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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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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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Gas Natural: Improving the Profitability of Servigas (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Guitart, Iván; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloCase M-1234-PPMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementMarta Muriel has recently been promoted to director of residential natural gas service with the mandate of boosting profits for the company's home maintenance services, Servigen. She and her team have designed four measures, among others, that involve a trade-off between cost reduction and improvements in service quality. Now she has to decide which ones to actually implement based on their impact on the company's bottom line.Starting at €8.20
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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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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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Eólica de Composites S. A. (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase ASN-47-PBService and Operations ManagementA company suddenly wins a substantial contract, but doesn't have sufficient capacity in its existing plants to execute it. The search for a new plant location yields two final alternatives for a possible location, with similar costs but very different situations. One of them favors a policy of outsourcing but with few qualified workers, and the other is opposed to such a policy. The prioritization, analysis and explicit description of selection c...Starting at €8.20
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Split One (A) (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Riverola, Josep; Zschiesche A.Case P-989-PPService and Operations ManagementThe relationship marketing agency Split One is faced with a sharp increase in workload due to the consolidation of its customer portfolio. After analyzing the situation, Osu, one of the founding partners, is of the opinion that increasing the number of staff members could solve the problem over the short term. But he also wonders if this would hide internal organization problems and major commercial deficiencies.Starting at €8.20