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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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AJE GROUP: en busca del crecimiento perdido
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, MiguelCase M-1350Innovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyActualización del caso "Aje: vendiendo refrescos a la base de la pirámide" (M-1254), con los hechos de 2016. Durante el ejercicio 2015, convergieron una serie de tendencias macroeconómicas adversas (un entorno económico global incierto y la apreciación del dólar frente a las demás monedas) que, junto un incremento de la competencia y una caída de las ventas en sus mercados claves, provocó que la empresa tuviera que adoptar una serie de medidas ne...Starting at €8.20
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Aje: Selling Drinks to the Base of the Pyramid
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, Miguel; Rodríguez, SilviaCase M-1254-EMarketingThe case study describes AJE Group's internationalization process. It analyzes its foray into the Asian market and the consumer profile in this region as opposed to the company's natural market, South America. The text describes the challenges of a family business turned multinational group: human resource management, financial management, cultural issues, and so on.Starting at €8.20
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Startup as a Service: The Prehype Model - Teaching Note
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas; Miller, PaddyTeaching Note DPOT-88-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe case outlines how Henrik Werdelin, the founder of Prehype, launched a new model for large companies to create growth through innovation, based on the idea of "start-up as a service." The case describes Prehype's core offering, namely a predefined process for building new ventures, combining the client's internal resources with Prehype's entrepreneurial expertise. The underlying business model was aimed at providing long-term, shared-interest ...Starting at €0.00
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Jordan Cohen en Pfizer Works: construyendo la oficina del futuro
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-187Service and Operations ManagementJordan Cohen es director de Eficacia Organizativa en la importante compañía farmacéutica Pfizer. Ha establecido un sistema denominado pfizerWorks mediante el cual se externalizan tareas como la preparación de documentos Excel y PowerPoint o la investigación. En el caso se analiza su evolución a lo largo de un periodo de cinco años en el que se crea pfizerWorks partiendo de cero y se incorpora el sistema a la corporación.Starting at €8.20
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Startup Cisco: Deploying Start-up Methods in a Giant Tech Company
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-426-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis case outlines how a small team of people apply lean startup methods within Cisco, creating successful internal innovation over a period of a year. The case details how the team launched their idea and got traction for it, with very little formal support. The main features are building a team around an identified problem, attracting customers, building a "product" and anchoring the initiative in the organization.Starting at €8.20
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AJE GROUP: Porsuing Lost Growth
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, MiguelCase M-1350-EInnovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyThis case is an update of "Aje: Selling Drinks to the Base of the Pyramid" (M-1254-E), including the events of 2016. A series of adverse macroeconomic trends converged during financial year 2015 (an uncertain global economic climate and the appreciation of the dollar compared with other currencies), along with an increase in competition and a drop in sales in key markets. These factors forced the company to implement a series of measures to corre...Starting at €8.20
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Samsung's European Innovation Team - Teaching Note
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas; Miller, PaddyTeaching Note DPOT-68-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationThe case details the work of Samsung¿s Product Innovation Team in Europe, the PIT-EU, established in 2010 to fuel consumer-driven innovation (as opposed to technology-driven innovation). By 2013, projects created by the team had contributed an estimated half a billion dollars to Samsung¿s profits. The case covers the first three years of the team and shows how the founders set up their team to make success more likely. Among other topics, the cas...Starting at €0.00
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Aje: Selling Drinks to the Base of the Pyramid (Chinese Version)
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, Miguel; Rodríguez, SilviaCase M-1254-ZHMarketingThe case study describes AJE Group's internationalization process. It analyzes its foray into the Asian market and the consumer profile in this region as opposed to the company's natural market, South America. The text describes the challenges of a family business turned multinational group: human resource management, financial management, cultural issues, and so on.Starting at €8.20
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Jordan Cohen at PfizerWorks: Building the Office of the Future - Teaching Note
Miller, Paddy; Wedell-Wedellsborg, ThomasTeaching Note DPOT-40-EService and Operations ManagementThe case follows Jordan Cohen, a 40 year old manager in Pfizer¿s New York Headquarters, over a period of four years (2005-2009) as he conceived and built an innovative task outsourcing solution called pfizerWorks. pfizerWorks is a web-based service that allows individual employees in Pfizer to directly outsource ¿grunt work¿ of various kinds to teams working overseas, interacting directly with the suppliers and negotiating prices on a per-project...Starting at €0.00