Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
Board leaders need to keep up with the accelerating rate of change.
When Mark Tan joined the geomancy consultancy business founded by his father, feng shui1 Grand Master Tan Khoon Yong, in Singapore some 30 years ago, he wanted to address one pertinent challenge: the knowledge and expertise of the feng shui consultancy (and hence the entire business...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
Advanced fintech lowers barriers to investing.
In 2017, Chonladet Khemarattana saw the potential to disrupt the investment advisory industry in Thailand and promote greater financial inclusion. Thailand’s robust economic growth over the past three decades had reduced its poverty rate dramatically. Its standard of living and life expectancy had also improved. However, most...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
How digital transformation can be made good for all.
Digital transformation through the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted technology and big data usage is assumed to usher in socio-economic benefits.1 Notions of ‘digital readiness’ speak to the inevitability of a universalised digital transformation. But the common approach of...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
In digital advertising, video ads as a top-of-funnel function have a longer-lasting efect than display and search ads on a consumer's consciousness.
According to consumer data firm Statista, digital advertising in Asia, valued at US$207 billion, will account for nearly 68 percent of total advertising, which is estimated to be worth US$305 billion, in 2022.1 Of this...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
It’s about when, not whether.
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns imposed by nations sparked a surge in online shopping for fresh food items, which necessitated cold chain solutions that were then laden with vaccine storage requirements. This had a considerable impact on the Asia Pacific cold chain logistics and cold storage warehousing market, which was valued...
