as long as a business day to complete. Instant
payment solutions were available in the European Economic Zone in November 2017 (Bank, 2020).
The rapid adoption of mobile phones using microfinancing financial services is revolutionized the
financial sector and consumer adoption is high because of the level of trust, user-friendliness,
security, perceived usefulness, cost, and mobility (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019).
Instant Payments would make it possible for money to be transferred within seconds 365 days a year
(Bank, 2020). The rapid adoption of mobile phones using microfinancing financial services is
revolutionized the financial sector and consumer adoption is high because of the level of trust, user-
friendliness, security, perceived usefulness, cost, and mobility (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019).
Instant Payments, the user can send and receive electronic payments in euro anytime and anywhere,
making payments via mobile phone (Bank, 2020). In e-commerce benefits the most, instant
payments remove risks of payment by synchronised payment and the order purchase. In business-to-
business, instant payments speeds up cash flow, manage funds and reduce late payments (Bank,
2020). To make this a reality, EBA agreed on a common set of rules, regulations and standardised
features for instant payments, called the SEPA (Bank, 2020). The Monetary Policy Committee
(MPC) publishes the macroeconomic forecasts, once the central banks use the forecasts to implement
Inflation Forecast Targeting (IFT). Publishing macroeconomic forecasts is the best way to manage
forward-looking monetary policy (Szyszko & Rutkowska, 2019). PSD2 officially called ‗Directive
(EU) 2015/2366 (Payment Service Directive 2 — PSD 2)‘. Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) are
laws and regulation passed by the European Parliament, applied on the 12 January 2016 and
incorporate it into European Union law on the 13 January 2018 (Commission, Payment services
(PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). Fintech main challenge after passing government
regulation is market adoption and market penetration of these services. Smartphone technologies also
limit the innovation process, service can only be developed on the hardware available to the
population (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019).
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) make it possible for users to make euro payments to anyone in
Europe, the transaction could be direct debit, debit card or bank transfer (Bank, 2020). Single Euro
Payments Area (SEPA) is a platform agreement for cashless euro payments by credit transfer, direct
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debit anywhere in the European Union Zone (Commission, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA),
2020). PSD2 is an electronic service enabling cash to be deposited, withdrawn, transfers of funds,
direct debits, credit transfers and card payments to an account. PSD2 is a further development of
PSD1 with a greater integrated internal market for electronic payments within the European Union
(Commission, Payment services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). Communication
network directly connects banks to customer‘s mobiles, achieving a high level of security without
sacrificing to quality and efficiency of banking services (Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). PSD2
offers comprehensive rules as payment services, services like international payments, an efficient,
secure and legal platform for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) (Commission, Payment
services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). Central banks implement inflation targeting
base on their macroeconomic forecasts, the forecast makes monetary policies are aimed to be future-
proof and creates a positive outlook for the future (Szyszko & Rutkowska, 2019). SEPA was
introduced for credit and direct debits implemented in 2014 for the European Economic Zone and
2016 in non-euro SEPA countries (Commission, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), 2020). SEPA
integration has contributed to the efficiency, competitiveness and cash flow of European economies.
Eradicating cross-border payments, harmonising and creating a standardization agreement
(Commission, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), 2020).
European Banking Authority (EBA) is the key develops of the PSD2, they ensure the accessibility of
the central register of authorised payment institutions for the European Union (Commission,
Payment services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). Commercial banks are delivering
services like digital banking services are available to the customers 24hours 7days a week, this
technology is called fintech services. So the time saving, less time taking and 24*7avalibality of the
fintech services positively influencing the customer perceived opinion towards the adoption of fin
technology (J.Katyayani & Ch.Varalakshmi, 2019). The European Central Bank (ECB) and the
European Commission created the legal framework for SEPA on the Cross-border payments
regulation, Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the Interchange Fee Regulation (Commission,
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), 2020). SEPA was designed to be a payments industry with
validation of national governments, European Commission, Euro economic system and regional
authorities (Commission, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), 2020).PSD2 is a secure e-payment
system that is scalable and expands the financial service ecosystem of the European Union and
European Economic Area (Commission, Payment services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366,
2020).
As SEPA non-cash euro payments introduced the euro as the single currency for the European Zone,
consists of 36 European countries, including countries which are not part of the European Union
(Commission, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), 2020). Improve the existing EU rules for
electronic payments, providing the legal framework for innovation on the internet and mobile
payments. Settings rules that ensure equal terms, greater efficiency, harmonised payments, more
transparency of payment services, strengthening consumer confidence and trust (Commission,
Payment services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020).
Decentralization and Scalability refer to the shift from centralized to decentralized can networks, this
eliminates any single points of failure and prevents oligarchy of resources (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, &
Kumar, 2019). PSD2 grants the private sector room for creating innovative payment services in
the European Economic Area. PSD2 covers payment service, strong demands for authentications and
opens central and commercial banks data to 3rd
parties (private sector). Value-chain data accessible
like Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (ASPSP), Payment Initiation Service Provider
(PISP), Account Information Service Provider (AISP) and Access to Accounts (XS2A)
(Commission, Payment services (PSD 2) - Directive (EU) 2015/2366, 2020). Block-chain
technologies will revolutionize and integration IoT network protocols, increasing trust reliability and
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traceability between device sharing platforms. Where sensitive information is being exchanged from
multiple devices connected to the IoT. To make this a reality we need to identify the key challenges,
Decentralization and Scalability, Identity, Autonomy, Security and Reliability (Mistry, Tanwar,
Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Other factors of fintech services are Perceived expenditure is the level, Ease
Of Time, Perceived Level Of Risk, Service quality, Frequent Usage Of Automated Tools, Socio-
Cultural Factors, Perceived Trust and Perceived Usability And Convenience To Use. Perceived
expenditure is the level of which a user assumed a cost of operating a technology tool. Ease Of Time
refers to the level at which less time will be taken to perform an activity by utilising the system.
Perceived Level Of Risk is the negative influence the user's experiences when adoption of fintech
(Financial technologies). Service quality denotes the user-perceived superior quality experiences
when using a fintech service. Frequent Usage Of Automated Tools measures the level of the
frequency the user experience using a particular tool. Socio-Cultural Factors, how society perceives a
fintech service based on cultural factors of the users. Perceived trust means what level of confidence
users have when using a specific system. Perceived Usability And Convenience To Use how a user
can belief a specific system can enhance the individual‘s performance (J.Katyayani &
Ch.Varalakshmi, 2019).
Virtual Account is a modern service offered by banks, it‘s a cost-effective solution in automating
income and outgoing transactions within a centralised business account. Streamline the business cash
management bottlenecks regardless of the size of the organisation (Cashfac, 2020). Virtual Account
Management (VAM) are platforms for businesses to manage their cash flows using virtual cash. This
allows the users to carry out operations professionally, providing a single viewpoint of their cash
flows. Management liquidity, payments and receivables, virtual cash inflows and outflows and client
money management. Increasing transparency, control and usability while reducing costs and manual
processes (Cashfac, 2020). Fintech possesses as disruptive technology the adoption of digital
innovation, governmental regulations are in place to promote transparency and industry competition
(Obaid, Bayram, & Saleh, 2019). This service is attached to a bank account and reflects all payment
settings, manage the durations, amounts, dates of all payments based on business needs. The user can
organise, manage and customise multiple virtual accounts attached to a centralised organisation‘s
account. Creating virtual accounts gives the user the flexibility of managing revenue streams in a
centralised platform. Makes it possible for organisations to segregate, identify funds, resource
allocation in a proficient way of cash management (Cashfac, 2020).
II. Customer Survey
This Customer Survey based on the Market Trends Analysis and the co-development with Stefan and
his team, the survey helps reduce risk by showing us the target market knowledge about financial
trends and what services they are satisfied with and unsatisfied (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The main purpose of a Customer Survey is to gather data about specific market behaviour and
business manager can build platforms to gain critical information about their consumer's patterns.
This customer‘s data is an evaluation tool to aid the decision-making process of a project to be
developed, the data can prove if the market is ready for the good or service (Merriam & Tisdell,
2016). Division of Labour is when the researchers divide the workload between researchers and
practitioners in the research process. The separation of efforts in yet keeping values intact, to be
critical, development of new theories and knowledge production. Importance of active management
support and employee participation is important for the successful establishment of interactive
research projects (Ellström, 2008). Leadership evaluation core themes, which are the leadership of
the organisation, human resource management, structure of the organisation, knowledge in
leadership, knowledge management and work well-being and leadership of self (Fonsén &
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Soukainen, 2019). The design and content of the Customer Survey were based on interactive
research topics. Taking these topics and gathering data and refining the data. Using lean principals in
all aspects of the early-evaluation tool. The lean adoption for the Customer Survey was developing a
few open questions, closed questions with scales (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The
researchers need to emphasize clear the division of labour, set parameters based on practitioners
based on different interests, responsibilities and proficiencies (Ellström, 2008). Customer Survey is a
good barometer in determining the tractability of a project being developed. Understand customer
inclination in purchasing particular goods and services, projects can be developed to satisfy their
needs and desires (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). In interactive researcher approach is towards a co-
operative learning process, researcher and the participants develop ideas during the research process
(Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). A Customer Survey shows the researcher what customers will
spend on certain goods, the amount, the use case, features, upcoming features and thoughts about
competitor‘s products (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social Research,
2007) .What methods would need to research and developed when gathering data of the target
group? Qualitative and quantitative data from the target groups need to be conducted. But what
methods and techniques to increase interest from these target groups (Jessica Hagen-Zanker, 2013)?
Is pinnacle for any form of data recording, for the questions that are being developed have a
connection with market trend research (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Risk management is an evaluation tool used for decision-makers to understand the scope of the risk
the project would undertake. Risk assessment incubuses documents evaluate, application of
resources, financial variables in the project and financial overheads. Prioritization of calculated risks,
minimize problems based on data, monitor stages in the project, controlling probability and impact of
desired outcomes (Ardian & Kumral, 2019). Goods and services can be enhancing, identifying what
the consumer would want for a product, these changes can be added during a mid-cycle refresh
(Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). The questions are simplified questions of complex information from the
finds from meetings with Stefan, systematic literature review and qualitative data collected. The
questioner being developed would be sent directly to customers mobiles. Sparbanken Rekarne uses
Swedbank mobile application and the questioner would be sent a wide range of customer with
different ages and genders (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Emphasize the importance of a clear
division of labour, practitioners based on their different interests, responsibilities and competencies
(Ellström, 2008).
Timely feedback, addresses communications gaps, on-going documentation, sharing quarterly
reports and updating project progress (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). The
questioner is a collaboration with Stefan, based on the ‗Market Trends Analysis‘. The questions
would be targeted to different kinds of customers, once the questioner has been drafted in Swedish,
the questioner can be sent to individual‘s customers via mobile (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
A Customer Survey improving and, analyse customer satisfaction levels, perception of the good,
perception of the market and a clientele database can be used for future products or monitoring
customer behaviours in time (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Performing
diversity convergent, divergent methods in an open complexity and cohesion discussions and.
Sustainable leadership performs restraint and renewal of an organisations resources. Cultivate talent,
maintain the legacy of the organisation and contribute to the organisation's history (Fonsén &
Soukainen, 2019). The questions would be open questions about the bank's website, levels of
satisfaction, usability and functionality (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). What future service
they would like to be available to them? Question about applying for grants and the clarity of the
information provided? Questions about offering the website and documentation in different
languages. The differences from researchers and practitioners may roots in cultural, language,
tradition, religion and education respectively (Ellström, 2008). Lastly, questions directed to
immigrates and second-generation Swedes. Using a satisfaction scale is a measurable tool would
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allow the researcher to take qualitative data and decode the findings faster and more accurate
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Make knowledgeable business decisions needs to defend by
qualitative and quantitative data, data gathered, Customer Surveys, evaluating surveys and building
instrumental theories about the market (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Performing simulation for risk assessment is vital because uncertainties cannot be fully eradicated
(Ardian & Kumral, 2019). The questions might insight the customers in believing they are
developing this technology (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). This market knowledge greatly
reduces any risks involved in making significant business decisions (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Customer Survey).
The answers from the survey are then used to identify a common thread, the majority of agreeing to a
problem would signify a concept project. A concept project that could be developed, this is an
innovation, from market trends to concept project with customer feedback.
Fig 5. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Customer Survey) (Mugisha, 2020).
Survey Scales
Interactive research was implemented in drafting the survey, a mixture of directed open and closed
questions, doing this because the financial world is complex, simplifying the questions so
participants with different walks of life can contribute to the survey. The type of questions in the
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customer survey is a mixture of Likert Scales/ Semantic differential scales, Dichotomous and
Qualitative Open Questions. The questioner begins with easy filed semantic differential scales/
Likert Scales questions, incrementally increasing complexity only in the subject matter. Then
Dichotomous closed questions these questions are all quantitative questions and easier for the
researcher to develop consensus understandings. Last questions are open questions, this allows
participants to truly express themselves and their experiences with the organisation. This might be
difficult for the researcher to decode but it is vital information to develop substantial results for this
stage of the early-stage evaluation tool. More scales questions were used in the customer survey to
be lean in the coding process. This increases efficiency for the decoding process, providing a lean
questioner for both researcher and participant (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Likert and Semantic Differential Scales
Semantic differential scales very similar to Likert scales, they both use bipolar expressions and a
scale connecting both feelings. These questions can be designed to analysed can generate ordinal,
ratio, correlation, dispersion, mean, the spearman's role and trends of the organisation. The
questioner can also be decoded into the cross-tabulation analysis, a test of independence, regression
or ordinal regression (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). A Likert scales survey usual attributes including
information about the organisations and projects feasibility, accessibility, tangibles and sustainability
(Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Semantic differential scales measure results, easier decoding process
that digests quantitative data about satisfied to dissatisfied about a product or service. Semantic
differential scales are a great source of insight into measuring the attitudes of customers, but many
variables can play a quixotic comparison (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). When measuring
professionalism in the workspace, the Likert scales measure competences, skills, interpersonal
relationships, leadership management, processes, outcomes, work characteristics and relationship
with core, primary and secondary stakeholders (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Developing Semantic
differential scales and questions commonly involved in researcher involvement with participants. It
is most scales and numeric rating approach in survey research and important terms is often used
interchangeable data (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Likert scales evaluation‘s, measure performance in
specific attributes, representing crisp value from 0-9 (1 – 8 for the early-stage evaluation tool). The
flexible fuzzy numeric measurements for the survey are; 1 – Extremely easy, 2 – Easy, 3 – Feasible,
4 – Manageable, 5 – Challenging, 6 – Difficult, 7 – Extremely Difficult and 8 – Virtually Impossible
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The flexible fuzzy number-based evaluation carries all the
information needed for the scale based evaluation (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Likert scales
and Semantic differential scales are an accessible way to crunch quantitative data, into visualization
like excel documents, pie charts, graphs that illustrate advice for the making decision (Merriam &
Tisdell, 2016). Likert scale based evaluations purpose is to assess specific product or service
attributes more reliably, a tool measure quantitative data. Likert scale evaluation inherent
uncertainty, subjectivity and vagueness when evaluating data. Participants subjectiveness is needed
to express their judgement and opinions (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019). Semantic differential scales
values are generally satisfied and dissatisfied opposites because all participants experiences can not
be put into two forms of expression (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and
Social Research, 2007).
Decision-makers using Likert scale evaluation aim to facilitate effective and develop efficient
strategies related to the development of a product or service quality. Measured qualitative data that is
used to bring clarity and improvements by identifying which project‘s features require more
consideration or development (Madhavan Devadas, 2019). Semantic differential scales use a numeric
variable that defines a qualitative experience in a quantitative format (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
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Likert scale based evaluations involve stakeholders in the role of evaluators, using only crisp
numeric values that present their perceptions related to specific project‘s attributes (Tóth, Jónás, &
Dénes, 2019). Semantic differential scales are directed specific questions so the participant
understands the questions and mark in the number that correlates to the individual‘s
experience (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Likert scale fuzzy rating scale can model the imprecision of
participants collective thinking, vital in the decision-making process. The rating evaluations tool
continuously formalise a mathematical precise. This function is the basses in developing the
mathematical computations with them. Likert scales can be used to evaluate an organisations
strategy, organisations business relationship, project‘s, measure internal or external relationship,
attributes about a project or either being an internal or an external customer (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes,
2019). Semantic differential scales adopts indexes that measure different types of variables of
experience for internal use, project, product or service. These variables need to be defined and clear
so there is no interference with variables that are directly-measured (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Dichotomous
Dichotomous questions are usually closed questions, leaving generally two opposite replies or
answers. These bipolar answers are tools used by researchers in analysing participants reaction to a
closed question or statement. Researchers use these easy question structure to not overwell the
participant's concentration. Dichotomous two-point scale presents options generally opposite each
other. Participants response in using the scale have to choose and conclude their opinions, not
allowing the participant to be neutral to the question. The dichotomous measurement scale gathers
quantitative answer are usually Yes or No or True or ―False‖ about questions concerning an
organisation. For the survey, 3 point scales were used, Yes, Maybe and No, more numeric ratings
gave more accurate data for the researcher to conclude. This qualitative data easily identifies areas of
a pre-project that participants have knowledge about or experiences of a product or service (Merriam
& Tisdell, 2016).
Qualitative Open Questions
Qualitative open questions usually start with when, who, what or how? Forces the participant to
think and write down in their own words their experiences or feeling about a service. Open
questions at the end allow participants to create a substantive subjective opinion. Participants can
provide information to the reacher at great length and substance for the researcher. Question
structure, organisation and provocation are very important when drafting a blend of quantitative and
qualitative questions that relate to the market research and systematic literature review
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Open questions challenge the customer, makes them pay
attention, changes the mindset of the customer. Placing these open questions at the end was my
approach, the participant had gone though the questioner and if he or she needed questions any of the
information above it would be possible. The participant has the opportunity to voice a positive or
negative in the services provided by Sparbanken Rekarnes services. The participant could also
suggest new services that could lead to a concept project for the early-stage evaluation tool
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
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Participants and Customer Survey
Customer Journey Map is a tool of documenting that layers down each step a customer takes when
using products or services. This documents interaction of the customer and representatives, face to
face or online. A Customer Journey Map helps facilitate a dialogue between organizations
stakeholder and end-user. This open dialogue solidifies and strengthens Customer Resource
Management (CRM). The Journey Map can identify gaps in the customer's experience that can lead
to developing concept projects (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). When
the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions came into effect of the whole country it was impossible in
making face-face interviews when drafting a Customer Journey Map or Customer Persona
(Government Offices of Sweden, 2020).
Participants selected for the survey where existing customers at Sparbanken Rekarne. Initially
developing the survey for a focus group of about 20 participants but discussions with Stefan I soon
realized in order to get roughly 20 results from a survey we need to cast a bigger net. Stefan has
worked with questioners at Sparbanken Rekarne for many years (benefits of interactive research) so I
agreed with the new direction. Stefan team created an online survey in order to reach the larger
diverse customers. By using Sparbanken Rekarne Customer Resource Management (CRM) software.
