Embracing uncertainty and creating balance – these are the biggest lessons Emily Razaqi, Vice President, Site Operations at Amgen Singapore Manufacturing, has picked up over her 15 years at the organization, in this interview with Jerene Ang. Read More…
Archives for March 2020
Starbucks to invest US$130 million for a roasting plant in China’s Kunshan
Starbucks will invest 900 million yuan (US$130 million) to build the first phase of a coffee complex in the Chinese city of Kunshan, near the commercial hub of Shanghai, with completion targeted for 2022, it said on Friday. It is Starbucks’ largest investment in a production facility outside the United States and the first production-related […]
Half of the Chinese businesses believe the market will bounce back in six months
While an overwhelming majority of Chinese organizations (90%) believe that the COVID-19 epidemic will negatively impact their business and will directly affect their revenue in 2020, more than half of respondents were confident that the overall market would recover within six months, according to a survey by Korn Ferry. “Business leaders will need to balance empathy […]
Leaping faith: Best HR tech start-up companies in Singapore
In a 2019 Infosys study, globally, it was found that although nearly all big enterprises across the world are pursuing improvement initiatives. In terms of digitizing the business, it has become less about disruption and more about meeting focused objectives. For instance, having a better understanding of customers and markets (46%); customer experience (45%); increasing productivity […]
Asian wealth managers see a surge in client trading while COVID-19 hits new business
Asia’s richest investors, trapped at home by coronavirus travel restrictions, have increased trading activity over the past two months, private bankers said. even as wealth managers face a fall in new client money. Inflows of funds from new customers in January and February have fallen 10 % to 20 % in the region, bankers at two European […]
China’s Cedar Holdings to acquire UK’s Stemcor
Cedar Holdings Group Co Ltd (“Cedar Holdings”), China’s leading supplier of bulk commodities, and Stemcor Global Holdings Ltd (“Stemcor”), a leading global steel trading and Distribution Company, signed an agreement on January 21 at the World Economic Forum in Davos which will see Cedar Holdings purchase the entire share capital of Stemcor, subject to various. […]
Industry 4.0. Means Recoding Leadership
Five or six years ago, as we realized how crazy the world was becoming, the acronym VUCA was born, short for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. The impact of climate events, (Australia) and the ongoing struggle to contain viral infections (COVID-19) have since shown us the unfortunately reality of living in a VUCA world. On […]
Total Talent Is a Necessity, Not Just a Good Idea
Most organizations are looking at how they can best source skilled talent to keep productivity in step with demand. First of all, organizations need to ensure they have the right skills mix on a proactive basis. Interviewed executives were definitive in their view that TTA was not only a “good idea”, but a necessity as […]
What to do when Job Boards and LinkedIn let you down?
Every day the recruiters come to fight for the best talent and use the familiar tactics. When we start the search, the first method to which we refer is the power of LinkedIn and Job Boards. Recruiters use all the possible tactics and different combinations of search. What do the lazy recruiters do? Firstly they […]