This descriptive case discusses an emerging global market trend and opportunity – the increasing use of beauty products by men, especially those in Asia. “No More Uncle” captures the emotional motivation behind unappealing and/or older-looking men to transform themselves. The case also looks at how...
The case begins in January 2016. Alvin Chan, CEO of Neeuro, reflects on the company’s three-year journey to bring their proprietary wearable technology EEG (electroencephalography) headband to market. The headband was meant for use alongside Neeuro’s mobile applications to improve the brain health...
GSH Conserves was an artisanal jam producer in Singapore that specialised in using tropical fruits, such as dragon fruit, lychee, mango, etc., to handcraft high-quality jam in small batches. Founded in 2013 in a home kitchen, the demand for GSH Conserves jam and bottled fruits had grown organically...
Case A is set in 2010. Shinji Tanaka is a senior economist at Kyoto Heritage Foundation, a Japanese think tank, and he wondered if Sharp’s new manufacturing plant in Sakai could turn the company around. Sharp’s vision and innovative culture led it to invest in LCD technology. It played an important...
The case begins in 2009, when the Gong Cha franchise was launched in Singapore by entrepreneur Rodney Tang with a sole outlet in a mall. Within two years, the franchise expanded to 20 outlets, and another five years later, there were 80 outlets in the city-state, and Gong Cha had a well-established...
GSH Conserves was an artisanal jam producer in Singapore that specialised in using tropical fruits, such as dragon fruit, lychee, mango, etc., to handcraft high-quality jam in small batches. Founded in 2013 in a home kitchen, the demand for GSH Conserves jam and bottled fruits had grown organically...
June 20, 2016. It was the day Magic Pony Technology galloped to fame after Twitter announced its acquisition of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up for a reported US$150 million. Co-founded by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang in London in 2014, Magic Pony specialised in using machine learning, a...
In the summer of 2016, ARM Holdings (ARM), a British semiconductor IP licensing firm, has been acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. The acquisition is a strategic leap for Softbank to expand its market outreach into the Internet of Things (IoT) market. Share prices of ARM have soared by 63%...
In October 2016, Wilf Blackburn, the CEO of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (PACS) started an organisational transformation journey to reposition PACS as the number one insurance company in Singapore. Earlier that year, PACS’ market share had fallen from 22 per cent in the previous year to...
Flipz is the pseudonym for a Hong Kong-based mobile classified app for consumer-to-consumer selling and buying of new and second-hand goods. Despite the initial skepticism towards their venture, the founders managed to gain traction with their app and eventually succeeded in raising venture funding...