1 000 participants were chosen with different ages and 50% split with genders. Increasing the
participants to reach out to fill in the questioner, knowing more than 50% would probably not be
interested in filling in the online survey. But because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the
questioner could not be sent on time (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Stefan, team members
and I spent roughly 3 weeks in refining the questions because the questions where sensitive and
could be misinterpreted for actual projects. We went back and forth in selecting questions for the
Customer Survey. Initially having 21 questions then reducing them to 15 questions, the survey was
to be sent to 1 000 individuals, ranging from different ages and genders. The gender was designated
50/50, and ages ranged from 20 – 60 years old. The survey software used to develop the survey for
online use is called is Netgate (Netigate, 2020). The questions I generated based on the Market
Trends Analysis (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The participation design process begins from
idea generation, the moment of decision then people can become co-designers (Sanders & Stappers,
2008).
Because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, they were many delays in releasing the
questioner to the 1000 participants (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). The fixable timetable
could not be applied, the questioner was already a month and a half late and further delays would
affect all stage of the development of the early-stage evaluation tool. Erik, Stefan and I agreed
validating the tool would not be possible. Interactive research and systematic literature review would
the tools set in developing the evaluation tool. The results would be used to develop a concept
project and customer‘s feedback would be used in arranging concept protest from favourite to least
favourable for the development team. Applying Agile interactive reseach management ‗The show
must go on‘, development of the evaluation tool would take centre stage (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The results were finally received on the 2020.06.01, the survey was posted online from 2020.04.28 –
2020.05.19 and 42 participants filled in the customer survey powered by Netigate (out 1000
participants) (Netigate, 2020). 14 questions were finalised (Convenience Sampling) presented with a
mixture of closed questions and few open questions in the survey. The participant's answers are
anonymous and will be used as a basis for suggestions on how Sparbanken Rekarne can be better in
the future (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). The questionnaire below has the questions and table
results from the 42 anonymous participants.
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How satisfied are you overall with Sparbanken Rekarne?
How satisfied are you with Sparbanken Rekarne's personal service? (If you have not visited any of
Sparbanken Rekarne's offices, choose the Don't Know option).
0
2 2
0
2
4 3
12
4
13
1. Not
Happy
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Very
Happy
8
0 0
2
0
2
0
5
10
6
9
Do not
know
1. Not
Happy
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Very
Happy
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What do you think of Sparbanken Rekarnes website? (If you have not visited Sparbanken Rekarne's
website, choose the Don't know option).
What do you think of Sparbanken Rekarnes mobile app? (If you have not used Sparbanken Rekarnes
mobile app, select the Don't know option).
4
1
0 0
4
3
4
5
6
5
10
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Do not
know
1. Not
Happy
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Very
Happy
10
1
0 0 0 0
4
2
6
8
11
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Do not
know
1. Not
Happy
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Very
Happy
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In the questions below, answer Yes or No. If you do not know or do not want to answer, do not know
/ do not want to answer.
Would you mind if Sparbanken Rekarne markets itself in languages other than Swedish?
Have you heard of the term blockchain technology?
Do you think Sparbanken Rekarne should develop blockchain technology for internal banking use?
0
32
10
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
7
30
5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
4
0
36
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
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Have you heard of crypto-currency?
Do you think Sparbanken Rekarne should develop an e-wallet for cryptocurrency that customers can
use?
Have you heard of E-krona?
34
3 3
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
9
15 16
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
10
26
4
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
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Sparbanken Rekarne sponsors several activities in Eskilstuna and Strängnäs and has announced this
in daily newspapers. Have you seen or heard of any of Sparbankens Rekarnes ads or sponsored
activities?
Have you seen ads from Sparbanken Rekarne in social media?
Have you seen ads or sponsorship from Sparbanken Rekarne in connection with sporting events or
other social events?
19
17
3
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
Nej
14
18
6
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
20
13
5
0
5
10
15
20
25
Yes Don't know / Don't want to
answer
No
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Answer the question with your own words.
What current services do you think Sparbanken Rekarne should improve or develop?
Grouping to Sports
Activities
(Interview Transcript)
Grouping to Application
Development
(Interview Transcript)
Grouping To Website
Development
(Interview Transcript)
Grouping to Service
(Interview Transcript)
Not Useful Ideas
(Interview Transcript)
Sponsor Lindén hockey
The mobile app
Hmmm not on anything. Well in the app you can
see autogiro as well
That you risk being
logged out if you are inactive for five minutes.
Simpler Savings Accounts with good
payout
Internet service works
poorly, slowly and has
malfunctions (bugs)
Personal service
Development of Cryptocurrency
Self-service business works poorly with
personal service as it used to
Paying invoices and setting up recipients is
complicated. Feels
awkward. Likewise that ends amount on Swish.
Do not know
Do not know
Do not know
Do not know
Do not know
Do not know
Do not know.
?
Nothing.
is satisfied as it is
I am satisfied
In what context? Do not know
Interest rebate
Answer the question
with your own words.
Will not come up with
anything
What services do you want Sparbanken Rekarne to offer you as a customer in the future?
Grouping to Service
(Interview Transcript)
Not Useful Ideas
(Interview Transcript)
Cryptocurrency trading
Notice of how my money is doing
Free bank cards and free exchange rates
Better mortgage rates and more telephone contacts with service
Wider product selection on alternative placements
Borrow offer if you for example bill build that they titrate on it o offer to
tex. Now you can raise the loan
Cash handling
Do not know
Do not know
-
.
Do not know
Cash
Like today
No
Same as now
Future great services
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I miss no service at this time
Are happy as it is!
Oh yeah no idea
I am satisfied with the range that is available.
Beyond what i have today? - do not know
Customer Survey Empirical Results
The first twelve questions were closed and analysing quantitative answered was focusing on the
mean (average) results to develop theories into concept projects. Getting customer feedback when
developing concept ideas is very important in the decision-making process.There is a general
majority satisfaction for Sparbanken Rekarne as a whole and high satisfaction with the bank services.
Majority of customers are pleased with Sparbanken Rekarnes website and mobile application user
experience. For Sparbanken Rekarne to use other languages other than Swedish, the majority were in
the middle. The majority of the participants have not heard of blockchain and don't want the bank to
develop block-chain for internal use. But the majority has heard of crypto-currency. A lack of
understanding of crypto-currency, the underlining technology of crypto-currency is block-chain
technology. The participants do not want Sparbanken Rekarne to develop an e-wallet for the
customers. The majority of customers are not aware of Sweden Central bank developing the E-Krona
which is set to be Sweden digital currency in the future. Sparbanken Rekarne makes daily
newspapers announcements and the majority of the customers have seen the announcements yet in
social media the majority was in the middle. The majority have seen advertisements of Sparbanken
Rekarne in connection to sporting and social events (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The last two questions where open qualitative. Firstly the survey results were translated from
Swedish to English using Google Translator (Google LLC, 2020). The key is to be subjective and to
not tamper with participants answers in the Interview Transcript. The qualitative data analysis is
primarily inductive and comparative when reviewing qualitative research. Getting customer
involvement is extremely important, this is commonly used in ‗Customer Journey Mapps‘ where the
customer decides which projects are developed. This early-stage evaluation tool takes into account
the option for customers to voice their opinions if the development team identifies many customers
request a service to be developed or improved this could potentially become a concept pre-
project. The coding technique was to see if they are any ideas to develop concept projects since most
customers are not specialist in the Fintech space most of the ideas to be developed into concept
projects wherefrom the ‗Market Trend Analysis. The process of Mining Data was done using the
inductive and comparative methodology (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Grouping ideas into; Sports
Activities, Application Development, Website Development, Service and Not Useful Ideas.
Questionnaire Results into Concept Project
The development team would then analyze the data and decide which ideas from the customer
survey would be developed into concept projects. For example;
1. Develop Social media ads for Sparbanken Rekarne.
2. Redesign Sparbanken Rekarnes website.
3. Sparbanken Rekarne should develop block-chain technology for internal banking use.
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III. Octagon Analysis
Hexagon Analysis was co-developed by Arthur Tumushime and Annika Thunberg in the course
‗INO402 INL2.1 Creative Process In Action‘ in 2019. Annika Thunberg as a business owner had
insight into the decision-making process of an organisation. The Octagon Analysis was based on a
Hexagonal Analysis workshop during the course. The Hexagon Analysis is an evaluation tool to be
used by the development team, upper management or decision-makers. We modified it based on
what we understood are the key pillars of a project. Later noticing the evaluation properties of this
tool, I decided to use this as a base in developing for the early-stage evaluation tool (Mugisha &
Thunberg, 2019).
As mention earlier in the master‘s thesis, Hexagon Analysis had pitfalls and shortcomings, mainly
information coming on was insufficient and tool relied too much on researcher first-hand knowledge.
The tool was decided to look at critical aspects of a project and not the total design process of a good
or service being developed and the total risks that can occur in a project. The tool was a light early-
stage evaluation tool that needed to be developed for any real-world use case (Mugisha & Thunberg,
2019). Human development of science and technology are fundamentally human achievements
(Jasanoff, 2004). Implementing risk assessments require quantifying correlations between uncertain
variables like interest rates and loan rate (Ardian & Kumral, 2019). When performing the Octagon
Analysis, the development needs to form a workshop setting, this environment would promote open
discussions of placing numeric values on the measurements. The Octagon Analysis measures
concept projects, that where identified form the ‘ Customer Survey‘.Octagon Analysis is based on
the Hexagon Analysis innovative tool that validating the feasibility of a project, early in the
development stage. The tool gives a glimpse in the projects practicality, future use, implementation
difficulties for the market. Octagon Analysis gives an insight even into the anticipation of a
successes project early in the inspiration phase, before time, manpower and capital investment.
Octagon Analysis uses measurable in eight core pillars, these pillars validate the feasibility of any
type of project based on the organisation resources (Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). The Octagon
Analysis brings clarity in aspects about a project, mitigating risks and provides data in creating a
design process, strategic development, resource allocation and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for
the project in the project plan phase (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). In interaction research, the learning
process with stakeholders, the defining and the instrument changes in the research process using
databases and involvement of stakeholders (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). The evaluating the
tool gives insight about different aspects of the project and areas of the project that need more time,
capital or manpower. Octagon Analysis measures the difficulty of execution of a major aspect of a
project depending on the organisation's constraints. For example evaluation criteria and tools of
Generalized Linear Regression (GLS) are variables of Industrial value-added, Market share, Ratio of
gross capital formation, Ratio of labour utilized in value-added production, Ratio of Foreign direct
investment inflow, value-added exports and Value-added Imports Consumer Price index (Imran,
HuSen, Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). Interactive research focuses on the acquisition of
practical research rather than theoretical knowledge (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Ideally,
the individuals using the Octagon Analysis would be members of specific or high knowledge about a
department, using their previous skills, knowledge, experiences with the organisation to determine
the most credible measurement of eight categories.
For Sparbanken Rekarne it is rare they produce projects from inception. The parent organisation
Swedbank usually creates products or services then Sparbanken Rekarne customises the projects for
the customer base (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). When developing a project, the complexity
of the product needs is understood, then understanding the time scale of the project. Defining how
much the project will cost or setting budgets, the design process is done with sustainability in all
processes. Drafting the means of implementation is the next step, defining the steps taken to reach
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the desired outcomes. Next is Marketability, understanding the hurdles need to launch the product or
service, developing advertisements for the product to reach customers interests. Digitalization,
depending on the product or service, this is part of the complexity of the product or service, with
block-chain technology being implemented in Finance 2.0 and Industry 4.0, what technologies are
being implemented for the project? Lastly, is distribution and logistics, how is the product or service
going to physically get to your customers? Is there a middleman, a warehouse company between the
organisation and the direct consumer? Or is it online and service can be sent directly to the consumer
(Merriam & Tisdell, 2016)?
Octagon Analysis and Likert Scales Values
The Likert scales values, rating‘s and metrics were co-developed with Stefan Öhman, examples
where used in the scale that reflect the organisation's ability to manage projects based on previous
and ongoing projects at Sparbanken Rekarne (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Likert scales
evaluation‘s, measure performance in specific attributes, representing crisp values from 1 – 8 for the
early-stage evaluation tool. The flexible fuzzy numeric measurements of difficulty or probability of
achieving an aspect of the concept project. The universal numeric values are; 1 – Extremely easy, 2 –
Easy, 3 – Feasible, 4 – Manageable, 5 – Challenging, 6 – Difficult, 7 – Extremely Difficult and 8 –
Virtually Impossible. The eight steps need to appraise concept projects to be carried out in a linear
sequential order, which are;
1. Complexity of Project
2. Sustainability
3. Implementation
4. Marketability
5. Digitalization
6. Distribution Logistics
7. Timescale
8. Total Cost (Mugisha, 2020).
Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation
The inspiration to visualise the ‘Octagon Analysis‘ came to form the previous ‘Hexagon Analysis‘
(Mugisha & Thunberg, 2019). A simple visualisation showcase all information, numeric quantitative
data concerning other aspects of the project.Tweaks of increasing the seven metrics to eight as well
as changing the values and scales metrics. Another inspiration for developing the charts came from ‘
Recovered plastic and demolition waste blends as railway capping materials‘ (Arul Arulrajaha,
2020). The ability to visualise complex data like varying amounts of pressure in numeric quantitative
data was inspirational (Arulrajaha, Naeinia, Mohammadiniaa, Horpibulsukb, & Leong, 2020). In the
visualization, they are two examples of pre-projects with different measurements. The disruptive pre-
project has an overall high in complexity compared to the incremental pre-project. The disruptive
project channel is channel 8 because the channel is classified according to the highest value. In the
incremental pre-project, the channel is 2 for stage 4 of the early-stage evaluation tool (Mugisha,
Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation, 2020).
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Fig 6. Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Mugisha, Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation,
2020).
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Octagon Analysis).
The next step is using the Octagon Analysis to investigate the feasibility and complexity of these
multiple concept projects. The research has to ability to evaluate the complexity of each project in
detail. Identifying any underlining possible problem areas and issues surrounding the development of
a project.
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Fig 7. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Octagon Analysis) (Mugisha, 2020).
Complexity of Project
At the beginning of the product development process, robust design activities can be adopted in the
design process as long as it meets the requirements (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). The
conglomerate assembly line processes have, design verification tests, of specific parts tested
according to set guidelines, this ensures design qualification (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
Product development focuses on reduced time for development, integrating the value chain,
reduction of complexity and digital transformation (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). The ever-tightening of
requirements and increased Complexity of Projects development leads developers to use newer
methods and technology. The design focus to be robust, last long and more straightforward in the
final product (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). The assembly line process in complex products
takes planning connects throughout the manufacturing process, translating product design
information in multiple assembly integration sequences (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Every
industry has regulations for the manufacture, these regulations increase requirements of the product
but also insure a market is present (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz,
2019). System interdependencies can be concluded in two areas, physical and functional
interdependence. Physical integration is the most commonly developed characteristic in major
systems assembly. Functional integration mentioned is the different power sources and information
flows between complex product systems (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Complexities of system
processes of large quantity, connect physical components and from the functional interdependencies
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between systems (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Product developing recommendations for actions
to approach an acknowledged challenge, contexts need to be addressed and the potentials for
manufacturers (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
High-level complex products lead to the further development of complexity and difficulty in product
design and manufacturing (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Classifying design approaches allows
the development team to consider other variations during the product development process (Goetz,
Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). In complex production large numbers of engineering designs can
contrast in results, this low-efficiency manufacturing process of large projects at the final assembly
stage needs further development (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). The robust design process is also
implemented in developing a robust product design. Robust theories and methods are integrated into
the early stages of the product development process (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Design
activities of complex systems make the assembly process difficult, the planning challenging and
integration has increased (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). These megatrends drive innovation,
increasing performance, efficiency, decreasing technicality, financial risks, increasing the system
value of wind power, shortening the time to market, reducing environmental and societal impacts
(Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). When integrating Systems Engineering (SE) implementation framework,
Requirement, Functional, Logical and Physical (RFLP) and Computer Aid Design (CAD) and assists
development managers in product complexities (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Primary
stakeholder involvement in project evaluations face difficulties identifying goals, cross disciplines. A
wide range of stakeholders with different focuses, and sometimes contradicting needs (Mitchella,
Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). Assembly line tests at certain stages in the overall
integration process reduce risks and faults by checking and verify the installation quality. The system
integration process is the interactive process of installations and tests procedures (Lia, Lockettb, &
Lawson, 2020).
Understanding the manufactures restraints like regulations and logistical pressures, allows the
organisation to develop a complex product that is profitable and meets customers‘ demands (Wiener
& Nicoleit, 2019). The development approach of considering variations in the early phases leads to
using the right technologies and methods in the design process (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Sympathetic users and the contexts of users, the exploration, use of technologic like new materials
and evidence technologies (Sanders & Stappers, 2008). Relationship between the installation of
framework systems involves test in assembly and integration is linked in having cross-functioned
assembly functions (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Modern product development focuses on
delivering the integration of the value chain and digital transformation (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Managing the tolerances in the design process is the major challenge in the early stages (Goetz,
Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Complexity when developing the product or service during
development, did the developers need to research new methods, techniques and technology in
developing the product (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016)? The product structure of a complex system
represented hierarchically, Complex structures like aircraft manufacturing need extensive systems.
Uses top-level hierarchy of most structure, vehicle system, avionic system and mission system (Lia,
Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). The lack of concrete process tools means the integration of robust
design aspects into the product development process would not work (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack,
2019). Innovations like reducing time for development leads towards a reduction of the product life
cycle. The period in which a newer product generation can be developed and sold can be shortened
(Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
In a complex manufacturing special assembly system, cross-functions are emerging innovations that
merging the assembly line, installation, testing methods for physical and functional integration (Lia,
Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Knowledge production characteristics are a simplified argument
approach, knowledge generation within the context of the application, the major difference of
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process of application ‗pure science‘ and generated in theoretical/experimental environments
‗transferred‘ and knowledge is subsequently ‗managed‘ (Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). The
development towards a shorter product development increases competition and reduce all production
costs. This trend towards a reduction of the product life cycle allows the manufacturers to release
new products faster (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). But also to consider what was the ethics in the
development of the product? Was the work environment for the developed from all stakeholders
meet? Is the work environment hostile or too competitive? Did the stakeholders feel a sense of
inclusiveness in the organisation despite the gender or culture (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016)? Aircraft
systems integration in assembly line has complex designs and parts that becoming more integrated
with advanced functionalities results in rapid developing of technologies. Leads to an increase in
aircraft systems, functions and interconnectedness design (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) is the sequencing or precedence requirements in processes that
certain completed assembly tasks must precede other tasks. Product and Assembly Tree (PAT)
management tool to supports sequencing, architecture analysis and the integration of both systems
(Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). The challenge to reduce development times applies to all stages in
the design process and development, to produce new goods and services (Wiener & Nicoleit,
2019). Manufacture and commercialize of goods and services have agencies that determine the
ability for suppliers to ensure safety and efficacy of materials (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, &
García-Muñoz, 2019). The lack of concrete process tools means the integration of robust design
aspects into the product development process would not work (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
The product development time for a project that concerns offshore platforms takes long resources
therefore the importance is to reduce the overall cost (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Tripartite
Guidelines on product development are a set of regulatory filing document, stating early ideas,
identification and communication of the project (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz,
2019).
