It has been a bumpy few years since 2020 for JUMBO Group CEO and Executive Director Ang Kiam Meng. JUMBO Group, like many other firms in the food and beverage (F&B) industry, faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022. Prior to the pandemic, it had established...
Set in 2023, this case describes the digitalisation and sustainability journey of Blue Bird, an Indonesia-based taxi business established in 1965. By 2014, when the company was publicly listed, it had become the country’s largest taxi provider. In 2023, it had expanded its business to include car...
In early 2023, Claire Chiang, co-founder of Banyan Tree Group (Banyan Tree), a Singapore-based multinational hospitality brand with several hotels and resorts across the globe, was contemplating growth plans for the company. Banyan tree was aiming to double its existing portfolio to 100 hotels and...
The case is set in April 2023, soon after DBS Bank Limited (DBS) reported a 20% net profit growth of US$6.02 billion. The bank’s CEO Piyush Gupta had attributed this growth to the company’s continuing digital transformation journey that had started more than a decade ago. Central to this journey...
Formed in 2018, EyRIS was the brainchild of a long-term collaboration across healthcare researchers and practitioners, and computer scientists. EyRIS was launched to commercialise and sell an AI-driven algorithm called SELENA+ that analysed retinal images to screen for diabetes-related eye diseases...
Singapore-based Metta Welfare Association (Metta) had been keenly aware of the need to digitalise, and had taken steps to do so under the leadership of Felicia Wee, the Deputy Executive Director. With the coaching of its partners – NFT Ventures and Mega X World – Metta decided to embark on the sale...
The case describes the relaunch of the popular bubble tea franchise Gong Cha in Singapore in December 2017. This was seven months after its 80 outlets were converted, within a week, into a new chain named LiHO TEA by the former Gong Cha franchisee. Kang Puay Seng, the new franchisee, had the...
This social network data analysis case presents the scenario of the launch of a new version of a popular video game called ‘Thrive in Space’ by a gaming company. The company’s Chief Marketing Officer Tina Lohn wants to run an influencer marketing campaign on social platform Twitch to reach its live...
This case study follows Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) through its Culture Journey (2018-2021), an initiative to rebuild the corporate culture as part of a broader turnaround strategy. The airline was stricken by twin tragedies in 2014 – the disappearance of Flight MH370 over the Indian Ocean and...
Ravi Arora, Vice President (Group Innovation), Tata Sons Private Limited, and his Group Innovation team initially faced difficulty when introducing the concept of open innovation to the Tata Group. They tried to ease the staff into embracing it by getting them to share problem statements, learn...
