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Ramdas, Kamalini
Whose Life is This? A Creativity Exercise
Rae, Jeneanne Ramdas, Kamalini
OM-1353 | Published June 30, 2009 | 14 pages Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
The purpose of this technical note is to introduce a creativity exercise based on photo stimuli to business-school faculty and to discuss how it can be used effectively in the MBA and executive educat... Read More
HCL Technologies: Employee First, Customer Second
Ramdas, Kamalini Gajulapalli, Ravindra S.
OM-1366 | Published September 29, 2008 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
HCL Technologies, a major Indian IT services company, rolled out a radical new strategy, "Employee First, Customer Second" (EFCS) in 2005. The strategic goals for EFCS were to create a unique employee... Read More
Supply-Chain Management at W'Up Bottlery (A)
OM-1351 | Published July 30, 2008 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
At the W'Up Bottlery in Uttar Pradesh, India, Rajat Mehra, director of supply-chain management, mused over the W'Up plant's supply-chain performance over the peak summer period that had just ended. Th... Read More
Supply-Chain Management at W'Up Bottlery (B)
OM-1352 | Published July 30, 2008 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After spending a day in a meeting room in August 2005, pondering how to improve supply-chain performance, Rajat Mehra's team hit upon an idea that might enable dramatic reduction in the cost of stock-... Read More
I Can, You Can, We All Can Kanban
Weiss, Elliott N. Ramdas, Kamalini Pease, Henry
OM-1257 | Published March 25, 2006 | 7 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This brief note describes the kanban system of inventory control. It discusses the rules for its use, techniques for calculating the number of cards, and the difference between push and pull systems. Read More
A Note on Managing Process Flows
OM-1194 | Published August 13, 2005 | 7 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note focuses on the fundamentals of managing process flows. A process viewpoint is useful when the goal is to manage operational metrics such as capacity, cost, inventory, or responsiveness. The ... Read More
A Note on Process Analysis
Ramdas, Kamalini Parkhill, Joseph
OM-1096 | Published October 02, 2003 | 12 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note provides an introduction to process analysis, covering key concepts such as bottlenecks, capacity, capacity utilization, and throughput time. Concepts are illustrated in a context that is si... Read More
Tastee Snax Cookie Company (B)
Ramdas, Kamalini Parkhill, Joseph
OM-1097 | Published October 02, 2003 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This B case allows students who have completed the Tastee Snax Cookie Company case (UVA-OM-0803) to analyze how the duration of project described in that case can be most cost-effectively shortened. Read More
The Operations Course at Darden: An Introduction
OM-1073 | Published August 08, 2003 Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note provides an introduction to the First Year Operations course in the Darden MBA program. The course is taught over 36 class sessions spanning two quarters. The note provides an introduction t... Read More
Managing Variability: Process Control and Process Capability
OM-1103 | Published February 02, 2003 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note provides an introduction to quality management tools, with a focus on the concepts of process control and process capability. Read More
Our Daily Bread Co.
OM-1018 | Published July 25, 2002 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Our Daily Bread was a small boutique bakery producing a variety of daily and specialty breads. The company had excess capacity and was considering several options to increase revenues by entering the ... Read More
OceanCove
OM-1022 | Published January 20, 2002 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Rakesh Gupta sits in his new office at Nariman Point, Mumbai, contemplating the future of OceanCove, which in the last two years has grown from a single seafood restaurant to a chain of five restauran... Read More
Carrier Corporation, Montluel, France: The Aquasnap Design Project
Ramdas, Kamalini Gibbons, Emily Jean
OM-0972 | Published February 20, 2001 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case focuses on product design as a source of competitive advantage. In the late 1990s, Carrier France faced extremely high labor and overhead costs relative to smaller Italian competitors in one... Read More