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Learning the Machine: Anovo Ibérica Introduces AI in Operations (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-207-PBInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, Anovo, a service provider for technology products, began studying the possibility of introducing AI to improve the efficiency of its operations. In 2020, it was already piloting its first implementation - a new automated diagnostics process that employed machine learning (ML) to optimize the company's smartphone repair business. So far, the results of the pilot had been encouraging: aftersales service was a low-margin business, which mad...Starting at €8.20
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Presscut (C) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Vázquez-Dodero F.; Badia, MarcCase ASN-31-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyOutcome of the series of events related in cases (A) and (B).Starting at €5.74
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Barcelona Air Control Center (ACC) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Grasas, Alex; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1052-PBService and Operations ManagementThe case describes air traffic management, taking the Barcelona Air Control Centre as an example. The air traffic controller plays a crucial role in air traffic management. The case also describes this role and details the air traffic controller's functions and responsibilities.Starting at €8.20
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Motores Rivero S.A. (MORSA) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Ribera, Jaume; Lago, AlejandroExercise PE-74-PBService and Operations ManagementThis exercise presents the decisions to be made by a manager related to the management of inventories of an engine part. It is well suited as an introduction to inventory management as it presents different evolving situations and allows the professor to discuss batch inventory, safety inventory, as well as the impacts of uncertainty in the values and the availability of financing in the final decisions.Starting at €8.20
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Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts: A Paradigm Shift (Portuguese version, Portugal)
Tàpies, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1679-PPDecision Analysis, StrategyIn 2016, the management team of Borges International, one of the leading groups in the production and distribution of Mediterranean diet products, continued to take steps in the new strategy for their nut-producing subsidiary. This strategy was to bring about a total paradigm shift in that division, one of the most important within the holding. The growth of consumption of almond products, particularly in the emerging Asian markets, had highlight...Starting at €8.20
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Madrileña Red de Gas (B): Reinventing the Company With the Motto "Our Customers Must Not Suffer" (Portuguese version, Portugal)
Munoz-Seca, BeatrizCase P-1185-PPService and Operations ManagementThe CEO of MRG (Madrileña Red de Gas) wanted to reinvent his company as if it existed in an open market and not in the current regulated one. Using Professor Muñoz-Seca's SPDM (Service Problem Driven Management) framework, a conceptual scheme for operations in service companies, the MRG management team changed how they structured their service by establishing their own operational structure and working with the operational structure of their part...Starting at €5.74
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Riu Partner Club (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Huete Gómez, Luis María; Santos, JavierCase P-829-PBService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Split One (B) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Riverola, JosepCase P-1037-PBService and Operations ManagementAn advertising business has based its capacity on market demand. This dynamic leads to a situation that it must overcome, avoiding the usual mistakes.Starting at €5.74
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Healy Hudson: e-Sourcing Solutions (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Sachon, MarcCase P-1019-PBInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementBased in Munich, Bavaria, the company is a pioneer in the world of e-procurement. It has developed an online purchasing system for the Business-to-Business sector. In the fall of 2000 it is selling two e-commerce products: Impact Ordering and Impact Sourcing. The former is a simple electronic catalog ordering system; the latter is designed for the sourcing of complex goods.Starting at €8.20
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The DIA of Tomorrow: Can New Ownership Turn Around the Business? (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Calleja Corujedo, Luis Manuel; Elvira Rojo, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1712-PPCorporate Governance, StrategyIn 2019, seven years after its IPO, DIA, the third largest supermarket chain in Spain in sales, was going through the most notable crisis in its history. That year they had narrowly avoided a situation of technical bankruptcy, thanks to the intervention of LetterOne, the investment fund of Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman who, after a long, complex, and controversial takeover, had become the largest shareholder in the company. One of LetterOne's fi...Starting at €8.20