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Defining Your Operating Model: Make IT a Strategic Asset by Developing a Clear Vision of the Role of IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3592BC-EService and Operations ManagementMany firms have not addressed the key question of how they want to profit and grow, and how IT can help create their platform. IT savvy firms, on the other hand, clarify what they are trying to do with IT by defining an operating model. In this chapter, Weil and Ross look at IT systems as tools for integration and standardization of business processes rather than an end solution. Using examples of companies like P&G, PepsiAmericas, and ING Direct...Starting at €8.20
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Revamping Your IT Funding Model: Extract More Value from Your IT Investments
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3593BC-EService and Operations ManagementWith the average firm spending over two thirds of its IT budget just on maintaining operating systems, it's vital that companies begin rethinking how they track and manage their IT funds. In this chapter, Weil and Ross provide extensive guidelines on how companies can compose an effective IT funding model. They stress the importance of establishing IT priorities and monitoring the risks and rewards of current and past investments. This chapter wa...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Digitized Platform: A Journey to Increased Value from IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3594BC-EService and Operations ManagementAs your company begins to expand, whether domestically or internationally, it is important that standardized systems are organized for all branches to maintain efficiency. To do this, your company has to build a digitized platform which focuses on three main areas: a shared IT infrastructure, consolidated data centers, and enhanced IT governance. In this chapter, Weil and Ross outline four stages of organizational learning that must take place in...Starting at €8.20
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Allocating Decision Rights & Accountability: Elements of Effective IT Governance
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3595BC-EService and Operations ManagementEvery firm, at some level, needs a digitized platform, or integrated set of electronic business processes, to operate effectively. The only way to deliver a digitized platform--and superior business value from IT--is to design IT decision rights and accountabilities so that daily decisions about IT support the firm's strategic goals. In this chapter, the authors explain the importance of transparency in IT governance and describe how a firm's gov...Starting at €8.20
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You May Not Need Big Data After All
Ross, Jeanne W.; Beath, Cynthia M.; Quaadgras, AnneArticle HBS-R1312F-EInformation TechnologiesWhy do companies have so little to show for their investments in big data? The biggest reason is that they aren't doing a good job using the data they already have. They don't know how to manage the information embedded in their operating systems, analyze it in ways that enhance their understanding, and then make changes in response to new evidence and insights. The few companies that have adopted evidence-based decision making ensure that all de...Starting at €8.20
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Li & Fung 2012
McFarlan, F. Warren; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-312102-EKnowledge and CommunicationMidway through its current three-year plan, Li & Fung stop to assess the path it is taking in extending its distribution network business in Asia.Starting at €8.20
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China Vanke (A-2)
Paine, Lynn S.; Macomber, John D.; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-314105-EChina Vanke's president and his team must decide on a plan of action after reviewing the quality issues the company faced in early 2012 after a series of highly publicized incidents concerning the quality of the homes they built.Starting at €8.20
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China Vanke: Supplement
Paine, Lynn S.; Macomber, John D.; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-314108-EStarting at €8.20
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Korea
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Schlefer, Jonathan; Wong, Keith Chi-ho; Yamazaki, MayukaCase HBS-715047-EEconomicsSouth Korea's economic success and its transition from authoritarianism to democracy teach important lessons in national strategy and political economy. Now, though, its famous chaebols may need reform, the population is aging, and relations with the North are as tense as ever. What should the country's leaders do?Starting at €8.20
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Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
McFarlan, F. Warren; Abrami, Regina; Kirby, William C.; Manty, Tracy Yuen; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-308058-EWith an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry, and to develop into a broad business conglomerate. Beginning in 1994, when it first began its operations in the United States, Wanxiang started to expand its role as a parts supplier into a discerning acquirer of distressed c...Starting at €8.20