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Nissan: Recovering Supply Chain Operations
Shikha Aggarwal; Manoj Kumar SrivastavaCase IVEY-9B16D013-EService and Operations Management, StrategyNissan's resilience strategy had been considered an exemplary response to the triple disaster in Japan in March 2011. The Japanese automobile industry made their respective recovery efforts to resume production and delivery of vehicles after suffering damage from an earthquake, tsunami, and a nuclear crisis, but it took months before they could reach pre-disaster levels of operations. Nissan's resilience practices and supply chain disruption mana...Starting at €8.20
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Korean Air: The Nut Rage Incident
Thompson S.H. Teo; Mei Jie ZhaoCase IVEY-9B15D017-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn December 2014, after receiving poor service on a flight, a senior vice president at Korean Air lashed out at the flight attendants and delayed the flight’s departure until the chief attendant was returned to the gate. Following a tepid apology from her father, Korean Air’s chief executive officer, her actions drew a public backlash because they exposed the sense of entitlement prevalent among rich family conglomerates in South Korea. How shoul...Starting at €8.20
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Eagle Services Asia
Edward D. ArnheiterCase IVEY-9B07D019-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThis case chronicles the creation and transformation of a Singaporean joint venture, Eagle Services Asia (ESA). It describes some early start-up problems, including a forced shutdown by the Civilian Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). The resulting shakeup of the ESA management team provides a fresh start and an opportunity to reinvigorate the company using lean management principles. Managerial decisions play a key role in ESA's success, tog...Starting at €8.20
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EU Holidays
Yew Hoong Wong; Singfat ChuCase IVEY-9B13E003-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThe profit margin for the travel agency industry in Singapore, which mostly offered travel packages to Asia and Europe, was very thin. An up-and-coming travel agency faced the dilemma of offering maximum customer satisfaction while keeping its operating cost (e.g., fees for its tour guides) low. Rather than simply assigning travel guides to tours by trial and error, a director of the travel agency decided to use an optimization template. This cas...Starting at €8.20
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Yamato Transport Co. Ltd.: TA-Q-BIN
H. Brian Hwarng; Motoka MouriCase IVEY-9B13D021-EService and Operations Management, StrategySince 1976, Yamato had enjoyed steady growth in the Japanese domestic parcel delivery market. Yamato had maintained its leading position in Japan through its highly acclaimed TA-Q-BIN service. However, with changing demographics and market conditions, the business landscape had been changing. Overdependence on the domestic delivery business limited the overall growth of Yamato. Furthermore, the growth of the TA-Q-BIN business in Japan was limited...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Número 11. Cuarto trimestre 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-25Economics, Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategyExisten mejores caminos para gestionar la carrera profesional que los que hemos seguido hasta ahora. Douglas T. Hall y Elana R. Feldman (Universidad de Boston) animan a las empresas a que ayuden a los empleados a alcanzar sus sueños y encuentren un significado a su vida personal y profesional. La profesora del IESE Mireia Las Heras describe varios recursos con los que impulsar el desarrollo profesional y personal en nuestras empresas: flexibilida...Starting at €22.00
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Share Now: Aiming for Profitable Growth (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Moscoso, Philip; Soto, ManuelCase P-1173-PBService and Operations Management, StrategyEl caso describe las recientes decisiones tomadas por la dirección de Share Now, la empresa líder en carsharing (resultante de la integración de car2go con Drive Now). Como parte de su plan estratégico para Madrid (España), la compañía ha decidido ampliar su zona de cobertura en 27 km2 y añadir 450 coches eléctricos a su flota. Además, se implementarán precios dinámicos, en función de la demanda. El principal reto de Share Now consiste en conse...Starting at €8.20
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Federación española de baloncesto
Llano Irusta, Miguel Angel; Martínez Fernández, J.A.Case IIST-PI-112Service and Operations ManagementEl protagonista principal del caso es José Luis Sáez, Presidente de la Federación Española de Baloncesto (FEB), quien a finales del 2009 analiza lo acontecido en sus cinco años de mandato como Presidente y en sus anteriores seis cómo Vicepresidente de la FEB, tratando de esclarecer las fortalezas y debilidades de la Federación, así como las amenazas y oportunidades que se presentaban en ese deporte a nivel nacional e internacional. En el caso se ...Starting at €8.20
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Precocinados Doña Carmen
Garrido Martínez, Enrique; Gómez Del Sol, RaimundoCase IIST-PI-115Service and Operations ManagementEl caso "Precocinados Doña Carmen" describe el proceso de elaboración de tres productos: Pollo relleno, muslo de pollo relleno y pechuga de pollo rellena. A lo largo del caso se aportan los datos necesarios para poder hacer un completo análisis de las operaciones que allí se describen. La simulación del caso consiste en la representación de la realidad que plantea el caso utilizando fichas de LEGO y hace posible experimentar las técnicas de análi...Starting at €8.20
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Problemas de calidad en La reina de la gamba
Llano Irusta, Miguel AngelCase IIST-PI-127Service and Operations ManagementEl caso se centra en la persona y dilemas de Ignacio Iriarte, quien acaba de ser contratado en la planta del Rey del Langostino, como Director de Gestión Total de la Calidad el mes pasado en la planta burgalesa de mariscos del grupo alimentario cántabro. Al volver de un curso de formación en el corporativo Ignacio descubre por su subordinado inmediato, que se ha tenido un problema en la línea de envasado del langostino en atmósfera modificada ...Starting at €8.20