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Savvy and hard-to-please Singaporean consumers – mapping their omni-channel journeys is simply not enough

Minister for Trade and Industry, S Iswaran, recently spoke on how retailers need to start thinking of omni-channels (including online sales and mobile applications) to stay relevant. The success of Honest Bee, Carousell, Zalora, and RedMart (bought over by Lazada) only proves e-commerce works really well in Southeast Asia.

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Savvy and hard-to-please Singaporean consumers – mapping their omni-channel journeys is simply not enough

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Building a sustainable enterprise in Singapore

In recent years, the role of corporations has increased in importance due to growing awareness and societal expectations. Besides financial accountability to stakeholders, ever-diversifying responsibilities, profit maximisation and so forth, consumers still expect corporations to demonstrate business sustainability.

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Singapore: The next big step towards RBC2

While the Risk-Based-Capital (RBC) framework has served Singapore insurers well over the last 12 years, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is driving a major overhaul on a new capital regime (RBC2) in light of evolving market practices and global regulatory developments.

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DBS Bank's innovation in assurance: doing more, and more effectively, with less

In 2014, Jimmy Ng, the head of Group Audit at DBS Bank, implemented the bank's continuous auditing project in Singapore. A year ago, Ng had received an urgent call from Kelvin Lam, Country Head of Taiwan Audit. Lam had requested a higher headcount budget to meet the new audit requirements established by the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan.

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Why a crisis will show how diversified you really are

If you own an ETF that tracks Singapore's STI, some bonds, and an Asia Pacific unit trust, you might think your portfolio is diversified. But it probably isn't.

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Do you have what it takes to be a CEO in Singapore?

Are great leaders born or made? Many of the greatest leaders in history have engaging personalities and are thought of as ‘natural’ leaders. Think Napoleon Bonaparte, Bill Clinton, and Steve Jobs.

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5 reasons Skype increases my productivity in Singapore

I am a true global business citizen. I’m English but I have created a company in Singapore and another in Hong Kong. My clients are from right across Asia Pacific and Europe.

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Everything you need to know about being a leader in Singapore

Leadership in Singapore has recently gained a lot of attention, especially with the elder generation of leaders explicitly indicating that new leadership is imminent. A leader is someone who connects, is forward-looking, and transforms the organisation – public or private – as a whole. Here is everything you need to know about being a leader today from some of Singapore’s most powerful LinkedIn profiles this year.

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The race to commercialise biomedical technologies in Singapore

How would the commercial success of biomedical technology help in the fight against diabetes in Singapore?

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Has the workplace in Singapore really evolved?

Forty years ago, people were rifling through research books in public libraries to search for answers to their questions. Forty years ago, people could only call their friends on local landlines. Forty years ago, people were going to work with paper and pen, and there was no such thing as email.

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The ups and downs of the Singapore shipping and offshore sector

It seems that every week brings a raft of new 'bad news' stories for the Singapore shipping and offshore oil and gas sectors and their investors. Swissco Holdings, OW Bunkers, Swiber Holdings, Rickmers Maritime, Ezra Holdings, Marco Polo Marine are all reminders of just how far the markets have fallen, and clearly show how few options companies (and investors) have when things turn bad.

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Disruption defines three challenges for Singapore

Singapore’s ability to navigate the challenges of disruption rests on becoming a Learning Nation, and ensuring industry-readiness and re-employability among millennials and mid-career professionals.

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10 tips for business travellers in Asia

Although my HQ is in Singapore I spend most of working life traveling across Asia Pacific doing talks or meeting fellow entrepreneurs and potential clients. The spine of my business in Asia is Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, and I regularly visit all these places as well as cool and interesting cities in the rest of Asia Pacific every month.

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To win at Influencer Marketing, Singaporean firms should use Instagram

In many cases of popular consumer brands, sales were doing amazing in the '90s and early 2000s, without much proactive effort on their part. Most were flying high, but then trends changed, demand waned, e-commerce caught on, other smaller indie companies started creating their own versions of the same product and started eroding market share. Sound familiar?

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Upgrade yourself today: The 10 most wanted IT skills in Singapore

Our dynamic workforce requires its workers to upgrade their skill sets constantly. With government subsidies and support, improving yourself does not have to be too expensive. Through the SkillsFuture credit scheme, you can access over 10,000 courses available on the SkillsFuture directory. These courses will help you stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and strategies in your industry.

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What you need to know in keeping your privileged users in check

The inaugural Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW) will be held next week, from the 10th of October, and it's no surprise that one of the key topics during that week will be cyber security. Data breaches are happening globally, and are growing in magnitude.

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MNCs avidly chase IT candidates with sound communication and presentation skills

Information technology professionals with sound communication and presentation skills will have an abundance of forthcoming opportunities in Singapore as multinational companies increasingly set up support sites in the country.

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