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Estrategias para sortear las diferencias horarias
Carmel, ErranArticle ART-2317Information Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyLas plantillas de las empresas son cada vez más globales, lo que hace necesario mitigar los efectos de las diferencias horarias. Algo nada fácil. La coordinación de equipos dispersos geográficamente y con horarios de trabajo no coincidentes exige mucho más que una planificación eficiente del calendario o un conocimiento básico de los husos horarios, por muy importantes que sean. En este artículo, basado en investigaciones sobre la organización gl...Starting at €8.20
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Indo dota a su red de ventas de una nueva tecnología móvil (A)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-168Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationEn 2006, el fabricante óptico Indo se planteó dar un giro a la manera de trabajar del equipo de ventas de la división de gafas. La sustitución del material físico por información "on line" permitiría a sus comerciales trabajar con mayor agilidad y disponer de información siempre actualizada. Pero el nuevo sistema podía causar reticencias entre los clientes, acostumbrados a tocar el producto, y entre los mismos comerciales, reacios a cambiar un mo...Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobility Technology (A)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-168-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationIn 2006, Indo, an optics manufacturer, decided to change the working method of its sales division for glasses. Physical material was replaced with online information that facilitated the work of the sales personnel and ensured they always had the most up-to-date information. But the new system was not completely accepted by clients, who were used to touching the product. Even some members of the sales staff were wary about changing an effective w...Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobily Technology (B)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-169-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationAfter introducing a new sales system for glasses as a pilot program, Indo, an optical company, expanded the scope of its experiment to check the results. The case study describes how the sales personnel and clients accepted the change from a partially computerized system to one that was thoroughly computerized.Starting at €5.74
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Building a Unified Collaboration Strategy at Genpact: SolutionXchange and Beyond
Káganer, Evgeny; Carmel, Erran; Tatarinov, KatherineCase SI-190-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationGenpact launched SolutionXchange with the goal of bringing together clients and industry experts to collaborate in solving business process management (BPM) challenges. To date, the initiative has been a success - helping solve more than 200 BPM-related challenges. Genpact is committed to taking SolutionXchange (SCx) to the next level and expanding its scale significantly to become a global BPM community of choice for experts and clients to share...Starting at €8.20
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Indo dota a su red de ventas de una nueva tecnología móvil (B)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-169Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationTras haber introducido un nuevo sistema de ventas de gafas en una prueba piloto, la empresa óptica Indo amplió el alcance de su experimento para comprobar la fiabilidad de los resultados. El caso describe cómo aceptaron comerciales y clientes el cambio de un sistema parcialmente informatizado a otro digitalizado en gran medida.Starting at €5.74
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TiVo 2011
Tonijuan, Gemma; Comín, Marta; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Nueno, José LuisCase SI-178-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, MarketingTiVo is a digital video recorder, developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an electronic television programming schedule, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList" searches which allow users to find and record shows that match their interests by title, actor, director, category or keyword. TiVo is facing declining revenues and is exploring a number o...Starting at €8.20
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Overcoming Your Time Zone Challenges
Carmel, ErranArticle ART-2317-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyAs organizations grow increasingly reliant on a global workforce, they need to know how to mitigate time zone challenges. This is easier said than done: Coordinating your geographically and chronologically dispersed teams involves a lot more than better calendar planning or basic literacy about time differences, as important as these are. This article, based on 20 years of research on global working arrangements, explains how companies can not on...Starting at €8.20