This relatively short case describes the development of Rolls-Royce’s (RR) Seletar plant in Singapore, and in particular how the plant moved very quickly from a factory receiving information and innovation from its sister facility in the United Kingdom to a node in RR’s manufacturing network. The...
This case study provides insight on how HCL technologies – one of India’s largest IT companies– pulled off the world’s first ever end-to-end recruitment on Twitter. It provides a background of why HCL adopted this strategy, the internal hurdles staff had experienced to launch the campaign as well...
This case won the Inclusive Business Models category at the EFMD Case Writing Competition 2015.
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In order to resolve severe water management problems in Metro Manila, the Government of Philippines began rolling out a privatisation scheme in 1995 with the objective to provide...
In January 2010, the new DBS chief executive officer, Piyush Gupta, was tasked to realise the bank’s vision to be the ‘Asian bank of choice for the new Asia’. The global financial crisis of 2008 had created an opportunity for DBS to fill the void left by the Western banks that were suffering from...
This case is a classic example of misaligned project metrics, where different parts of a project are unable to simultaneously achieve their targets. The case uses a project at Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. to illustrate a complex and very aggressive project, which requires...
The case is set in January 2012, and begins with Kenneth Yap, the founder of Quantine Pte Ltd, strategising on an effective growth plan for his company. Quantine is a job candidate pre-screening service provider specialised in asynchronous video interviews. In the three years since its inception,...
This case is set in July 2013, at the Microsoft IT (MSIT) – India headquarters in Hyderabad. In 2010, when Raj Biyani, as 12-year veteran from Microsoft Redmond takes over MSIT’s operations Hydrabad, he is faced with low morale and high attrition rates due to a fragmented organisational structure....
In order to meet increased demand for new aircraft-engine orders coming from customers in Asia, Rolls-Royce strategises and facilitates the company’s largest investment to date: the US$565 million Seletar Campus in Singapore – a 154,000 square metre site housing cutting-edge manufacturing, training...
Vista View Corporation is an American pharmaceutical company manufacturing and sells both prescription and over-the-counter eye care products, with branches in 50 countries. Since 2008, Vista View has been consolidating its business within its consumer products division to focus on emerging market...
This case is set in February 2013, when several Yahoo! employees leaked a confidential memo from the human resources department concerning a telecommuting ban that is to be imposed in June that year. There are strong responses from many people, both from inside and outside Yahoo, criticising the...
