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By Mona Sinha, Stefan Thomke. 2010
Describes the Mumbai-based Dabbawala organization, which achieves very high service performance (6 Sigma equivalent or better) with a low-cost and…
very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges that the Dabbawala organization faces in a rapidly changing environment. An outside consultant proposes the introduction of new technologies and management systems, while the leading logistics companies (e.g., FedEx) come to Mumbai to learn about the Dabbawala system.By Sandra J. Sucher. 2010
By Gary P. Pisano, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. 2010
In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert sugarcane into both renewable…
fuels and renewable chemicals. The Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the research and development team and the operations group were building processes that could accommodate both as well. CEO John Melo hoped to have commercial product available in 2011; however, he realized that pursuing both chemicals and fuels added even more complexity to a business that was already executing multiple development steps in parallel. The case looks at the various strategic and operational decisions facing Melo as he planned the company's optimal commercialization strategy.By Vissanu Zumitzavan, Jonathan Michie. 2015
This book presents unique management perspectives from Thailand's Healthcare Industry. It focuses on the areas of Personal Knowledge Management, Leadership…
Styles and Organisational Performance. The book highlights the various business challenges that organisations face in the context of globalisation, which itself has produced new opportunities and difficulties alike. In addition, it also elaborates on how even large organisations with strong histories can no longer compete unless they are willing to adapt to changing conditions. Demonstrating how transferring and encouraging knowledge within an organisation can generate approaches that promote its continuing success, the book mainly focuses on the perspective of the Resource Based View, a broadly recognised method for maintaining the competitive advantages of an organisation. It also stresses the importance of making the most use of organisational resources. The book offers a valuable reference work, not only for practitioners and academic researchers in the fields of Business & Management but also for students taking Leadership Management, Organisational Learning and Organisational Performance Appraisal courses, serving as a sourcebook for the principles of successful management.By Noel Watson, Santiago Kraiselburd. 2009
In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Arag n, Spain, made public a project for the…
development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for Zaragoza Logistics Platform) would be by far the largest logistics park either built or under development in all of Europe. This case illustrates the motivations behind such an undertaking, the reasoning used in deciding the feasibility of the location of the park, and also the advantages (and disadvantages) related to the project. The case provides sufficient data to prepare an analysis from the point of view of a potential customer, where the cost advantage or disadvantage of locating a facility in Zaragoza (with respect to Rotterdam, a preferred European location) can be quantified, and where the parameters can be changed to determine the main drivers behind such a decision, and how changes in these drivers can affect the customer's analysis. The results are meant to serve as input for PLAZA management to understand which types of customers to target, and how to address the issues that could hinder the park's projected growth.By Amy C. Edmondson, Anita Tucker. 2009
The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to…
the top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of developing internal experts who are trained in a common methodology for making improvement and spreading these ideas in their work units.By Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Huckman, Jeremy L. Friese. 2008
Considers the situation facing Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), prior to the opening of BWH's integrated…
cardiovascular center. This case allows students to develop an appreciation of the strategic, financial, organizational, clinical, and physical aspects of integrating health care delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals--specifically, academic medical centers--face as they attempt to create disease-specific models of integrated care. Finally, students have the opportunity to evaluate the degree to which integrated models of care can be developed within academic medical centers.By Nora S. Stampfl. 2010
Auch wenn ihre Märkte nach wie vor rasant wachsen, die Dienstleistungsökonomie der modernen Wissensgesellschaft befindet sich im Umbruch. In dem…
Band wird die gesamte Dienstleistungslandschaft in den Blick genommen: Aus einem Verständnis der gegenwärtigen Situation heraus werden Entwicklungslinien in die Zukunft gezeichnet, Triebkräfte der Entwicklung beschrieben und die Grundzüge einer neuen Dienstleistungswelt dargestellt. Entwicklungstendenzen und Hintergründe des Wandels werden nachvollziehbar beschrieben und mit Beispielen illustriert.By Alessandra Cozzolino. 2011
Humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest both from logistics academics and practitioners as a result of the dramatic increase in…
both natural and man-made disasters. The impact on affected populations can be all the more limited as much as the logistics operations in response to emergencies are effective and efficient. Collaboration with various relevant actors involving in the emergency resolution can help to reduce costs, increase speed, and improve the leanness/agility level in the humanitarian supply chain, and viceversa, poor coordination among them is cited as an explanation for performance gaps. As disasters become increasingly complex better collaboration not only with government agencies, military units, humanitarian organizations, but also through partnerships with private business becomes more and more important. However, such partnerships are not easy as organizations in the two sectors are extremely different. The main aim of this study is exploring more in depth the partnership between profit and non-profit in emergency relief operations, with a specific attention to the cross-learning potential for both the logistics service provider (profit) and the humanitarian organization (non-profit).By Roy D. Shapiro. 2006
Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated sharply.…
The process is complex: the plant organization is not cooperative, and there are deep disagreements about what is wrong and how to fix it. Provides an opportunity to analyze yields and productivity, as well as the organizational and personal challenges inherent in line-staff interaction.CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse. And Then the…
Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the U.S. government in letting that greed rule the day. Written by CNBC's David Faber, this book painstakingly details the truth of what really happened with compelling characters who offer their first-hand accounts of what they did and why they did it. Page by page, Faber explains the events of the previous seven years that planted the seeds for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He begins in 2001, when the Federal Reserve embarked on an unprecedented effort to help the economy recover from the attacks of 9/11 by sending interest rates to all time lows. Faber also gives you an up-close look at where the crisis was incubated and unleashed upon the world-Wall Street-and introduces you to insiders from investment banks and mortgage lenders to ratings agencies, that unwittingly conspired to insure lending standards were abandoned in the head long rush for profits. Based on two years of research, this book provides deep background into the current credit crisis. Offers the insights of experienced professionals--from Alan Greenspan to prominent bankers and regulators--who were on the front lines. Created by David Faber, the face of morning business news on CNBC, and host of the network's award winning documentaries. From regulators who tried to stop this problem before it swung out of control to hedge fund managers who correctly foresaw the coming housing crash and profited from it, And Then the Roof Caved In shows you how the crisis we currently face came to be.By Richard Bohmer, Erika M. Ferlins. 2006
Provides a detailed description of the way in which several improvements and innovations in clinical care were arrived at. Describes…
individual insights, how these were evaluated and validated, and how they were translated into improved medical practices. The changes in medical care include improvements in primary care, intensive care, and inpatient ward care. Detailed descriptions of each innovation are provided, along with a description of the processes of innovation, generation, and capture. It relates closely to Intermountain (A), which describes the organizational structure Intermountain has put in place to support these processes.By Xianzhi Zhang. 2015
This book is mainly about facilitating the dissemination of management control, a field now finding application at a growing number…
of organizations, among commercial practitioners. It provides essential insights on management control as applied to Chinese enterprises and cross-border organizations. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 provides the necessary background and framework for a discussion on enterprise management control standards, while Part 2 introduces a basic standard for enterprise management control. Part 3 introduces application guidelines for enterprise management control standards, and lastly Part 4 presents several case studies on the application of enterprise management control standards.By Stephen P. Kaufman. 2006
Having already made 10 acquisitions of competitors in the last decade, the CEO of Arrow is evaluating the acquisition of…
another small competitor to boost sales, become #1 in a niche market segment, and achieve economies of scale. He is struggling with whether the deal makes strategic sense given forecasts that this niche segment is declining, whether the price is too high given the competitor's lack of profitability, and how to integrate the company into Arrow to maximize its value if he does the deal. Provides information to permit valuing the acquisition and developing a post-merger integration strategy and plan.By John S. Hammond. 2006
Coolidge (CKC), a chemical manufacturer, is being sued for patent infringement. The plaintiffs are the patent holder and its sole…
licensee, who is also a CKC competitor. An analyst at CKC has done a breakeven decision analysis from CKC's perspective, balancing going to court with settling out of court, but no analysis has been done for the plaintiffs.By Richard Luecke. 2004
This chapter describes the financing requirements that businesses typically encounter in different phases of the business life cycle, from start-up…
to maturity. It also provides an overview of the sources they turn to in securing financing during those phases. Two types of business--lifestyle and entrepreneurial--illustrate the general course of financing from start-up through expansion.By Richard Luecke. 2004
One key issue every entrepreneur must address when starting a new business is the legal form the enterprise will adopt.…
This chapter covers the various legal forms of organization available to U.S. businesses, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and determining which form is best for you.By Richard Luecke. 2004
Entrepreneurial people are always generating ideas for potential businesses. But how can they sift through these ideas and recognize the…
few that represent true business opportunities? This chapter lists the five characteristics of a genuine opportunity, explores where to look for such opportunities, and defines the process of evaluating them--all essential steps to establishing profitable new ventures.By Geoffrey G. Jones, Bjoern Von Siemens. 2010
This case describes the nineteenth century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role…
as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially rested on its pioneering role in the new telegraph industry. Werner sent his brothers to open businesses in Great Britain and Russia, and the case explores the advantages and disadvantages of family business as a form of organization, as well as the challenges growing it poses for such family firms.By Noam Wasserman. 2008
Vivek Khuller has built Smartix by attracting classmates to co-found it with him, learning how to pitch it to top…
VC firms and potential strategic partners, and honing the concept and business model by testing it in smaller venues. Now, he is facing the implications of the choices he has made in each of these areas and has to decide how to manage those implications.