EDITOR'S PICK SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Mavis Pang – Entrepreneur & E-Commerce Marketer Mavis Helps You Focus on One-to-One Marketing What’s your story?I was working in a corporate job in commercial and customer service for more than 20 years in the petrochemical industry. In 2017, when I was already in a leadership position with a comfortable salary, I decided to leave my job to take a different path. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY Is It Possible To Compete With Amazon? Several years ago, the largest department store in Europe — and the third in the world — Spain’s El Corte Inglés, announced a two-hour delivery service for purchases of more than €20 and up to five products in more than 54 Spanish towns and cities, a move clearly designed to compete with Amazon Prime Now, which in Spain is still only available in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS TECHNOLOGY How the Coronavirus Is Going To Change the Food Sector Forever The coronavirus pandemic will radically accelerate automated self-service in the food sector. At the time of writing this, I was sequestered at home with my wife and boys with flu-like symptoms that we can’t rule out as coronavirus due to the shortage of testing kits. After worsening symptoms, our son was tested and the results […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Paula Da Silva, Executive Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances of CitiXsys Paula Da Silva has more than 10 years’ experience in the retail industry. Currently, she is responsible for the growth and administration of CitiXsys’ global channel partner ecosystem. What’s your story?Hi, I’m Paula Da Silva, Executive Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances for CitiXsys. I’ve worked in technology throughout my career and more specifically […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Leisia Tsang & Ellen Ogren, Founders of Little Starters New parents are commonly faced with the task of trying to find safe clothes for their kids to wear. Ellen and Leisia make this easy with their online shop. What’s your story? Ellen: With us both new to motherhood, we were on the hunt for casual-cool clothing for our little ones. We knew parents had […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Vincent Wong, Country Head of ShopBack Vincent Wong, dived straight into the ecommerce scene upon graduating and has now joined ShopBack. What’s your story? I dived straight into the ecommerce scene upon graduation. That’s when the digital economy was barely on the rise. I just had this inkling that this’d be the right wave to ride as the time for ecommerce […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP How Mobile Apps Will Change ECommerce 2016 has seen remarkable changes in how people view online shopping as a whole. In 2015, physical stores were full of people swarming to grab the lowest Black Friday deals, but in 2016, we’ve seen tides change as people now turn to online shopping because of its hassle-free benefits. Even though sales were expected to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Nikita Acharya, CEO/Co-founder at Urbangirl (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Nikita Acharya, CEO/Co-founder of Urbangirl. Urbangirl aim to create a culture among Nepalese business industries where customers come first. Having served over 60,000+ […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP 21 Entrepreneurs Share Why You Should Launch A Startup In Asia Are you an entrepreneur? Or secretly building your startup and soon to be the next entrepreneur? When considering where to startup, you might want to consider Silicon Valley. Building a new startup in Silicon Valley certainly is the golden path every aspiring entrepreneur take; however, the Valley also isn’t the only place for every tech startup. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Janson Seah – CEO & Co-founder of StaffAny. This article was originally published here: Janson Seah – CEO & Co-founder of StaffAny. The frustration of managing the schedules of hourly workers led Janson Seah to find a more efficient route which he now shares with a variety of businesses. What’s your story? I used to manage a bar in 2014 and felt the […] Written by Callum Laing October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Siri: Apple’s Missed Opportunity A highly critical article in The Verge, “Hey Siri, what happened?”, discusses an issue many of us have been observing for some time: that Apple’s home assistant is noticeably less intelligent and more limited than its competitors such as Alexa or Google Assistant. The usage test confirms it: ten years after Siri’s introduction, if you […] Written by Enrique Dans October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Plastic Waste And The Pandemic Our use of plastic is changing worldwide – and not for the better. Many governments with bans or restrictions on the consumption of single-use plastics have withdrawn the bans and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, our consumption of them in the form of personal protective equipment (PPE) has escalated, with estimates as high as sixfold increases […] Written by Things We Don't Know October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What An 18th Century Chair Reveals About Its Owner This large, extraordinary armchair has survived since the 1700s along with its original silk upholstery. Its sumptuously thick cushion is stuffed with over eight pounds of swan- and goose-down feathers. At the time it was made, these costly materials would have held the sitter in a plush embrace. While the chair itself is luxurious – […] Written by Getty's Blog October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Significance Of The Nobel Prize For Journalists Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.” But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how far we have come from that moment of […] Written by Kathy Kiely October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
