Strategic planning

May 2014

Vodafone Turkey (C)

By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton

Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to “batten down the hatches” to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...

April 2014

Vodafone Turkey (B)

By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton

Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to “batten down the hatches” to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...

April 2014

Vodafone Turkey (A)

By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton

Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to “batten down the hatches” to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...

August 2018

The UK Government Digital Service

By Julian Birkinshaw, Scott Duncan

The case describes how Mike Bracken, the newly appointed head of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS), took on the massive challenge of setting up, from scratch, a centralised team to deliver online public services efficiently online across all of the government’s digital channels. This involve...

March 2009

Reuters Market Light: Strategic Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid

By Costas Markides, Laura Winig, Daniel Oyon

This case is set in 2008 and examines the challenges facing Amit Mehra, Managing Director of Reuters Market Light (RML), a newly formed unit within Thomson Reuters, as he tries to grow the business amid organisational and market upheaval. RML represented a creative venture by Thomson Reuters to leve...

February 2015

NayaMed (B)

By Costas Markides, Lisa Duke, Daniel Oyon

This is part of a case series. As the Alps disappeared into the darkness through NayaMed’s window, the General Manager Aarnav Sendutta considered how to grow his fledgling unit. It was February 2014, and NayaMed, a unit of medical device giant, Medtronic, was just over two years old. It was formed...

February 2015

NayaMed (A)

By Costas Markides, Lisa Duke, Daniel Oyon

This is part of a case series. As the Alps disappeared into the darkness through NayaMed’s window, the General Manager Aarnav Sendutta considered how to grow his fledgling unit. It was February 2014, and NayaMed, a unit of medical device giant, Medtronic, was just over two years old. It was formed...