In early 2019, Alan Jay, an executive in the Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) department of Gloria Hospital, a full-service hospital that specialised in children and women healthcare, had been requested to gather insights and seek improvements to the pre-consultation waits at the hospital...
In November 2019, Tommy Leong, Zone President, East Asia & Japan (EAJ), of Schneider Electric, a French multinational corporation (MNC), hosted regional clients in the Singapore HQ building. He highlighted how the company would capitalise on digital transformation to help create a futuristic...
In its 2017 annual report, the Dairy Farm Group had reported a decline in sales and profits for its Singapore Supermarket and Hypermarket business, with increasing competition cited as the key reason for the lacklustre performance. Peter Goh, an analyst at Singapore Management University’s...
Set in 2019, this case illustrates a design thinking intervention programme carried out at the Elite’s Smile Specialized Medical Complex in the city of Taif in Saudi Arabia. The programme was part of a doctorate research project undertaken at the Singapore Management University.
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The case describes what happened in December 2019 when Guo Meiling, the chairwoman of Beijing Century Galaxy Group, needed to decide whether she should invest in the RMB 50 million (US$7.1 million) deal of Yisheng Health. Yisheng Health consisted of two O2O platforms, Yisheng At-home and Yisheng...
In the span of half a century, Singapore’s healthcare system had undergone a major transformation along with the country’s economic growth. From a developing nation plagued with tropical communicable diseases and malnutrition in the 1960s, Singapore had progressed significantly to become the second...
Kelvin Teo, Group CEO of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Funding Societies Pte Ltd, has submitted an application for a Singapore digital wholesale bank (DWB) licence to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator. For the purpose of this...
Almost three-and-a-half years after a turnaround strategy for the UK-based loss-making Guardian Media Group (GMG) was launched, it had finally managed to stem its losses. Key to the successful turnaround was a culture of openness, which was exemplified by how it allowed its partners to reuse its...
This case covers the period from 2014 to 2020, when DBS embarks on its second strategy under the stewardship of Piyush Gupta. The aim is to become the Best Bank in the World (BBIW) by 2020. The bank reaches its objectives in 2019 and continues to garner more banking accolades.
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Jacquelyn Yang is the Senior Marketing Manager at a young Singapore company, Funding Societies, in the nascent debt crowdfunding scene in the island city-state. Debt crowdfunding, also referred to as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, represents an alternative source of loans for businesses to borrow...
