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Siembre creatividad y cosechará innovación
Miller, Paddy; Brankovic, AzraArticle ART-2049Innovation and ChangeEn los últimos años muchas empresas han dado pasos para formalizar la innovación a través de medidas como la creación de un departamento específico con su director correspondiente. Curiosamente, esta tendencia coincide con un periodo de crisis económica, lo que puede interpretarse como el reconocimiento cada vez más extendido de que el camino a seguir pasa por la innovación, porque a largo plazo será la que determine la posición de una empresa en...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Creative Culture for Innovation
Miller, Paddy; Brankovic, AzraArticle ART-2049-EInnovation and ChangeOver the past couple of years, many companies have been taking steps to formalize the innovation function, creating a separate innovation office and appointing a Chief Innovation Officer (CIO). Interestingly, this development coincides with a period of economic crisis, and may signal a growing recognition that the way forward is innovation, which will ultimately affect or condition a company's industry position over the long term. As companies fo...Starting at €8.20
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Clearing the Path to Innovation
Miller, Paddy; Wedell-Wedellsborg, ThomasArticle ART-2316-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementFostering innovation is not just about getting people to think differently. If you want to make innovation happen, you need to change the way people act or behave in their daily work. And the best way to do that is to change the environment they work in. This article will help managers take a new approach to the leadership role and think differently about how to foster innovation in their companies. The authors present five key behaviors, which t...Starting at €8.20
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Toops Wholesale
Weiss, Elliott N.; McGettigan, Bill; Murphy, MichaelCase DARDEN-OM-1356-EService and Operations ManagementThe general manager of a grocery distributor in New Zealand must decide whether to consolidate its regional warehouses into one central location. The decision has been made more urgent by the recent loss of a distribution channel to a competitor. The company must weigh the cost benefits against any potential impact on the customer service for which it is known.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories: Determining Order Quantity
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1395-EService and Operations ManagementCycle-stock ordering decisions, including cost-element considerations, are examined. Students will see that as materials flow from suppliers through a firm's operations to customers, the cost-effectiveness of inventory investment is improved by the development and implementation of an inventory management system.Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Zeke's Tree
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1433-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process-improvement journey. In this episode on decision analysis, a father helps his son weigh possible responses to a forgotten vocabulary list.Starting at €8.20
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A Brief Note on Process Capability
Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1439-EService and Operations ManagementProcess capability, as revolutionized by Motorola, can be defined as the extent to which a process's natural variation falls within specifications. This note is a succinct introduction to the process capability ratio, which compares set specifications against the three standard deviations on either side of the process mean--six in total, referred to as Six Sigma. This introduction assumes a normal distribution of observations and a process that i...Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Jackson and Wyatt Learn to Share
Goldberg, Rebecca; Weiss, Elliott N.Case DARDEN-OM-1464-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process-improvement journey. In this episode on process analysis, a working mom helps her two boys devise a process for resolving disputes.Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Belinda, Bags, and Batches
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1466-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process improvement journey. In this episode on batching, a woman rushing to the grocery store on Thanksgiving is sensitive to the relative merits and waste of two types of checkout aisle.Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Bob's A-maize-ing Popcorn
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1467-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process-improvement journey. In this episode on metrics and quality control, two friends confer on the development of a system to create the perfect popcorn.Starting at €8.20