2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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Module 7 Case Study 2: Transforming customer service for BRANZ Ltd. Abstract Porter’s value chain describes a comprehensive format of creating value within any business venture. It explains how to alter business inputs into outputs that are of greater value than the initial cost of creating the same outputs. According to Michael Porter‚ analysing the chain of activities in any organization will be of more value to the output and services compared to the summation of the cost of these activities
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Wal-Mart Case Study Introduction 1. Brief History of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is “the giant chain of discount stores‚ the second largest company in the world‚ with over $400 billion in revenue and 2.1 million associates.” (Philip and Kevin‚ p94) Wal-Mart began its business in 1962 when Sam Walton‚ the owner of Wal-Mart‚ opened up his first discount store in Rogers‚ Arkansas (Philip and Kevin‚ p94). In the next two decades‚ Wal-Mart expanding its scale rapidly. Since 1990s‚ Wal-Mart started to opened
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References: in this publication to IBM products and services do not imply that IBM intends to make them available in all countries in which IBM operates. These customer stories are each based on information provided by the client and illustrate how one organization uses IBM products. Many factors may have contributed to the results and benefits described; IBM does not guarantee comparable results elsewhere. WSM14006-USEN-02
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Sense of Change Management‚ 2nd edition Case studies – text and questions Contents Case study 1: Aster Group 3 Case study text: Aster Group 3 Introduction 3 History‚ culture‚ orientation 4 Drivers for change 6 Leadership 8 No shotgun wedding 9 The transition period – one year on 11 Project management 12 Organizational development 13 Developing management and leadership capacity and capability 14 Case study questions: Aster Group 17 Individual
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Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing ___________________ Cisco Networking Academy Program 3 Tobi Beernaert 2ICT3 Ciske Clarysse 2ICT3 Overview and Objectives The following case study is used to illustrate the process and documentation required for a network design. This case study presents a scenario in which the XYZ Research Company has hired a Network Consultant Group to design their network. In order to help you organize this project‚ the scenario has been broken into eight
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Case III: LATE MOVER ADVANTAGE? Questions 1. Why has the ‘late corner’s strategy’ of Toyota failed in China‚ though it succeeded in India? 2. Why has Toyota failed to capture the Chinese market? Why is it trailing behind its rivals? 1.ans – Toyota failed to get a strong hold in the Chinese market due to poor understanding of the market. The reasons being mainly due to high pricing of the vehicle with which it entered the market in China as Toyota followed the price skimming strategy
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1.0 Introduction Puma AG can be consider on the leading manufacturers of athletic shoes‚ sportswear as accessories in the world. Its product like soccer shoes and uses sponsorship for its marketing strategy. In 1924‚ the company was founded by Gebruder Dassler Schuhfabrik. This company located in Herzogenaurach‚ Germany‚ the product become successful because of Jesses Owen‚ who won gold medals at 1963 in Berlin Olympic Games (Kaufmann 2005‚ p.c-411). In 1960‚ the company introduces their innovation
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Case study 1 A Golden opportunity: exporting easy flame barbeques to Argentina? 1 Many export activities begin in this way; however‚ there are a number of issues Mariano has overlooked. Name five of these. Target Market: Mariano sees the market in Argentina‚ but he did not to carry on the analysis‚ his products are for which customer. Also needs to locate product sales target market. Easy flame barbeques only can content a part of people in social. Marketing analysis; Service firms Social-Culture/Foreign
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tudyChapter 1 Operations management Case study 7 can’í believe how much we have changed in a relativefy short time. From being an inward-lookíng manufacturar‚ we became a customer-focused "deslgn and mate" operaí/on. Atow we are an integrated service provider. Most of our new buslness comes from the partnerships we have formed with design houses. In effect‚ we design products jointly with specialist design houses that have a weli-known brand‚ and offer them a complete service of manufacturing
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