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Mire más allá: una herramienta para controlar el entorno de su empresa
Dávila Parra, Antonio; Oyon, Daniel; Parmigiani, Pilar; Schnegg, MaëlArticle ART-2715Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeDurante décadas, sistemas de gestión como el cuadro de mando integral han ayudado a los directivos a analizar el rendimiento de sus empresas. Aunque son útiles para alinear la estrategia, se necesitan otras herramientas que monitoricen el entorno, pues es ahí donde se encuentran las oportunidades y riesgos reales. Tras analizar cómo los cambios externos hacen triunfar a algunas empresas y fracasar a otras, los autores presentan un sistema de gest...Starting at €8.20
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Dow Chemical Co.: Big Data in Manufacturing - Teaching Note
Mustapha Cheikh-Ammar; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Darren Meister; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B17E014-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for product 9B17E014.Starting at €0.00
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Mercedes-Benz India
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shankar Venkatagiri; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11E009-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn December 2007, the management of Mercedes-Benz India (MBI), a fully owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, the 12th-largest automobile manufacturer in the world, has decided to relocate to a new facility near Pune in western India. In overseeing the installation of information technology (IT) infrastructure at the new premises, the company’s chief information officer (CIO) must deal with some managerial choices pertaining to IT architecture, IT tools...Starting at €8.20
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Security Breach at TJX
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B08E003-ECorporate Governance, Information TechnologiesThe chief security officer of TJX Companies Inc. (TJX) faces a dilemma on his first day on the job. The company has discovered in December 2006, a computer intrusion dating back to 2005. There is an ongoing investigation, involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into the attacks. The company is also in the middle of several class action law suits over losses suffered by financial institutions due to breaches of customer privacy. The ch...Starting at €8.20
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DataUnison: The eBay Reseller Strategy
Rebecca A. Grant; Meghan StothersCase IVEY-9B07E014-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesIn 2005, e-business was on the rise again, and one of the companies that was doing well was eBay, the most successful online auction website. In addition to generating revenue, transactions on eBay also produced a substantial amount of data about purchases, prices and products. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the 18-month-old company, Advanced Economic Research Systems, Inc. (AERS) analyzed this data for consumers and businesses interested i...Starting at €8.20
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RBC Mobile Wallet
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Binny Samuel; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16E008-EInformation TechnologiesIn October 2012, the executive vice-president (EVP) at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canada's leading bank, faced managerial dilemmas with regard to the launch of a mobile wallet. RBC had developed a cloud-based application that differed from industry standard SIM card–based payment methods. The EVP was evaluating areas of contrast between the two models as part of arriving at a decision. There was likelihood that the cloud solution was disrupt...Starting at €8.20
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Nuway Software
Derrick Neufeld; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B09E005-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesThe founder and president of Nuway Software (Nuway) must determine the pricing strategy for their new internally-developed mobile software product, Nulogic. Nuway develops custom mobile software applications that provide great competitive advantage to each of their customers; no two software modules it develops are similar. Nuway is now ready to market Nulogic as a stand-alone product and has identified three unique customer segments: Corporate i...Starting at €8.20
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HCL Technologies
Barbara L. Marcolin; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B12E004-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2011, HCLT ERS, a division of HCL Technologies, a global IT services corporation headquartered in New Delhi, India, had to devise next year’s plan for the Engineering Out Of The Box (EOOTB) business concept that it had initiated in 2009. EOOTB had facilitated the division’s ability to create “16 productized solutions” and to engage customers in new revenue services. The productized solutions were heavily reliant upon IT platform-based solution...Starting at €8.20
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Mudra Communications
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shankar Venkatagiri; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11E030-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2006, Mudra Communications, the third-largest advertising agency in India, is in the middle of an organizational transformation in which information technology (IT) is seen by the top management as pivotal. The IT setup is undergoing a transition at Mudra from manual systems to an Enterprise System (ES) which has been developed internally by the eight-member IT team led by executive vice president for technology Sebastian Joseph. As he gets re...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20