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An Overview of Service Design
Munoz-Seca, Beatriz; Arenas, RocioTechnical Note PN-478-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this note is to review service design and new service development literature. In order to provide a comprehensive outlook on the subject, the note starts by reviewing the main concepts of product development and their applicability to service design. It then proceeds to describe the main ideas regarding service design and their linkage to the world of operations.Starting at €8.20
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The Service Activity Sequence in Healthcare
Munoz-Seca, Beatriz; Arenas, RocioTechnical Note PN-485-EService and Operations ManagementImprovement in service operations is a key element in Health Care. Starting from the frame of reference provided by the Service Activity Sequence (SAS)[ [Muñoz-Seca, 2011], this note presents experiences on SAS activities. This note provides a brief summary of SAS and expands on examples on how health care providers are dealing with some of the SAS activities.Starting at €8.20
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Rabobank Corporate Netherlands: Turning the Smartphone into an Engine of Bottom-Line Growth
Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, NunoCase M-1286-EMarketingSet in late 2011, this case study enables the discussion of a bank's possibilities to develop new business amid drastic technological and macroeconomic changes promising to revolutionize the whole payment value chain. In particular, several emerging technologies - such as near-field communication (NFC) - promised to turn mobile payments into a trillion-dollar industry in a period of less than five years. The case invites students to step into the...Starting at €8.20
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Caesar IT Services. Marketing Multiple Value Propositions in one Firm - Teaching Note
Stremersch, Stefan; Bellezza, SilviaTeaching Note MT-31-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementThe Caesar case is pretty flexible and lends itself easily to the debate of the following four main topics: Conjoint Analysis, Ambidextrous Organization, Brand Endorsement and Implementation. Depending on the learning objectives, the case discussion can be tailored around any of the four foci. The teaching note deals in depth with each area of discussion and provides Professors with suggestions on how to lead class discussion.Starting at €0.00
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Alcatel-Lucent: Marketing the Cell Phone as a Mobile Wallet - Teaching Note
Camacho, Nuno; Verniers, Isabel; García Pont, Carlos; Stremersch, StefanTeaching Note MT-34-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingAlcatel-Lucent (ALU) was preparing itself for the launch of a new business: mobile payment services. Mobile payment involves transactions between consumers and merchants, or among consumers, using their mobilie phones, and the emergence of a new technology in which ALU had strong expertise - near-filed communication (NFC) - represented a huge opportunity, as analysts expected the market for mobile payments to explode in the coming years. Yet, ALU...Starting at €0.00
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Alcatel-Lucent: Marketing the Cell Phone as a Mobile Wallet
Camacho, Nuno; Verniers, Isabel; García Pont, Carlos; Stremersch, StefanCase M-1279-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingAlcatel-Lucent (ALU) was gearing up for the launch of a new business: mobile payment services. Mobile payment involves cash transactions between consumers and merchants or between consumers using their mobile phones. The emergence of a new technology in which ALU had strong expertise - near-filed communication (NFC) - represented a huge opportunity, as analysts expected the market for mobile payments to explode in the coming years. But to avoid p...Starting at €8.20
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Caesar IT Services: Audio version of M-1227-E case.
Stremersch, StefanCase CONFV-4057-ECaesar, a professional IT services firm, has competed in the Dutch IT market since 1993. Its initial value proposition was providing its customers with qualified human capacity at a low hourly or daily rate (often referred to as \'body-shopping\'). To escape the increasing commoditization of this type of service, the company formulated a new value proposition in 2003, so called TimeValue projects, consisting of the delivery of complete IT project...Starting at €8.20
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Demanda de nuevas prestaciones
Munoz-Seca, Beatriz; Arenas, RocioTechnical Note PN-489Service and Operations ManagementLa demanda de nuevas prestaciones o NFD (del inglés new features demand) es una nueva actividad en la estructura operativa de los servicios de una empresa. Su objetivo es sacar el máximo provecho de la interacción entre el agente que presta el servicio y el cliente. Esto se traduce en nuevos servicios y nuevas prestaciones para los servicios ya existentes. Las empresas sacarían mucho provecho de sus agentes de servicio extrayendo nuevas ideas que...Starting at €8.20
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Babcock: An Innovative Business Model in the Mining and Construction Industy
Stremersch, Stefan; Keko, ElioCase M-1329-EMarketingThe origin of Babcock's mining and construction fleet management capability can be traced to a few years before its mining and construction business was set up in 2011, following a contract between Babcock International Group and the British Ministry of Defense (MOD). Already a long-standing client of Babcock, the Ministry of Defense approached the company to a) optimize the ministry's C vehicle fleet (i.e., construction vehicles, plant and equip...Starting at €8.20
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Métodos de optimización japoneses
Arenas, Rocio; Munoz-Seca, BeatrizTechnical Note PN-490Service and Operations ManagementEn esta nota técnica presentamos una serie de herramientas de la industria de la fabricación japonesa. Tras examinar la literatura existente, hemos seleccionado cinco métodos específicos: 5S, Hoshin Kanri, Taguchi, Jidoka y Takt Time. Aunque han sido diseñadas para su aplicación en la industria de la fabricación, sería posible analizar su implantación en otros ámbitos. Su aplicación en el sector terciario, por ejemplo, podría dar lugar a nuevas ...Starting at €8.20