The competition in the construction material industry is growing rapidly. More and more innovation is being applied in all area in the industry where incremental improvement is no longer an advantage but an essential to survival. Looking at this landscape, where disruption can happen anytime, Conwood Indonesia decided to disrupt themselves by taking an action to leap frog the competition by diminishing the top two most constraints in the building and construction industry: time and working capital.

Following its successful entry into the segment of premium wood using environmentally friendly materials, Derek, the incoming President Director of Conwood Indonesia, faced with the inevitable truth. The market faced structural problem with overcapacity and the influx by import produces. Situation predicted to continue to worsen with new capacity continue to enter the market from new local producers and from tax free imports. Conwood Team decided to capitalize on the unique strength of its technology, unmet demand for affordable housing and the limitation facing the Indonesia construction market. In July 2016, Conwood started to transform itself from a purely manufacturing company into Innovation driven company.  With limited resources, how can Derek and his team, within 3 months, act quickly to solve the problems with new innovation while concurrently unravel the issues raised from the innovation itself?

Back in 2012, patient with kidney failure in Indonesia reach more than 150.000 people that needs dialysis treatment, but however, this treatment only to serve for 100.000 people, and few patients only that afforded to pay the treatments cost. While there were many issues related with insufficient financial capacity for patients with kidney failure, and there is one foundation that aimed to help solving this problem. Although it was not the only one exist, YGDI (Yayasan Ginjal Diatrans Indonesia) through Dr. Bimanesh and team, struggling to find the best solution in order to bring the aim to reality. The struggle is getting more complicated, when YGDI pushed to create money, to finance themselves to run their daily operational. They can use GAKIN or JAMSOSTEK (later known as BPJS) only for the purpose of patient’s treatment. This issue makes YGDI think hard, with limited resources, how can they survive as a foundation, and concurrently still deliver good service to their patients?

Nurhayati felt reluctant to let the outsource company manage the Beauty Advisor. She was to worry the outsource company could not maintain the quality of their service. But, this step should be taken, since Paragon will have to focus on their main business, the business of make-up. That’s why, she decided to keep the recruiting, training and determining the pay under her company, instead of letting it to the outsource company. Nurhayati will be focus more on developing product quality and quantity, as well as building more warehouse for the upcoming years, she hopes that by such strategic move it would made her company compete in the market, and however, any kinds of strategy would affect them financially.

The purpose of outsourcing Beauty Adviser Staff of Wardah rather than run and managed by itself is to create cost efficiency in the Corporation in order to keep it stays competitive in the market. This purpose has been asserted by Nurhayati as the top management. Since February 2017 the Corporation has outsourced its Beauty Adviser Staff to other party. Then, it is expected that Corporation can enjoy the cost efficiency and it can be more focus on the core-business. However, since the outsourcing of Beauty Adviser Staff just started several months ago, it is not appropriate period to evaluate whether the purpose of the Corporation is achieved or not. To be able to evaluate the Company purpose from financial perspective, at least need one year period considering other related cost. The cost of outsource Beauty Adviser Staff must be smaller than the cost when the staff run and managed by itself. How efficient it is, still needs time to see.

In the first few hours of July 12, 2016, the Amazon’s “Prime Day” event went through a computer glitch that did not allow customers to add items in their shopping cart – leaving customers unhappy and dissatisfied. The disgruntled customers brought their retaliation to the social media by complaining, making negative comments, using negative hashtags, mentioning Amazon, etc. A new hashtag was created: #PrimeDayFail!

The Prime Day is a self-made occasion created by Amazon only for its members. By paying annual fee as much as $99, members are promised to have deals and bargains, much like the Black Friday or Cyber Monday event. Launched in 2015, the Prime Day events had never been satisfying for customers. In 2015, despite the revenue success, the 2015 Prime Day still left many customers unhappy with the deals – the deals were either sold out, or considered junks or unwanted products. Customers’ retaliation in social media yielded over 40,000 negative mentions. In 2016, Amazon promised to offer better deals than any other Amazon’s event history – yet problems still occurred. While sales were considered higher than the previous year, Amazon still received bad reps from unhappy customers.

Two consecutive fails of Prime Day seem to contradict with what Amazon believes in: customer experience. Customer experience is not just a strategy to Amazon, it is its purpose. Amazon believes that customer experience is far more important than financial reports. On other domains, Amazon is one of the most successful companies when dealing with customer experience, as indicated by continuously creating innovative and effective ways in delivering products its customers. However, the two service failures of its Prime Day event have tarnished its reputation to some extent.

