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Lean at Wipro Technologies (Spanish version)
Staats, Bradley R.; Upton, David M.Case HBS-608S07StrategyWipro Technologies, a rapidly growing software services firm based in India, decided to use principles from the Toyota Production System (also known as lean) to fundamentally change their operating model. Looks at why Wipro chose to use lean and how they went about implementing it in a novel context such as this. Provides detail of Wipro's internal and external environment, which was necessitating the change (shift from delivering a low-cost prod...Starting at €8.20
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The Classic Traps (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth MossArticle HBS-R0611CStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Never a fad, but always in or out of fashion, innovation gets rediscovered as a growth enabler every half dozen years. Too often, grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are quietly ...Starting at €8.20
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Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Edmondson, Amy C.Teaching Note HBS-607063-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (605-069) and (606-123). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Article HBS-R0707MAccounting and Controlthe inability to link a company's long-term strategy with its short-term financial goals. The scorecard lets managers introduce four new processes that help companies make that important link. The first process--translating the vision--helps managers build a consensus concerning a company's strategy and express it in terms that can guide action at the local level. The second--communicating and linking--calls for communicating a strategy at all l...Starting at €8.20
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How Companies Get Smarter: Taking Chances and Making Mistakes
Pfeffer, JeffreyBook Chapter HBS-2529BC-ECompanies often pay lip service to getting smarter, but few do what is required to accomplish that lofty goal. This chapter provides some examples and guidelines for how to think more deeply about organizational learning.Starting at €8.20
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Whole Truth, and Nothing But: The Value of Honesty in Organizations
Pfeffer, JeffreyBook Chapter HBS-2547BC-ETruth is an endangered species inside many contemporary organizations. In this chapter, the author discusses the virtues of building a culture where it is facts and evidence that drive decision making, and where telling the truth and admitting mistakes is the best road to success.Starting at €8.20
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Collaborating to Improve
Bohmer, Richard; Nembhard, Ingrid M.Case HBS-608054-EService and Operations ManagementMadison Memorial Hospital is deciding between a variety of quality improvement strategies. Highlights quality improvement collaboratives--organized programs popularized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in which teams from multiple institutions work together to improve care in a specified topic area (e.g., infection rates)--as a potential strategy. Allows debate around the criteria for selection of quality improvement strategies. Also m...Starting at €8.20
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Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A)
Edmondson, Amy C.; Moingeon, Bertrand; Dessain, Vincent; Jensen, Ane DamgaardCase HBS-608107-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going Forward. Through informal knowledge marketplaces and sharing networks, Danone had helped managers connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierar...Starting at €8.20
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Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Spanish version)
Edmondson, Amy C.; Moingeon, Bertrand; Dessain, Vincent; Jensen, Ane DamgaardCase HBS-610S14StrategyThis case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going Forward. Through informal knowledge marketplaces and sharing networks, Danone had helped managers connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierar...Starting at €8.20
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The Experience Trap
Sengupta, Kishore; Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.Article HBS-R0802F-EService and Operations ManagementWhen companies put seasoned managers in charge of important projects, they don't expect missed deadlines, budget overruns, and rampant defects. However, that's what researchers found when they tested hundreds of experienced project managers with computer games that simulated software development projects. The study, conducted by two professors from Insead and one from Naval Postgraduate School, strongly suggests that veterans in complex environme...Starting at €8.20