Unleashing Yanolja’s growth with a customer-centric transformation (INO106)

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Introduction to Yanolja's Transformation Journey

  • Yanolja is a leading travel tech company that started in Korea and has expanded globally across 200 countries
  • The session will focus on how Yanolja is driving innovation by leveraging Amazon's innovation mechanisms and AWS AI/data technologies
  • The speakers are:
    • Terry from AWS Innovation and Transformation Programs
    • Jeff Kim, CEO of Yanolja Cloud
    • Akhila, AWS Enterprise Transformation Leader

Addressing Uncertainty in the Travel Industry

  • Executives and CEOs are concerned about the uncertainty, especially for travel tech companies, both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Three common strategies to manage uncertainty:
    1. Future-proofing the business
    2. Urgent upskilling across business, product, and technology teams
    3. Innovating at speed by leveraging cloud technology

Amazon's Culture of Innovation

  • The key to Amazon's successful innovation is creating a culture and environment that enables continuous experimentation
  • Experiments are conducted to:
    • Validate customer problems and needs
    • Ideate and validate solutions
    • Enhance usability and improve customer experiences

Collaboration with Yanolja

  • AWS innovation programs with Yanolja involved:
    1. Aligning and engaging with Yanolja's executive sponsors
    2. Conducting working backwards workshops to envision solutions
    3. Developing innovative solutions using generative AI and data technologies

Yanolja's Innovation and Evolution

  • Yanolja's three original business models:
    1. SaaS solution to automate suppliers' operations
    2. Transaction solution to connect suppliers and sales channels
    3. B2C travel and leisure platform
  • Leveraging AWS cloud to integrate these models and create a data lake
  • Developing new vertical AI services:
    • AI-based dynamic pricing for suppliers
    • Prediction model for sales channels
    • Personalized digital marketing

Yanolja's Transformation and Growth

  • Yanolja's global expansion and growth in customers and revenue
  • Achieving over 30% EBITDA margin through the vertical AI services
  • Exploring synergies between generative AI and vertical AI services to create new business models

Keys to Successful Transformation

  • Akhila summarizes the key elements for successful transformation:
    1. Defining a clear purpose and outcomes
    2. Building capabilities in organization, culture, mechanisms, data, and technology
    3. Adopting an iterative approach of "Think big, start small, and scale fast"
    4. Instituting a transformation flywheel to drive sustainable change

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