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Torrent Gujarat Biotech Limited (A)
(2010-08-19)
This case deals with the issues in mitigating an unexpected development. The Torrent group decided to integrate backwards by venturing into the production of penicillin. The decision was motivated by the huge demand-supply ...
Torrent Gujarat Biotech Limited (C)
(2010-08-19)
This case describes the situation faced by the management in mitigating unexpected developments in the policy and competitive environment. The economics of the penicillin project changed drastically when the government ...
Torrent Gujarat Biotech Limited (B)
(2010-08-19)
This case describes the efforts of Torrent Gujarat Biotech Limited to mitigate unexpected developments in implementing a backward integration project. The management decided to develop the technology indigenously. It ...
Computational Complexity
(2010-08-20)
This note introduces the notions of computational complexity, and the theory of NP Completeness in an informal and non-rigorous way. In designing decision support systems, the designers often use heuristics. For such ...
Torrent Cables Limited (C)
(2010-08-19)
This case describes the measures initiated by Torrent Cables Limited to fight the recession. The issue is one of strengthening the measures and introducing new initiatives to prevent the company from becoming sick again. ...
Project Monitoring Game
(2010-08-20)
This describes the rules related to a PC based single user Project Monitoring Game. The user is provided with the list of 12 activities, their predecessors and expected durations. The activity durations are uncertain. As ...
Torrent Cables Limited (B)
(2010-08-19)
This case deals with the issues in sustaining a superior performance in the face of recession. In 1989 the Torrent Group acquired a sick company. The company was turned around by a series of managerial initiatives. A new ...
TWINS Project, Andhra Pradesh
(2010-08-20)
As a part of its initiative to bring the benefits of information technology to its citizens, the Government of Andhra Pradesh, in 1998, undertook the TWINS (twin cities network services) project, whose objective was to ...
Notes on Microsoft Project
(2010-08-25)
This note introduces the Micro Soft Project 2000 package features, with examples on time resource analysis, functionally describing initial settings; data entry; time analysis; project tracking; resource sharing in multiple ...
Matrices and Arrays in Excel
(2010-08-27)
Excel has powerful features to perform matrix operations, and has special functions whose inputs and outputs are not single cells, but ranges. Through two examples, this note introduces the array and matrix formulae of Excel.