Reduction in the complexity of the product is done by standardization and individualization
possibilities in the product architecture of the design process (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Requirement, Functional, Logical and Physical (RFLP) requirements engineering, traceability,
Functional design, Logical design and Physical design development (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson,
2020). Critical Quality Attributes (CQA) is the expected probability for a product, stating the
specifications and general information (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz,
2019). The leverage in product development is the access by developers, specialists researching into
intellectual property and the development of a common basis of trust of the project (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019). Methods in the manufacturing process identify operational areas that comply with
defined constraints, using optimization techniques, explicit sampling of knowledge space
(Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz, 2019). Environmental Control System (ECS) in
the context of aircraft are technical components that facilitate air supply, thermal control and cabin
pressurization for the crew and passengers. Factory Functional Test (FFT) is used to ensure accuracy
within the system installation and functionalities (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
Involvement of the developer team, planners and direct customers adds value creation to the
manufacturers (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). They are mathematical formulation to measure the
problems in product complexity. The method requires running time models, testing cases, probability
mapping, costs, these costs are very high (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz,
2019). Product development includes design process evaluations, steps, activities, tasks
classification, conceptual design, preliminary design and detailed design (Goetz, Schleich, &
Wartzack, 2019). Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) set requirements and creates test activities
that shape the aircraft system development process (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Developers
then try to reduce the different models and variants for individual requirements as low as possible. ,
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The manufacturer upward pressure to meet the emerging product diversity with standards (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019). The focus of reducing the Complexity of Projects and shortening product
development and lifecycles, these are stringent quality management strategies (Goetz, Schleich, &
Wartzack, 2019). Design process ‗V‘ model is a conglomerate design process, the top-down
requirement decomposition and deployment activities, the bottom-up evidence qualification activities
towards their left counterparts at each aircraft, systems and subsystem at the equipment level (Lia,
Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Total Quality Management (TQM) consists of efforts of making a
permanent work climate where employees continuously innovate, increasing their abilities in
providing quality products and services to customers (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Modularization approaches also reduce product complexity, further reduce components¸ value chain
difficulty and create the optimal production process (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Six Sigma is a
method of providing organizations innovations that improve the capability of their business design
processes. Innovations that increase performance, decrease cost, delays, process issues. Focusing on
expanding profits, employee morale, and quality of projects (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Digital transformation is the task of identifying the current challenge with different potentials,
reducing distinction in short, medium and long-term (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Quality-driven
product development emphasizes robust design processes, tools, methods in the entire product
development process (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Digital transformation requires cautious
consideration in advance, requires a broad spectrum of technologies, capital, expertise‘s, reliable
partners and time (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Combining close linked concepts and parameters in the
design process, improves the development activities, robust design paradigm and timing of robust
design activities. Design changes in the early stages have high costs, inefficiency in the processes
that significantly contribute to the commercial development of products (Goetz, Schleich, &
Wartzack, 2019).
The Complexity of Projection of an aircraft‘s internal functions is functional models, simple
interactions of function hierarchy, Mechanical interaction flow, Power interaction flow and Function
hierarchy (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Establishing multi-companies in reducing product
development complexity needs networks to share big data. Communication during product
development should continuously, optimized by emerging compatibility of various tools,
methodologies and automation that corresponds in the design processes (Wiener & Nicoleit,
2019). Mechanical interaction flow apparatus is complex, the components are: store fuel, provide
engine feed pressure, feed tank fuel to the engine, and transfer fuel is arranged in a one-by-one serial
sequence. Power interaction flow is the electrical power from the external function distributes
electrical power. The aircraft‘s structural sections that link the engine feed, pressure feed fuel tank to
the engine and the wing section. Function hierarchy is the internal functions, the computing
mechanisms that manage fuel storage, providing engine feed pressure, feed tank fuel to engine and
transfer fuel (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020). Reduction in the complexity of the product is done by
standardization and individualization possibilities in the product architecture of the design process
(Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Data management requires definition at the beginning of product
development, setting the function-oriented tolerances, data models that break down the functional
requirements, specific design parameters, extension of top-down structures of relevant characteristics
that allow the mapping of interactions (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Process scale-up aims to
produce larger quantities of good with equivalent productivity, meeting the product requirements and
high quality (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020).
Did stakeholders have a positive work environment and where their contributions meet? Did the
stakeholders meet their responsibilities and goals for the complex project? Are there language
barriers when dealing with international al strategic partners? Where the conflicting moral decisions
made in the development process of the good or service (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016)? Data
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management links functional requirements and the final product design, comprising of relevant
concept information. Data management has an administrative process, includes acquiring, validating,
storing, protecting, processing required data, accessibility, reliability and reduced time to access data
(Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Reduction of production complexity is necessary to adapt
product and services into new regional market requirements. This increases the complexity of the
product because the product needs to comply with different markets (Wiener & Nicoleit,
2019). Data management approaches for the consideration of variations in the product development
process manage the development of robust products, numerous tools and methodologies (Goetz,
Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019). Interaction design offers service transformation, traditional and
emerging design. Transformation design is one of the emergent design disciplines but combines
participatory practices with user-centred methodology. The traditional design focuses on base visual
communication, volume, space, texture, colour, material, interior space design, product design,
information design and architecture planning. The emerging design focuses on the experience, the
design emotion, interacting, sustainability, serving and design for transforming (Sanders & Stappers,
2008). Data management administrates Big Data for organizations and enterprises, helping in the
hypothesis business decisions and gain deep insights into customer behaviour, trends and
opportunities for creating unexpected customer experiences (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Establishing multi-companies in reducing product development complexity needs networks to share
big data. Communication during product development should continuously, optimized by emerging
compatibility of various tools, methodologies and automation that corresponds in the design
processes (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
The structural bridge transforms the requirements from physical product data and fulfils the
integration for a real or virtual product. Computer Aid Design (CAD) models produce designs with
real-world use-cases, making the integration sequence feasible. Integrated CATIA V6 and CAD
connect the virtual model information into an assembly sequence process. Concurrent engineering
advantages of using integrated CATIA V6 CAD are the integrating of the design, assembly
information, life-cycle phases in an early development phase (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
Functional Key Characteristics (FKC) requirements are information on the product specification and
the function structure. The integrated method provides information about identifying relevant
functions and the associated. Functional Key Characteristics (FKC) requirements are the fictional
structure, relevant characteristics, selection of principle solutions, the structure of product concept
and preliminary design, testing tolerances, final product design (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
An appealing aspect of co-production is that it does not presuppose any a priori separations of the
world before, yet the world based on human imagination and labour. Society as we now know is no
less constructed by nature since it is the duality of one single stabilization. Science and technology
studies prove the insights into the co-production of natural and social order (Jasanoff, 2004).
Complexity Of Project Likert Scale
The complexity of the product or service is determined by the core and primary stakeholders, they
need to understand what skill and technology they need to develop the product, with a scale of 1 – 8.
Level 1, the difficulty of a project could just be copying the existing project‘s strategy, methodology
and theories. These projects are called ‘white label projects‘, these projects are discounted and any
organisation can use the project at a cost. All the work has already been done but an interested
organisation needs to pay and most often rebrands it to the organisations brand strategy.
Level 4, the difficulty for ‘Complexity Of Project‘ would be working on existing projects.
Sparbanken Rekarne budget strategy is to refine existing projects. Redeveloping ongoing projects for
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evaluation purposes that generate new insights. Re-developing previous project, the team already has
the skill and technical know-how with no interruptions and a few challenges. Most projects in
Sparbanken Rekarne are projects that are ongoing or seasonal (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are new data protection and privacy laws for the
European Union and the European Economic Area, also called ‘The General Data Protection
Regulation 2016/679‘ (Intersoft Consulting Services, 2020). Sparbanken Rekarne needs to comply
and revisiting previous projects and making sure they comply with the new General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR). New data protection laws, giving users control of their data. These new laws
make Customer Resource Management (CRM) more difficult, data bout customers privacy.
Organisations need to prove consent with all customers when uses the individual‘s account data.
They are potential penalties for uses customer‘s information without consent are massive.
Level 8, the difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne would be working on a new project other
organisations. It is difficult creating new projects because of the massive legislation for fintech
services. Sparbanken Rekarne would have to create multiple new permits and contracts for both
organisations. Another difficulty would be developing the right communications strategy,
methodologies and technologies for all stakeholders involved (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Sustainability
Sustainability in an organisation concerns inclination change of consumer behaviour (ethical
consumer), responsible for the organisation on society, profits and its environment (Canavari &
Coderoni, 2020). Sustainability in projects can be achieved by evaluating the feasibility of using
recycled materials in the manufacturing process (Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, &
Chynea, 2019). An organisation that takes the necessary sustainable approach to its managing or
production generally have higher costs. This effort is demanded by the consumer and the good or
service with CF labels encourages Willingness To Pay (WTP) (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020).
Consumption of energy in the manufacturing process should be designed to increase productivity,
performance in implementing economies of scale (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, &
Rymowicz, 2020).
Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCoE) is when competitive pressure decreases and total cost increases
on all participants in the industry (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Sustainable materials are becoming an
important initiative to develop safe and sustainable infrastructure, reduces the strain in supply chain
and consolidates manufacturing materials (Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, &
Chynea, 2019). Carbon Footprint (CF) sustainable labels are designed to convey to the consumer
methods the organisation took in implementing sustainability technologies. This tools supporting
consumer change consumption patterns and increases awareness (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020).
Improving the efficiency and sustainability of water treatment technologies is crucial, reducing
energy consumption and environmental pollution is the sustainability goal (Signorato, Morciano,
Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Carbon Footprint (CF) labels in practice indicate the
quantity of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) in grams that are emitted into the atmosphere. The
labels indicate the total carbon dioxide emissions throughout the life cycle of a product or service.
The total carbon dioxide emissions comprise of production, transport, transformation, distribution
and purchase (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020).
Sustainable business development could be described as a business decision-making philosophy,
focus on human-centred, economic, and environmental factors (Kealy, 2019). A techno-economic
analysis advanced on emission reduction is in the petrochemical sector. These emission reductions
comprise of long industrial chain, several sub-industries. They divided into petroleum, natural gas
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exploitation, petroleum refining, chemical raw materials and product manufacturing (Li, Wang, Xie,
& Zhu, 2020). New consumer shifting towards industries that practice more sustainable technologies
and methodologies. Organisations that create a virtuous cycle between producers and consumers
enabled by eco-friendly labelling (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020). Demand for sustainable construction
materials has increased, the recycled material can be used to facilities pavements for pedestrians and
non-motorized vehicle for sustainable cities (Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, &
Chynea, 2019). Providing clean water to remote parts of the world, required a simple low-cost
distillation device with low-grade thermal power (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, &
Asinari, 2020). The extra costs an organisation odes when adding more sustainable value to its good
or service comprises not only production but also transport cost, information about the manufacturer,
recyclable materials sourced, transformation, distribution, use and disposal, reducing Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) and reduction on environment indicator of the total amount of CO2 (Canavari &
Coderoni, 2020). Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) is a machine tool for organising energy
efficiency and financial cost (Cass, 2018). Energy can be provided by renewable energy sources like
wind or solar energy to drive multiple distillation processes, the by-product is no loss to the
environment. When analysing energy management theoretical evaluation models must be verified
like energetic analysis and thermodynamic frameworks (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano,
& Asinari, 2020). Sustainable and cost focus in the petroleum sector, waste-heat recovery
technologies is over-bottom pressure recovery advancement (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020).
Sustainable labels try to show to consumers the overall impact in standardised measurements of
carbon dioxide emissions (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020). Renewable energy as if wind farms,
developers and planners place pressure to the manufacturer by with the lowest LCoE (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019). Exergy Analysis is a framework where the maximum amount of valuable work that
can be obtained from a reversible procedure. Through a given system that reaches symmetry with a
specifically-defined environment. Exergy Analysis framework starts from an initial state, exergy
equation for an open system that can be developed (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, &
Asinari, 2020). Sustainable technologies and cost focus exploration into new materials technology,
that could increase the radiation intensity, reduce the thermal conductivity and regulate heat
generation (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Sustainable products are those products whose
characteristics with eco-labelling, production systems, environmental performance and sustainable
labels. This information encourages the customer to pay more for a good or service the Willingness
To Pay (WTP) (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020). The solar distillation device is a schematics and
passive multi-effect membrane distillation device. The distillation device depends on numerous
distillation stages using an evaporator and hydrophobic membrane. Discharges freshwater through a
protruding strip from the porous wick (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020).
Improving the performance distillation device reduces the efficient exploitation of low-temperature
thermal energy to drive several distillation processes. Providing equitable access to clean water is
essential to overcome social and economic inequalities. Improving the performance distillation
device reduces the efficient exploitation of low-temperature thermal energy to drive several
distillation processes. Providing equitable access to clean water is essential to overcome social and
economic inequalities (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Marketability
and sustainability in the energy sector aim towards emission reductions in response to climate change
(Cass, 2018). Passive energy driven by renewable solar thermal energy has advantages, inexpensive
materials and easily maintainable components. Harnessing solar thermal energy passive desalination
technologies, this technology provides water to the disadvantage of using renewable sustainable
technologies (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Sustainable is being an
awareness of the social, economic and environmental impact of the product or service the
organisation is developing. Aligning the consumers environmentally conscious and desires in the
business model allows the organisation to advances co-operate image (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
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Sustainable technologies and cost focus process optimization technology, optimized processes can
increase efficiency, energy recovery and energy conversion (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). The
concept of sustainability has deeply evolved from the primer environmentalist approach and now it
comprises, in its most widespread use, three different aspects: the economic, the environmental and
the social one (Canavari & Coderoni, 2020). Glycerol in the petroleum industry is generated from
biodiesel, thereby making it a sustainable renewable. Clean-burning fuel which can be used for
manufacturing or industrial purposes. In the fermentation process the fast adaptation of yeast and the
innovative fermenter designs. The fermentation time needs to be shortened to reduce the production
cost of the final product (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020).
Renewable Energies Law set in 2017 in Germany has driven the market into a cost-based
competition between the numerous manufacturers. Cost-based competition is facing declining
because of market volume and saturation. Market conditions and reaction affect direct customers and
manufacturers (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). In Waste To Energy (WTE) the heating value of solid fuel
is very important, the goals are to have smooth plant operations are fewer fluctuations in the power
generated and a well-maintained energy plant equipment (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, &
Binder, 2019). All renewable technologies focus on reducing energy consumption, minimizing
effects on the environment, carbon emissions and carbon footprint of desalination and renewable
energy systems (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Recycled Asphalt
Pavement (RAP) is a construction material that aggregates in alkali-activated concrete paver blocks
(Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). Levelized Cost of Electricity
(LCoE) is when competitive pressure decreases and total cost increases on all participants in the
industry (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Lower energy consumption in the manufacturing process
reduces the cost of the entire technology, scale-up production and scale-up is a fundamental factor of
process development (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020).
In techno-economic analysis products and services need a detailed framework of cost-effectiveness
and sensitivity in the production process (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, &
Rymowicz, 2020). Block-chain will make its greatest impact on Industry 4.0, making sustainable
manufacturing of full automation of industrial and business processes a reality (Mistry, Tanwar,
Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Sustainable technologies and cost focus circulate of the water system,
improve energy-saving technology (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Also reduce energy, overall cost,
manpower, waste and risk during the product life cycle. Social participation of the organisation
improves relation with the citizens and stakeholders (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Sustainable
technologies and cost focus intelligent system improve the methodologies of scheduling optimization
technology (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020).
Sustainable construction materials are the alternative to build future urban spaces (Hossineya,
Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). The sustainable economic contribution of an
organisation by participating in charitable events, especially sports, this contribution from the
organisation brings trust within the community. The organisation need to be aware of the
environmental impact, using or developing renewable materials, energy, technology, theories and
management methodologies (Kealy, 2019). Sustainable manufacturing also looks into technology to
reduce production waste, additive manufacturing methods Using digital designs and manufacturing
3D printing parts, reduces engineering costs, production times, labour. Additive manufacturing
allows developers to produce components that are lighter, durable, stronger, durable and complex
geometry (Fonsén & Soukainen, 2019). Sustainable technologies and cost focus new equipment can
improve the efficiency of heat transfer. The combustion can be regulated to the load of the
equipment devices (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Understanding thermodynamic performance and
sustainability of systems and processes is the key to developing a solar distillation device. Multi-
stage distillation device, that is powered by solar energy and operates autonomously and without
moving part or electromechanical auxiliary system for passive desalination (Signorato, Morciano,
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Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Lead users are individuals who explore innovative ways to
get things done, willing to test new methods and share approaches that work (Sanders & Stappers,
2008).
New Zealand planed an ambitious effort to plant one billion trees before 2028 as part of the Paris
Agreement targets for 2030 and 2050. In trying to set sustainable goals two distinct spatial modelling
frameworks are developed, Logistic Regressions and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The main
drivers of deforestation gain are erosion potential, distance from exotic forests, woody grasslands,
grassland productivity and slope (West, Mongea, Dowlinga, Wakelina, Richard T. Yaoa, & Payna,
2020). In a solar tdistillation the first evaporation stage absorbs solar thermal energy, the distillation
process in the sequential evaporators is powered. The enthalpy of condensation releases water from
the condenser above. The last-stage condenser discharges the enthalpy water of condensation
through a heat sink. The solar energy is converted to thermal energy, this generates a high
temperature that evaporators and condensers (Fresh drinkable water). This is the driving force of the
whole distillation process (Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). CO² data
models used in sustainable technologies and cost focus needs to be collected is Conserved Supply
Curve (CSC). The statistics data and accounting, impacts of CO² price, CO² emissions reduction cost
curve, CO² emissions reduction potential estimation (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Spatial logistic
regressions and an artificial neural network (ANN) are models developed in deciding on where to
plant the trees. The influences of spatially-explicit factors on afforestation are identified areas
currently unplanted. Classifying locations across the country with suitable conditions for the
establishment of new forests (West, Mongea, Dowlinga, Wakelina, Richard T. Yaoa, & Payna,
2020). Increasing forestry activities can offset greenhouse gas emissions to an estimate of 30% of the
annual emissions of the country. Forestry of a country has a database called Land Use and Carbon
Analysis System (LUCAS). This forestry information‘s data is about the environment, logistic
regressions, temperature, erosion potential, variables correlated with land-use change and
constructed, resolution maps and weather patterns (West, Mongea, Dowlinga, Wakelina, Richard T.
Yaoa, & Payna, 2020). Forestry modelling frameworks are used to examine the impact of spatially-
explicit drivers of afforestation, logistic regressions or binomial generalized linear models. Receiver
Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve is a graph that connections the logistic regression framework
to the evaluate of the Area Under the Curve (AUC) (West, Mongea, Dowlinga, Wakelina, Richard T.
Yaoa, & Payna, 2020).
