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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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El camión del futuro. El grupo de tecnología avanzada de ENASA
Riverola, Josep; Suárez-Cantón N.Case P-790Service and Operations ManagementEn 1991, Enasa, empresa pública diseñadora y fabricante de camiones y vehículos pesados, fue vendida por su propietario, el INI, a una compañía italiana. La dirección general de la empresa compradora declaró que estaba estudiando tanto si seguir o no con el desarrollo del camión del futuro como tratando de determinar qué era aprovechable de este proyecto. El planteamiento de la empresa se resumía en el siguiente dilema: ¿Se debía desarrollar el p...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Your Operating Model: Make IT a Strategic Asset by Developing a Clear Vision of the Role of IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3592BC-EService and Operations ManagementMany firms have not addressed the key question of how they want to profit and grow, and how IT can help create their platform. IT savvy firms, on the other hand, clarify what they are trying to do with IT by defining an operating model. In this chapter, Weil and Ross look at IT systems as tools for integration and standardization of business processes rather than an end solution. Using examples of companies like P&G, PepsiAmericas, and ING Direct...Starting at €8.20
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Revamping Your IT Funding Model: Extract More Value from Your IT Investments
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3593BC-EService and Operations ManagementWith the average firm spending over two thirds of its IT budget just on maintaining operating systems, it's vital that companies begin rethinking how they track and manage their IT funds. In this chapter, Weil and Ross provide extensive guidelines on how companies can compose an effective IT funding model. They stress the importance of establishing IT priorities and monitoring the risks and rewards of current and past investments. This chapter wa...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Digitized Platform: A Journey to Increased Value from IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3594BC-EService and Operations ManagementAs your company begins to expand, whether domestically or internationally, it is important that standardized systems are organized for all branches to maintain efficiency. To do this, your company has to build a digitized platform which focuses on three main areas: a shared IT infrastructure, consolidated data centers, and enhanced IT governance. In this chapter, Weil and Ross outline four stages of organizational learning that must take place in...Starting at €8.20
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Allocating Decision Rights & Accountability: Elements of Effective IT Governance
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3595BC-EService and Operations ManagementEvery firm, at some level, needs a digitized platform, or integrated set of electronic business processes, to operate effectively. The only way to deliver a digitized platform--and superior business value from IT--is to design IT decision rights and accountabilities so that daily decisions about IT support the firm's strategic goals. In this chapter, the authors explain the importance of transparency in IT governance and describe how a firm's gov...Starting at €8.20
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Propensa
Munoz-Seca, Beatriz; Suárez-Cantón N.Case P-826Service and Operations ManagementPropensa es una mediana empresa situada en las afueras de Madrid. Se ha concentrado primordialmente en dos tipos de productos: por un lado, como subcontratista de una empresa alemana, hacía unos cables especiales para ellos. Por otro, realizaba cables para clientes de electrodomésticos de pequeño tamaño. La feroz competencia del mercado único hace que se replantee sus operaciones al recibir noticias de que sus principales clientes están buscando ...Starting at €8.20
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King & Miranda: El proyecto Olivetti
Munoz-Seca, Beatriz; Suárez-Cantón N.Case P-814Service and Operations ManagementLa concepción del diseño de un nuevo teclado realizada por dos diseñadores afincados en Italia, trabajando conjuntamente con la empresa Olivetti. El nuevo teclado significaba la ruptura, por un lado, con la forma de utilización tradicional del usuario y, por otro, con la estructura de producción de la empresa. El diseño final surgió, no en base a una necesidad detectada, sino a un análisis y estudio profundo de las razones sociales y técnicas que...Starting at €8.20
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Alcatel: Proyecto Chip
Riverola, Josep; Suárez-Cantón N.Case P-803Service and Operations ManagementIntento por parte de la empresa de una diversificación comercial, para así poder enfocar recursos humanos excedentes surgidos como consecuencia de la crisis económica.Starting at €8.20
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Alcatel: El multiplexor flexible
Riverola, Josep; Suárez-Cantón N.Case P-802Service and Operations ManagementDiseño y ejecución de un multiplexor como respuesta a una necesidad detectada. Problemas en el rediseño de partes ya conocidas que debían ser reutilizadas, pertenecientes a anteriores desarrollos con características diferentes.Starting at €8.20