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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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A Digital Quick-Start Guide
Stijn ViaeneArticle IVEY-9B17TE04-EStrategyIn the digital space, what is the next big thing? Nobody knows. Nevertheless, today’s companies are under pressure to discover it. But chasing the digital holy grail can jeopardize management’s focus on what’s really important—digital transformation. One can read many books on how companies can accelerate digital transformation. But before you start planning, you should make one simple commitment: build digital into every project. Every opportuni...Starting at €8.20
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Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market
Hagop Panossian; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B16M128-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA leading family-owned Lebanese bakery-convenience store chain, Wooden Bakery, was in the process of deciding the company’s next options for growth in Lebanon and in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The owner was pondering the use of aggressive growth strategies such as franchising and area-development franchising. Additionally, the founder of the company and its board members were facing the biggest decision in the company’s history as th...Starting at €8.20
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BLC Bank and the Quest for Women's Empowerment in MENA
Farah Matar; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B15M106-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, the assistant general manager and head of strategic development at Lebanon’s BLC Bank attended the annual summit of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a leading organization of financial institutions that drove the creation of women’s wealth worldwide. On her return to Beirut, she encouraged her bank to capitalize on the inclusion of women as a relevant differentiator from both a business and societal perspective. The result of resea...Starting at €8.20
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KPN: How to Navigate the Digital Tides - Teaching Note
Stijn ViaeneTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M046-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M046.Starting at €0.00
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Sustainability in the Arab World: The Aramex Way
Dima Jamali; Cedric DawkinsCase IVEY-9B11M060-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 1982, Fadi Ghandour founded Aramex, a leading provider of logistics and transportation solutions with headquarters in Amman, Jordan. From its early inception, Ghandour strategically included principles and practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the company’s culture in order to align business interests and competence with stakeholders’ needs. The community and environment were regarded as key stakeholders driv...Starting at €8.20
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UCB: Data is the New Drug
Stijn ViaeneCase IVEY-9B18E002-EInformation TechnologiesAt the end of 2012, the chief information officer (CIO) at UCB, a global pharmaceutical company based in Brussels, started to implement analytics as a service. Between 2012 and 2016, he put this vision into practice, introducing agile sprints and proving the competence of analytics within the organization, and at the beginning of 2016, he felt the company was ready to upgrade its analytics capability. As he prepared to meet with UCB’s chief execu...Starting at €8.20
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Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B11M050-EStrategyThe project manager of the Partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and Cisco Systems’s regional director of corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa met in September 2009, three years after the PFL was first initiated. The meeting primarily revolved around the challenge of sustainability and what useful suggestions they could put forward to their partners to ensure that the projects initiated through the PFL were not dependent on the continuous inv...Starting at €8.20
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Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market - Teaching Note
Hagop Panossian; Dima JamaliTeaching Note IVEY-8B16M128-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B16M128.Starting at €0.00
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JOB Co.: Making Mentor 2.0 Agile - Teaching Note
Stijn ViaeneTeaching Note IVEY-W34088-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for product W34087.Starting at €0.00
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JOB Co: Making Mentor 2.0 Agile
Stijn ViaeneCase IVEY-W34087-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2019, the director of the newly minted Digital Services Lab at JOB Co. found himself on the brink of a crucial meeting with the company's chief executive officer. The focal point of their impending discussion rested on the stagnation of progress in the Mentor 2.0 project—an initiative conceived to embody an agile paradigm in digital transformation, championed by an inventive Scrum team. Despite the project's noble intentions, the journey towar...Starting at €8.20