Recycling of Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) has provided to be beneficial from both an
economic and environmental perspective of the paving industry. Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP)
is used in recyclable construction materials, milled from existing deteriorated bituminous pavement
structure (Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). United Nations (UN)
Conference on the Human Environment acknowledged Sustainable development (SD) as one of their
priorities (Kealy, 2019). The study of Autonomous Intelligent Robot Agen (AIRA), shows a
manufacturing use case, how an economy would benefit from an autonomous manufacturing robot,
data from this interaction benefits human-agent and agent-agent (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar,
2019). Control Volumes (CV) is used for the exergy analysis model, this measures the passive
distillation process. Liquid Gap Membrane Distillation (LGMD) this system is driven by a solar heat
source. Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) is a unit powered by a generic non-solar heat
source, these configurations distil both the original water and the improved version in multiple stages
(Signorato, Morciano, Bergamasco, Fasano, & Asinari, 2020). Renewable energy sources like wind
and hydroelectric generators clean energy cost and reduce CO2 emissions (Kealy, 2019). Sustainable
leadership looks into the unsustainable change and practice of work. Monitoring stress, exhaustion,
restricted innovation and lethargic attitude. Sustainable leadership focuses on seven ethical principles
of sustainability, the depth, Learning and Integrity of individuals involved. The duration of
Endurance and Succession of participants. The breadth ability for participates to understand the
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distribution and not a delegation of tasks. For participates to understand others and ourselves diverse
complexity and cohesion. For participants to be resourcefulness in showing restraint and renewal
with tasks given. Sustainable leadership looks into the conservation methods, the historic and legacy
of traditional theories and contemporary innovation (Fonsén & Soukainen, 2019).
Power Quality validates the quantity of kWh electrical energy in units produced also examines the
quality of the power produced (Kealy, 2019). These tasks are labour inductive, a good waste
management skill and multiple waste managing options have to be considered and developed
(Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). Managing waste as a source for
recycled materials has become the alternative use-case of the present time. Effective utilizing waste
material can generate building or manufacturing material for different sectors of society (Hossineya,
Sepuria, Mohana, R, Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). Recovered Plastic (RP) this rubbish is
collected, mixed into various types of waste plastics then demolished, the process is called recycled
concrete aggregates (RCA). Data were collected utilizing recycled materials including construction
and demolition (Cand D) materials, stress natural resources, breakage, geotechnical characteristics,
compressibility and sustainable eliminates the need for quarries and reduce environmental impact.
Another benefit is energy can be extracted from the recycling process, the by-product is building
material as retaining walls and geo-synthetic reinforced structures (Arulrajaha, Naeinia,
Mohammadiniaa, Horpibulsukb, & Leong, 2020). Raw materials used for the production of
AARCPB (recycle brick) construction material included Fly Ash (FLA), Ground Granulated Blast
Furnace Slag (GGBS), Natural Coarse Aggregate (NCA), Natural Fine Aggregate (NFA), Coarse
Recycled Asphalt Aggregate (CRAA) and Fine Recycled Asphalt Aggregate (FRAA). These
materials are mixed because they have properties used for the preparation of the recycle material.
When developing the AARCPB recycle brick one need to consider the chemical composition of raw
materials, properties of natural, recycled aggregates, slump and unit weight, water absorption,
compressive strength, abrasion resistance and cost of materials. AARCPB (recycle brick) has been
proven to create environmental benefits by reducing dependence on cement and depletion in
quarries. From an environmental perspective reduced disturbance of wildlife habitats, natural
ecosystem and noise pollution due to blasting operations (Hossineya, Sepuria, Mohana, R,
Govindarajua, & Chynea, 2019). Sustainable leadership, the ability of a leader to learning and
integrate innovation, affecting decision machines and idea generation. The ability for leaders to
engage team members, exercise endurance in achieving success or creating succession in the
organisation. The distribution of roles and tasks, assigning responsibility and accountability yet also
being the judge of the results (Fonsén & Soukainen, 2019).
Sustainability Likert Scale
In the financial industry, they are many different regulations and make innovation difficult to
implement. It's not always the case Sparbanken Rekarne organisation goals align with the United
Nations Agenda 2030. Since new project development is not possible (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020).
Level 1, difficulty relates to sustainable projects, instead of printing a document and requesting a
‘wet signature‘. Sending documents online and members mobile BankID signature
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). BankID Sweden citizen identification solution that allows
individuals to approve of transactions or to prove identity. It is a digital authenticate for banks and
governments agencies to identify an individual online or for online payments or mobile payments.
This electronic identification is a digital proof connecting citizens to organizations (Finansiell ID-
Teknik BID AB, 2020).
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Level 4, difficulty in sustainable projects relates to re-building office branches. Applying new
building techniques, renewable materials and low energy consuming technologies. Projects like
Valvet coworking and co-creation centrally in Eskilstuna, the use of natural light and robust
materials is a sustainable approach they used in the design (Valvet, 2020).
Level 8, difficulty Sparbanken Rekarne approach would be developing technique and technologies
for bank clients to generate a digital solution for mobile banking, like BankID signature version
(Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB, 2020). If Sparbanken Rekarne developed sustainable projects like
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and sustainable development. Environmental, Social
and Governance (ESG) integration is a sophisticated strategy when investors think of nonfinancial
risk factors in the investment process of a project. These sustainable projects help improve the
environment and quality of society. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) projects have high
risk and need increasingly demand and attention of core and primary stakeholders involvement. To
implement Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), it would have to be the central business
strategy, being exposed to lots of risks, faces brand and reputational damage and consumer backlash
for instances of human rights violations in its supply chain and investors need to have acted in the
best long-term interests of the organisation (UNEP Finance Initiative, 2016). A sustainable project
that focuses on Principles For Responsible Investment (PRI) are sustainable globals in the financial
system, this generates long-term value creation for investors and benefits the environment and
society simultaneously. The PRI projects work to achieve a sustainable global financial system,
collaboration with multiple partners encouraged to adopt principles and collaboration
implementation (UNEP Finance Initiative, 2016).
Implementation
Understanding the complexity of the project is different to implement the desired outcome. These are
a series of stages in developing the complexity to project/ they may include many stakeholders,
additive manufacturing, methodologies, manpower and new technology required (Merriam &
Tisdell, 2016). Implemented robust design and tolerances can occur at different stages of the product
development process (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
The cost pressure will continue in the medium-term product cycle because of global market
conditions of LCoE. Decreasing product development times are because of the shorter product life
cycle (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Standardization generates rules promise energy efficiency,
sustainability and instead of delivering a form of marketability that relies on over-specification
(Cass, 2018). Implementation identified potentials in digital transformation is in securing long-term
competitiveness (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Implementing computing technology should be
established to increase the ability of parallel computing networks and statistical analysis of modern
accounting data (Ting & Liu, 2020). Evaluation measurable was spatial ability measuring materials
and time spent on the experiment. The evaluation categories were constructed definitions, measuring
materials, input type, number of questions and time spent. Numeric dominations represented on a
scale in relation to others, from the highest possible score, mean and standard deviation. Standard
deviation is a statistical analysis that measures the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of
values. Evaluation subjects were grouped into 2D exploration, 3D exploration, 3D spatial richness,
appropriateness, materiality and colour. The tool measures the positive link between spatial
visualization, mental rotation, and creativity of spatial design (Cho & Young, 2020). Implementation
identified potentials in digital transformation is in securing long-term competitiveness (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019).
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Implementation of database analysis needs an open-access design of intelligent accounting data
analysis can be done by using an industrial cloud computing platform. Open Access Design provides
user access to big data remotely. Combined cloud computing technology and modern accounting
data analysis platform reduces the fuzzy confusion of data. The industrial cloud computing platform
shows the intelligent data analysis process and algorithm implementation. Cloud computing
implementation process of Open Access Design provides access to modern accounting
database. Implementation of Open Access Design needs Intelligent data analysis processing platform
that consists of an algorithm. These simulation results test the performance, efficiency,
accuracy, modern accounting data and speed of algorithms implementation of cloud computing and
statistical analysis.To improve Open Access Design processes of accounting for data analysis and
statistics. Industrial cloud computing technologies, methodologies and algorithm are need
constructing modern accounting data analysis platform. The time series model of the simulation
reviles the modern accounting data analysis is constructed, using block bit sequence and analytical
methodologies. The simulation results of the Open Access Design shows the intelligent data analysis
platform, the statistical analysis ability of accounting and the parallel computing efficiency higher
(Ting & Liu, 2020).
Open Access Design time series model investigation the modern accounting data analysis by using
the block bit sequence analysis method. The association rules are characterised by the quantity
account for the big data extraction. Open Access Design simulation results show intelligent data
analysis designed platforms make the implementation of statistical analysis ability faster and more
proficient (Ting & Liu, 2020). The validity of the measurement scale measured the interrater
reliability and intraclass correlation coefficient. Results from the evaluation suggested that particular
spatial strategies with individuals at different occupations levels stated spatial ability enhance their
spatial creativity (Cho & Young, 2020). Value and the process of value creation are changing from
product centred or firm-centric to user-centred and personalized experiences for the consumer
(Sanders & Stappers, 2008). Cloud computing implementation needs a big database reservoir in
providing qualitative and quantitative data. This big data steers business direction, customer
evaluation, the predictive effect for the future development of enterprises and other decisions (Ting
& Liu, 2020). Developmental purpose, evaluating the team's involvement in the translation and grant
proposal into a real-world. Creating a work plan that allows evolving leadership and flexibility of
concepts created (Mitchella, Israelb, Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). To solve the problem of
implementing the statistical analysis of modern accounting data in big data. Constructing a modern
accounting data analysis platform based on cloud computing technology is the industry trend, this
improves the ability of parallel computing, accessibility of data and statistical analysis of accounting
data (Ting & Liu, 2020). Evaluation tools to bring clarification and reduce the fuzzy relationship
between spatial ability, design performance and creativity (Cho & Young, 2020). Implementing
Exception Handling (EH) is the process of responding to a situation, during the computation,
exceptions of anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special processing. This special
requiring often disrupt the normal flow of program execution. Implementing Exception Handling
(EH) findings suggest the absence of explicit policies impacts negatively on the developers. The
perception and implementation of Exception Handling (EH) need policies in place for developers to
follow verification processes (Sousa, Maia, Rocha, & Viana, 2020).
The quality of Exception Handling (EH) code in software projects is directly affected. The absence,
lack of awareness, negligence of an explicit exception handling policy and guidelines. By observing
developers with low skills regarding Exception Handling (EH), They tend to have low knowledge
regarding the design and implementation of exception handling in the system. Lead developers tend
to develop system and on their own, they design and implement the Exception handling (EH) coding
without super version, guidelines or policies. The team‘s skills, knowledge, and perception about the
Exception handling (EH) reflect on the design process and product of design, implementation,
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importance, institution and in the project itself. Failures in the project are caused by empty handlers,
wrong actions in generic handlers, developers with comments suggesting the need for further
implementation and correction. A web-based system is a management system implemented in JEE
(Java Enterprise Edition) using a set of frameworks. The organisation Exception Handling (EH)
document including a broad scope of the institution resource management, stakeholders in the
organisation and academic data administration. This documentation manual provides information
about the organisation‘s, hierarchy of custom system exceptions, the use utility methods, the
notification to the development team, the final user, user exceptional and handle exceptions at the
business layer (Sousa, Maia, Rocha, & Viana, 2020).
A possible cause of adopting the documentation manual of practices, is the implementation of
specialised handlers, signalling of specific exceptions and the contributions of adequate development
of error recovery activity. Developers need to know what actions to implement in the documentation
manual. Information like implementation practices that make it difficult to understand the code and
(without specific handling actions) nested treatments. In large IT projects, they are many concerned
with finishing the code to be executed. Therefore implementation tasks and activities are mandatory
by the developers without thinking about the ideal recovery actions, rules and policies. Another issue
is the process that drives the code, the importing and exporting of data during the implementation of
new modules. During IT projects that are being edited in real-time, experts continually contribute
negatively to the workflow scenario. Their superior novices skills make them take short cuts and do
not adopt practices and tools. Policies and support need to be in place to better the development and
maintenance process of projects. A set of policies can be implemented to set quality control
measures, ensuring the finished service is suitable for direct customers (Sousa, Maia, Rocha, &
Viana, 2020)
These Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) make efficient use of an algorithm, they provide both
classical and efficient quantum implementations of data. Most of these quantum networks
perceptrons can implement any quantum channel and any input qudits. The output of a Quantum
Neural Networks (QNN) highlights structural specifications of information propagates from input to
output, this implements a quantum feed-forward neural network (Kerstin Beer, 2020). Quantum
Neural Networks (QNN) implementation extraordinary reduces the price, complexity and the need
for multiple evaluations of the network. When scaling up the performance, the trade-off is lots of
heat and noise. The terminology is called Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ). NISQ
architectures are when the superconducting of qubit devices are produced faster and more rapid. The
Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) architecture enables a reduction in the number of coherent qubits
that are required to store the intermediate states. Quasi Maximum Likelihood (QML) is a complex
algorithm and when applied on a Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) it performs an array of
capabilities. Abilities like, learning from data, sequencing composite estimates and statistical
modelling (Beer, Bondarenko, Farrelly, Osborne, Robert Salzmann, & Wolf, 2020). The formation
of assembly integration sequence is arranging pre-developed components installation and test each
part of the assembly process. These activities are part of the complex systems integration and the
verification process is the main assembly process systems (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
Implementation of this change needs a platform system like component standardization, resulting in
high quality within the product portfolio and economies of scale in production (Wiener & Nicoleit,
2019). Constitutive co-production is the mechanism by which massive hybrid networks constitute
their cognitive and material actualities into seemingly autonomous worlds of nature and culture
(Jasanoff, 2004).
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Implementation Likert Scale
Level 1, implementation difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne are projects have to need a small team to
implement. Similar to the prototype early-stage evaluation tool‘s second stage, releasing the
customer's questioner. A small team was needed in the development of the customer survey (will be
launched when the COVID-19 security levels reduce) (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020).
Level 4, implementation difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne are projects that need more stakeholders
in the development of the project. Projects with a wider scope like developing a new IT
infrastructure for Internal use-case. These projects with larger scopes increase the difficulty of
implementing all desired goals in the project. The more moving parts, individuals, technologies
increase the difficulty of implementation of desired outcomes. Projects that need co-development
with all 59 saving branches makes implementation difficult as well as internal politics
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Level 8, implementation difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne would be in developing a completely
new mobile banking solution, instead of using Swedbank application for there customers.
Developing a stand-alone mobile banking solution for Sparbanken Rekarne customers is a goal but
extremely difficult. The required high skill level, core and primary stakeholders involvement,
specific skill or software needs in the development, refining, testing, capital and time resources need
are beyond the scope for Sparbanken Rekarne. Highly convoluted and countless stages of
development, testing, servitization, passing legislation, permits and licences. Develop strategic
partners that permit mobile payments and cross border payments with users and user verification for
all customers (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Marketability
Marketability is concepts that determine whether a product in the region is able to be sold, the tools
are advertising, promotion, trend analysis data, deep analytics, integration, customer analysis,
competition analysis pricing and quality analysis (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Marketability expires
on themes, like an exploration of the main features of speculative product development and finish
through adherence to market standards. Marketability analysis speculative design for unknown
potential users, This speculative nature studies the developments of market standards and important
means of substituting for known user needs (Cass, 2018). Marketability refers to the difficulty of
marking sure your product gains the attention of your direct consumer. The time, effort and
campaign strategy used to make your product stand out in the market. Marketability is important for
a product in a saturated market, how early adopters react to your product, the product being reviewed
by specialists and how your target consumer responds to the product. Marketability there is an
importance of supply management and marketing activities, this tool allows the definition of the
product and access directly to the customer (Priatmoko, 2018). In speculative modes of development,
decoding data become particularly powerful in producing homogeneous designs stressing
marketability, flexibility, performance and quality. These characterize together are desirable for the
development of sustainable goals setting (Cass, 2018). Other economic evaluations parameters
measure the market share of the economy, industrial value-added, production of productivity, value-
added deflated by consumer price index and growth of labour productivity: value-added sector
(Imran, HuSen, Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). Due to the marketability rapid changes
in the development of a community-based tourism area (Priatmoko, 2018). Market trend analysis
allows comparison and interpretation in product development protection the participants of the
statements and opinions (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Total Addressable Market (TAM) or the
available market, reference the revenue prospect available for a good or service in a particular
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market. TAM aids prioritization for business opportunities by using metrics to determine the
underlying potential of a pre-project opportunity (Putra, Fifilia, & Juwitasary, 2018).
First world economies face global warming as the by-product of technological advancements.
Marketing strategy of sustainable goals provides new insight into why emission reductions.
Interviews and qualitative and quantitative data illustrates how to market standards, substitute for
user needs and ratchet up the provision of building services to maximize marketability competitively.
Marketability and sustainability are becoming intertwined, the UK‘s Climate Change Act‘s 2008
commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 80% from a 1990 baseline by
2050. This direction is ambitious to generate new technologies will market the sustainable attributes
to the consumer. British Council for Offices (BCO) have set guidance energy waste or Energy
Performance Certificates (EPC) and unsustainability and carbon emissions Building Research
Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). These standards rules force
companies and organisations to comply with delivering low-energy office buildings (Cass, 2018).
To present an apparent satisfaction of sustainability, quality, regulation and standards using Energy
performance contracting (EPC), Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment
Method (BREEAM) and British Council for Offices (BCO) (Cass, 2018). Directing marketing
communicates a message that highlights the appropriate and emphasizes the benefits of a product for
the target market, this data is critical for the success of marketing efforts (Priatmoko, 2018). Market
analytics functions as pricing signals that make smooth the operation an incentivized market for
‗green buildings‘. These green buildings attract the consumer in the promise of saving the
environment (Cass, 2018). Market volatility consists of very low turnover yield and comparatively
high costs (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020). The various
standards specification utilizes strategically by a constellation of stakeholders into producing goods
and services that are flexible, low-energy consumption that one might hope that they would deliver
(Cass, 2018). Organisation tries to implement new technologies to stay competitive and relevant in
the market, technologies like improved network system services and indicators in identifying
challenges for product development (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). The marketing analysis on green
buildings focuses on technical features, lighting, energy consumption, water consumption, and
practicality of the building (Cass, 2018). There are many issues associated with the product and
marketing use is a matter of major concern, marketing methods need to be customised depending on
the product, the scale, the market and the customer (Priatmoko, 2018).
Expertise in marketability have strategies that build knowledge of how to match inputs, parameters
and models to fulfil a marketable building‘s. The marketability of a particular market has demands
pressures imposed, like volatility, market frameworks, unique and distinctive attributes about the
product (Cass, 2018). As mentioned early a lean design approach in developing all aspects of the
early-stage evaluation tool, including marketability, focusing on specific marketing strategies and
market research tools (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). Market analysis
has shown to reflect on processes of advertising and the exploitation of potential secondary
stakeholders speculative market. To reconcile the underlying pursuit of increased profit (Cass, 2018).
