Spreadsheet supplement for case 617059.

Coats, the largest thread maker in the world, transformed its business to digital colour measurement so that it could respond better to customer demand in the garment industry for rapid product cycles and more fragmented colour choices. Its embrace of digital colour measurement technologies enabled customers to drive ever shorter fulfilment cycles. But the company faced a monumental challenge in forecasting demand for the wide spectrum of colours .....more

In March 2021, delivery app CEO Oscar Pierre and his team consider strategies to grow Glovo''s quick commerce delivery service and to approach their expansion in Kenya.

In October 2018, fashion, wellness, and beauty retailer Sylvarella implemented a Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program in an attempt to counteract a sales decline. While BOPS had the potential to meet customer expectations for a seamless order and fulfillment experience, it also posed operational and financial risks. After six months, CEO Sylvia Coparella decided to meet with her vice president (VP) of store operations and VP of e-commerce to .....more

In April 2019, Sylvarella CEO Sylvia Coparella must assess the impact of the company''s Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program on her company''s overall sales. To do so, she must review analyses of both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar sales data and compare the results to the company''s sales prior to the program implementation. At the same time, she must consider the program''s impact on intangible factors within .....more

In April 2019, Sylvia VP of Store Operations Axley Vega must review an analysis of her department''s sales data to determine the impact of the company''s Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program. BOPS implementation created significant problems for the store operations team, including an increased workload for store associates without additional compensation, difficulties managing the fulfillment demands of the program, and declining .....more

In April 2019, Sylvarella VP of E-Commerce Charla Limont must review an analysis of her department''s sales data to determine the impact of the company''s Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program. The program implementation created significant problems for the e-commerce team, including difficulties with the inventory management system, a high volume of abandoned shopping carts, and disgruntled social media influencers. As she prepares .....more

Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust secondary market that bore similarities to the stock market. Inspired by these similarities, StockX''s co-founders created a secondary platform that tracked sneaker resale prices over .....more

Meddo is a healthcare service delivery innovation in India that simplifies the patient journey through outpatient services, lab tests, and medicines management. It was born out of a collaboration between a medical doctor who cofounded a hospital chain, and an entrepreneur who had led a major food-delivery service. The case allows for the exploration and growth of a business model innovation in the complex ecosystem of healthcare.

Florian Hillen, co-founder and CEO of VideaHealth, a startup that used artificial intelligence (AI) to detect dental conditions on x-rays, spent the early years of his company laying the groundwork for an AI factory. A process for quickly building and iterating on new AI products, Hillen believed that the AI factory would prove a competitive advantage when he took his company to market. The AI factory consisted of four stages: the data pipeline, which .....more