Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Lessons from the Oceans – Conquering Fear in 5 steps November 27, 2020November 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article has been contributed by Narayanan Shankar | Entrepreneur Insights Series It won’t be long before I drown if thrown into a swimming pool. Yes. I can’t swim to save my life. Yet, I have had the privilege of being the captain of one of world’s largest ships; that was 30 years ago when […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews 5 Reasons You should Forecast More Frequently in Unprecedented Times November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article has been contributed by Tim Gray | Entrepreneur Insights Series Supply chains crisscross the globe and bring together goods, technology, people, innovation, training, and investment to manufacture products that most people couldn’t access, or afford to buy, a few decades ago. Supply chains form the backbone of the global economy. And when times […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews 6 Things You Should Know Before You Pitch to a Big Customer November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article has been contributed by Bronwyn Reid | Entrepreneur Insights Series Almost every small business owner starts their business venture with the hope of eventually landing a big-name company as a client. Instead of constantly chasing leads and having a “feast or famine” bank account, your new contract will provide you with a steady […]
Entrepreneurship Ouchi’s Theory Z March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Theory Z is a name applied to three distinct psychological theories. One was developed by Abraham H. Maslow in his paper Theory Z and the other is Dr. William Ouchi’s so-called “Japanese Management” style popularized during the Asian economic boom of the 1980s. The third was developed by W. J. Reddin in Managerial Effectiveness. For […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Money & Finance Startups Technology The Cashless Situation in Japan February 17, 2020February 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Back in October, I wrote about how Japan’s traditionally cash-centric culture was a barrier to the advent of cashless technologies. At the time, I also noted that the Abe government was seeking to accelerate the trend towards cashless as one way to address the country’s labor crunch. What a difference a few months makes. The end […]
Business & Economics Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology What I Learnt from Scaling one of Asia’s Fastest Growing Startups May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I joined iPrice in the summer of 2016. At the time, a very promising regional affiliate player with an encouraging initial traction and around 1M monthly users. I left at the end of last year, after a terrific journey which saw us becoming the leading meta-search e-commerce aggregator in SEA, growing our userbase to over 15M monthly […]
Strategy Technology We The People’s Expansion in the U.S. April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked We The People (WTP), the global arm of the world’s only multichannel crowdfunding retail chain and community, today announced that it is seeking to expand its presence by offering franchise opportunities to open stores across the countrythrough its U.S. subsidiary Funded USA LLC. WTP established its first U.S.-based store in St. Louis in March 2019 and has plans to open more corporate locations before the […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Sabarudin Hashim, Chief Growth Officer of RenoTalk January 30, 2019January 29, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked RenoTalk is a renovation and interior design review site for property owners in Singapore to talk and engage on renovation matters. What’s your story? I started out as a digital marketing adviser for SMEs (small-to-medium enterprise) and startups. One of the clients that I advised was in the home renovation industry. The more interactions I […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Strategy Technology The Cost of Commodifying Failure January 13, 2019January 13, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked With start-up culture’s rise in popularity, insight and transparency around the conditions that produce successful innovations are talked about more than ever. One of the more popular trends we have adopted from the startup world is the notion of ‘embracing failure.’ Fail fast. Fail often. Failure is not only an option, it’s often a celebrated […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Tim Wekezer, Co-Founder & CEO of Waitrr September 6, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Tim grew up in the restaurant business and created a strong bond with the industry. Solving the pain points of restaurant owners is his personal mission. What’s your story? I grew up in Germany and attended Hotelschool The Hague, a hospitality-oriented business school in The Hague, Netherlands (Bachelor of Business Administration) and INSEAD in Singapore […]
The Politics Of Intellectual Property Introduction: This Article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net as a case-study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, it offers a couple of modest proposals about what such a politics might look like — what theoretical […] Written by James Boyle March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Football Finance And Pandemic In March 2020, the last of the European football leagues decided to stop operations indefinitely after a series of players tested positive for COVID-19. The last top-flight match played in front of a full crowd was the UEFA Champions League tie between Atlético Madrid and Liverpool, played at Anfield, Liverpool, on the 11 March 2020. […] Written by Research Blog University of Edinburgh March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Written by Getty's Blog March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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 […] Written by Gideon Rosenblatt March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Progress Made Us Weak Until the majority of humans fell to the transformative impacts of the Machine Age some hundred or so years ago, when power generation, electricity, the automobile, factories, and telecommunications all conspired to dramatically alter how we lived and interacted, a common set of governing principles underpinned life on Earth for more than ten thousand years. […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 16, 2021March 16, 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
