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Case Studies on Change Management

Case Studies on Target Date Funds

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Infosys on course correction to spur growth: Kamath

Bangalore, June 9 (IANS) India’s IT bellwether Infosys Ltd. is on a course correction to align with the paradigm shift in technology business to products and platforms from services business, its chairman K.V. Kamath said Saturday.

“We have embarked on a course correction as the technology industry is going through a paradigm shift to products and platforms from traditional services business,” Kamath told reporters.

Noting that course correction would take a longer time to yield results, he said the global software major was bracing up to face the emerging challenges in the technology space, economy and volatile currency markets.

“Course correction cannot be done in eight months. It is a process, which will take time to succeed. Though last fiscal (2011-12) was a volatile year for technology business, we faced the challenges and fared better,” Kamath said on the margins of the company’s 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM) here.

The paradigm shift in technology business had led to the blue chip company’s revenue share from software services such as application development drop to 40 percent from 90 percent earlier.Read more on IANS….

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Infosys on course correction to spur growth

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Slovenian case of strategic change management in the public sector: Towards the Lisbon Strategy

Europe is expected to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. These are crucial priorities of the Lisbon Strategy (Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Implementing the Renewed Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, 2007). According to the EU public sector development initiatives in the period 2008-2009, European Council (European Council, March 2005; MTM Program, 2007) reiterated that simplifying EU legislation and improving the efficiency and transparency of public administrations will significantly strengthen economic competitiveness through encouraging business confidence and improving standards of public service. The challenges of new, knowledge-based public sectors in Europe are forcing developed countries to seek and expand comparative advantages mainly through the intellectual capital of the management of public service institutions so as to be able to continuously incorporate strategic change management issues. Read More….

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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF MANGOES IN KENYA

VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF MANGOES IN KENYA

INTRODUCTION: This document reviews fruit production and yield trends, mango production, marketing and processing of smallholders and traders along the mango value chain in Kenya. It also examines future development prospects.

Value Chain Analysis

Despite the existence of considerable potential and a steady growth in yields over the last decade, the development of the Kenyan mango supply chain appears to be hindered by a number of structural problems. This has a negative effect on the country, both in terms of foregone potential income and employment opportunities and in terms of reduced availability of locally produced high quality fruits and natural juices.

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Study Report on Globalization Process in India

Globalization Process in India: A Historical Perspective Since Independence, 1947

INTRODUCTION: Since the early 1970s, there have been several research papers on varied issues of globalization with reference to India. However, one of the basic issues is still not researched sufficiently. The key concern of this paper is to explain the meaning of Globalization in terms of the genesis, the evolution, and the characteristics of globalization with respect to India. In other words, the paper focuses on what globalization has meant for India during the last about 60 years.

globalization

In early 1990s the Indian economy had witnessed dramatic policy changes. The idea behind the new economic model known as Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization in India (LPG), was to make the Indian economy one of the fastest growing economies in the world. An array of reforms was initiated with regard to industrial, trade and social sector to make the economy more competitive.

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Case Study on Women Entrepreneurship Problems and Prospects in India

Case Study on Women Entrepreneurship Problems and Prospects in India

ABSTRACT: The educated Indian women have to go a long way to achieve equal rights and position because traditions are deep rooted in Indian society where the sociological set up has been a male dominated one. Despite all the social hurdles, Indian women stand tall from the rest of the crowd and are applauded for their achievements in their respective field. The transformation of social fabric of the Indian society, in terms of increased educational status of women and varied aspirations for better living, necessitated a change in the life style of Indian women. She has competed with man and successfully stood up with him in every walk of life and business is no exception for this. These women leaders are assertive, persuasive and willing to take risks. They managed to survive and succeed in this cut throat competition with their hard work, diligence and perseverance.

Women Entrepreneurship

INTRODUCTION: The educated women do not want to limit their lives in the four walls of the house. They demand equal respect from their partners. However, Indian women have to go a long way to achieve equal rights and position because traditions are deep rooted in Indian society where the sociological set up has been a male dominated one. Women are considered as weaker sex and always made to depend on men folk in their family and outside, throughout their life. The Indian culture made them only subordinates and executors of the decisions made by other male members, in the basic family structure.

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Case Study on Critical Path Method

Case Study about Critical Path Method

Planning a project usually involves dividing it into a number of small tasks that can be assigned to individuals or teams. The project’s schedule depends on the duration of these tasks and the sequence in which they are arranged. This sequence can be driven by several factors: customer deadlines, availability of personnel or resources, and dependencies among tasks. The last factor is the subject of this paper—in particular, how this sequence can affect the project’s duration and its finish date.



Case Studies on Critical Path Method

A schedule isn’t an arbitrary sequence of tasks, and it isn’t just a convenient arrangement that maximizes the use of resources for the shortest timeline. It must consider precedence—the relationship between the start and finish dates of interdependent tasks, where one task can’t start until one or more other tasks are finished. These precedence relationships determine which tasks can be overlapped and which ones must be serial. The purpose of any schedule is to define when tasks will begin and finish, but it’s important to remember that the purpose of project is not merely to perform tasks but to deliver a product.

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A Case Study of an Innovative Approach to Resolving Conflicts

Case Study about an Innovative Approach to Resolving Conflicts between the IT Department and their Business Clients.

Introduction: This story has a happy ending but it started with a lot of unhappy people. Shields Health Care operates a number of MRI Centers throughout southern New England. Patients are referred to these centers by a large number of medical doctors on an outpatient basis. Shields also operates MRI centers to serve hospital patients. The Centers process thousands of patient visits each month. Reimbursement for Shields’ services comes from health insurance combined sometimes with payments from welfare and co-payments from the patients. Shields deals with approximately 12,000 health insurance companies, each with different rules for their health insurance plans.



Case Study on Resolving Conflicts

The Solution: The first solution to this problem was to program insurance claims rules into the Basic code which assists the admitting person in collecting correct information. A typical rule decodes the ID on the health insurance card issued to the patient by looking at certain digits. This is then related to an insurance plan and used to suggest appropriate action to the admitting person. For example, many insurance plans require a patient co-payment. This may come from the patient, from secondary insurance, or welfare as the case may be. It is critical that information on secondary and tertiary insurers be collected before service is rendered otherwise Shields may be unable to collect this money.

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Project Management and Cultural Change: a case study at the University of Western Australia Library

Over the years the management of projects at the University of Western Australia Library has generally been poor. With some exceptions, projects were badly scoped, had no clear direction, would proceed in fits and starts, and some would not be completed at all. On occasions a project would get to a stage where implementation was due and there would be no resources available. On completion loose ends would be left and the transfer of the project to operational
stage would be unplanned and ad hoc. Reporting was also poor so managers often had little idea of the status of a project.
In 2005 a project management method – PRINCE2 – was implemented across the library, staff were trained, and its use was mandated. Read more to know how it has helped.

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A Case Study on Municipal Attorneys Conflicting Obligations

The board of education in a wealthy, medium-sized Connecticut town is represented by a large law firm that represents 80 boards of education across the state (half the state’s total). That same firm is representing a developer that is suing the town’s planning and zoning commission, and it appears to be a controversial matter.



A Case Study on Municipal Attorneys Conflicting Obligations

There is no doubt that the state’s rules of professional conduct allow a firm to represent both a town and another client that is suing it, as long as there is no relationship between the matters. Even where, say, a suit concerns a school building, waivers are often obtained, so long as the different firm departments’ lawyers do not discuss the different matters. Click here to read more…



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