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FNB codeFest: Fostering Corporate Innovation through In-House Hackathons
Jeff Yu-Jen Chen; Caren ScheepersCaso IVEY-9B19M030-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraPeter Alkema, chief information officer of Business Banking at First National Bank in Johannesburg, was puzzling over ways to ensure that codeFest, the event he had inaugurated, would continue to thrive beyond 2018 without his direct involvement. His brainchild had begun in 2015 as a one-day hackathon with 100 participants. Three years later, it had grown to become a six-day coding and innovation extravaganza. Now, in May 2018, Alkema wondered wh...Desde 8,20 €
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Supergroup/South Africa: Contextual Leadership from Turnaround to Strategic Niche
Caren Scheepers; Michael WardCaso IVEY-9B19M017-EDirección estratégicaIn January 2018, the chief executive officer (CEO) of logistics company Supergroup Limited (Supergroup), considered the ideal weighting of Supergroup’s offshore activities given a weak South African rand and slow growth in the country. The company had nearly become bankrupt in 2009, and the CEO had been hired as the “turnaround” leader who headed its steady recovery, stabilizing the company and building its initiatives toward growth. Now that Sup...Desde 8,20 €
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AEL South Africa: Leading in a Manufacturing Context
Caren Scheepers; Shalati MaponoponoCaso IVEY-9B20C015-EDirección estratégica, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasOn January 8, 2017, Ronald Huggins, plant manager at AEL Mining Services Limited (AEL), needed to come up with innovative ways to keep his employees motivated. This need was driven by the downward trend of the local mining market. In 2011 and 2012, AEL had rolled out a major retrenchment, leaving employees with low morale and motivation, which in turn had affected performance levels. It became apparent that plant performance needed to ramp up. Th...Desde 8,20 €
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Uber Africa: Making Cash and Alternative Payments Work in Kenya through Contextual Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Anastacia MamaboloCaso IVEY-9B19M019-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraOn September 30, 2017, the general manager (GM) of Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) for sub-Saharan Africa, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, and paid for his Uber service with cash. This functionality of the Uber app represented a new business model for Uber. The GM had to convince global management of the business case for offering cash payment options in Africa; he did so by conducting experiments and showing data that indicated rider numbers had triple...Desde 8,20 €