Volume 11 Issue 1
Published: 26 Mar 2024
How leaders can make effective decisions in a VUCA world.
In January 2, 2024, Japan Airlines flight JL516 arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport with 379 people on board. Shortly after the plane touched the tarmac, it collided with a Japanese Coast Guard plane that was to deliver emergency supplies to Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula, which had been hit by a magnitude...
Volume 11 Issue 1
Published: 26 Mar 2024
Focus on your customers to catapult your company to success. However, leaders must drive a culture change to make it happen.
During its heyday in the 1990s, Borders bookstore stocked an average of 140,000 titles in each of its 500-plus superstores in the US, and another 40 stores in Europe, Asia, and Australia. The associated high costs of real estate and inventory management ate...
Volume 11 Issue 1
Published: 26 Mar 2024
Singapore’s trailblazer AI algorithm for detecting diabetes-related eye diseases.
Can you imagine getting the results of your eye disease screening within minutes rather than days? This capability is what EyRIS, a Singapore-based start-up that uses the AI (Artificial Intelligence)-driven Singapore Eye LEsion Analyzer (SELENA+) algorithm to screen for diabetes-related eye...
Volume 11 Issue 1
Published: 26 Mar 2024
How AI and optimisation models can strengthen supply chain resilience.
COVID-19 unleashed a wave of lockdowns globally that brought unprecedented supply chain disruptions between 2020 and 2021. The resulting estimated annual losses at some of the world’s largest organisations topped US$184 million during that period, with 2022 bringing some relief and an average 50-percent...
Volume 11 Issue 1
Published: 26 Mar 2024
Enhancing SME workforce efficiency with chatbots for improved business communication.
Chatbots have experienced explosive growth in the last decade, with the global market expected to grow from US$190 million in 2016 to a projected US$1.25 billion by 2025.1 In Asia, the use of this technology surged notably during the COVID-19 pandemic when some 63 percent of Internet...