Directing marketing communication messages to the consumer, it highlights the appropriate benefits
of the product. Addressing the appropriate target market may be ultimately critical for a fruitful of
marketing efforts (Priatmoko, 2018). Marketability aims to investigate consumer behaviour, patterns
and acceptability of goods or services using survey and sensory evaluation (Duah, Essuman,
Olympio, Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Market strategic action achieves both standards
compliance and ‗the wow factor‘, the two key ingredients of marketability and the most important
calculation of real value (Cass, 2018). Marketing is a social and managerial process that focuses on
individuals and groups in obtain desires, what they need and want. Marketability creates interest and
awareness of a product, this creating and exchanging of products gives value reciprocity with others
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(Priatmoko, 2018). Marketing strategies are developed by evaluating the effect of the competitors
offer, pricing, location, marketability and consumer acceptability (Duah, Essuman, Olympio,
Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Marketability of a product is driven by market priorities,
provision for marketability, market saturation, anticipating of services and potential consumers
(Cass, 2018). In exchange, the interrelationships become a common reference, characteristics like the
price, quality and value. Marketing strategy is a fundamental statement, giving digestible information
about a product. The results of a good marketing strategy are achieved in terms of demand for a
product in the specified target market (Priatmoko, 2018). The sustainable guidelines explicitly
contain the feasibility and flexibility of how to make building adjustments to diverse tenants. The
speculative model of development eliminates all possibility and instead forces market pressures for
flexibility and marketability (Cass, 2018).
Price of good or services is the key factor that influences most consumers‘ product choices.
Marketability is mainly decisively measured by the satisfactory levels of the consumer. The
customers experience with the good or service, quality, value, gratification levels, does it fulfil
requirements, total cost and reflections of the average consumer are the most important attribute
(Duah, Essuman, Olympio, Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Marketing strategies in tourism
need to pay attention to elements of attractions, amenities, accessibility, market segmentation, targets
and positioning. Organisations that implement marketing also use targeted media and integrate their
marketing communications, sending messages that are consistent with each target customer
(Priatmoko, 2018). The guidance in a marketing strategy is the collection of data that claims that
these calculative stakeholders have valuation have swayed and the expectations of the most
demanding market have begun to be applied (Cass, 2018). A profound product or service has to have
a great marketing strategy that investigates, availability, consumer acceptability, awareness, the
demand, trends, consumer behaviour, market share and market volatility (Duah, Essuman, Olympio,
Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Marketing developer team need to create a feeling of
‗something for nothing‘ by maximizing standardizing processes and promoting competitive
marketability (Cass, 2018).
Organisations that offering the right promotional incentives, marketing strategies, sales increase is
generated by repeat buying behaviours to their offerings. The role of social media in marketing is a
powerful tool, connecting directly to the customer on various platforms increases information
transfer to each customer (Priatmoko, 2018). Developing a specific analysis of marketing a
sustainable requirement process needs operation, specifications, realistic targets and a speculative
development market could be generalizable (Cass, 2018). Marketing strategies include interviewing
at some stage, questions about supplying, demand, price and sale in influencing marketability of a
product (Duah, Essuman, Olympio, Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). The rationales and effects
of the using market-based instruments focus analyses quality specifications and requirements of the
‗standards ‗intended to make the houses greener (Cass, 2018). Good marketing contains various
concepts and combines activities, these activities create conditions on how a thing can be sold and
targeted. In deploying a marketing strategy that has a dynamic situation and long-term (multi-year)
project condition, deep analysis of the market needs to plan for each sequential year (Priatmoko,
2018). Marketability of perishables products needs to making sure livestock or vegetation are well
fed and watered to avoid any incidents that might reduce market value. Marketing Analytical tools
measure Markets/Salespoint, sold per marketable week and niche market data (Duah, Essuman,
Olympio, Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Marketing strategies contain measurable that track
and monitor, the easy of the use-case, market pressures, consistent tools and reduces the subjectivity
in assessing and evaluating marketability and sustainability technologies (Priatmoko, 2018).
Marketing analytics reported that a shift in consumer preference, this shift has increased the demand
for local and unimproved livestock. During marketing anonymised, interviews data are the
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theoretical knowledge is built on. The data appears in parentheses in interviews are thematically
coding by researchers using NVivo qualitative analysis software (Cass, 2018).
During the marketing analysis key themes emerged, the processes through which compliance with
standards was achieved. The means of which the standards themselves function in the market, with
implications for energy demand (Cass, 2018). The new SWOT method based on marketability,
sustainability and participatory. SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat) is a research
methodology of strategic management. SWOT analysis is based on the logic to maximize strength
and opportunities while minimizing weaknesses and threats. SWOT used in Community-Based
Tourism (CBT) destinations project analyses the marketability, sustainability, participatory and
disaster mitigation for the development (Priatmoko, 2018). The four variables (Marketability,
Sustainability, Participatory, and Disaster Mitigation) needs to be made a tool that can help the local
governments and local communities to provide the most appropriate direction of tourism
development (Priatmoko, 2018). The use of NVivo software in the performance analytics
refinements are interpretive mode of analysis. The only possible familiarity with the dataset is the
selected themes for analysis proceedings, which are the basis on discussions with the whole
marketing research team (Cass, 2018). Thus, a need exists to maintain and improve local livestock to
meet higher demand. The marketing strategy should also focus on the potential of the indigenous
breeds. Marketing analytics strongly recommended conscious efforts in establishing and entering
niche markets and further commercialize of livestock nationally (Duah, Essuman, Olympio,
Akwetey, Gyimah, & Yeboah, 2018). Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment
Method (BREEAM) is a credits-based certification scheme for sustainability rather than energy
performance. The by-product is sustainability method like ‗Energy‘ in which buildings can score
assessment credits. Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method
(BREEAM) in the central market position is an indicator of sustainability. This does not mean that
the certification guarantees energy performance. Analyses how to implement multi-criteria
sustainability assessments that have been found not to guarantee energy performance (Cass, 2018).
Marketability Likert Scale
Level 1, Marketability difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne are projects like lunch events at Valvet or
events in hotels were investors with capital to diversify meet up and network with venture capitalists
and build business relationships.
Level 4, Marketability difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne would be to organise webinars, attracting a
diverse investor, a member at Sparbanken Rekarne and people with accounts at the bank. Making
sure schedules do not conflict, participants have the right software and hardware to attend the
meeting.
Level 8, Marketability difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne is to launch a new product to new
customers. Developing a new effective marketing strategy of a new project with a new consumer,
creating awareness and desire your project. This is a nearly impossible task because efforts would
need to be divided and synchronised. Resources, efforts, research and development need to be spent
in reach the target consumer, who is unaware of your product or service (Sparbanksstiftelsen
Rekarne, 2020).
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Digitalization
The 21st century is the digital era, where digitalization technologies allow organisations to easily
communicate, share in-depth information and knowledge through ever-evolving digital technologies
and tools (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). European Union (EU) increased concern
about the use of the socioeconomic potential of Information And Communications Technology (ICT)
on the European Economic Zone. How these technologies fuel economic growth and how to develop
devise set of comprehensive national policies to protect cultivate digitalisation use cases (Varró,
2019). European Union member countries have integrated digitalization, managing big data with
numerous dynamics indicators forming indexes and sub-indexes of cyber-physical and cybernetics
(Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Digitalization is viewed as a source of
future competitiveness in developed economies, its potential to unlocking new value creation and
revenue-generation opportunities is unprecedented (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
European Union (EU) concerns have arisen with regards to the ‗profound potential impacts of
digitalisation, will it foster further spatial concentration in Europe? Or will digitalisation promote
dispersal and poly-centricity economies or a mixture of both? European Union (EU) policies have
demonstrated insights that provided the framework of digitalisation, practical and spatial-political in
the workings. Digitalisation implementation in the context of a country has many challenges.
Minoring the extent of spatial dimension, the underline potential impact and the declared spatial
development at different scales (Varró, 2019). The profit from digitalization, providers opportunities
for all stakeholders, especially customers. Customers who have moved away from a transactional
product-centric model to relational service-oriented engagement with additional services
(Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Digitalization is technologies driven and notably in industrial automation in primary and secondary
manufacturing systems (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). The European
Union (EU) has developed the Digital Single Market as a key priority for boosting the economy
(Varró, 2019). European Union (EU) Digital policies are scalar-institutional power relations shaping
the practices of digitalisation. These policies help to critically evaluate digitalisation agendas. These
policies seek to create circumstances for new practices and spatialities (Varró, 2019). Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a branch of Digitalization. ICT increasingly transforms
economic activities and social interactions, placing digitalisation centre stage in policymaking in
countries for this stimulate economic growth (Varró, 2019). The European Union (EU)
competitiveness is oriented to develop different approaches that focus on the efficient use of funding,
productively, intersected with the pragmatism and the centralizing tendencies of the nation-state
(Varró, 2019). Cooperative digitalization centre usually has multiple organisation partners in some
cases direct competition, they invested time and resources and cooperated in expanding their know-
how of business processes. The co-operative digitalization centre share sensitive co-operate
information to get to know how their process works, identify knowledge gaps and areas to develop.
Digitalization experts are assigned to handle and manage big data, to clean and verify data in the
expectation of drawing some valuable market insights from the data. Co-operative digitalization
centre tries to enhance transparency in knowledge-sharing, the core feature of digitalization as an
enabler of servitization with organisations. Digitalization in manufacturing is the ability to collect
operational data in real-time of physical assets when monitoring performance (Kamalaldina, Lindea,
Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Digitization is developing various processes, evaluation and calculation tools. Using new
technologies like automation in manufacturing and maintenance in the design process (Wiener &
Nicoleit, 2019). Primary stakeholder in organisations uses leveraging of digitalization technologies
to drive continuous improvement. Digitalization framework recommends complementary
digitalization capabilities is the main catalyst for initiating servitization in organisation relationship,
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preserving and maintaining a relationship over time. Failing to adapt to digitalization and
servitization guaranties market share would drop over time, reduced profits, the relevance of product
or service in the market, customers feedback and product awareness. In digitalization identifies the
relationship components of provider and end customer, the importance of digital servitization,
complementary digitalization capabilities and relation-specific digital assets. Digitalization for
organisations enabled knowledge-sharing routines and partnership governance (Kamalaldina, Lindea,
Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Data analytics platform Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms is
Machine learning in artificial intelligence (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder, 2019).
Digitalisation implicate is understood using ‗spaces and places‘ and of how these should be
developed (Varró, 2019). Implementing digitalization is difficult for industries, it‘s a costly practice-
changing an organisations business model, digitalization implementation can bridge the gap with
leading in industries and competitors (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Integrating new product data requirements, function, physical design, system components are
integrated methods, installation guidelines and test processes (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson,
2020). Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) promotes the extensive adoption of
digital technologies to address numerous social, economic, environmental and policy challenges
(Varró, 2019). Servitization in digitalization is the creation of a digital service of offering different
digital products, provider-customer relationships engaged with a digital platform (Kamalaldina,
Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalization improves efficiency in the development process,
management, productivity and provides communication channels directly to customers (Tolkachev,
Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Data management is the link between the design
process and the approaches for consideration of variation. Data management parallels the
fundamental different concepts, taking into account variations throughout the transformation
requirements to the final product design (Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Servitization refers to the digitalization of services in all industries using their products to sell a
good, the outcome is a service attached to the good. Online and manufacturing businesses uses
servitization in connecting directly to consumers (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Cyberspace is the digital world of networks, a world of electronic information, data that connects big
databases of digitalisation, from socioeconomics, fintech, industry 4.0 and health care 4.0 (Varró,
2019). Developing a generalized digitalization index of manufacturing enterprises to assess the
digitalization level of the manufacturing industry 4.0 of the national economy as a multifaceted
complex socio-economic system (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). The
next-generation advanced in Industry 4.0 is additive manufacturing and automation, this will give a
business advantage in the competition of scale (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019).
Servitization in digitalization offers the customer the capabilities of interacting with digital asses,
relation-specific digital assets and digitally-enabled knowledge-sharing routines (Kamalaldina,
Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Using Industrial Internet Of Things (IIoT) technologies, the
sustainable approach of waste collection to Waste To Energy Plant (WTE) plants. In this sustainable
project the process of converting solid waste fuel, then fed into the Outotec Advanced Staged
Gasifier, were it is ignited to produce heat. This heat generated is used in steam production that
propels electric power generators (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). Data
models are used to guarantee traceability and consistency in the product development process
(Goetz, Schleich, & Wartzack, 2019).
Digitalization comprises of current online trends and areas of digital transformation of the primary,
secondary and tertiary manufacturing (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Servitization in digitalization offers a partnership in governance, this enables providers and
customers to profit from digital servitization (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digital
transformation is an inevitable technology, its legitimates has become a necessity of governments
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programme, institutions, organisations and individuals (Varró, 2019). The Foucauldian perspective is
useful in highlighting that knowledge of digitalisation, the power relations and policies appear to be
simple but are extremely technical (Varró, 2019). Digitalization has an emerging organisation
servitization, especially organisation that offer services of a business to business and business to
consumer servitization operations (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). CATIA V6 is a
complex digitalization tool for manufacturing CAD integrated software platform, used to implement
RFLP (Requirement, Functional, Logical and Physical) models. Linking product requirements to
functional models, logical models and lastly 3D assembly models (Lia, Lockettb, & Lawson, 2020).
When developing digitalization, the socio-economic system needs to identify specific features of
domestic and international experiences of neo-industrial development (Tolkachev, Bykov,
Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Organisations need to realize the progress and issues when
implementing servitization in the digitalization industry (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida,
2020). Digital start-up is unproblematic because not all start-ups provide digital services. Digital
start-up is linked to digitalisation but generally overlook the importance in the development of the
digital services hence, the strategy proposes to omit the ‗digital‘ adjective altogether (Varró, 2019).
The Fourth Industrial Revolution or industry 4.0 is the process combining info-communication, new
manufacturing technologies, IT network technologies and modern business processes that can be
implemented to any organisation (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). The
implementation of decentralized systems adds proficiency and secure between the autonomous
algorithms in a multi-layered system (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Manufacturing
organisations that providers and adopt a digital servitization strategy, differentiate themselves from
competitors, servitization increases market size. Servitization offers manufacturing organisations a
strategic advantage, in being present when the customer is choosing a product or service online
(Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Manufacturing organisations that try to close the
gap, having asses to the direct customer, they need to undergo servitization, the transition from being
a product provider to a solutions provider (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Nationwide digitalisation programme is a programme that prevents a longer-term imbalance of the
digital economy, then with the actual spatial development implications of digitalisation (Varró,
2019). The usage of digital technologies is necessary in servitization, these tool empowers various
types of innovations and uses cases for the customer (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida,
2020). The consensus mechanism is verified transactions on the network, users review the
transaction on the network and agree on the validity of the transactions. Provenance refers to the
completion of the block in the network or asset‘s history available on the network (Tanwar, Parekha,
& Evans, 2019). Servitization owes to the evolution of smart and connected products. organisations
offering servitization needs a combination of digital and hardware assists, software, sensors, data
storage, and reliable connectivity (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Digitalization provides new distribution channels, selling physical products online or digital
products. Digital products or services are produced online or in a virtual environment. Digitalization
is the transition of distributed product creation models and services organisations are seeing growth
(Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Servitization will transform
manufacturing organisations, digitalization creates both opportunities in current and niche markets,
connectivity, hardware, software challenges for organisations (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, &
Parida, 2020). Digitalisation and spatial development can be disrupted by policies and regulations
that surround digitalisation re-produce patterns of socio-spatial inequality (Varró, 2019).
Digitalization new technologies, Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies
are quickly fuelling big data and software solutions (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, &
Binder, 2019). One of the biggest issues in servitization transformation is the quality of interaction
between provider and customer, how to offer a digital solution for the different customers that need
to be customized and comprehensive in the solutions that offer real value (Kamalaldina, Lindea,
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Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Industry 4.0 supply chain management would revolutionize the overall
framework network of the organizations, resources management, all stages of production and product
or service life cycle. The Block-chain database can allow the monitor, track and manage data from
the delivery of raw materials, finances, logistics need for your supplier, advance automation of
manufacturer process and down to the delivery to the end-user (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar,
2019). Successful organizations analysis competitiveness and ignore post-industrial methodology
that underestimates the role of digital transformation in economies (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin,
Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Digital servitization contracts for end customers should not replicate
traditional cost-control contracts, the servitization costs need to take into account the collection of
dyadic data, both customer and provider views and the evolution of the relationship (Kamalaldina,
Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Improve the efficiency of the Stochastic Grid Bundling Method
(SGBM) algorithm is done by increasing the load on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Python is
a dominating programming language in data science, effective techniques, computation performance
and s technique has been adopted in many industries (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). The modern
statistical base is being applied in tools to measure digitalization processes in industrial production,
this empirical data becomes the vector and driver of the entire digital economy (Tolkachev, Bykov,
Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Servitization enabling co-production and co-creation interaction gain a deeper understanding of the
interactive relationships relevant to the digital servitization context (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, &
Parida, 2020). The amalgamation of state-of-the-art industrial automation systems coupled with
Industrial Internet Of Things (IIoT) is expected to usher in higher levels of automation in all
industrial manufacturing sectors (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). In
digitalization the growth rate of gross value added in the industry is measured annually, in national
currency and at current prices. Countries primary and secondary manufacturing industry including
machinery, equipment Information, Communication including telecommunications Information
Technology and Services (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). The practices
of digitalisation and spatial impact are related, the aim of both is to develop spatial influence and
increase governance at different levels use cases (Varró, 2019). The digitalization competitive
industry accelerates the potential for new value-creation and revenue-generation opportunities
(Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalisation is one of the key driving forces of
competitiveness, growth and welfare in a service-driven economy/ first-world economies (Varró,
2019). Expanding export of services, focusing on integration and outsourcing industrial and other
sectors of the economy. Outsourcing relies on the development of the Internet of things and industry
4.0 technologies. This digitalization of the manufacturing sectors is in line with the neo-industrial
development model of the past (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Digitalization and servitization transform the interaction of provider and customer relationships. The
key challenge for the organisation is not pursuing digital servitization, adapting to market pressures
and revise existing product-centric relationships (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
The industrial applicability of Industry 4.0 platforms in real-world use-cases is in the development of
soft sensors to use sustainable projects like Waste To Energy (WTE) plant. The application of
industry 4.0 technologies in waste management projects focuses on the development strategy on
efficient waste collection systems (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder,
2019). Developed countries are also developing towards digitalization principles of the "Industry
4.0" concept, moving towards neo-industrial by which is cyber-physical digitalization of
manufacturing industries (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Digital services use case needs empirical data that demonstrated a strong interconnection between
digitalization and servitization (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Industry 4.0
platforms emphasize the use of Machine Learning (ML) methods that manage and administrate big-
data tools and industrial internet cloud computing platforms. Industry 4.0 using these tools develop
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robust data-driven soft sensors amid other data-driven models (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa,
Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). In assessing the digitalization level of the manufacturing industry
developing countries needs to implement a comprehensive infrastructure network of digitalization of
manufacturing enterprises. Focusing on the sub-indices, the index of development of cyber physical
systems and the index of the transformation of the organisation and governmental bodies business
model (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Digitalization is both a driver
and an enabler of servitization for the organisation need to stay competitive (Kamalaldina, Lindea,
Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalisation agendas of evolution and implementation aim is to shed
light on the power relations that shape the practices of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) and the production of spatial knowledge in the digital world (Varró, 2019).
