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Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A) (Spanish Version)
Thomke, Stefan; Nimgade, AshokCase HBS-604S22Service and Operations ManagementDescribe cómo Siemens, el gigante de la ingeniería eléctrica alemana, ha desarrollado y gestiona I + D global en su gran Información y Redes de Comunicaciones división (ICN). En 1994, Siemens abrió su centro de Bangalore (India), que ahora se ha convertido en uno de sus mayores centros regionales de desarrollo fuera de Alemania. Con Bangalore pidiendo una mayor independencia y autonomía de gestión de recursos, la alta dirección tiene que decidir ...Starting at €8.20
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Bank of America (A) (Spanish version)
Thomke, Stefan; Nimgade, AshokCase HBS-606S31Service and Operations ManagementDescribe cómo Bank of America es la creación de un sistema para la innovación de productos y servicios en su negocio de banca minorista. Se hace hincapié en el papel de la experimentación en algunos "laboratorios" de dos docenas de la vida real que sirven como plenamente operativos sucursales bancarias y como sitios para probar nuevas ideas y conceptos. Se centra en: 1) cómo aprender de la experimentación puede ser maximizada; 2) sistemas de ince...Starting at €8.20
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Engineer Ownership Through Anticipatory Management: Address Employee and Customer Needs Before They Arise
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3830BC-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizations that engineer customer and employee ownership learn to predict and respond to customers' needs before they arise. Technology and information systems can be a great help in this endeavor. But just as important are the combined efforts from all parts of the organization-especially marketing, operations, human resources, and information technology-working seamlessly together to help frontline employees deliver value to customers. This ...Starting at €8.20
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Sustain Your Success: Foster Employee and Customer Ownership to Lock in Success
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3832BC-EService and Operations ManagementGoogle, the company "Fortune" magazine recently identified as the best place to work in the U.S., offers an inspiring example of management practices that engage employee and customer owners to help create the value that both groups desire. But Google, like so many other companies, faces the challenge of how to lock in this success. According to the authors, the key to overcoming this challenge is a relentless focus on innovating and improving th...Starting at €8.20
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BMW AG: The Digital Auto Project (B) (Spanish Version)
Thomke, Stefan; Nimgade, AshokCase HBS-606S12Service and Operations ManagementComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Build Ownership into Your Strategic Value Vision: Deliver Value for Customers and Employees
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3826BC-EService and Operations ManagementA strong customer and employee ownership quotient starts with developing a strategy that delivers differentiated, customized value to these parties. To build a strategy that fosters ownership, you need to think systematically about questions such as these: which customers do you want to serve? What specific, customized results are you trying to deliver for them? Will your approach differentiate you from competitors? Will your customers and employ...Starting at €8.20
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Leverage Value Over Cost: Developing Customer and Employee Ownership
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3827BC-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizations that foster customer and employee ownership gain an edge on the competition by designing their operating strategies and systems to leverage value over cost. They carefully align all the elements of the strategic value vision to create a unified, self-reinforcing enterprise focused on ownership-and in the process they achieve enviable margins. They pay particular attention to what the authors call "deep indicators," or key value leve...Starting at €8.20
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Build a Strong and Adaptive Ownership Culture
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3831BC-EService and Operations ManagementWhy is it that many of the same companies appear on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their industries? What do managers at the best places to work understand that others don't? They understand that the identification of organization values is meaningless without a determination of the behaviors, measures, and actions that reinforce the values. They understand that strong and adap...Starting at €8.20
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Auditing Ownership: Measuring Your Organization's Employee and Customer Ownership Capabilities
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3833BC-EService and Operations ManagementIs your organization capable of making the transition to an ownership state of mind, focusing on the kinds of practices and processes that foster and sustain employee and customer owners? This chapter provides a tool for assessing your ownership capabilities. The ownership audit is intended as more than just a checklist of "must do's" to achieve a higher level of employee and customer ownership in your organization. It is designed to be used peri...Starting at €8.20
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Pfizer Inc.: Building an Innovation Center
Thomke, Stefan; Nimgade, AshokCase HBS-609037-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes Pfizer's efforts to build and run an innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the center goes through different periods of leadership and strategic models, its relationship with the corporation and other research sites is explored. The case study describes in detail the challenges of building an innovation center within a large corporation, including organization, incentives, and scientific issues. Subjects Covered: I...Starting at €8.20