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Why Singaporean SMEs must renew their focus on innovation

The recent roll out of the new 360 Productivity framework to help Singaporean SMEs become more globally competitive, has spurred renewed focus on innovation as a key driver of efficiency and work productivity.

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Why Singaporean SMEs must renew their focus on innovation

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5 reasons why Singapore firms must incorporate blogger marketing in their campaign

1. The moving trend towards digital media.

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How Singapore businesses can nail their brands' worth online – Part One

What is the online value of your business? This is the most relevant question to any business big or small, now that we are in this mobile Internet day and age. Once upon a time during the dotcom boom, ground businesses may have envied online companies in their attainment of rapid fame and fortune. As the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, failed dotcoms scrambled to sell scraps of what they were worth online, to the bemusement of bricks and mortar.

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Will crowdfunding for real estate boom in Singapore and nearby regions?

In the last few years, the buzzwords for Internet businesses have been “crowdsourcing” and “crowdsavings”. Of late, “crowdfunding” has caught the imagination of the tech business community with the success of online crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Razoo.

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The success story every Singaporean must know

As the clock struck midnight on August 10th 2013, it meant Singapore had completed celebrating its 48th year since its inception on to the world map.

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Life lessons Singaporeans can learn from tightrope walker Nik Wallenda

Nik Wallenda, a tightrope walker, recently completed his latest feat by walking across a gorge near Grand Canyon. He performed this stunt without any safety harness walking on a 2 inch wire at 1500 feet above ground (Marina Bay Sands only stands at 636 feet). Any wrong move will mean the end of Nik.

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What Singapore's working women can do to get higher wage and promotion

Singapore’s working women are faring better than their counterparts in many other countries in terms of salaries, compared to their male counterparts, going by the Ministry of Manpower’s Report on Wages in Singapore 2011.

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How Singapore firms can effectively win personal and corporate trust

The great US investor Warren Buffett famously said, “It takes 20 minutes to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Will the rise of the new Borders store in Singapore end in flames?

Popular Books are bizarrely opening a new Borders store in Singapore only 2 years after the store crashed and burned and had to close all their stores not just locally but globally. Are Popular simply trying to resurrect that dead? Or will this brave attempt to engage Singaporeans with an off line book store actually check the momentum globally of high street book stores closing?

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5 powerful tips for Singaporeans to stop 'verbal blunders'

The audience is settling down, getting ready to sit through an hour-long presentation. The commotion in the room fades as you walk onto the stage. You smile and try not to focus on everyone’s attention on your movements, especially your trembling hands.

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Why academic 'marketing' taught in Singapore schools is flawed

My first formal Marketing 101 course came in my freshmen year of university in 2006. All undergrads were put through this core course. Subsequently, as a Marketing major I took modules on Advertising, Consumer Behaviour, Market Research, Promotions Marketing and a slew of other marketing courses.

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10 safest countries for Singaporeans to buy properties

10 Laos No one can own land in Laos, but land-use rights are possible (up to 75 years, or 50 years for companies). A Lao citizen with land-use rights may lease the land to a foreign-invested company for up to 30 years. There is a vague law that allows for these land-use rights by foreigners only if investing at least USD $500,000 into the government. And while it's possible to own a structure upon leased land, when the lease expires, the structure reverts to the government without compensation.

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How Singapore firms can reap big-time gains from flexi jobs

It's well understood that flexible working can be good for employees and good for the bottom line.

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Tips for Singapore firms on how to keep a potential talent interested

Finding high calibre Finance talent in the current market is not easy. Singapore has an unemployment rate of under 2% and with many companies driving their expansion strategies in the region (and as a regional hub), Singapore is short on talent supply.

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9 points in securing voice over IP and unified communications

Information security has been an increasingly popular topic in the mainstream media, particularly in Singapore.

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Here are the implications of Singapore's move to FATCA compliance

On July 18, 2013, the Singapore Ministry of Finance announced that it was modifying its Exchange of Information (EOI) regime in a variety of ways, including issuing a notice that it intended to conclude an “intergovernmental agreement” (“IGA”) with the U.S. for implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”).

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Why Singaporeans are not pessimistic at all

The recent Gallup survey has ranked Singapore as one of the top ten most pessimistic countries in the world. Are Singaporeans really that pessimistic as what Gallup suggests?

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