• Designing a Future-Ready Enterprise: The Digital Transformation of DBS Bank

    Many organizations are embarking on digital transformation to be future-ready. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on the underlying design logic of a future-ready enterprise. A digitally transformed enterprise must be ready to respond to unpredictable dynamism and pervasive digitalization. Such an enterprise must incorporate the duality of exploitation and exploration as well as the fusion between business and technology into its organizational design. This article presents a framework based on the digital transformation journey of DBS Bank and draws new managerial insights for driving digital transformation strategically.
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  • Giving Data A Voice: The Rise of TalkingData

    This case describes the genesis and development of a Chinese data analytics startup, TalkingData, from 2012 to 2017. It highlights the strategies pursued and capabilities that the company had built over time in order to secure its position as one of the top data analytics providers in the country. This case also identifies the main challenges that TalkingData needs to address as it continues to grow and expand its businesses and operations. This case is suitable as a standalone in digital innovation and strategy classes to illustrate an emerging breed of firms that rode the waves of Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), which swept through the technology world in the early 2010s. It highlights these new firms' growth strategies and markets, both new and old. This case can also be employed in business analytics courses to illustrate how companies can build their data analytics and technology infrastructure as a business offering or strategic support for decision-making.
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  • DBS: From the "World's Best Bank" to Building the Future-ready Enterprise

    This case presents the second phase of DBS Bank's internationally acclaimed digital transformation. Upon completing the first phase (2009-2014) of the transformation that radically "rewired" the entire enterprise for digital innovation, DBS initiated its second digital push in 2015 to address ever-emerging threats from fintech companies and institutional constraints on acquisition-led organic expansion. To DBS, the largest bank in Southeast Asia by assets, this digital transformation was an on-going journey in building a next-generation enterprise. It centred on developing the core capabilities to be ready for a digital future, i.e., the agility to scale technology infrastructure, to delight customers, to connect with ecosystem partners, and to innovate in ways that are unimaginable today. The case details how DBS was preparing these capabilities by undertaking three fundamental "philosophical shifts": to reinvent DBS by becoming digital to the core, embedding DBS in the customer journey, and creating a 26,000-person start-up. The case also highlights the bank's methodology for measuring financial value created by digitalisation; DBS is believed to be the first bank in the world to have done so. Furthermore, the case describes DBS's latest strategic move to embark onto its next stage of transformation, i.e., to reorganise the company around (technology) platforms.
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  • WeChat Work: Bringing Social Networking into Enterprise Workplace

    In April 2016, the Chinese tech giant Tencent made an ambitious foray into the enterprise market by launching WeChat Work, an enterprise social network app adopted from its immensely popular consumer app WeChat. To increase WeChat Work adoption, Tencent leveraged on the 1-billion user base of WeChat and its strong consumer IT capabilities. Despite the initial success, WeChat Work faced intense competition from many other firms, including Alibaba's DingTalk. The socialisation needs of enterprise workplace vary significantly from those of consumers. How can Tencents address these challenges? Can Tencent's strong consumer IT capabilities be as effective in driving the adoption of WeChat Work in the enterprise market?
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  • Reebonz: Bringing You a New World of Accessible Luxury

    In 2009, Samuel Lim, Daniel Lim, and Benjamin Han, saw growth opportunities in the online accessible luxury fashion market and boldly set up Reebonz to pursue them. Their efforts over the years had expanded Reebonz to become a notable online marketplace for both new and pre-owned luxury products. Going forward, the founding trio knew that in order to stay ahead, they must continue to differentiate Reebonz from the traditional luxury players and new online competitors. Would the continuous push for accessible luxury dilute the luxury consumption experience? Where can Reebonz find its next growth trajectory?
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  • Fintech and Finance Transformation: The Rise of Ant Financial

    This case presents the phenomenal rise of Ant Financial Services, which started as Alipay, and has since grown to become the world's largest Fintech company. Seeing itself as a Techfin rather Fintech company, Ant Financial leverages cutting edge technology to provide accessible finance to the underserved SMEs and individuals. This case highlights the dynamic evolution of its business model and its ecosystem. The case also brings up the key challenges that Ant Financial has to deal with, i.e., the intensely competitive Fintech landscape, the viability of its ambitious strategy for inclusive finance, and the transferability of its success beyond China.
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  • Go-Jek in Indonesia: Seizing Digital Opportunities at the Bottom of the Pyramid

    This case chronicles Go-Jek's journey as Indonesia's first unicorn tech startup, which has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 50 companies that "change the world". It highlights how Go-Jek leveraged on its on-demand mobile platform - arguably, the most complete ecosystem in South East Asia to create significant social and economic value for Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country. It also reveals how Go-Jek capitalized on its local business understanding and data analytics to outmanoeuvre bigger competitors such Uber and Grab in Indonesia. Go-Jek has a saying: money can't buy time, but Go-Jek can buy you time. In particular, Go-Jek's motorbike delivery and ride-sharing app has enabled businesses and individuals to circumvent Jakarta's gridlock and achieve desired outcomes of increased sales and higher productivity. This has led to the positive effect of spurring the growth of Jakarta's informal economy.
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  • Uber (B) - Uber in Every Major City in the World: The Globalization Challenge

    Supplement to case NTU111. With its success in the US, Uber has expanded beyond its borders into major cities around the world. However, Uber's aggressive "move fast and break things" expansion strategy cannot be replicated in its entry into international markets. The unique institutional context in each city requires Uber to tailor its strategies to deal with these local challenges. The case thus explores Uber's competitive manoeuvres as it responds to these challenges in its global expansion.
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  • The Quest for Legitimacy in Digital Disruption: The Case of Uber (A)

    As the poster child of the sharing economy, Uber has disrupted the heavily protected taxi industry with an app that connects a distributed network of passengers and drivers at a simple click of a button. While its asset-light ridesharing business model is highly innovative and has been excitedly embraced by investors, the extent of its success is diminished by unhappy customers, irate taxi drivers, and frustrated regulators. This case explores key challenges Uber faces in its quest for legitimacy as a sharing economy disruptor, and the strategies it adopts to deal with these challenges.
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  • Rewiring the Enterprise for Digital Innovation : The Case of DBS Bank

    This case chronicled the digital transformation of DBS Bank in seeking regional growth amidst a new digital era in the Asian banking industry. Led by its CEO, DBS invested heavily in technology and undertook radical changes to 'rewire' the entire enterprise for digital innovation. Key thrusts of its digital transformation strategy involved the revamp of its Technology and Operations organization, the development of scalable digital platforms, the leverage on technology to redesign the customer experience, and the internal incubation and external partnering in seeking new digital innovation. However, questions remain whether DBS has done enough to put digital at the heart of banking? What should be the next steps in their digital strategy? Where should the bank direct its technology investment dollars? How can DBS systematically assess the opportunities and threats of digital disruption in the banking industry and devise a set of possible strategic responses? How can DBS stay at the forefront of digital innovation to become the Asian Bank of Choice for the New Asia?
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  • Challenges in Delivering Cross-Agency Integrated e-Services: The OBLS Project

    This case study describes how the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and the Infocomm Development Authority, as lead agencies, jointly initiated and managed the implementation of a one-stop business licensing portal called OBLS (Online Business Licensing Service - https://licenses.business.gov.sg/) in the Singapore public sector. While mandate from the top for this strategic cross-agency project was strong, there were many hurdles in the form of people, process and technology that had to be overcome. The case study highlights these issues and challenges, and illustrates how they were successfully overcome for delivering cross-agency integrated e-Service for new business license application.
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