Intel saved $500M by routing multidie chip assembly instead of matching dies
As chips split into multidie packages, Intel framed sorting, assembling and blending dies as one routing problem — SABR-P — and saved over $500 million.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDK-Lynn turned lingerie shopping into a breast self-check guide
A UAE lingerie brand re-shot its model poses as step-by-step breast self-exam instructions, with chatbot links to book mammograms.
Read the caseTamaya delivers tens of thousands of bento boxes daily while wasting only 0.1% of them
Tokyo's Tamaya builds each day's lunch forecast from delivery-staff intel, under-produces, then tops up in-transit: 0.1% waste vs ~3% industry.
Read the caseSPDR let investors trade the S&P 500 like a stock, and ETFs were born.
Amex and State Street wrapped an index portfolio in a listed security whose shares were created and redeemed in kind, keeping price near value.
Read the caseMaxis' Deria Takbir app lets deaf users feel the Raya takbir — Gold Kancil 2019
An app turns the takbir's sound waves into cymatic visuals and iPhone haptics, so deaf Malaysians feel the Eid chant they could only watch.
Read the caseSoundCloud made hiring quality a trained cross-team role
SoundCloud added a trained outside interviewer to final-round engineering hiring, using bias training, shadowing, and scorecard debriefs before independence.
Read the caseBilibili turned the danmaku comment into the whole point of watching together
Japan's Niconico (2006) invented bullet comments; Bilibili (2009) made them Chinese youth culture, listing on Nasdaq in 2018 with 70M+ users
Read the caseA math model matched the NCAA committee's bracket picks 37 of 38 teams.
Mathematical programming selects and seeds the 68-team March Madness field; on 2017 data it matched 37 of the committee's top 38 teams.
Read the caseWürth built a screw company on 34,000 salespeople who visit every customer
Reinhold Würth credits 90% of the firm's success to its field force: salespeople visit craftsmen with a 125,000-product range, and listening beats talking.
Read the caseThailand's Baan Mankong made slum communities their own housing developer
Thailand sent housing subsidies and loans directly to slum cooperatives, making the community its own developer instead of hiring contractors to build for it.
Read the caseKubernetes made deployment declarative, and containers became the default platform
Google's Kubernetes exported its Borg design: declare desired state, let the control loop make reality match
Read the caseHonda BeAT launched Indonesia's first virtual motorcycle club with VTuber Kobo Kanaeru
Honda BeAT created BeAT Aeru, Indonesia's first virtual bike club, with VTuber Kobo Kanaeru — a Kobo special edition plus 10M YouTube and 48M TikTok views.
Read the caseEthernet won with one passive cable and let stations sort out collisions
Metcalfe and Boggs used a shared coaxial cable with CSMA/CD, so adding stations cost almost nothing; Xerox published the design and it became IEEE 802.3.
Read the caseAustralia's HECS made student loans repay through income, not fixed installments
In 1989 Australia introduced HECS, the world's first broad income-contingent student loan: repaid through the tax system only above an income threshold.
Read the caseKFC Singapore hid a vault code across the island and made receipts the game tokens
KFC hid eight lucky numbers in posters around Singapore and put S$18,000 behind a physical vault — every fried-chicken receipt was one guess.
Read the caseThe US residency match let 20,000 doctors a year rank first, and be ranked never
Roth and Peranson rebuilt the National Resident Matching Program's algorithm in 1997 so applicants' preferences, not hospitals', drive the match.
Read the caseYamato's 1976 'Takkyubin' naming created Japan's home-parcel market from eleven boxes
Yamato's 1976 'Takkyubin' — home pickup, flat fares, an express name — created a C2C parcel market that grew to 1.5 billion parcels a year
Read the caseJanssen sited COVID vaccine trials with MIT's DELPHI model and finished 6 weeks early
Janssen placed its COVID-19 vaccine trial sites where MIT's DELPHI model forecast surges, not where cases already were — finishing the trial six weeks early.
Read the caseBetter Life Farming bundled advice, inputs and buyers in village hubs
Better Life Farming made each rural agri-entrepreneur a one-stop hub for inputs, training, finance and market links.
Read the caseIKEA rebuilt Kungens Kurva around self-service and defined the warehouse-store model
After fire gutted IKEA's Stockholm flagship in 1970, the rebuilt store asked customers to fetch their own flat-packs — and that became the IKEA model.
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