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Organizational Design at iQmetrix: The Holacracy Decision
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Clayton CaswellCase IVEY-9B17C045-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSoftware development company iQmetrix Software Development Corporation (iQmetrix), headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, had enjoyed success and growth for over two decades. In July 2017, iQmetrix was confronted with the challenge of managing this growth while maintaining its organizational culture as a non-hierarchical, innovative, and open place to work—a place where the best ideas could come from anywhere and where people shared ideas openly and...Starting at €8.20
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iQmetrix-Humanity: Negotiating a Partner Agreement - David Charron's Perspective
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Maurice ThibodeauExercise IVEY-9B16C025-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to product 9B16C024.Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise: Managing Editor Role
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostExercise IVEY-9B17C050-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the Newstar Magazine exercise, participants are assigned one of three roles—managing editor, publisher, or board chair—and provided with information about personnel difficulties that have emerged at the independent Canadian magazine. The organization is small, financially strapped, and conflict has appeared within the magazine’s leadership. The objective of the exercise is to understand the source of this conflict and ultimately to resolve it....Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise: Board Chair Role
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostExercise IVEY-9B17C052-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the Newstar Magazine exercise, participants are assigned one of three roles—managing editor, publisher, or board chair—and provided with information about personnel difficulties that have emerged at the independent Canadian magazine. The organization is small, financially strapped, and conflict has appeared within the magazine’s leadership. The objective of the exercise is to understand the source of this conflict and ultimately to resolve it....Starting at €8.20
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iQmetrix-Humanity: Negotiating a Partner Agreement-Maurice Thibodeau's Perspective
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Maurice ThibodeauExercise IVEY-9B16C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementThis negotiation exercise simulates the 2015 negotiation between senior leadership at iQmetrix, a Regina-based point of sale software firm, and Humanity, a San Francisco-based provider of a human resources module that iQmetrix seeks to bundle into its software product. The exercise is unique in that it occurs in a mediated environment where both parties only interact over email. There is no face-to-face interaction, leaving both sides to negotiat...Starting at €8.20
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Driscoll's of Europe: ¿cómo abordar el mercado europeo?
Villafuerte Martin, AntonioCase IIST-MI-103Marketing, StrategyDriscoll´s of Europe (DoE) había sido fundada en marzo de 2009 por la californiana Driscoll´s Strawberry Associates, Inc. (en adelante, Driscoll"s) ?el mayor comercializador mundial de frutas del bosque- y la española Alconeras, con el 80% y el 20% del capital, respectivamente. Con sede en Breda (Holanda), su objetivo era aumentar las ventas de las variedades de Driscoll´s en el mercado de Europa continental, desarrollar una sólida posición de la...Starting at €8.20
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Driscoll's of Europe: How to Approach the European Market
Villafuerte Martin, AntonioCase IIST-MI-103-E-EMarketing, StrategyDriscoll's of Europe (DoE) was founded in March 2009 by the California Driscoll's Strawberry Associates, Inc. (hereinafter, Driscoll's)-the largest marketer of wild berries and Spanish-Alconeras with 80 % and 20% stake respectively. Based in Breda (Netherlands), its aim was to increase sales of Driscoll's varieties in the continental European market, developing a strong brand position in this market and consolidate production of these varieties i...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Gestiona
Villafuerte Martin, AntonioCase IIST-MI-109MarketingEn julio de 2011, los socios fundadores de Grupo Gestiona (consultora de empresas y autónomos de pequeño-mediano tamaño del Sur de España) deben afrontar una serie de decisiones para frenar la caída de ventas que el negocio experimentaba desde 2009, fruto de la crisis económica y financiera del país. Las alternativas que barajan son: i) apoyar más una de las líneas de negocio (el área de Tecnologías de la información y Comunicación) que el resto;...Starting at €8.20
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Cascajares: Desarrollando vías para llegar al mercado
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio; Vidal, AnyluCase IIST-MI-125MarketingCascajares es una empresa dedicada a la producción y comercialización de productos cárnicos de IV y V gama. Sus productos -con una imagen de producto gourmet y alto precio- se dirigen al canal HORECA y tiendas de alimentación a través de una red de distribuidores; a El Corte Inglés, y directamente a consumidores a través de su tienda online. Ante una bajada de las ventas debido el desplome de la economía en España (su principal mercado), el equip...Starting at €8.20
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Sayco: lanzando al mercado el nuevo servicio aplicca: (A)
Villafuerte Martin, AntonioCase IIST-MI-127MarketingEn marzo de 2013, la fundadora de Sayco se planteaba el lanzamiento de un nuevo e innovador servicio: una aplicación a través de la web de la empresa denominada Applicca, que permitía a sus clientes del canal Horeca poder trabajar ellos mismos el documento de obligado cumplimiento legal llamado de “auto-control”. La principal preocupación era cómo lanzar al mercado este nuevo servicio rápidamente y sin perjudicar el resto de las actividades de la...Starting at €8.20