INDIAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND STUDIES Part I Guidance on Use of Case Method CASE METHOD INTRODUCTION Traditionally, the lecture method has been used as the basic pedagogy for teaching throughout the world. This method is based on the assumption that the teacher IS a fountain of knowledge and h is capable of disseminating this knowledge by telling students the historical facts regarding the discipline being taught. The concepts and principles which have been developed by scholars
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Shifting Perspective Define The problem Understand your ambitions Challenge your assumptions Research case studies Building Knowledge Get out and look around Map the customer journey Identify barriers Find The Root of the problem Learn from experts Build Personas Understand customers expectations Customer SWOT Competitor Analysis Map the Problem Structure Insight re-learn Define the Problem re-learn re-think re-define launch Define the problem The first thing to be done before
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competitive global automobile market. Toyota’s success and its lean manufacturing philosophy have been widely studied. The Toyota manufacturing system is centred on achieving a high level of productivity. The company has a unique approach to problem solving and it continuously trains its employees. The Toyota Production Systems is based on the lean manufacturing philosophy that seeks to minimize wastages and centres on cost reduction. The Toyota manufacturing philosophy emphasises on quality management
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world-wide ground is critical to personal and public development. Just as we having skilled and globally focused workers is perhaps the most important to any organization’s competitiveness in a world. As, Herb Childress, director of liberal studies at the Boston Architectural College, disagreed for an entirely special approach to development of our efforts to teach. American students that are need to learn a new set of talents, including
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HEMOPHILIA ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT MAY 2009 • NO 4 GROUP DYNAMICS AND TEAM BUILDING Second Edition Ann-Marie Nazzaro National Hemophilia Foundation (USA) Joyce Strazzabosco Consultant and Trainer (USA) Published by the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), 2003; revised 2009 © World Federation of Hemophilia, 2009 The WFH encourages redistribution of its publications for educational purposes by not-for-profit hemophilia organizations. In order to obtain permission to reprint,
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Case Study Two: Ingvar Kamprad The founder and owner of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad chooses to live his life as frugally as possible, even though he is one of the wealthiest business in the world (Nelson & Quick, 2013). Kamprad chooses to avoid wearing suits, drives a Volvo that is a decade old, flies economy class, and rides the subway to work (Daniels, 2004). He grew up in a region that many around him used the limited resources that they had available efficiently to succeed (Nelson & Quick, 2013)
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calling for school choice, high school reform and preparation for the 21st century workforce. The growing numbers of students learning online and the importance of online learning as a solution to educational differences has increased the demand to study more closely the factors that effect learning in a virtual school environment. Many students who have participated and who participate in online education programs are attracted to online schooling because it offers advantages over a classroom
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P A R T I I Be Creative W hat is the greatest difficulty people have in thinking about problems and issues? The standard answer is “the difficulty of evaluating the various solutions and choosing the best one.” In some cases, this may be true. But two other difficulties are equally troublesome: identifying problems and issues before they become crises, and getting beyond common, unoriginal solutions to creative ones. The first chapter in this part introduces the creative process. The other chapters
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Bono Dr. Edward de Bono 1933 to current. (Systems, 2014) Dr. Edward de Bono 1933 to current. (Systems, 2014) Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2005, Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is equally renowned for his development of the Six Thinking Hats technique and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools. He is the originator of the concept of Lateral Thinking, which
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How to ace the case interview Up front planning The case interview is only one dimension of the recruiting process, but it is typically the part that raises the most anxiety. We hope this guide will help you to prepare for the case so that you can be confident and enjoy the interview. You must have the ability to: • Break a complex problem into its component parts • Apply business judgment to identify value • Generate a creative range of solutions to a problem’s component parts • Identify
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