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Random House: Shifting to E-Books in a Globalized World
Sarah Bickert; Volker Diestegge; Thorsten Knauer; Katja Möslang; Andrea Schroer; Friedrich SommerCase IVEY-9B13M083-EStrategyThe publisher Random House, a fully owned subsidiary of the German family company Bertelsmann SE & Co. KgaA, faces significant changes in its markets and internal structure. While printed books have been the company’s core competence from its earliest years, with the advent of the Internet, customers, especially in the West, are beginning to prefer electronic books. Will printed books be completely replaced by digital ones, or will e-books remain...Starting at €8.20
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Learning the Machine: Anovo Ibérica Introduces AI in Operations
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-207-EInformation 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