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Sentosa (B): Creating A Platform For Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule Jun 2014

Sentosa (B): Creating A Platform For Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule

C. Jason Woodard

This case is the second part of a three-part series on the Sentosa Leisure Group based in Singapore. The three cases focus on: Case (A) – Marketing / Analytics Case (B) – IT solution design Case (C) – Long-term strategy Sentosa (B): After helping Sentosa define their business model in the A case, the focus shifts to developing an integrated information technology system to enable business growth while working with existing the constraints of existing infrastructure. The goal is to have an IT platform that would provide a total customer experience ranging from tickets to personalised offers. The second case …


Sentosa (A): Asia’S Favourite Playground, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule Jun 2014

Sentosa (A): Asia’S Favourite Playground, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule

C. Jason Woodard

This case is the first part of a three-part series on the Sentosa Leisure Group based in Singapore. The three cases focus on: Case (A) – Marketing / Analytics Case (B) – IT solution design Case (C) – Long-term strategy Sentosa (A): This case starts as Esther Wong, deputy director of solutions technology is tasked with boosting local attendance to Sentosa, the resort island near the heart of Singapore. The island had done well in attracting foreign visitors, and management saw the next challenge to be attracting locals to the island, who often saw it as expensive and difficult to …


Sentosa (C): Advancing Sentosa’S Strategy Through Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule Jun 2014

Sentosa (C): Advancing Sentosa’S Strategy Through Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule

C. Jason Woodard

This case is the third part of a three-part series on the Sentosa Leisure Group based in Singapore. The three cases focus on: Case (A) – Marketing / Analytics Case (B) – IT solution design Case (C) – Long-term strategy Sentosa (C): After successfully answering the ‘big’ questions like how to drive Sentosa’s core revenue and designing a new IT platform, students are asked to tie it all together. How can their learning be used to chart a strategy for the Sentosa Leisure Group? How can they realise the aggressive revenue and profit goals set forward by the board? In …


Circos: Tapping Into Social Media (A), Kevin W. Sproule, C. Jason Woodard Aug 2012

Circos: Tapping Into Social Media (A), Kevin W. Sproule, C. Jason Woodard

C. Jason Woodard

Social media was a topic that had entered into the daily vocabulary of teenagers and business executives alike. With this surge in popularity and influence worldwide the open question was what this new way of interacting would mean for businesses and whether or not social media could really be a driver of company profitability or just a nice way to share photos with friends? Circos, a Singapore-based company, developed a business that it hoped would help to answer those questions. By using a proprietary sentiment analysis tool, Circos had mined the vast world of online reviews available on various social …


Circos: Tapping Into Social Media (B), Kevin W. Sproule, C. Jason Woodard Aug 2012

Circos: Tapping Into Social Media (B), Kevin W. Sproule, C. Jason Woodard

C. Jason Woodard

After a successful presentation in the (A) case, Frederic Langlois, Circos.com general manager in Singapore, headed back to the company headquarters. He brought back not only the possibility of a new client, but also a specific request. The Raffles Hotel had asked him to provide new functionality beyond the existing social media analytics dashboard Circos had become known for. The Raffles Hotel manager had asked, “It would be great to have a simple and meaningful analysis of what people are saying about our property online. What would be really great, though, would be to know who is saying what. I …