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Superstar Case Study
Analyze multiple R&D projects using the spreadsheet based Business/Project analysis tool and make decision on which of the 15 projects will be funded.
Learning Goals
- Discuss how companies make choice among multiple projects due to limited resources and the need to prioritize among them
- Understand the relationship between company wide critical success factors, their relative importance, and how these are used in prioritizing among projects
- Analyze multiple R&D projects using the Business/Project analysis tool
- Communicate recommendations, negotiate with others, and come up with final list of prioritized projects that best ensure business success
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Telemedicine Case Study
To help improve the accessibility and quality of medical care for those living in small towns and rural areas, many organizations, both public and private, are turning to the emerging technology of telemedicine. Telemedicine, being a subset of telehealth, uses communications networks for delivery of healthcare services and medical education from one geographical location to another, primarily to address challenges like uneven distribution and shortage of infrastructural and human resources.
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Thermal Comfort Case Study
The Patels are looking for a new home in Chennai, a large city in India. Many homes there are not equipped with air conditioning, so they want to learn about which building materials provide the highest level of thermal comfort for their money. You are a project manager with Larsen and Toubro, India’s largest construction conglomerate, and it will be your job to analyze the materials and report back to the Patels.
This case study helps students achieve the following:
- Be introduced to the concept of thermal comfort and its importance
- Have a general understanding of how thermal comfort analysis is performed at a residential site
- Be able to analyze the cost and benefits of many different materials and decide whether they should be used on specific problems
- Present their findings in a short, specific, and relevant manner and defend them against other alternatives
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Wellborn Abridged Case Study
Wellborn Cabinets is a family owned business that was founded in 1961. The company’s headquarters and largest factory are located in Ashland, AL and occupy over two million square feet, building about 5,000 cabinets a day. Wellborn primarily supplies builders and dealers who work with customers to design kitchens and dressing and entertainment suites, with a typical order of 20 cabinets containing 15,000 pieces and costing about $15,000.
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Wellborn Case Study
Wellborn Cabinets is a family owned business that was founded in 1961. The company’s headquarters and largest factory are located in Ashland, AL and occupy over two million square feet, building about 5,000 cabinets a day. Wellborn primarily supplies builders and dealers who work with customers to design kitchens and dressing and entertainment suites, with a typical order of 20 cabinets containing 15,000 pieces and costing about $15,000. Wellborn began to use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems about 10 years ago to manage its business.
Wellborn Cabinets adopted a system called Symix, a full ERP system, in 1998. Although Symix had a complete set of modules, all of which were used across all of the company’s departments, each plant used its own database so two plants that were close together were not linked on the financial end. As a result, spreadsheets were used to merge data and engineers had to maintain 580,000 discreet bills of material. Shopfloor workers knew the bills of material were not accurate and paid little attention to them, instead building the cabinets using “tribal knowledge”, which led to frequent returns and many defects. Marketing, engineering, and training issues were also not addressed adequately.
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