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Cases by Kevin Sproule

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Tropdicorp: One Bug's Enemy is Another Man's Friend

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The case is set in September 2012 and deals with the circumstances surrounding Vietnam-based Tropdicorp’s proposed foray into the organic pesticides market. Outside of its core business of seed science, the company has developed initial expertise in breeding and deploying natural enemies as an...
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Sentosa: Asia’s Favourite Playground

This is a three-part case series on the Sentosa Leisure Group based in Singapore. The three cases focus on: Case A — marketing / analytics; Case B — IT solution design; Case (C) — long-term strategy.
In this case series, Esther Wong, deputy director of solutions technology, is tasked with boosting...
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Audi Fashion Festival: Building a Brand with Singapore

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In November 2012, Reinhold Carl, the managing director of Audi Singapore, faces a difficult challenge. The market for the number of new cars sold in Singapore has declined by an annual rate of 18% on average between 2005 and 2011. In such a market, capturing market share by value seems more viable...
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TATA Chemicals Brand Consolidation: Power of One?

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In July 2010, Sujit Patil, head of corporate communications for Mumbai-based Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) has to develop a company branding strategy after a series of acquisitions. TCL has acquired several of the top producers in the soda ash business, making it a commanding player in the global...
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Generations at TCS: Ever Changing Workforce

Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) division faces the challenge of retaining their Generation-Y employees, with seven out of a thirteen-person team quitting within a month. Workforce dynamics in the BPO industry in India are a high growth area and employees often...
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The Gold Misses in South Korea: Icons in Marketing to Gangnam

This case, set in 2012, deals with an increasingly important economic, demographic and social phenomenon in Asia — the emergence of career- minded women who are impacting how products are marketed in that region — in this example, South Korea. The case revolves around the iconic “Gold Misses” — an...
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The Oreo in China: Time to Get it Right or to Get Out

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As Shawn Warren, head of biscuits at Kraft for Asia Pacific, surveys the China market for Oreos in late 2005, he realises that changes need to be made, and fast. Oreo was first launched in China in 1996, but sales have been flat as the rest of China has been setting record growth in the biscuit...
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Navigauge: A Disruptive Innovation to Measure Car Radio Listening

Navigauge, a start-up company that specialises in radio market research, has developed a tool that provides high quality, accurate and location-based radio market research. This pioneering technology in radio market research is captured in a positive, albeit reserved, article in the New York Times...
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DBS Bank: Championing Change

In April 2011, Paul Cobban, head of process improvement at Singapore-based DBS Bank sees an opportunity to improve business operations and customer service. He finds the loan-origination process particularly cumbersome and a source of excessive customer wait time. Loan-origination is a complex...
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Viki: By the Fans, for the Fans

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Viki is a web portal that provides video content with crowdsourced multi-lingual subtitles. It relies on an active community of fans to add captions and subtitles in numerous languages to premium videos (movies, television shows) from around the world — thus opening up new markets and enabling new...
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