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academicians and practitioners Infosys Technologies Ltd.: Growing Share of a Customer’s Business James A Narus and D V R Seshadri Case Analysis I Janaki Anant Principal Solution Architect i-flex solutions Ltd e-mail: janaki.anant@iflexsolutions.com T The April-June‚ 32(2)‚ 2007 issue of Vikalpa had published a Management Case titled “Infosys Technologies Ltd.: Growing Share of a Customer’s Business‚” by James A Narus and DVR Seshadri. This issue features responses on the case by
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BACKGROUND With the great speed of economic globalization‚ E-Business is developing in a surprising speed through the wide-spread of information technology. Nowadays‚ there are a lot of big E-business corporations such as Amazon‚ E-bay focus on different E-business model and field. However when these international companies carving up the global market‚ some local enterprises also growing up and want to share this big cake. Taobao (www.taobao.com)‚ a Chinese-based company which is a leading
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online company specializes in all types of handbags. eBAGS operations consist of quality control‚ supply chain strategy and management‚ forecasting‚ lean thinking‚ batch process flow and possible introduction of a footwear line. eBAGS Current Product Flow Analysis eBAGS currently uses a batch process flow. The batch process “is characterized by production in batches or lots” (Schroeder‚ Goldstein‚ & Rungtusanatham‚ 2011‚ p.63). The market type is custom. Most customers are already set in
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reinvents business process workflow in 12 weeks with the OutSystems® Platform • The leader in the carbonated beverage industry in Portugal and one of the biggest bottlers in Europe‚ Refrige produces 220 million liters of soft drinks each year‚ but faced a severe operational bottleneck when it came to handling promotional and marketing materials around new products‚ especially as production volume increased.Seven different departments needed to provide input into the administrative process and all
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Infosys® Technologies Ltd.: Growing Share of a Customer’s Business James A. Narus D.V.R. Seshadri* March 2004 * James A. Narus is Professor of Business Marketing‚ Babcock Graduate School of Management‚ Wake Forest University in the U.S.A. D.V.R. Seshadri is Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore‚ India. We gratefully acknowledge the significant contributions of Infosys executives and managers in providing case information. CASE QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS 1. Looking
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