Organizational Alignment: The 7-S Model
Features the 7S frame. This framework provides managers with a tool to diagnose problems in their organizations and suggest corrective actions. It can be used in cases related to organizational alignment.
Business management
Algorithmic Management in Action: The Reorganization of Allstate’s Data Group
Allstate’s Data, Discovery and Decision Making (D3) Group had started as a small group of data scientists helping to accurately quantify insurance risk, but by 2017 the group had grown to 300 people performing insurance functions. data for the company’s business units (for example, MR). Allstate’s senior leadership team had recently defined the strategic goals …
Anglo American Leadership Academy: Aligning Global Leadership Development to Strategy
In 2019, the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American plc (Anglo American), a global mining company, reviewed her two-year collaboration with the Human Resources (HR) leadership team to establish the International Leadership Academy of the company. His role was to find leadership development solutions that supported Anglo American’s strategy and to make recommendations on how …
Enterprise Agility at Komerční Banka
In 2017, Jan Juchelka, the new CEO of Komerƒçní Banka, recognized the need for the bank to initiate an agile transformation across the company. He began by creating a sense of urgency to put in place a process that enables the level of service delivery to clients that he believes is necessary to look to …
Doing Business: A Managerial Perspective
The influence of a government in the economy is not limited to taxes, spending and monetary policy. As any manager can attest, regulations have a dramatic effect on the way managers think about production. An effective regulatory environment will allow both new and existing companies to grow and innovate. Burdensome regulations can reduce economic productivity …
RETAIL ROCKET: PERSONALIZING THE ONLINE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
The case, based on in-depth interviews with Retail Rocket co-founders (Nikolay Khlebinsky and Andrey Chizh), several employees and one of the startup’s investors, documents the development and rapid growth of the company. Launched in Moscow, Russia in 2012, Retail Rocket was a large database-driven personalization platform for e-commerce and omnichannel retail that identifies customer needs …
Dow Argentina: Challenges to Roll Out a Just Culture System
The case presentation describes the milestones of the company since its arrival in Argentina, the evolution of its safety culture and its safety management system, and the company’s relationship with the union and its development over the years. . Finally, the case describes all the main barriers that hinder the establishment of a just culture …
Erik Peterson at Biometra (A)
This case describes the problems faced by a recent MBA graduate as the CEO of a parent-owned medical device company. It raises questions about cross-divisional relationships and difficulties faced by an inexperienced manager who appears to be receiving little support. This case is a camouflaged and updated version of case 494005 above, reflecting the challenges …
Peerless Potato Chips
The Peerless Potato Chip Company (Peerless) is a family-owned national potato chip manufacturer specializing in organic potato chips. CEO Kate Kelly has been with the company since her uncle started making chips on her farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley area more than 25 years earlier. In fact, she had been the main architect of growth …
Digitalization at Siemens
The case concerns the digitization strategy of Siemens AG, a German-based manufacturing and electronics company. The growing influence of digital technologies in all business areas led CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to place digitization at the center of the new corporate strategy, in addition to electrification and automation. The challenge was to reconcile this …