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Red Herrings and Long Hauls: What Is, and Isn't, Difficult About Adopting Emergent Web Tools into Your Organization's DNA
McAfee, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-5578BC-EWhen considering an Enterprise 2.0 effort, many business decision makers have some typical concerns: How do we get employees to use the new capabilities? Will people just use social networking software to plan happy hour, rather than to get work done? If the information on these platforms really is valuable, won't it be harvested by spies and sold to the highest bidder? In the end, many companies conclude that whatever the benefits of Enterprise ...Starting at €8.20
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Tenova: Mining for Growth in Economic Crisis
Pisano, Gary P.; Corsi, Elena; Farri, ElisaCase HBS-610021-EService and Operations ManagementIn December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and mining industry, had to choose between two options. The first was to continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The second option offered growth in a related, but nearly new business for Tenova: the equipment for mining, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. They only had a small presence in ...Starting at €8.20
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Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A) (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Pisano, Gary P.; Tang, NingCase HBS-609S12Service and Operations ManagementInstituto Clínico Humanitas es un hospital privado de nueva construcción, al sur de Milán, Italia, que ha alcanzado la rentabilidad inusual, mientras que el tratamiento de los pacientes del sistema público. El hospital fue construido y es administrado por Techosp, una subsidiaria de Techint, una internacional de ingeniería y consultoría. Techosp creado un sistema de diseño y gestión que hace hincapié en optimizar el rendimiento del paciente y la ...Starting at €8.20
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Moore Medical Corp. (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Bounds, GregoryCase HBS-606S13Service and Operations ManagementMoore Medical is a medium-sized distributor of medical supplies to practitioners, such as podiatrists and emergency medical technicians. At the time of the case, it has relied on traditional customer channels such as catalogs, phones, and faxes to communicate product offerings, promotions, and availability, and to take orders. It is now attempting to shift to a "bricks and clicks" distributor with a strong Internet presence. It has already made s...Starting at €8.20
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Web 2.0 and the Emergence of Emergence: A History, Explanation, and Definition of New Collaborative Internet Tools
McAfee, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-5575BC-EWeb 2.0-the new set of technologies that has appeared over the past few years on the Internet-is not mere "hype," nor is it of interest only to e-tailers and other Internet companies. Rather, it is extremely relevant to all organizations that want to bring people together into communities that generate useful information and knowledge and solve problems effectively. But far too many organizations don't know where to start, or even what tools are ...Starting at €8.20
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Restoring American Competitiveness
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R0907S-EEconomicsFor decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's innovative new products. What those companies have been ceding is the country's industrial commons - that is, the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and proc...Starting at €8.20
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Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology (Spanish version)
McAfee, AndrewArticle HBS-R0611JInformation TechnologiesThey must help choose technologies, using an inside-out approach that keeps the true needs of the business in mind; smooth the adoption of those technologies, taking into account that they may encounter strong resistance; and encourage their exploitation by leveraging already standardized data and work flows. What's most important, though, is that they look beyond the individual IT projects they select to the broader picture of how IT is likely ...Starting at €8.20
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Cambrian House
Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-608016-ECambrian House builds internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and also participate in a monthly voting process to select the best ideas. The company is now considering the deployment of a prediction market to deepen user involvement and commitment in its innovation; however, it is not sure...Starting at €8.20
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Wikipedia (B)
McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-608066-EStrategySupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Flying into the Future: HondaJet
Pisano, Gary P.; Shulman, JesseCase HBS-618012-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20