Business leaders no longer need to be told how important cybersecurity is; COVID-19 and work-from-home orders as a consequence of government measures such as the Circuit Breaker in Singapore and the Movement Control Order in Malaysia, have ensured that even the most sceptical business leaders now understand...
As we usher in the year of the Ox – typically associated with traits of being hardworking and honest – a group of unscrupulous actors are hard at work for the wrong reasons. They are the hackers that are looking to profit from the accelerated pace of...
We are about to enter a new dawn of connectivity, and 5G will change the world as we know it with some studies predicting that mobile operators in Asia-Pacific are expected to spend more than 400 billion U.S. dollars on their networks between 2020 and 2025, with...
A global, digital arms race is fuelling the future of the cloud. In 2020, cloud adoption surged during the pandemic as 62 per cent of Singapore Small and Mid-size Enterprises (SMEs) shifted their businesses online – this was a 30 percent increase from 2019, and also the...
COVID-19 has shown that business stability is an illusion. Change is constant so organisations need the leadership and an infrastructure that can adapt, scale, analyse and respond in real-time. Forecasting has become more difficult and less reliable as models race to catch-up.
In the...
Here's What the Future of Workplace Training Looks Like with HR Analytics
The past decade has seen human resources becoming even more employee-focused, doubling down on effectively retaining skilled employees. Across industries, workers remain the primary instrument to improving a company's long-term ROI.
That said, such heavy financial investment in employees...
As we sail into 2021 and reflect on the year gone by, there are several key learnings that we can take with us from perhaps the biggest crises we have faced in our careers. The combined social, economic, and health crises due to the pandemic has stress-tested...
The F&B industry was hit especially hard by the emergence of COVID-19, with the down turning economy, lockdown measures and dine-in restrictions leading to the sector reporting a year-on-year loss of almost 30 percent at the end of Q3. Recently, however, the F&B sector has seen an...
In a national business survey done by the Singapore Business Federation before the onset of COVID, bread-and-butter concerns were predictably top-of-mind when asked what they would like to see laid out in this year’s Budget. The desire for more support for sustainable practices also gained momentum. Many...
It’s no secret that 2020 has been a challenging year for businesses, particularly SMEs. In response, the Singapore Government has introduced several forward thinking initiatives to support local businesses and help them become more resilient and competitive.
Two such initiatives are the S$200 E-invoicing...
