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HSC Pipeline Engineering Pte Ltd
Rebuilding roles around competencies, not certificates
11 roles were redesigned or newly created and filled internally. About 30% of the HR Manager's time was freed for capability development and workforce planning.
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DLM Pte Ltd
Hiring on demonstrated competence
DLM now draws on a wider talent pool. Employees have moved across disciplines: a quantity surveyor became a project engineer, a project engineer became a BIM modeller, and a senior project manager moved into digital innovation.
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Physio and Sole Clinic Pte Ltd
One competency framework across every function
Hiring is now more consistent and fairer, hires are a better fit, and patient care is more consistent across the clinics.
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OVOL Singapore
Building capability before the business needs it
Staff recorded more than 1,500 training hours between 2023 and 2025. Leadership roles were filled from within, and employees made cross-functional moves such as accounts to credit control and customer service to shipping.
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Centre for Healthcare Innovation, NHG Health
Redesigning one role, then scaling the method
The CHI Workforce Accelerator launched in July 2026. It is a repeatable 3–6 month process that has since been used to reimagine 36 healthcare roles.
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