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Cómo el diseño puede mejorar la rentabilidad y el impacto social
Sosa, Manuel E.Article ART-3169Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementMuchos directivos enfocan los problemas con la mentalidad de un ingeniero: hacer bien un producto y asegurarse de que funciona. Los diseñadores, en cambio, se preguntan primero si el producto en cuestión es el más adecuado. En este artículo, el autor expone cómo las empresas pueden crear una cultura del diseño y pone como ejemplos el EGGS Design de Oslo y el ArtCenter College of Design de Pasadena. También explica que la clave para conseguirlo es...Starting at €8.20
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How Design Can Boost Social Impact and Business Results
Sosa, Manuel E.Article ART-3169-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementMany managers approach problems with an engineering mindset: build it the right way and make sure it works. Designers, on the other hand, approach problems with the question: are we building the right thing in the first place? In this article, the author discusses how companies can build a design culture, using examples from EGGS Design in Oslo, Norway, and ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. The key, he says, is to bring togethe...Starting at €8.20
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Kindred Home Care: Choosing Growth Options - Teaching Note
David Barrett; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B19D024-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19D024.Starting at €0.00
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South East Grey Community Health Centre: Journey to Rural Expansion - Teaching Note
David Barrett; Vania SakelarisTeaching Note IVEY-8B20D008-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20D008.Starting at €0.00
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McMaster Family Health Team: Culture Evolution - Teaching Note
David Barrett; Vania SakelarisTeaching Note IVEY-8B20D009-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20D009.Starting at €0.00
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South East Grey Community Health Centre: Journey to Rural Expansion
David Barrett; Vania SakelarisCase IVEY-9B20D008-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2019, the clinical director of the South East Grey Community Health Centre was conflicted about whether to proceed with presenting the chief executive officer with a proposal to expand the health centre's primary services to a satellite location in theStarting at €8.20
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InteraXon Inc.'s Muse: Aligning the Supply Chain - Teaching Note
David Barrett; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B17D011-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B17D011.Starting at €0.00
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Sus ingenieros hablan entre s cuando deben hacerlo
Sosa, Manuel E.; Eppinger, Steven D.; Rowles, Craig M.Article HBS-R0711JService and Operations ManagementLa comunicación no puede estar en la mente de los gerentes en empresas que diseñan productos complejos y de alta ingeniería, pero debería ser. Cuando se producen errores, a menudo es porque los equipos de los componentes del producto no pueden hablar. Las consecuencias pueden ser enormes: Ford y Bridgestone Firestone perdieron mil millones por no coordinar el diseño de la Explorer con el diseño de sus neumáticos. Los principales retrasos y sobrec...Starting at €8.20
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PATH and the Safe Water Project: Making Safe Water Products More Affordable
Zenios S; Denend L; Elliott TCase SGSB-OIT109-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThis case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to evaluate to what extent market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage products by low-income ...Starting at €8.20
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Saint Elizabeth: Innovation in Health Care
David Barrett; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16D025-EService and Operations ManagementSaint Elizabeth, a leading Canadian health-care enterprise, had been managing innovation through what it called the Innovation Tripod. This had three components—Ideas (which involved generating innovative ideas from among employees), Solutions (involving outside ventures in innovation), and Impact (consisting of ways in which results were measured). The chief executive officer (CEO) was facing a dilemma with each element of the tripod. How could ...Starting at €8.20