Table of Contents Case- 01 2 Liz Claiborne Upgrades Its Information Systems 2 Case- 02 4 Farmers Insurance Finds Higher Revenue and Lower Claims in Information 4 Case- 3 6 Fedex applies Telecommunications in package delivery 6 Case- 04 8 Gerber Develops System to Manage Customers’ Inventory 8 Case- 05 10 Flow chart identification 10 Case- 06 11 Developing a Wireless Net to Improve Customer Service 11 Case- 07 12 eBay a leading E-Commerce 12 Case- 08 14 Success of Amazon
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long which allows Dell to turn inventory into cash in an effective timeframe. Daniel’s thought: Because Dell’s inventory turnover is high and its low inventory of finished goods‚ Dell can move quickly to the new technology with less cost. Therefore‚ Dell can make the new technology available to customers more quickly than its competitors‚ attracting more customers and gaining more market shares at the same time. Secondly‚ because of its cash conversion cycle is relatively low‚ Dell has sufficient cash
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THE FORD CASE Executive Summary After carefully analyzing Ford’s existing supply chain I immediately became aware of its highly complex nature. This high level of complexity combined with other internal and external factors have pushed Ford to search for solutions in order to overcome the costly supply chain challenges that they are facing and may continue to face in the future. Ford’s major difficulty in their present system is: the inefficient control of
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in house capabilities. Note –Article main point was that nonsynergistics deals can be successful. HP – Compaq Case – As the PC‚ printing and services related to this and IT were changing fast because of customers and enterprise’s increased expectation from the manufacturer and service providers. The industry saw the biggest change from 1990 to 2000. In this period Dell became leader in PC space mainly using the the make to order concept and then dealing directly through their web site
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models. 2 Must-Read Article Inventory • • • • “Decision trees”‚ Robin Greenwood (HBR‚ March 2006) “Note on Linear Programming”‚ Jonathan Eckstein (HBR‚ November 1992) “Sampling and Statistical Inference”‚ Arthur Schleifer (HBR‚ August 1996) “Decision Analysis”‚ (HBR‚ December 1997) 3 Widely used Books for Quantitative Methods • Dance with Chance • Black Swan 4 QUANTITATIVE METHODS CASE MAPPING Chapter Basic Concepts of Scales & Measurements Detailed Syllabus Nominal‚ ordinal
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HBR CASE STUDY ON “THE BEST OF INTENTIONS” - John Humphreys Submitted To Prof. Neeta Jain FORE School of Management Analysis Submitted By – Aayushi Singh (221002) Anjali Gera (221001) Ankit Arora (221022) Deeptiman Dasgupta (221039) Gaurav Maheshwari (221049) Gagandeep Chawla (221046) Analysis 1 – Issues in the case The major issues in the case are: i. Discrimination between employees – a) On grounds of gender : Some territories of business at AgFunds were conservative and the customers
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HBR CASE STUDY Good Money After Bad? Jack Brandon’s initial idea has not panned out‚ and the cash is nearly gone. But he’s got a new plan. Will you back him a second time? by John W. Mullins F Daniel Vasconcellos overlooking the sparkling lights of San Francisco‚ Christian Harbinson gazed across the bay to the hills above Sausalito. “There’s nothing like a vigorous hike‚” he thought‚“to clear the mind before a crucial meeting.” It was a mild March evening‚ and the 35-year-old venture
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Introduction International Business Professor Dr. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk Case 6.2 Sony: Managing the International R&D Network [pic] December 2‚ 2009 Group #22 Jaime Ríos Balandrano s1797077 CHAPTER SIX – SONY 1. How did Sony internationalize its R&D activities? What were the initial motivations for Sony to establish technology centres abroad? How would Kuemmerle categorize the R&D centres at Sony? Sony’s internationalization was in a slow-cautious way. Sony
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I 3.4 Analysis of RL and RC Networks 3.4.1 Series RL Network + + VR R- Im Z jXL = jωL V + L VL - Re 0 R Z = ZR + ZL = R + jXL XL = ωL > 0 2 2 Z = R + XL −1 ⎛ X L ⎞ φZ = tan ⎜ ⎟ ⎝R⎠ V = VR + VL = IR + IjXL = IZ Im V VL 0 Re I VR I 3.4.2 Series RC Network Im + + R VR + C VC - R 0 jXC = -j/ωC Z = ZR + ZC = R + jXC Re V - Z XC = -1/ωC < 0 2 Z = R2 + X C −1 ⎛ X C ⎞ φ Z = tan ⎜ ⎟ ⎝R⎠ V = VR +
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CASE1-3 Discussion Question 1. How does the “global market/local market” paradox figure into Stan Shih’s strategy for China？ Answer：Acer have a good chance to make China as their home market so Acer can capture critical economies of scale that will allow Acer to develop innovative new product for global market. And the other hand‚ Acer can use their image as global brand to building strong home market. 2. Acer is now the world’s second-largest PC Company‚ behind Hewlett-Packard. How can it sustain
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