• Chapter 4, Case Study 4-2

• Chapter 5, Case Study 5-2

• Chapter 6, Case Study 6-1

 

find in the attachment all the case studies , the answers should be all in one file . 

Responses for each assigned problem should be two APA-formatted pages in length. A quality paper will have significant scope and depth of research to support any statements. Strategic implications will be explained and supported. Relevant illustrations or examples are encouraged. A quality paper will employ use of sound reasoning and logic to reinforce conclusions. A quality paper will include at least one reference per problem from a peer reviewed source Â

 

CASE STUDY 4-2VIRTUALLY THERE?Dr. Laura Esserman leans forward and speaks with convic±on, making broad gestures withher hands. ‘‘Over the past couple of decades, I’ve watched industries be transformed bythe use of informa±on systems and incredible visual displays,’’ she says. ‘‘What we could dois to completely change the way we work—just by changing the way we collect and shareinforma±on.’’Sounds familiar, right? But Esserman isn’t championing yet another overzealous SiliconValley start-up—she’s envisioning how cancer pa±ents will interact with their doctors. IfEsserman, a Stanford-trained surgeon and MBA, has her way, pa±ents won’t sit passively onan exam table, listening to impenetrable diagnoses and memorizing treatment instruc±ons.Instead, they’ll have access to a mul±media treasure chest of real-±me diagnosis, treatment,and success-rate data from thousands of cases like their own. Be²er s±ll, they won’t meetwith just one doctor. There will be other doctors on the case—some from the other side ofthe hospital and some, perhaps, from the other side of the world.Esserman and her colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco’s Carol FrancBuck Breast Care Center are pioneers in the new world of virtual teams and virtual tools,a world in which there will be real change in the way highly trained people whose workdepends on intense collabora±on get things done.Her goal at the Buck Breast Care Center isto use virtual tools to bring more useful informa±on (and more doctors) into the exam room.Why? Because two heads really are be²er than one. She explains that when pa±ents seetheir doctors a³er a breast cancer diagnosis, for example, they are handed a recommendedcourse of treatment that involves serious choices and trade-o´s. Of course, most pa±entsdon’t know enough about the merits of, say, a lumpectomy versus a mastectomy to make aninformed choice, so they trust their doctors to tell them what to do.

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