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Knowledge Management at Siemens Spain
Grau, Amèrica; Lara E.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, SandraCase SI-145-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes knowledge management initiatives at Siemens Spain, with a special emphasis on building communities of practice. The case also examines how this approach fits with the global Siemens strategy, with its commitment to knowledge sharing and continuous innovation. This case won the "2005 ECCH/Business Week European Case Awards" in the category "Knowledge, Information & Communication Systems Management".Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobility Technology (A)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-168-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationIn 2006, Indo, an optics manufacturer, decided to change the working method of its sales division for glasses. Physical material was replaced with online information that facilitated the work of the sales personnel and ensured they always had the most up-to-date information. But the new system was not completely accepted by clients, who were used to touching the product. Even some members of the sales staff were wary about changing an effective w...Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobily Technology (B)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-169-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationAfter introducing a new sales system for glasses as a pilot program, Indo, an optical company, expanded the scope of its experiment to check the results. The case study describes how the sales personnel and clients accepted the change from a partially computerized system to one that was thoroughly computerized.Starting at €5.74
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Comercial Nacional (A)
Ballarín Fredes, Eduardo; Izquierdo, A.Case ASE-120-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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InfoJobs.net
Gaynor P.; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sieber, SandraCase SI-137-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationInfoJobs.net is a web site specialized in matching companies in need of personnel with people in the labour market. It has more than half a million CVs in its database and twenty thousand active job offers posted daily. The case presents the dilemma facing InfoJob's General Manager when the world's largest player in the online recruitment market, Monster.com, brings its massive advertising and technological firepower to bear on the Spanish market...Starting at €8.20
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Seat Sport: Knowledge on the move
Cáliz, Cristina; Miller, Georgina; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sieber, SandraCase SI-117-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe case describes how, starting from scratch, Seat Sport has acquired the necessary knowledge and capabilities to compete successfully in local rallies. Now, as his team looks set to start competing at world level, Vicente Aguilera, President of Seat Sport, is wondering what kinds of knowledge he will need to develop within the division and what kind of specialists the team will need in order to be able to compete successfully in the new categor...Starting at €8.20
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Terra Lycos
Perry, Gaynor; Oliver C.; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sieber, SandraCase SI-130-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationIn May 2000, the leading Spanish language portal and Internet Access Provider (IAP), Terra, announced that they were to buy the fourth ranking US portal, Lycos, for $12.5 billion in stock. This merger enabled Terra to expand from Spanish and Portugese speaking markets to become a global player. However, the continued success of the big three portals, AOL, MSN and Yahoo!, has kept Terra Lycos amongst the second tier of portal companies. Against a ...Starting at €8.20
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Consumer Electronics in Catalonia (B): The Industry in the 21st Century
Blázquez, María Luisa; Ballarín Fredes, EduardoCase DG-1428-EStrategyThe case describes the changes that took place in the consumer electronics industry between 1995 and 2000 at world level and analyses how the Barcelona cluster evolved during this period. It then describes the development of one of the firms in the cluster, Hewlett-Packard, which stopped being a manufacturing centre and instead became a product development centre. Manufacturing was transferred to other countries, while higher value added activiti...Starting at €5.74
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Prous Science: Adapting business to the technological revolution
Merlini, A.; Estévez, A.; Sieber, SandraCase SI-119-EKnowledge and CommunicationProus Science has been providing information and information services on drug R&D, pharmacology, medicine and medicinal chemistry since 1958. From its beginnings it has favored technological innovation, and over the years the company's products have evolved through the years from print journals to diskette- and CD-ROM-based databases to classic online files and the newest electronic formats. The Internet option has since been complemented by Intr...Starting at €8.20
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Unión Fenosa Corporate University: Teaching and Learning from Experience
Grau, Amèrica; Lara E.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, SandraCase SI-146-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes the creation of a corporate university at Unión Fenosa, a Spanish utilities company, in a way that is consistent with the company's intellectual capital model and its commitment to knowledge and training. The company has successfully transformed itself from a regional utility into a multinational energy business. In the process, the workforce has tripled while the number of employees engaged in the original business activities...Starting at €8.20