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Simbhaoli Sugars Limited: Innovating Farmer Communication Services
Murthy VVNS Chebiyyam; Kul Bhushan C. SaxenaCase IVEY-9B12E010-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesSimbhaoli Sugars Limited has deployed a new system of communication services through Voice Web, a mobile-based Internet technology, in rural areas for better engagement with the farmers who supply sugarcane to the SSL factory. The importance of perceived value of services to the end-users and the need to involve all stakeholders during the innovation set-up process are explained. Critical aspects of the service innovation concept are used to anal...Starting at €8.20
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Invensis Technologies (P) Ltd: A Global BPO Service Provider from India
Vaidyanathan Jayaraman; Yadong LuoCase IVEY-9B07E022-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe executive director of Invensis Technologies (P) Ltd. (Invensis), met with the chief operating officer and vice-president of human resources to address two major challenges that the company was facing. The first challenge was the increased pressure on Invensis to remain competitive and cut costs while providing premium customer service. Clients were expecting more every day from their business process operations. The other challenge was that o...Starting at €8.20
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Sapient Consulting: Enriching Experience Using Hybrid Agile Approach
Aparna Raman; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B13E028-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn December 2005, Sapient Consulting signed a fixed-price contract with U.S.-based Global HR Outsourcing Inc. to design a human resources portal for its international customers. Sapient’s senior manager of project management, who was based in India, had been handed the project with full faith that it would not only be delivered on time but within the fixed price and using the new agile hybrid methodology. The client wanted the portal built for th...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Secretariat: Adopting an Automated Paperwork System
Vidushi Pandey; Sumeet Gupta; Pradyumna DashCase IVEY-9B16E031-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe Digital Secretariat project proposed a radical change in the existing workflow of government offices of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The new system aimed to replace manual file processing in the state secretariat, thereby reducing the time consumed during file movement, improving archival facilities, and increasing efficiency. Digital Secretariat was developed by Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society in a private partnershi...Starting at €8.20
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DXSD: Transforming Migrations
Chitra Sharma; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B17E007-EInformation Technologies, StrategyOn January 23, 2015, DXSD India received an opportunity to add a complex new line of business to the company’s value chain. The head of DXSD India, a shared service division of a U.K. bank, was concerned about his company’s ability to take on more complex work. Gaps had been identified in the existing process migration framework, so a new framework was proposed to fix the gaps. The new framework was not tested and did not yet have approval from t...Starting at €8.20
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Cyberpreneur's Wake-up Call: Cyber Security and Millennial Talent Crises
Nakul Gupta; Arjun Bhatnagar; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B13E029-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIt was summer of 2013, and the news of cyber-attacks and information security breaches was on the rise in India, as it was worldwide. Incidents such as the Axis bank’s cyber-crime incident and the news of the American National Security Agency’s global e-surveillance were creating consternation and dilemmas in the minds of information security consultants. One such consultant owned and operated an information security company, Percept Softech, a L...Starting at €8.20
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Pramanik Containers and the Bottleneck Challenge (A)
Rajiv AgarwalCase IVEY-9B12E014-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2010, a recent business graduate tries to resolve a constant bottleneck in the printing department of the family business. The two-part case discusses the issues of identifying the need for relevant information and then discusses the staff’s resistance to change and how these objections were handled and overcome. This pair of cases seeks to identify the pressures faced by small businesses, along with the task of managing the various stakeholde...Starting at €8.20
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Mercedes-Benz India
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shankar Venkatagiri; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11E009-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn December 2007, the management of Mercedes-Benz India (MBI), a fully owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, the 12th-largest automobile manufacturer in the world, has decided to relocate to a new facility near Pune in western India. In overseeing the installation of information technology (IT) infrastructure at the new premises, the company’s chief information officer (CIO) must deal with some managerial choices pertaining to IT architecture, IT tools...Starting at €8.20
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NASSCOM
Abhijit Gopal; Akbar SaeedCase IVEY-9B09M094-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe vice-president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) was reflecting on the role NASSCOM currently played: it was considered the voice of the software and services industry in India and had been extremely successful in promoting Indian information technology (IT) to the world. Each success had now forced NASSCOM to reconsider its goals to better align itself to the complex needs of the quickly evolving IT bus...Starting at €8.20
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Growing the Online Portal of Business Fundas
Arpan Kumar KarCase IVEY-9B14E024-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyBusiness Fundas, a portal that publishes educational business and management articles, is situated within the electronic publishing industry, which has many players and is highly fragmented. The start-up company faces many challenges in its efforts to position itself for growth and to take advantage of various innovative value propositions and business models. The senior managers hope to gain insights into user-specific trends through the use of ...Starting at €8.20