Caregroup – Individual Case by Jess Møller Knudsen 1. List several strengths and weaknesses of Caregroup in its competitive environment at the time of the case. A) Strengths: - Merge of the hospitals improved economic results as they were able to lower the total costs - Merge improved the bargaining power against HMOs - Wide range of specialty services close to where the individuals lived or worked B) Weaknesses: - Operational coordination across the hospitals had turned out to be extremely
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Cottle Case Study Q1. What factors determine demand for toothbrushes? Which of these factors are environmental? Do the marketers have control over them? Which factors could be influenced by marketing programs? If Cottle intends to develop primary market (primary demand) for toothbrushes‚ at which different levels should it influence the target market? Factors Affecting Demand: 1) Habits & Attitudes – e.g.habit of using twig of neem tree.(Sociocultural Environment) 2) Awareness about
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Analysis: CareGroup Brief Synopsis The case “CareGroup” prepared by the Harvard Business School recounts an astonishing tale of how the health-care company CareGroup’s leading state-of-the-art information technology (IT) systems had abruptly collapsed for three and a half days‚ what actions they took to recover‚ and the invaluable lessons learned through them. Background and Analysis On October 1‚ 1996 three prominent hospitals in eastern Massachusetts merged together to form CareGroup. CareGroup
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Bradley Herman INFO 290-10 May 15‚ 2007 CareGroup ITIL Action Plan† Executive Summary The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a framework of best practices for managing information technology services. Adopting the ITIL Service Support model can help CareGroup avoid another incident like the network collapse of November‚ 2002. Because implementing the entire service management framework will take years and is an expensive proposition‚ the author recommends starting
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the people in India used traditional methods like Neem twigs‚ ash‚ charcoal‚ black salt etc. hence Oral Care industry is not fully penetrated. Over 50% of the Indians did not consider oral care to be a major concern. Therefore it is beneficial to increase the awareness and make people aware of the health hazards of the improper oral care. Toothbrushes were mainly used by people in the urban and semi-urban settings which had higher disposable incomes and the availability of the oral care products
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October 1996‚ there was one massive merges happened in the Eastern Massachusetts. The merge was driven by financial pressures and intensified competition‚ which finally resulting in CareGroup‚ a hospital group with $1.6 billion in revenue‚ the second-largest group of hospitals in eastern Massachusetts. The CareGroup formed in a three-way merge by three hospitals at beginning‚ and then encompassed four other hospitals. By 2002‚ all of these hospitals had been brought together on a common system with
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CareGroup‚ a team of health-care professionals consisting of several care facilities‚ provided a wide-range of healthcare services for the residents of eastern Massachusetts. John Halamka‚ CareGroup’s CIO‚ was in charged with managing everything that’s IT related for CareGroup. Under his leadership‚ IT systems of the facilities were upgraded and brought together under a common system‚ Meditech. On November 13‚ 2002‚ CareGroup’s network experienced a network collapse‚ causing every software application
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1. The underlying cause of the collapse of the CareGroup system was a hidden problem with the network architecture that started with the merger in 1996. Over time individual smaller networks had been added by connecting them together with bridges and switches. Little did CareGroup’s IT department know‚ this flat configuration becomes problematic when there are more than seven connected segments. After seven connections of bridges or switches‚ communication between networks can drop causing components
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CareGroup Case Summary CareGroup was formed in a three way merger of hospitals in 1996‚ becoming a health-care team dedicated to providing personalized care to patients through a broad spectrum of available services. The merger was precipitated by increased need for negotiating and contracting power to respond to the HMOs‚ the possibility of developing integrated services to improve quality of care while driving down costs and the need for a strong balance sheet. The hospitals involved in the
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management theory would be indicated below. Taylor’s Philosophy Scientific management is a theory focusing on optimizing and simplifying jobs to efficiently increase productivity. It is also called Taylorism‚ based on the US engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) who published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1909‚ where he believed scientifically optimizing the working way was more productive than making labour work as hard as they could. One of the essential elements of Taylor’s Philosophy
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