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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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What Do Customers Really Want (Spanish version)
Almquist, Eric; Lee, JasonArticle HBS-F0904GService and Operations ManagementA customer-research technique that requires respondents to make a sequence of explicit trade-offs when choosing their preferred product attributes can help companies get a far more accurate read on what customers desire.Starting at €8.20
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The B2B Elements of Value
Almquist, Eric; Cleghorn, Jamie; Sherer, LoriArticle HBS-R1802D-EService and Operations ManagementAs B2B offerings become more commoditized, the subjective, sometimes quite personal considerations of business customers are increasingly important in purchases. To discover what matters most to B2B buyers, the consulting firm Bain analyzed scores of quantitative and qualitative customer studies. All told, it identified 40 discrete "elements of value," which fall into five categories: table stakes, functional, ease of doing business, individual, ...Starting at €8.20
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What Do Customers Really Want
Almquist, Eric; Lee, JasonArticle HBS-F0904G-EService and Operations ManagementA customer-research technique that requires respondents to make a sequence of explicit trade-offs when choosing their preferred product attributes can help companies get a far more accurate read on what customers desire.Starting at €8.20
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Product–Market Alignment
Markou, Panos; Chao, Raul O.; Goldberg, Rebecca; Katz, Arnon; Kelly, A. MorganTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1706-EService and Operations ManagementThe ability to achieve product–market alignment (PMA) differentiates businesses that will thrive from those that will fail. Yet many find it difficult to create—and sustain—products that continuously generate value, even as their markets change. Traditionally, managers seeking to develop new products or reexamine current offerings have relied on frameworks that compare customer views on the desirability of various product features to the financia...Starting at €8.20