Digital platforms develop databases that need a co-operative digitalization centre. This digitalization
centre manages Big Data that ins continuously accumulating data from all machines for condition-
based maintenance and optimization. New managerial methodologies and technologies can increase
the effectiveness of managing big data accessibility and storage abilities (Kamalaldina, Lindea,
Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Industry 4.0 benefits industrial data analytics also developing a unique platform based on the modern
Industrial Internet Of Things (IIoT) software tools and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for
industrial and manufacturing use cases in monitoring processes (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa,
Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). Neo-industrialization development of information technologies is
reconfiguring production chains, based on the integration BigData, Block-chain technologies and
self-learning neural networks (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Digital
transformation evolves the customer's value proposition, altering the organisation‘s methodologies,
design and creation process. Since value creation is the core focus that drives profits, digitalization
principally involves the provision of services (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020).
Digitalisation has an analytical dimension of the politics of scale is meant the acknowledgement of
power-laden scalar-institutional dimension that introduces new technologies to evolve (Varró, 2019).
Industry 4.0 is an area of increased efficiency and big data management, transformation, analytics,
information coding and decoding (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder, 2019). These
new information technologies are processing technologies for raw materials and semi-finished digital
products (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Organisations need to constantly develop servitization, embark on new efficient digital
transformation technology that allows them to take full advantage of digitalization and servitization.
Business opportunities and market limitation are resolved by expanding servitization, increase
synchronize digitalization, connectivity and data analytics is manufacturing organisations is a
universal collective goal (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). The digitalization
transformation model of the business model incorporates indicators in the production, managerial
methods and auxiliary business processes of the enterprise. Indicators also include information
communication technologies used to communicate with customers, strategic partners, suppliers as
well as creating a media image of the company (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin,
2019). Organisations usually partner with IT firms in developing digital hardware and software
infrastructure (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Evaluation tool CRIX index is a
crypto-currency IndeX that benchmarks other crypto-currency in the market. Giving an insight into
the crypto-currency, past movement and market trends. In make pricing equations they perform
estimating risk premia, factoring loadings using a two-stage estimation approach (Nadler & Guo,
2019). Industry 4.0 is information and communication amalgamation of technologies in business.
Industry 4.0 needs constructing of and development of Index a Cyber-Physical System (CPS). A set
of indicators that most accurately reflect the possibilities of using digital technologies to transform
the manufacturing process in manufacturing industries (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, &
Gavrilin, 2019).
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This dynamic partnership shares costs and liabilities in pursuit to create and capture value over time.
The partnership is done to capitalize on emerging digitalization opportunities which are mutually
beneficial ‗Win-Win‘ (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalization transformation
of a business model consists of the businesses website for communication, ordering and searching
for products or services. Enterprises applying Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools.
Organisations exchanging electronic information with stakeholder, suppliers and customers.
Organisations receiving orders on computer networks and placing orders using computer internal
networks systems. Enterprises adopting cloud services for Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) systems and businesses have a presence on social media (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin,
Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Highlight digitalization capabilities providers and organisations must co-
develop to interact and co-create value with their customers (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, &
Parida, 2020). Digitalisation second analytical dimension of practices highlights the material
dimension and how digitalisation implies the re-production (Varró, 2019). They are several benefits
offered of new digitalization technologies, enhanced infrastructure harnesses big-data, Machine
Learning (ML) that develop artificial intelligence in automation and cloud computing software tools
in advanced big data analytics platforms (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, & Binder,
2019). Artificial intelligence can be achieved through Machine Learning (ML) and the process of
learning will make future factories fully autonomous. Machine Learning (ML) methods need to large
knowledge pool, big-data processing tools and cloud computing technologies in data analytics
processes. Machine Learning (ML) can be applied to sustainable projects, the data-driven models can
be used to monitor the Waste To Energy (WTE) plant (Kabugoa, Jämsä-Jounelaa, Schiemann, &
Binder, 2019).
Digitalization database consists of intelligence capability, connect capability and analytic capability
(Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalization is the development of industry 4.0,
Block-chain technology distributed ledger, smart contracts and algorithms should be developed for
the specific industry then the previous systems have to be streamlined, removed redundancies
(Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). Block-chain technologies are part of digitalization new
information technologies that give organisations or institutions the next level of security,
accountability, and trackability of finance 2.0, data or digital services (Tolkachev, Bykov,
Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). Knowledge-sharing is common in the digitalization
industry, routines, data patterns, interactions between companies and the specialized knowledge
transfer (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). What are the available identifying and
classifying components of the research problem? How do the elements of the research problem grow
into sub-categories of problems? What are the alternative solutions for the problem shown in this
particular scenario? Why are obvious solutions not being implemented on the problem? How should
solutions be modified or adapted to solve the research problem? In what contexts or contingencies
does the solution benefit the research problem (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for
Organizational and Social Research, 2007)? Knowledge-sharing in digitalization includes
recombined, co-creating, co-producing, co-developing and design processes to facilitate knowledge
exchange between partners (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida, 2020). Digitalization evolution
will build on new technologies that will usher in the Digital age (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin,
Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019).
Digital transformation needs transaction-specific, the location of successful digital production stages
close to one another, tailored capital investments for customized machinery (hardware and software).
The know-how is the skilled, qualified stakeholders that can be garnered from long-term
relationships and staff dedicated in these relationships (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida,
2020). Industry 4.0 aims to combine IoT, Block-chain and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will create
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disruptive transformational solutions on existing industrial systems (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, &
Kumar, 2019). Cybernetic in digitalization technologies aim to achieve effectiveness and are reached
the limits of effective profitability. In the services sector in first world countries, Information
Technology is still the leading growth industries (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, &
Gavrilin, 2019). Digitalization implementation provides the organisation relation-specific digital
assets, digitally-enabled knowledge-sharing routines and partnership governance of target markets.
Organisations would enter into a revised partnering business relationship, this relationship has
potential advantages like digitalization technologies, technical knowhow, digital software‘s, data
analytics and customer operational knowledge. Digitalization capabilities present connect directly
the provider and customer, the full potential of the partnership is investing in relation-specific digital
assets that can build a digital database for launching future servitization use cases. Cooperative
digitalization centre massive projects need an allocation of manpower, time and capital resources set
to gain know-how and improve the business processes (Kamalaldina, Lindea, Sjödina, & Parida,
2020). A set selection of parameters and several factors that specify indicators reflecting
digitalization processes the index includes the following elements. Organisations applying broadband
internet access for at 100 Mbps+. Organisations adopting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
technologies. Enterprises applying automatic object identification Radio Frequency Identification
Device (RFID) technologies. Enterprises applying cloud services in the business model, including for
the operational software of its own. Enterprises adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Managing Big Data Enterprises, Broadband Internet, electronic data exchange, cloud services and
digital streaming (Tolkachev, Bykov, Morkovkin, Borisov, & Gavrilin, 2019). BankID is a digital
identification for all Swedish citizen, this digital solution that allows online organisation‘s, banks and
governments agencies to authenticate and verify an individual for online interactions and
transactions. This electronic identification is a digital proof of identity of the citizen making mobile
payments, organizations accessing financial service, communicating with government authorities
(Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB, 2020).
Digitalization Likert Scale
Level 1, the difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne in digitalization would be adding new information on
the website. Newsletters, RSS feeds and relevant information for users are posted on the website
regularly.
Level 4, the difficulty for digitalization would be tracking customer‘s internet usage of Sparbanken
Rekarne customers using the website. This requires large cloud computing data storage and a
framework to handle, process and manage the large amounts of data for research and development.
Level 8, the difficulty is developing video chat with mobile bank ID login for account users. Similar
to Mastercard‘s standalone digital ID verification and bypassing the use of BankID.This application
developed by the bank allows users to integrate online payments, hotel check-in and signing
important contracts (Mastercard, 2020). Level 8 digitalization could also be the implementation of
block-chain technology in the design process for internal administrative bank usage. Knowing the
digitalization and expectations of the project helps the team to identify and procure stakeholders
needed when the project gets the green light. (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
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Distribution Logistics
Logistics is the process of planning and executing the efficient transportation and storage of goods
from the point of origin to the point of consumption. The goal of logistics is to meet customer
requirements in a timely, cost-effective manner (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Managing logistics needs
dynamic and reactive optimization of physical and financial flows in the supply chain (Brahmia,
Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Specialist in the value chain integrates agile approaches in all stages
of the product development process to reduce product complexity (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Increased logistics efficiency faces countless problems of joint planning of physical and financial
flows. The main focus of logistics efficiency is the integration of supply chain contracts, supply
chain tactical planning of uncertain and disrupted financial environments (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea,
& Sboui, 2019). Managing demand-side helps climate change, these sustainable consumption
patterns are becoming driving engine tools to curb agricultural Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions
(Canavari & Coderoni, 2020). Logistics efficiency needs to take into account budgetary and
contractual constraints with all stakeholders in the supply chain (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui,
2019). Ideas exclusively to the idea‘s creator and to involve appropriate competence centres or
technology experts both internal and external (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). In order to minimize
logistics disturbances due to existing uncertainties, an effective planning model that is developed and
implemented on a rolling horizon basis (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Increasing
integration with suppliers and partners optimize cross-project and cross-company cooperation,
building trust and partners value (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Logistics efficiency integrates supply chain contracts and supplies chain tactical planning, reducing
delays, risk uncertain in the transportation of goods and services. In most cases the transportation
inter-firm collaboration can offer insurance of goods being transported, this increases confidence in
the business to the business relationship (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). This improves
integration of value partners in product development, development, reduces complexity, increases
transparency and promotes further collaboration of projects (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Logistics
efficiency analyses and attempt to improve the benefits incurred by the inter-firm collaboration in
terms of operational performance and Working Capital (WC) of the supply chain (Brahmia, Hadj-
Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Continuous communication integrates value partners and suppliers into
an internal planning process. This is additional cost-based advantages and necessary to develop a
long-term or multi-platform strategy (Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019). Supply Chain Management (SCM)
will fully eliminate redundancies in previous systems like Logistic mismanagement, Lack of
visibility and assets, Improper handling of data, Inefficient handling of the stack and Ineffective risk
management. SCM has greater access with increased efficiency, transparency, enhanced traceability,
track all transactions that occur throughout the supply chain in real-time. This unprecedented access
can improve the complete production methods, quality control, tracking of any defects, performance
tracking in the supply chain (Mistry, Tanwar, Tyagi, & Kumar, 2019). A big part of logistics
efficiency is supply chain management, logistics management is the allocates of effective
methodologies of costs and time (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Integration of the value
chain adds to the value creation of partners into the product development process. This challenge of
integration of the value chain is the pressure to innovate and the faster development of new products
(Wiener & Nicoleit, 2019).
Block-chain technology can be used to create decentralised traceability for the complete process of
Supply Chain Management (SCM). Block-chain technology can provide nearly instantaneous,
efficient, secure and traceability of raw material, components or products from primary, secondary
and tertiary industries (Tanwar, Parekha, & Evans, 2019). To shorten lead times and offering credit
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extensions in the range of months, reducing transportation processes time and offering credit
extensions greatly increases the efficiency of products. The credit extensions are set because most
organisations practice lean manufacturing measures and do not have ready liquid capital for inter-
firm collaborations (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Economic benefits of concentrated
products generate economic advantages for industries aligned to the distribution, storage and
transportation of goods, especially in long-distance transportation sectors (Liua, Papageorgiou, &
Shah, 2019). Logistics planning involves the siting of liquidation volatility, capacity adjustments,
sales markets, supplier selection, supply chain operations and management (Brahmia, Hadj-
Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Economic benefits for the logistical industry is the result of new product
formulations, new methodologies, processes and product design technology optimise the design of a
low-cost supply chain (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). A mixed-integer linear model evaluating
logistical improvements are programs that integrating logistics and financial supply chain planning
(Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Mixed-integer linear programming techniques in the
supply chain networks is an optimisation-based framework, this determines the optimal locations and
capacities of plants, warehouses, distribution centres and manufacturing production facilities (Liua,
Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019).
Logistics management areas are in shortening operating cycle time, reduced time lag among
disbursement and receipts of money decreases the financing pressures. Logistics management also
focuses on reducing lead times on releasing the locked up capital in the operating cycle (Brahmia,
Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). The formula refines the supply chain networks and different
product formulations are needed for the different variables of the supply chain, merging traditional
formulations and new formulations via concentration (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). Logistics
contracts that incorporate flexibility mechanism aid in reducing insufficiency between supply and
demand, thus increasing the supply chain overall achievements (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui,
2019). Mixed-integer linear programming framework also manages the distribution planning
decisions, unit total cost, raw material, packaging, organising, product conversion, inventory,
transportation and depreciation costs (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). Morden quantity
flexibility develops contracts the supply chain with a periodic update of demand forecast information
using a rolling horizon planning (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Mixed-integer linear
programming improves in the supply chain networks to achieve optimum efficiency of optimal
locations, logistics, capacities of plants, warehouses and distribution networks (Liua, Papageorgiou,
& Shah, 2019). Supply chain parameters models evaluate the reactivity through simulation. Testing
optimal quantities based on the updates of demand forecasts, constant flexibility limits, second of
decreasing flexibility limits and effects of flexibility on customer satisfaction (Brahmia, Hadj-
Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Supply chain network is greatly dependent on production and distribution
specification and configurations designed. The network needs to develop a sustainable location of the
manufacturing plants, warehouses and distribution centres, concerning customers and
transportation links (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019).
Supply chain management need to constantly develop a new model that incorporates new
technologies and methodologies. Supply chain management needs to consider lead time constraints,
decision-making process, time-limited business activities and the effects of working capital
requirements (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Supply chain network needs to factor in
transportation links, including highways, trains, airports and shipping ports. When developing the
Supply chain network, the optimal distribution links, locations, capacities of production and storage
facilities (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). Supply chain management administers the
relationship of the supplier‘s capabilities of reaction to market pressures. Supply chain management
also focuses on the payment schedule, taking into account penalties due to delays (Brahmia, Hadj-
Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Supply chain management administers the suppliers contracts between
the producer and the supplier, the document states the demand terms for example frozen, flexible
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storage for transportation needs and the possible degree of flexibility (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, &
Sboui, 2019). Supply chain network needs to consider bills of materials in logical constraints of
complex products that need to be assembled. The strategic production-distribution model is
developed to facilitate the design of the supply chain network (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019).
Supply chain management formulae combine cash flow management model and the design process
planning during the tactical planning process. Supply chain management formula also takes into
account budgetary constraints and demand uncertainties (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019).
Supply chain network needs to factor in any financial issues, including import duties, plant utilisation
and exchange rates in the logistics. Supply chain network modelled is the managing of the
uncertainty of demands, supplies, processing, transportation and shortage (Liua, Papageorgiou, &
Shah, 2019).
The established supply chain tactical planning model includes Inventory, backorder, purchase and
extra-hours costs over time. Unsatisfied orders from the carrier, damaged goods and delays in
delivery need to implement penalties in terms of cost (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019).
Supply chain network also needs to manage the uncertainty of demands capacity, expansion costs in
the proposed multi-objective to optimize the model. Supply chain network performance metrics
revolve around the management of, total cost, responsiveness, custom service level and the
optimization of strategic capacity expansion decisions (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). The
organisations that have contracts with fixed payments, the customer would have to agree to possible
delays. The organisation can renegotiate to a payment date of its suppliers without exceeding a
maximum deadline (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). When factoring inventory, the supply
chain network needs to calculate the sale and leaseback method in the optimisation of the supply
chain networks design. The hierarchical solution is used in the production, distribution and capacity
planning of agrochemical of the supply chain networks to maximise profit distribution (Liua,
Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019).
The organisation usually opt for factoring services, these are the selling of accounts receivable to a
factor, usually a bank or credit institution or fiat currency. The logistic organisations that have
improved its day-to-day cash flow, can access short-term debt, or open line of credit in order to cover
short-term cash shortfalls (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Supply chain networks
optimisation-based decision framework is the flexible production process and distribution
configurations for different product formulations in the networks. A tailored computationally
efficient hierarchical solution approach is the difference between production and distribution
frameworks of the supply chain networks (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). The logistic
organisations can use this loan up to a maximum allowable debt but these are usually made to pay for
unforeseen transportation liabilities. The planning horizon is the time duration of the Supply Chain
Planning model of an organisation. The long-term assets like transportation equipment and long-term
liabilities of the organisation will not vary during the planning horizon (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, &
Sboui, 2019). The hierarchical solution is based on both traditional and new product formulations.
New product formulations for the supply chain networks are processes and product technology that
develop sustainable low-cost materials and remove concentration in the supply chain. This
sustainable process creates intermediate concentrated products and the final products are produced
close to the intended market (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). The costs of the supply chain
increase as the complexity of length of tasks and frozen horizon (time duration) increases. The
customer-supplier relationship shows the relevance of consideration of how the supplier's reactivity
supply chain optimization. This optimization changes the degrees of flexibility for suppliers and
produces and improves the logistic processes (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Production
and distribution structures develop regional supply chain network links, these structures developed
are based on specific metrics, the distribution routes are traditional, local and concentrated route.
Production and distribution structures are designed around the potential production and the
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distribution structures depending on the aforementioned product formulations (Liua, Papageorgiou,
& Shah, 2019).
The impact of supplier flexibility on cash-distressed organisations consistence‘s of industrial
practices and the demand horizon that plans each composed. The delay of the supply chain or
horizon increases cost, inefficiency and confidence. The increased advancements of the logistic
management of the supply chain reduce the operating cycles, the time lag between disbursements
and receipts of money (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). These production and distribution
structures theories are developed from the traditional, local and concentrated routes. Traditional
Routes are products that are directly produced from raw materials at existing conventional plants,
produced outside the region before shipping directly to the customer (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah,
2019). Rolling Horizon Flexibility (RHF) monitor and share information about future uncertain
scenarios. Information like the increase or decrease demand between the original manufacturer and a
subcontractor on the operational performance (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019).
Local Routes are products which are produced from raw materials directly at potential conventional
plants in the same region then shipped directly to the customer. Concentrated Routes are
concentrated products which are produced at existing conventional plants then shipped to potential
regionals. The finishing plants convert the products into the final products. The final products are
then transported to the warehouses or directly to the customer. The whole planning horizon of the
supply chain networks is divided into several periods with equal lengths. In the supply chain
networks, each city in a region can host facility of each type of activities in the planning horizon. The
planning horizon takes into account the material losses in the during of production that intermediate
concentrated products. The final products are not considered in all production routes. In the planning
horizon, the managing of production rate, the setup time of each product constant is factored in
regardless of where and when the production takes place. In the planning horizon, a product is
produced in a period, it is only processed once in a specific period to minimise the setup time of
other products (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). Quantity Flexibility (QF) are contracts and
methodology for coordinating materials and information flows, these transfer of information filters
into the supply chains operating under rolling-horizon planning. In logistic supplier, organisations
use flexibility in its supply chain, this increased elasticity in the timing and payments and Quantity
Flexibility (QF) contracts (Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019). Safety stock in the planning
horizon is administrating each facility that is documented and determines the demands of each city
where it is stored is located. When all demands in the region are satisfied based on the planning
horizon, a distribution model is developed with lead times between two facilities, expressed in the
number of periods and ones which are considered. All facilities in the supply chain network have
numerous evaluation and mathematical formulation. These supply chain network mathematical
models determine the optimal locations and sizes of the plants, warehouses, and Direct consumer.
