In other words, the results seem to suggest that the use of remote work apps, in particular through the use of Slack, positively impacts the tendency of a startup to engage in and support new ideas, novelty, experimentation, and creative processes that may result in new products, services, or technological processes. Also, the results indicate that remote work apps, in particular through the use of Whatsapp, also play a positive role in improving the
processes aimed at anticipating and acting on future needs of a startup by seeking new opportunities. Lastly, the results have shown a lower influence of using remote work apps on the degree to which managers are willing to make large and risky resource commitments. When asked about whether or not the interviewees agreed with the survey analysis, the
results indicate that unanimity regarding the EO drivers of startups under such circumstances was not achieved, posing a significant doubt regarding the generalization of the results obtained according with the performed survey. Approximately 35% of the interviewees has reported increases in productivity due to remote work providing an evidence that some
organizations may successfully make
the transition towards a remoteIn this thesis the term information-seeking behaviour refers an holistic process that is complicated; often social, emotional and interactive; and requires decision-making and interpretive skills to deal with information that may range from simple fact gathering to extremely complex data analysis, problem-solving and the creation of new information. Information-seeking in this context is more than just looking for information. It
represents a fundamental set of behaviours and strategies for dealing with the complexities of dealing with information in a landscape that is constantly changing due to developments in technology. This study examines how a specific group of young people aged between 18 and 22 (upper ages of the Net Generation) use a range of technologies and the Internet to locate and interpret information. The focus of this study is on the behaviours, and feelings
by the information seeker rather than the delivery mode or the contextThe Net Generation is a term first used by Donald Tapscott (1998) to describe young people using technology when the Internet first became publically available in the United States of America in 1995-1997. For Tapscott, children born after 1984, the date used in this thesis, is used to define members of
the Net Generation Other popular
labels used to distinguish this group include Millenials, Generation Y and Generation Z. The attributes Tapscott assigned to this group include both technical aptitude and a different attitude (confidence) to using technology. Both aptitude and attitude were used as a baseline to develop Phase One of the research, the anonymous Web survey. Tapscott’s observations about the Net generation are discussed at length in Chapter Two in this thesis.To examine
how young people are using the Internet and electronic resources for information-seeking, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. A Web questionnaire was used to collect some baseline, empirical data about the types of technologies used by a group of young people and how they feel about their technology use. The anonymous nature of the
questionnaire allowed participants to participate without prejudice. The Web questionnaire was followed by two tasks conducted with forty volunteer participants (20 males and 20 females) who exhibited a range of attributes associated with levels of use and confidence as determined by an ING (Index of Net Gen-ness) metric. The ING metric was calculated using the results of the Web questionnaire to describe each participant’s levels of use (Effective
Domain and confidence Affective
Using the metric allowed for an holistic description of each participant, rather than basing the description on levels of use as the single determining factor. The tasks were recorded using theThe empirical data from the Web survey in the literature. Subsequently, the pilot test was conducted with the CEO of healphant, which has also provided his approval on the questionnaire’s comprehensibility, stating that he was able to understand and answer to all
the posed questions. This thesis explores this hypothesis to determine if the postulated attributes of the Net Generation actually mean young people are tech- savvy as well as information-savvyFirst coined by Prensky (2001), this descriptor has now become an acceptable term in the English language and is defined in the Collins Dictionary as ‘a person who has been familiar with information technology since childhood’ (Collins, 2013). Prensky (
2001) uses the term to describe young people as ‘native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet’ and maintains that young people have a different way of learning and seeking information predicated on their proximity to technology. Prensky’s idea of a digital native used observations and attributes assigned to this group by Donald Tapscott (1998) in an earlier study. The term digital native has significant and ongoing
productivity gains. In addition, given the uncertainty related to the pandemic timespan, most of the interviewed CEOs/Co-Founders confessed that if they could go back, they would have started to implement remote work practices earlier. Nevertheless, no one possesses a “crystal ball” that enables one to foresee the future in such circumstances, requiring for decisions to be made with its inherent opportunity costs. Notwithstanding, the results obtained in this work
Conclusion
provide hints about how startups may shape its attitudes and decisions towards enhancing its EO and consequently improve its capacity of becoming financially stable and resilient within the first five years of operation. This can be achieved not only in terms of attitude changes in EO dimensions but also in terms of the remote work tools to use within the firmTelemedicine has significantly evolved in the past century and today mobile, consumer-driven technology
trends are quickly impacting the field of telemedicine. The impacts deriving from the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have led both to an increased importance of telemedicine in Portugal and remote work. As a telemedicine startup and the main motivation to develop this work, healphant was founded aiming to address the negative SARS-CoV-2 outbreak negative impacts in healthcare. The company has been operating remotely until the current date and it
has registered over 110 doctors and 380 patients, being that over 250 medical consultations were performed through healphant app. As a side note, the author of this thesis has worked in healphant since its foundation. Regarding the status quo of telemedicine in Portugal, OECD reports on digital health indicate a considerable development in terms of Telemonitoring, Teleradiology and Teledermatology nationalwise. Nevertheless, the same reports indicate



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