Pandesic is a joint venture between SAP and Intel with the goal of developing turnkey information architectures for market research companies. The case examines the problems in the development of the joint venture from the perspective of its general management. Describe the development of your strategy and organization. At the end of the case, performance …
The case is scheduled for January 2012 and begins with Kenneth Yap, the founder of Quantine Pte Ltd, developing a strategy for an effective growth plan for his company. Quantine is a pre-screening service provider that specializes in asynchronous video interviews. In the three years since the company was founded, market forces and internal factors …
It focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business administration. He must decide what final grade he will give to a student who has worked very hard, but is limited by the school’s Forced Curve grading policy. Designed to examine the multiple purposes of performance measurement (motivation, evaluation, early …
The co-evolution of technology, labor, and labor over the past 30 years has dramatically affected our understanding of the organizations and industries in which they compete. IT is no longer just a tool to support “back office” transactions, but it has become a strategic part of most companies, allowing the redefinition of markets and industries, …
Valve, one of the world’s leading video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization without hierarchies. An organization of 400 people, Valve’s unique organizational form (detailed in the case and in the accompanying employee manual) includes 100% self-assigned time, no managers (and therefore no management oversight), such a fluid structure …
This case describes a user-centered approach to public services and is the result of a pioneering collaboration between the Hong Kong Post and the Hong Kong Design Center. Since operating as a trading fund in 1995, Hong Kong Post has managed to reinvent itself as a dynamic, customer-oriented and market-oriented service company. Thanks to its …
The case describes the situation of the Vice President of ACAT Corp. (ACAT), Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra. ACAT manufactured a relatively wide range of household appliances. Typical products in its product line were TV signal amplifiers, transformers, FM radio sets, electronic ballasts, battery chargers, and voltage regulators. The voltage regulators manufactured by ACAT have been used …
The case follows Jim and Debbie AungDin Taylor, an American couple with experience in international development, when they founded and built Proximity Designs, a social enterprise in Myanmar. Initially, the Taylors focus on redesigning the pedal pump for Myanmar farmers, using design thinking and processes to create a pump that is affordable for their extremely …
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Trip Hawkins founded Digital Chocolate in Silicon Valley in 2003 to create great games for mobile devices. By 2008, the company had expanded to four countries and Digital Chocolate was a leading developer of single-player games for standard cell phones and iPhones. In 2009, Hawkins set out for Digital Chocolate to begin developing new types …