This ensures maximum returns of large investments (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019). Mixed
Integer Linear Program (MILP) model is a tool for calculating multi-products supply chain
schedules. The tool integrates a scheduling/planning model with a cash flow optimization for the
organisations business model. These tools aid Inter-firms logistical in integer supply chain
constraints into the business model. These Inter-firms Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP)
formulas are deterministic, mixed-integer linear programming model into the supply chain. These
supply chain formulas take into account process operations and budgetary constraints. Mixed Integer
Linear Program (MILP) focuses on optimizing the financial statement of the supply chain.
Evaluating supply chain framework model that incorporates financial statement and analysis
modelling through financial ratios. Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) model aim is to determine
annual pay-outs to investors while integrating supply chain planning and financial planning
(Brahmia, Hadj-Alouanea, & Sboui, 2019).
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The supply chain network mathematical formulas considered the production constraints, raw material
constraints, final product inventory constraints, concentrated product inventory constraints, sales
constraints, capacity constraints, facility number constraints, cost constraints, objective function,
capacity constraint, mass balance constraints, logical constraints and logical constraints. In the
supply chain network, the cost constraints are the total cost includes raw material cost, conversion
cost, packaging cost, inventory cost, transportation cost and depreciation cost. The supply chain
network has numerous evaluation, the notation is a formula that has metrics like indices, sets,
parameters, continuous variables, in calculating the optimum location of facilities. Hierarchical
solution develops orders to overcome the high computational expense. An efficient hierarchical
solution aggregates a static model that solves the optimal locations of facilities and their
transportation links. A supply chain network aggregated model, factors in all intermediate
concentrated products are aggregated and all final products. The aggregated model supply chain
model calculates total production, flow, consumption of all intermediate concentrated products, total
production costs and flows of all final products (Liua, Papageorgiou, & Shah, 2019).
Distribution Logistics Likert Scale
Level 1, logistic difficulty for Sparbanken Rekarne would project that involve internal administration
processes within the organisation, managing the big data. Accessing data from the intranet of
Sparbanken Rekarne requires administration access and few stakeholders are needed to manage this
data.
Level 4, logistic difficulty are restructuring or relocating Sparbanken Rekarne branches. This
involves moving equipment, networks and frameworks then installing them back into the new
location.
Level 8, logistic difficulty could be Working with large organisations like estate agencies and
business in managing the finances of the construction requirements. This requires lots of
transparency and communications with multiple stakeholders at different levels of the construction
process.
Level 8 projects with complex and long supply chain models and would need many stakeholder
involvements (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Timescale
Time set in a project document or early discussions about the time needed in achieving the desired
outcomes. The time needs to achieve all the set design process, developing, testing, prototyping
testing, manufacturing and distributing (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008).
Time is very important in maintaining tasks in project plans, timekeeping is essential and I will
explore the technologies used in maintaining timezones necessary for global timekeeping.
Deterministic and stochastic components are modelled with equations of atomic clocks. These time
deviation, frequency deviation, frequency drift can be estimated synchronously and used for short-
term prediction of time (Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Joint Timekeeping
Framework (JTF), the system of timekeeping that keeps the atomic clocks in ground operation
control systems that are joined by satellite clocks. Inter-Satellite Link Time (ISLT) are timescale
algorithm that function as timescale algorithm to form synthetic timescale, stable frequencies are
done by using satellite clocks and ISL measurements. Inter-Satellite Link Time (ISLT) forms
synthetic clocks by utilizing the frequencies of stability and the ensemble of satellite clocks. Inter-
Satellite Link Time (ISLT) uses timescale has an equation in formulating models, joint timekeeping
is when clocks ensemble maintains and is synchronized to a uniform time reference (Sun, Huang,
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Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Timescale system depends on a range and positions based on
time transfer, timekeeping ability, navigation of design process and ability to keep track of timing
services (Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Developing model internal variability
sampling in different platforms is easier by using machine-dependent processes (Guarino, Sime,
Schroeder, Lister, & Hatcher, 2020).
Inter-Satellite Link Time (ISLT) is joint timekeeping methods, using satellite constellation systems
with inter-satellite links creating a synthetic timescale. Kalman filtering algorithms is widely used in
timescale algorithms. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is time systems that steer a local
realization of synthetic timescale. These Satellite Systems synchronize with ground facility clocks, in
determining the spaceborne clocks on board of the navigation satellites are synchronized to their
respective system times. The timekeeping performance is limited by the frequency stability and
predictability of the clock of the ground facility and satellite systems (Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao,
Guo, & Yang, 2020). The local time of each zone on the global is based on synchronizing and
maintained spaceborne clocks and it is synchronized to the GNSS system time by two-way satellite
time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT) or by multi-satellite precise orbit determination (MPOD)
(Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Machine dependence on simulation
analysis, timescale, illustrative of the problem and easily testable via a simple model and quantify its
impact is discussed by scientists (Guarino, Sime, Schroeder, Lister, & Hatcher, 2020). Timekeeping
performances depend on the stability of frequencies and predictability (Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao,
Guo, & Yang, 2020).
Timescale in addition to software and hardware specifications influence numerical reproducibility
and emerge more complex codes. The joint timekeeping framework is based on the average
timescale algorithm and the optimal weights of the minimize the increment of Satellite Systems
(Sun, Huang, Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Machine dependence on simulation measure
weather and climate models over a specific timescale. These weather simulation processors
decompositions communicate software of specific time scales (Guarino, Sime, Schroeder, Lister, &
Hatcher, 2020). Multi-Satellite Precise Orbit Determination (MPOD) refers to the use of joint
timekeeping evaluation of satellite systems. Global navigation satellite systems ranging and
positioning based on time transfer, these time transfer define time zones used in countries (Sun,
Huang, Shuaihe Gao, Guo, & Yang, 2020). Using the timeline in a project, setting key dates,
scheduled in the project plan can be solidified, using Gantt chart for example. Gantt chart is a type of
bar chart that visualises a project schedule in time, visualises tasks in categories and subcategories,
showing stakeholders involved with a particular task or stage in the project. The chart also shows
documentation of the completion of a specific task, the impacted of delivery or non-delivery.
Knowing the complexity of the concept project using the early-stage evaluation tool is extremely
useful when creating a project plan for a complex project that has multiple stakeholders involvement,
manufacturing process, categories and subcategories of the development of the project (mass
production or service) (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). The early-stage
valuation tool helps refine and speed up the ability to draft an effective resource plan for the project.
Knowing the expected duration of the concept project, milestones can be drafted and broken down
into phases, stages-gates depending on the project managerial method used. Key dates can be set,
knowing the overall expected duration of the concept project. The concept projects us the database
for the project plan, deciding on stakeholders percentage of effort, equipment technologies,
software‘s, start and end dates (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Timescale Likert Scale
Timescale is the amount of time in the development and implementation of a complete project, the
time needed for your product or service to be developed for the market.
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Level 1, the duration for Sparbanken Rekarne projects usually a couple of months, most projects are
seasonally lasting a quarter (3months).
Level 4, project‘s duration is 1 year, this is considered a medium span for a project for Sparbanken
Rekarne. Requiring stakeholder involvement with clients or within the organisation.
Level 8, Sparbanken Rekarne projects maximum duration is 3 years, also refers to a project with
many moving parts, countless problems, many stakeholders. The project is subjected to delays,
validation issues, testing issues, recall issues in achieving all desired goals of the project. Years have
been set aside for the development of the product or service, the project plan also has catered for the
unforeseen delays in the proposed schedule, means the project would take many years to develop to
reach the consumer because of the capital, manpower and technology investment needed
(Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Total Cost
All consumption cost of the project should include total investment includes material costs, labour,
taxation, consumption of materials used in the manufacturing process, transportation, overheads,
storage, maintenance and retooling in the manufacturing process (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020).
Evaluate the economic influence of the project, a cost- consequence analysis can be is jointly
conducted, showing the effects from a societal perspective (Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia,
& Zaman Talukderc, 2019). The petroleum refining sector is energy-intensive, identifying the target
industries for CO² emissions control is a step in curbing total cost and CO² reduction (Li, Wang, Xie,
& Zhu, 2020). Utilization of resources of an organisation should be managed, from human capital to
organisation assets, temporary investments, equipment, accounts receivable, inventory, prepaid
expenses, long-term investments (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz,
2020). The techno-economic analysis provided detailed cost-effectiveness and sensitivity to the
production process (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020). The
nutritional deficiency, in this case, is micronutrient supplementation or fortification, cost-efficient
and effective evaluation tool (Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc,
2019). Reducing CO² emissions in energy-intensive sectors is inevitable and the need for industrial
in developing sustainable solutions (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). The techno-economic analysis
measures the cost-effectiveness and sensitivity analyses assess the process in scalability,
productivity, production process and potential for commercialization. The techno-economic analysis
industrial process of scale-up, requires preservation of specific conditions, synthesis on the
commercial scale and the process order to assess the process scalability (Rakicka-Pustułka,
Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020). Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is the systematic
approach in calculating the positives and failures of using alternatives options. Using data-driven
results in achieving benefits while preserving savings (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of
Research, 2008). Expenditure needs to be managed in the production process, using technology to
use fewer resources in developing a superior product (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska,
Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020). The petroleum sector has already implemented a considerable amount
of energy savings with the use of technological advancements, resulting in emissions reduction
actions that aid sustainable direction (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Techno-economic analysis
forecasting can be showing the great industrial potential of the process, these technologies can
reduce the current unit cost raw material source and increase productivity in the manufacturing
process (Rakicka-Pustułka, Mironczuk, Celinska, Białas, & Rymowicz, 2020). Correlating the
differences between prices vs. costs, prices vs. discount rates, and exchange rates vs. operating costs
(Ardian & Kumral, 2019). Evaluate the economic influence of the project, a cost- consequence
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analysis can be is jointly conducted, showing the effects from a societal perspective (Dragojlovica,
Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc, 2019).
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is an evaluation model that describes the relationship between
the return on investment and expected return. Calculating risks and variables associated with
different probabilities. Risk factors explain the behaviour of Market Return (MR) usually include
economic variables such as volatility and illiquidity risk (Nadler & Guo, 2019). The Computable
General Equilibrium (CGE) is a method applied in the research of emissions reduction costs. This
has a top-down method at the macro level, which is used in marginal emissions reduction and cost
estimation for the country. From a micro-level, this research into emissions reduction costs can be
considered in capital stock turnover, technology stock, energy intensities, fuel and production mixes.
The abatement measures done by countries will not be enough to meet the ambitious emissions
reduction targets envisaged for the year 2050 (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). The goal of the
Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) model is to compare the price of a financial portfolio
without counterparty risk. Analysing the difference between two prices is also called the total value
adjustment. The Valuation Adjustment (XVA) model from a bank‘s perspective calculates risk
management, SGBM-XVA demonstrator measure the financial background of the different terms
involved. Calculating the drift price rates, standard deviation of the financial assets and parameters
forming a symmetric non-negative correlation (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). The overall cost of
production, areas are Training costs, Input costs, Material costs, Software costs, machinery costs,
Start-up costs, Tooling costs, Labour costs, Training costs, Running costs, On-going cost and
Overheads costs. Total Cost should also factor in Digitalization, Implementation / Creation and
Marketability cost (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
Technology-based bottom-up methods adoption has projected emission abatement possibility in
petroleum sectors, cement, primary and secondary manufacturing, iron and steel sectors.
Technology-based bottom-up methods estimated energy efficiency improvement, CO² emission
reduction potentials and emissions reduction (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Reduces complex
financial risk management problems with Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) algorithm is a
financial framework for applications and computational efficiency. Stochastic Grid Bundling Method
(SGBM) algorithm solve high-dimensional Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDE) with
the performance of GPU computing (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). Logarithmic Mean Divisia
Index (LMDI) is a method used to decompose the CO² emissions changes into five driving
civilization metric. The LMDI determinants are urbanization level, motorization level, mode
structure, energy intensity and energy mix. Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) is used
extensively in the petroleum sector, data is used in emerging sustainable focused energy-saving
technology and methodologies (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). These tools measure inflation,
highlight mismanagement at every stage of life, citizens standards of living, regional competition,
corruption levels, and crime rates. This data is used for countries central banks to make polices
(Imran, HuSen, Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). In the oil production sector Technology-
based, bottom-up methods show the opportunity to reduce 10–50 gigatonnes of CO² by 2050. A
techno-economic analysis quantifies the counties CO² emission reduction potential and costs by
using different types of carbon capture technologies (Li, Wang, Xie, & Zhu, 2020). Valuation
Adjustment (XVA) is a derivative pricing instrument used by banks, the tool Is a collection of
different numbers to aid a validation process. In this study, it was based on the stochastic grid
bundling method Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM). Performing this computer calculation
they needed the use of high computing power. Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing power
was used to improve the scalability (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). In a financial market, where
banks are buying and selling derivatives to a counterparty, either banks or counterparty may default
before expiry. Because of this, variation margins has to be posted as collateral which will be used to
settle the account if one party defaults on any payments. In a financial market, the funding rate for
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every financial product may differ, the deposit rate is the risk-free account and the funding rate
through bonds (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020).
GPUs have placed a major development in scientific computing, GPU provides a high potential for
visualizing complex information and computational speed. CUDA Python packages need to
incorporate GPU programming Valuation Adjustment (XVA), these automatic memory transfer and
scalability concerning the dimensionality, they underlying the stock price processes. CUDA Python
coding programming tool transfers the combination of fast development time and high efficiency
when using high-performance GPU. Monte Carlo-based algorithm is an extensive class of
computational algorithms that rely on repeating random sampling and obtaining numerous numerical
results (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). In any industry commodity prices and interest rates are the
essential components in the tertiary industry, and methodologies and formulas have been created in
classifying the correlation between them (Ardian & Kumral, 2019). Backward Stochastic Differential
Equations (BSDE) is a software that calculate the mathematical finance and stochastic control cost of
a project. Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDE) is software that calculates the
mathematical finance and stochastic control cost of a project. Backward Stochastic Differential
Equations (BSDE) also analyse financial risk management, they demonstrate practical opportunities.
Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (FBSDE) is a powerful modelling tool that (uses
standard Brownian motion) used in various areas of stochastic control and mathematical finance
models (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020). CUDA Python programming languages used in solving
XVA pricing problems, they use Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) algorithm and Graphics
Processing Unit (GPU) computing hardware. CUDA Python is a practical programming language
made of the scripting of syntax and grammar. This is very useful for the financial 1.0 and 2.0
industry. Valuation Adjustment (XVA) are used in stock exchanges and central banks where
practitioners need to constantly monitor and adapt their models to the changing financial markets.
They need an interface that can compute processes in real-time. Visualising the changing valuation
of stocks, bonds, derivatives, commodity, bonds, indices, Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) and
currencies (Ki Wai Chau & Oosterlee, 2020).
Total Cost Likert Likert Scale
The measurable scale is form 1 – 8, knowing an estimated total cost helps the team to procure
allocation of funds needed when the project gets the green light. Level 1, the total cost for
Sparbanken Rekarne small projects are under 50 000SEK. These projects under 50 000SEK
represent a relatively low cost in some cases cost team members time and efforts.
Level 4, the total cost for Sparbanken Rekarne projects are 500 000SEK, these projects usually need
skilled labour and can take to a year for completion. It is involvement from primary stakeholders.
Level 8, the total cost for Sparbanken Rekarne projects are 10 000 000 000SEK, these projects
usually need involvement and contributions from the core and primary stakeholders representing a
high cost concerning the organisations budget (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
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IV. Projects Clustering
The inspiration of Projects Clustering was from ‘Portfolio Analysis‘, systematized organisation of
multiple pre-projects and planning which concept projects are going to be developed. Portfolio
Analysis, Collection of different kind of projects of the company, these projects could be categories
as pre-projects, on-going and post-project. In the Portfolio Analysis develops can evaluate the
potential success or success of a project and perform an elimination process, keeping successful
projects and removing unsuccessful ones (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). It is possible to see multiple
pre-projects based and the researcher can arrange the projects based on any of the eight elements of
the octagon analysis (Complexity Of The Product, Timescale, Total Cost, Sustainability,
Implementation, Marketability, Digitalization And Distribution Logistics). Projects can be arranged
from difficult to easily implement concept projects (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Strategic business units (SBU) is a strategic researcher use in maximising profit, the profit-centred
strategy focuses on profitable products or services that an organisation offers to the market. The
strategy develops a marketing plan, analysis of competition, marketing advertisements and
campaigns to make profitable products or services more successful (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A
Guide for Organizational and Social Research, 2007). The researcher can align the key businesses
with the concept products or services, this is can be an important business strategy in customizing
concept projects for real-world use –cases. Identified and evaluated the concept. Projects can be
evaluated and ones that alight with the organisation's strategy can be further developed into the
project plan stage (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020). Projects Clustering is the fourth evaluation
stage, project plans can be developed after this stage, this early-stage evaluation tool (Merriam &
Tisdell, 2016).
Organising Pre-Projects
Strategic business units (SBU) can be applied at this stage, strategies that depending on the
organisation's strategy particular projects can be developed. Gain advantage of the market space. Pre-
project can be arranged on the product life cycle. Pre-project that create superior value. The pre-
project database helps in the decision-making process, increasing the ability to compete. Pre-project
that attract potential customers. Pre-project improve on organisation sustainability image. Pre-project
develop sustainable technologies. Pre-project develop sustainable methodologies. Pre-project
develop sustainable environmental awareness. Pre-project develop sustainable socio-economic
involvement with the organisation and citizens. Pre-project that build value. Pre-project that increase
market share. Pre-project that achieve performance targets and organisation goals. Pre-project that
create innovation.Pre-project that improve on current goods or services. Pre-project that promote a
healthy work environment. Pre-project that retrain employees. Pre-project that enter niche markets.
Pre-project that are disruptive and lead the market. Pre-project that improve organisations in-house
IT service. Pre-project that improve organisations administration. The organisation has access to pre-
project Database. The organisation can choose what pre-project has been developed. The
organisation can see what pre-projects need to be developed (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
The knowledge created during the design process of the early-stage evaluation tool creates a database
of research areas, qualitative and quantitative data for project development (Merriam & Tisdell,
2016).
This evaluation stage groups projects according to the size of the project (manpower, time and
money) resources (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research, 2008). With multiple
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projects being developed, from pre-projects, on-going and post-project a project database is
necessary for reducing complexities and increasing clarity in the organization. Creating an organised
database for projects in different stages of development, for this tool it would have to be a pre-project
Database (Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc, 2019). The pre-project
database grants easy access and the ability to identify projects into project plans This pre-project
database can distinguish different pre-projects and highlight projects that could be developed based
on the organisation's goals (Imran, HuSen, Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). Build a meta-
models database reduced parameter domain using data points, computing probability map reduces
the set parameter domain by using the full model (Kucherenkoa, Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-
Muñoz, 2019). The database acquiesces a fast way to analyse at multiple pre-project in a portfolio,
grouping them according to overall complexity (budgets, time, manpower and capital resources).