Swargaloka was first established in 17^th of June 1993, by Suryandoro, a graduate of ISI (Institusi Seni Indonesia/Indonesian Institute of the Arts) located in Yogyakarta. They moved to Jakarta in the late 1990s as the founders move to Jakarta for their new career. An avid dancer himself, Suryandoro first intended Swargaloka as an establishment to prepare future generation of dancers. He received full support from his family who consists of gifted artists and dancers. Suryandoro’s wife, Dewi Sulastri, is one of the world dance maestros with a beautiful voice. The mother of four has produced dozens of new dances and performances. Some of the well-known dances of her creations Srimpi Retno Utama (1989), Bondan Suko Asih (1989), Bedaya Dewi Sri (2003), Bedoyo Aji Soko (2008), Bedoyo Tri Sabdo Tunggal Indonesia (2009), and Bedoyo Merah Putih (2009). She was awarded as the first female director and dancer by Museum Rekor Indonesia (MURI) in 2008. Their son, Bathara Saverigadi Dewandoro, was also awarded a world record title as the youngest male Javanese dance choreographer in 2013.

One of his most notable creations is called “Gama Gandrung” (Perjalanan Gandrung), a dance which tells a story of gandung dance journey from Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur. “Gama Gandrung” was first performed at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta on 11^th of June, 2014.

Swargaloka was first established as an answer to the needs of having an organization that promotes and cultivates the traditional culture among the young generations. Along the road, Swargaloka has gained both national and international recognition through its various performances. At first, Swargaloka was named Swargaloka Art Department. Along its journey, it became Swargaloka Foundation and PT Gita Swargaloka.

This case discusses Swargaloka’s journey from its first establishment. Despite reaching its 24^th year in 2017, Swargaloka still has several issues that it needs to solve to be able to survive as a performing-art group. Its audience numbers remain stagnant, and despite attempting to collaborate with and get funding from various institutions, including the government, Suryandoro still found that the organization is still struggling to make the ends meet. This is due to the facts that conducting a performance is a costly endeavor whereas the ticket sales may not always be sufficient to cover the costs of production.

Moreover, Suryandoro also believes that packaging the performance to be more dynamic, attractive, and communicative will enable them to target the younger audiences. However, even though Swargaloka has put significant efforts to repackage a wayang orang performance, it still has not reached a significant number of audiences.

In 2014, the Van Gogh Museum (VGM) had hopes to continue its mission to enrich and inspire as many people as possible by giving access to the museum’s entire collection and knowledge on Vincent van Gogh. In order to achieve this mission, the museum had come up with strategies that made use of the ever-growing digital world, through its web strategy and social media. These strategies were aimed to help the museum reach out to as many of its visitors and non-visitors as possible, and develop constant relationship with them by creating dialogue.

However, like any other businesses, threats and challenges were apparent in the way. The reinstated photography ban by the museum might seem to cause certain threat to the way the museum was going. Especially with the trending term of ‘selfie’ in the digital world in that same year, leading to the birth of the ‘Museum Selfie Day’ project, there was high chance the museum’s strategy might suffer.

This case study seeks to analyze the marketing trends that companies can use to their advantage, and which to solidly avoid, unless done with laser precision. It should provide insight into the perceptions that consumers place upon a company, and how upsetting those perceptions can lead to alienation and isolation.

It focuses particularly on attempts by established companies and institutions to establish or re-establish meaningful communications.

This study investigates trends of advertising in Indonesia's digital publishers. There has been a marked shift in advertising forms which has changed the business of digital publishers in the country. Digital publishers in Indonesia started about 18 years ago, when Detik.com first went online. To support the publishing, they needed advertisers. They had been using what we now call ‘conventional’ advertising, consisting of banners and pop-up advertising placement. However, as the number of digital publishers keeps growing in Indonesia, this type of advertising is slowly being left behind by the publishers. In order to compete with each other, they needed to create something new in order to advertise, that would both attract the advertisers and their consumers. This was when the concept of ‘native’ advertising started to rise.

This case study strives to capture the way Pertamina University (PU), as a token of PT Pertamina's CSR program, generates money as well as attracting talents to cover the employee turnover. This university should be distinguished from the Pertamina Corporate University (PCU) on which employees do the in-house trainings. In contrast, the PU recruits and educate students to catch up the corporate operational standards after which they would work for the corporation.

PT Pertamina relegates their CSR programs through another legal entity called the the Pertamina Foundation (PF). However, the 2012 Government Regulation No. 47 obliges the CEO to executes the CSR program afther which earning the approval from the BOD. In other words, CSR programs should not be run by other organisations whose legal standing are different.

As some, if not most, Indonesians perceive the idea of organisational/corporate social responsibilities as no more than philanthropy, donations or charities, the university might be an example of the best practice of ethical CSR within which the program succeeds to be financially productive, and supporting the corporate business activities.

This study investigates the crisis management strategy of Samsung during the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco in 2016. The company recalled the product globally less than a month after launching because there were reports about the product overheating and even exploding. As one of the biggest electronic companies in the world, Samsung did their best to avert the crisis and worked on how to gain the trust from the customers while investigating the cause of the product’s defects. The company conducted a series of strategies to manage the crisis that happened globally.