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what is casium

Casium \ka-zē-əm\
Noun
Company that provides content on management topics to business schools, publications and corporations. Focuses on salient facts and potential management lessons, as in business school cases. Emphasizes clarity through tight writing and concise charting.

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Turning data into assets
We have entered the Information Age. In "Data Driven", Thomas C. Redman helps us understand the best data management practices and the major data quality problems that get in the way.

Beware the low-cost horde
For professor Adrian Ryans of the Swiss business school IMD, competition from low-cost companies is due to harden. His book analyzes the threat and provides guidance on how companies can fight it… or join it.

Wendler inside
Interlinings are what makes a collar or cuff good and so are key to shirt quality. Wendler Einlagen specializes in shirt interlinings and professor Luk Van Wassenhove (INSEAD France) has studied how they have become a world leader.

When business is good for design
Designers and executives need not be like oil and water as Hartmut Esslinger sets out to show in "A Fine Line". This founder of a leading design firm, frog design, shares his views on how designers can and must work with the C-suite.

Acquiring a taste for IT
In "IT Savvy", Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross, both from MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), present the IT journey and highlight the role of digitized platforms on that path.

Spending less on spending
For British Airways to aggressively streamline its annual £4 billion in procurement, the company questioned all assumptions. An exercise in change management recounted in a case by Jamie Anderson (ESMT) and Dr. Marc Day (Henley Business School).

Buy by wire
The purchasing function at a leading European car parts manufacturer has evolved as it has grown. Professor Allal-Chérif (BEM Bordeaux Management School) looks at how the division is installing advanced information technology tools.

Wind in the R&D blades
The Danish company, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, is the world leader in wind energy systems. Professor Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School) has studied its recent strategy and most specifically, the concomitant reorganization of R&D.

Latest in Operations

Fast fashion
Zara, the most famous brand of the Inditex group, has led the way in the retailing of quick-turnover, inexpensive fashion goods. Zeynep Ton (Harvard) presents Zara, focusing on its supply chain and store management.

The sun rises on solar
Households, businesses and utilities are turning to solar energy. Thomas Steenburgh (Harvard) looks at solar technology and markets while focusing on a Californian startup, Nanosolar, which is striving to become the lowest-cost solar panel manufacturer.