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5 Skills Every Leader Needs to Succeed in the Digital World
Káganer, Evgeny; Zamora, Javier; Sieber, SandraArticle ART-2412-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementThe growing density of our digital connections is fast redrawing the boundaries of competition and reshaping the sources of customer value. This demands that we take blended approaches, not just to our business strategies, but to our organizational structures and practices. And this requires new leadership roles and digitally minded leaders. Digital leadership is more than a job title; it's an entirely new mind-set. Based on conversations with pa...Starting at €8.20
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How prepared is your business to make the most of AI?
Zamora, Javier; Herrera, PedroArticle ART-3222-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and ChangeAs a manager, you need a basic understanding of the concepts behind machine learning, so that you can communicate effectively with the experts who implement AI projects in your organization. You must also evaluate your organization's readiness and ability to undertake AI projects. To improve your chances of success, we explain the essentials and recommend which roles and profiles to develop within your organization.Starting at €8.20
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Programming Business Models Through Digital Density
Zamora, JavierArticle ART-3013-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe exponential growth of digital connections and data generates myriad interactions between organizations, people and things that executives can leverage to enhance their current business models or create entirely new ones. But how best to harness the power of this digital density? This article presents a framework to help senior executives tap connected data and pinpoint the programmable elements of their value proposition. The author also high...Starting at €8.20
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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud
Sieber, Sandra; Zamora, Javier; Sek, Tomasz; Goetschi, BeatCase SI-182-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final testing of his New York-based IT start-up company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date of this innovative photo crowdsourcing service commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client, the newspaper the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed that the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realize...Starting at €8.20
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Virtual Casa de América: "Enjoy, Discover, Think, Visit"
Zamora, Javier; Díez, SusanaCase SI-183-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationImma Turbau, general manager of Casa de América, was sitting in her office on the first floor of Madrid's Linares Palace on Cibeles Square going over the latest follow-up data on visits to Virtual Casa de América. The VivAmérica Festival had just ended successfully; it was the third festival since Turbau had taken on the role of GM and launched the Virtual Casa de América project. The project's second phase was about to begin and it was a good ti...Starting at €8.20
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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud - Teaching Note
Zamora, Javier; Tatarinov, KatherineTeaching Note SIT-18-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final tests on his New York-based IT startup company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date for this innovative photo crowdsourcing service, commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client - the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed like the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realized that he coul...Starting at €0.00
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Tramsa Mobility on the Ropes: Dealing with a Cyberattack (B)
Valor Sabatier, Josep; Zamora, Javier; Jesus Pérez Balaguer; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-209-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementIn summer 2020, Tramsa Mobility, a Spanish transportation carrier that operated several concession contracts from the administration, was victim of a ransomware attack that seriously threatened the ability of the company to operate the thousands of buses that gave service to some of the largest cities in the country. The case, broken up in three different parts, describes how the company dealt with the crisis, with new challenges and difficultie...Starting at €5.74
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Tramsa Mobility on the Ropes: Dealing with a Cyberattack - Teaching Note
Valor Sabatier, Josep; Zamora, Javier; Pérez Balaguer, Jesús; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SIT-26-EIn summer 2020, Tramsa Mobility, a Spanish transportation carrier that operated several concession contracts from the administration, was victim of a ransomware attack that seriously threatened the ability of the company to operate the thousands of buses that gave service to some of the largest cities in the country. The case, broken up in three different parts, describes how the company dealt with the crisis, with new challenges and difficultie...Starting at €0.00
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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
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SmartPik: Pikolin's Smart Mattress
Zamora, Javier; Tàpies, J.; Costa, Xavier; Vilet, Ana María; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-214-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn June 2017, Pikolin launched the SmartPik, its first smart mattress. The SmartPik was capable of measuring and analyzing sleep phases to improve sleep quality. The first tests had gone well, but Pikolin didn't know how consumers who for decades had bought conventional mattresses through a very traditional channel would react to a new product which, for the first time in the company's history, incorporated digital elements (hardware and software...Starting at €8.20