Multiple pre-project databases can be created and accessible online (using clouded computing),
knowing that the pre-projects have gone through the octagon analysis (Dragojlovica, Michauxb,
Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc, 2019). Showcasing all risks and addressing potential
bottlenecks in pre-projects. When the database is online, the organisation can choose from an array
of validated pre-projects based on organisation focus, sustainable goals, Key Performance Indicator
(KPI) (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
There is a need to generate discussions of the role of research, science and technology play in society
(Jasanoff, 2004). Build a meta-models database reduced parameter domain using data points,
computing probability map reduces the set parameter domain by using the full model (Kucherenkoa,
Giamalakis, Shaha, & García-Muñoz, 2019). Multiple projects are grouped based on the complexity
of achieving the desired outcome (Mugisha, 2020). The by-product of research is understood that the
production of order in nature and society has to be discussed. The term co-production reflects this,
the desire to avoid social and techno-scientific determinism (Jasanoff, 2004). The project can be
grouped according to its disruptive innovation needed a lot of resources or a continuously improving
innovation method being fewer resources (Booth, Colomb, & Williams, The Craft of Research,
2008).
Grouping Pre-Projects
At this last stage, the organising concept pre-project according to the organisation‘s needs, resources,
goals and growth strategy. Supports in choosing evaluated pre-projects, this stage provides a
visualization of complex projects that range in different fields and scopes. The data over time can be
categorised and stored as a database. Reflection and edited of the pre-projects data can be done,
selecting projects and organising them based on current or on-going projects. The database
systemization provides the researcher to analysis pre-projects potential market impact. The
researcher can analysis pre-projects potential growth in a specific target market. Analysis of pre-
projects potential market share using current volatility data and the database permits (Imran, HuSen,
Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). The HadGEM3-GC3.1 is a global is a quantitative and
qualitative database that includes atmosphere land-ocean ice model that comprises the Unified Model
(UM) atmosphere, model.HadGEM3-GC3.1 is a climate model that measures forcing, sensitivity,
and feedback metrics. These climate simulations document constant-forcing and climate simulations
(Guarino, Sime, Schroeder, Lister, & Hatcher, 2020). Scientific research knowledge or ‗peers‘ is no
longer a reliable identified, because codified disciplines from which ‗peers‘ can be drawn (Nowotny,
Scott, & Gibbons, 2003). Approved pre-projects can be placed into business calendars for project
plan development because the resources can be managed in advanced. The pre-project can be
organising based on complexity as in the visualization of the early-stage evaluation tool. Grouping
Octagon Analysis pre-projects based on the overall highest or lowest denomination in the eight
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subfields. Pre-projects can be arranged of difficulty in either Complexity of Project, Digitalization
Implementation, Distribution Logistics, Implementation/ Creation, Marketability Penetration,
Timescale, Total Cost and Sustainable Manufacturing (Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, &
Zaman Talukderc, 2019).
Making reports and sharing the evaluation findings from key stakeholders (Mitchella, Israelb,
Diehlc, & Galindo-Gonzalezd, 2019). The inspiration of this last stage came from an orthodox
inspiration. Children Cylinder Sockets is a simple child‘s game for placing building block shapes
into the right corresponding hole, sometimes the shapes are colour coded to help with the decoding
process. Projects Clustering in away is placing Octagon Analysis pre-projects into the corresponding
octagon size (Imran, HuSen, Muhammad Kaleem3, Din, & Sobia, 2020). Projects would be
categorised and grouped into eight classification sizes, these classification sizes group multiple
projects according to difficulty. The sizes and shape of a project of the Octagon vary from smallest to
biggest. Depending on the project evaluation size, the project would enter the Octagon channels
(Dragojlovica, Michauxb, Mouminb, Lia, & Zaman Talukderc, 2019). All projects can enter one of
the eight Octagon channels this lets the development team the overall complexity of projects, the
smaller the Octagon channel the easier the project. The bigger the Octagon channel the more
intensive on manpower, time and capital resource allocation for project success.
Eight Grouping Channels
Projects can be grouped according to the Octagon Analysis the 8 aspects are; Complexity of Project,
Digitalization Implementation, Distribution Logistics, Implementation / Creation, Marketability
Penetration, Timescale, Total Cost and Sustainable Manufacturing (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne,
2020). An integral part of every risk management is analysing the Market Return (MR). An
international broad-based index such as the S&P500, NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ includes a
robustness real-time check-in our analysis (Nadler & Guo, 2019). Evaluation tool used was the
Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT), this tool measures the domain-specific creativity and is a
technique used for assessing creativity and aspects of production. Depending on the subjective
judgments of individuals which the products were made (Cho & Young, 2020). Since organisations
usually have multiple on-going projects simultaneously with different complexity levels. This stage
groups projects according to the difficulty of resources allocation. Data from the ‗Octagon Analysis‘
codes project feasibility and desired by the customers (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).
The pre-projects need to be grouped according to overall difficulty, the scores of the Based Likert
Scales Values results of the eight measurements of the octagon analysis. Every pre-project attributes
are measured by the development team, they convert and divergent on the numeric values of every
pre-project. Calculating each project‘s Complexity of Project, Sustainability, Implementation,
Marketability, Digitalization, Distribution Logistics, Timescale and Total Cost (then grouping
different pre-project‘s). They would be multiple Pre-projects that would need to be categories for
organisation portfolio management. The eight groups are a continuation theme of the tool, eight
grouping channels group pre-projects according to the overall difficulty of a project. Each channel
represents pre-project‘s scope, the overall complexity of the octagon analysis. The eight grouping
channels for the pre-projects to enter are; Channel 1 – Extremely easy, Channel 2 – Easy, Channel 3
– Feasible, Channel 4 – Manageable, Channel 5 – Challenging, Channel 6 – Difficult, Channel 7 –
Extremely Difficult and Channel 8 – Virtually Impossible (Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019).
Channel 1, these extremely easy pre-projects need the lest amount of time, effort and involvement of
stakeholders, these projects cost can be covered by the organisation as a day to day running cost of
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the organisation. Having the short channel correlate to the least amount of time of performing the
pre-projects.
Channel 2, pre-project‘s are considered as easy by the organisation. Small teams are needed in
developing these pre-projects. Needing little to few resources from the organisation to develop and
execute each project.
Channel 3, pre-project‘s are expressed as feasible by the organisation development team. A team
needs to be created for these pre-projects. A small budget needs to be drafted to allocate time,
manpower and capital for these pre-projects.
Channel 4, pre-project‘s are manageable according to the organisation development team. These
projects are within budget and the team for development is relatively small. The time to develop
these pre-projects is manageable and does not affect the day to day running of the organisation
‘minding the store‘.
Channel 5, pre-project‘s in the channel are challenging, needing stakeholders involvement, resources
and some involvement with strategic partners in carrying out these pre-projects. The channel has the
‘mean‘ length, meaning pre-project in this grouping.
Channel 6, are difficult pre-project‘s based on an organisation development team. High capital,
manpower and time resources allocation for these projects. For these pre-projects, the organisation
can finance these projects and stay within the organisation's capabilities. These pre-projects need
high involvement of core, primary stakeholder and a large team need for these pre-projects.
Channel 7, these pre-project‘s are extremely difficult and need strategic partners involvement, with
multiple stakeholders and complex communication channels, contracts, permits and legislation to
work around. Core and primary stakeholders need to be in sync when developing these pre-projects.
Projects in the grouping need approval from parent organisations, strategic investors and board
member of the organisation to develop these pre-projects. These pre-project‘s budget is the most
capital allocation for this project, in some cases, the organisation can involve strategic partners in
sharing the costs.
Channel 8, pre-project‘s in this channel are virtually impossible for the Sparbanken Rekarne to
perform alone. These pre-project‘s are out of scope for the organisation's strategic development.
Having the longest channel correlate to the longest amount of time of executing the pre-projects
(Tóth, Jónás, & Dénes, 2019).
Early-stage Evaluation Visulisation (Projects Clustering)
The evaluated concept projects need to be organised, catalogued in a manner to accommodate the
research team. The research would be able to separate disruptive technologies which are generally
expensive and time-consuming too less capital intensive concept projects. As mentioned early in the
‗Eight Grouping Channels‘ there are eight channels in the evaluation model. The channels vary in
size because the channels are based on the overall complexity of a pre-project. The easier the pre-
project the smaller octagon results are, the more disruptive and complex the project is the bigger the
octagon results are. Pre-project are organised based on overall complexity and the organisation can
choose pre-projects based on this.
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Fig 8. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Projects Clustering) (Mugisha, 2020).
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CHAPTER 5
Reflection
The definition of ‗Validation‘ is are the actions or steps of gathering qualitative and quantitative
evidence the proves a theory, development, findings or methodology. This process or exercise of
‗Validation‘ demonstrating the reader what the lead research did to justify results or development. In
some validation methods testing development to prove it works or to see if it's possible to recreate
similar results like in quality research (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Using this theoretical approach
developing the evaluation tool and generating results is proof that it worked. This theoretical
approach showed off its abilities when I needed to redirect the data gathering techniques. Because I
was able to still generate qualitative and quantitative data from the involvement of primary
stakeholders and secondary stakeholders was only possible by using Agile principles. Agile
principles where applied by waiting for some stages to be developed while developing other stages in
the evaluation tool. This is how I was able to include empirical data as well instead of solely relying
on academic literature. Generating empirical data from the Customer Survey is validation that the
Agile principles worked (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social
Research, 2007).
In this master‘s thesis, the validation was from the Agile principals used, interactive research in
gathering data, validation from development and validation from the systematic literature review.
Validation from research quality, since most of the literature is used in Chapter 3 and 4, the Quality
of the research is used to define each stage and sub-stages using current prevalent modern
knowledge. Using modern literature ensure the early-stage evaluation tool is current and will not be
obsolete anytime soon. Evidence of validation from ‗Agile Principales‘ was the ability to maintain a
constant pace of development of the early-stage evaluation tool. Other project management methods
would have generated either little or sub-standard empirical data amounts and therefor lower
legitimacy. When working with institutions like Sparbanken Rekarne that have a lot of legislation in
place gathering credible data can only be done using their timelines. Deciding to develop the
evaluation tool while waiting for empirical data to be developed was evidence that Agile principals
worked, granted some delays in the data but credible data none the less. Satisfying Sparbanken
Rekarne development, Mälardalen University with the contribution of to innovation and design,
using their database and customers involvement from Sparbanken Rekarne was the primary goal.
Validation from Interactive Research
Validation from the early-stage evaluation tool also came from the process of performing interactive
research. The face to face, online and telephone meetings vas a form of endorsement. Divergent and
convergent conversations are proof of generating value for Sparbanken Rekarne. Validation from
developing and setting the framework for the early-stage evaluation stages. Confirmation can come
from different sources, from stakeholders developing the tool from Stefan Öhman (Sparbanken
Rekarne), Erik Lindhult (Mälardalen University) and Björn Fagerström (Mälardalen University) who
specialises in pre-project productions and development of projects from pre-post stages.
Validation from Development
Validation is also seeing the developing of the Hexagon Analysis to the Early-stage evaluation tool,
thoughout the master‘s thesis the Hexagon Analysis as a starting point lead to an evaluaiton tool with
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four cooperative and homogeneous stages in its application. Validation also came from systematic
literature review and different website content, using cross-referencing of data, I was able to fact
check on important data, find research gaps and using key elements in the development of the
prototype evaluation tool (University M. , 2020). Confirmation that interactive research in generating
qualitative and quantitative data of different forms of evaluation tools and specifically pre-project
evaluation tools. The proof is the hybridisation of the main inspiration evaluation tool. The proof of
valid research is implementing findings in the prototype evaluation tool. Completing the first stage of
Market Trend Analysis is itself a form of validation, this proves the interactive research methods
used worked and generated theoretical data for the development of the business case. The interactive
research validated the need for market research, this later generated data that was used for the next
step (Svensson, Ellström, & Brulin, 2007). Confirmation also came from successfully performing the
first stage and setting the framework, questions and process in performing a customer survey. The
affirmation and usefulness of this stage are that the research findings generated questions, these
questions to be used in for the next stage. Convenient sampling is validation that the information
being developed was useful (Ven, Engaged Scholarship A Guide for Organizational and Social
Research, 2007).
Validation of usefulness in the Customer Survey was the empirical research data, including
stakeholders early in the development process ensures and guarantees proof of a market. These
online questionnaire generated insight into how customers would react to market trends and concept
projects. Recognition from customer involvement and participation is proof that this early-stage
evaluation tool is important. Validation from the development team is present from co-creating the
questions, selecting the participants, launching the questionnaire and reviewing the results. These
qualitative and quantitative results are proof that the tool begins developed works perfectly with no
major problems.The data retrieved is then passed onto the next stage, validation that this stage
worked and ideas, and questions generated concept projects. Since the Octagon Analysis was not
performed but the development because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) systematic literature review
would reinforce claims and act as validation when cross-referencing the data (Government Offices of
Sweden, 2020). The literature acted as guidelines when using the evaluation tool, concept projects
that would be measured. This stage is important because here disruptive and simple projects are
measured and distinguished. Measured concept project that would be arranged according to
organisation business strategy.
Verification of Project Clustering came from reviewing other evaluation tools and finding the gaps,
the last stage of the tool focusing on organising multiple pre-projects. Recognition came from its
usefulness of bringing clarity and order for the organisation. Validation from bringing clarity that all
organisations need when creating an annual business strategy. The gaps with current evaluation tools
are neglecting the need of organising multiple pre-projects. This missed opportunity is the
verification of the need or organising pre-projects that is also based on literature findings and
organisations needs.
Validation from Björn Fagerström (Mälardalen University)
Mr Fagerström did not like that fact that a Customer journey Map was used in creating concept
projects. He stated the ‗Customer Journey Map‘ is a relevant tool for defining user patterns and
relevant touchpoints. He also mentioned the use of the Lean principles, its one of the most essential
aspects are push or pull factors in Lean principles. The researcher should always give the aim to pull
when possible and when entering into a new market. Design thinking and/or Lean start-up is also
relevant for this for an early-stage evaluation tool. When developing an early user cases its important
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to build early prototypes/digital models for pre-evaluation. During the zoom meeting we had he
categorized the tool as an evaluation tool prototype as a ‘Pre-study‘ evaluation tool.
Endorsement from Stefan Öhman (Sparbanken Rekarne)
After sending Stefan Öhman a summary of the complete tool he wrote a short email. Stating ‘I think
the 4 steps you describe is viable, the first part where you talk about what the model can do, I think
was very good. If the model can deliver, it will be really useful’ email from Stefan Öhman. This is
positive feedback from the stakeholder potentially using the prototype evaluation tool. Found the
early-stage evaluation tool interesting, especially the Octagon Analysis (Digitalization). Few project
that needs validation process since they are a lot more ongoing projects with Sparbanken
Rekarne.Sparbankstiftelsen (parent company) is in-charge to give grants for public and Sparbanken
Rekarne for organisations. This tool is useful when measuring big projects like Grants for
organisations like MDH Eskiltuna new campus. Innovation is impossible because of legislation
documentation range from 500 – 6 000 page documents. Stefan Öhman said ‗Market Trends
Analysis, Customer Survey, Octagon Analysis and Projects Clustering are useful because they seem
to work together‘. Octagon Analysis stage is important because it can stand as a standalone
evaluation workshop. Projects Clustering stages are also a good tool to chose which pre-projects is
easier to deal with (Sparbanksstiftelsen Rekarne, 2020).
Conclusion
In the course of this master‘s thesis project, with the involvement of stakeholders, I managed to
develop a prototype early-stage evaluation tool that was based on existing pre-evaluation tools.
Because of the limitation the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic I managed to validated
(based on Sparbanken Rekarne business case) two out of four stages in the prototype early-stage
evaluation tool (Government Offices of Sweden, 2020). Did I manage to answer the ‗RQ. What are
the perspectives and process of an early-stage evaluation for evaluating innovation project ideas?‘ I
think to some degree I did, with the help of stakeholders Erik Lindhult and Stefan Öhman to mention
a few. The strengths of the tool are the systematic literature review it's based on, the hybridisation of
proven and tested evaluation tool. This early-stage evaluation tools developed in this master‘s thesis
work in synergy with other stages, these intertwined stages generate cohesive data results that are
based on empirical data. Unlike most projects use multiple different evaluation tools like qualitative,
quantitative equations or algorithms. Using multiple evaluation tools can come seem scattered in
nature and some cases, the data can contradict the results. My contribution to the field of academic‘s
is in the inception of an early-stage evaluation tool for any type of organisation size. The evaluation
tool contributes to the field of pre-project managment in innvation and design. The lean principles
mean the evaluation tool can measure any type of project using the limitations of any organisation.
Most pre-project evaluation tools only measure disruptive technologies and not a spectrum of pre-
projects scopes (Disruptive and none disruptive pre-projects).
As the researcher who co-created this early-stage evaluation tool, I am a bit bias on its weakness. Not
fully testing the tool and collecting empirical data in the validation (coding and decoding) process.
Only implementing half of the tool was disappointing. Its possible the prototype tool had too many
stages or too few stages in the tool. Since the affirmation process was not completed a future study
would be to fully validate the evaluation tool. This tool needs perfect conditions to work properly.
The research team needs to have access to the end-user, the ability to have customer feedback
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(Customer Resource Management (CRM) department). The tool needs a proficient research team
that can collect data, a research team with high knowledge of the industry and previous projects of
the organisation. The research team needs to be able to hold productive workshop's with open
questions when measuring pre-project values. Specialists from different departments need to
contribute for example a team member for research and development, accounting, marketing and
logistic management contributions in the Octagon Analysis is imperative (Mugisha, 2020).
Future Development
For future development of the tool, I would have like to test the tool in the duration of the master‘s
thesis but because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, this was not the case (Government
Offices of Sweden, 2020). I would have like to research into the use of risk calculation (Standard
Deviation and Standard Error) and equations when measuring overall risks of the pre-projects after
the ‘Octagon Analysis‘. Testing and implementing methods like the Jacobi method is an iterative
algorithm for determining the solutions of a strictly diagonally dominant system (Merriam &
Tisdell, 2016). For the distant future, Once key principles could be established entering moving
from a workshop based development tool for the development team into a software version of the
early-stage evaluation tool, the tool to measure pre-project risk based on the organisation constraints.
That complies with future Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations (Intersoft Consulting Services,
2020).
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Fig 1. First Systematic Search Analysis (University M. , 2020).
Fig 2. Second Systematic Search Analysis (University M. , 2020).
Fig 3. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool (Mugisha, 2020).
Fig 4. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Market Trends Analysis) (Mugisha, 2020).
Fig 5. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Customer Survey) (Mugisha, 2020).
Fig 6. Octagon Analysis Evaluation Tool Visualisation () (Mugisha, 2020).
Fig 7. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Octagon Analysis) (Mugisha, 2020).
Fig 8. Early-Stage Evaluation Tool Visualisation (Projects Clustering) (Mugisha, 2020).
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