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Volume 06 Issue 1

Profit, People and Planet
Latest | Volume 06 Issue 1

AI Gets Real

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On behalf of the Editorial Board of Asian Management Insights, its authors and readers, I would like to thank our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, Dr Philip Zerrillo, who founded the magazine and invested significant efforts to advance its profile these past five years.

Featured Articles

  • More than half of humanity currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts that figure will reach 70 percent by 2050. Cities worldwide already generate a significant amount of solid waste annually, adding to vexing issues that the global community is trying to address–demand for transportation, air pollution, access to public open spaces, urban sprawl, and general sustainability challenges.

  • JUMBO Group shows how digital transformation and its seafood business can go together.

From the Editor
Profit, People and Planet
On behalf of the Editorial Board of Asian Management Insights, its authors and readers, I would like to thank our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, Dr Philip Zerrillo, who founded the magazine and invested significant efforts to advance its profile these past five years.
At The Helm
Corporate sustainability: An interview with Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact
An interview with Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact.
Vantage Point
AI gets real at Singapore's Changi Airport (Part 1): A learning journey
Ranked as the best airport for seven consecutive years, Singapore’s Changi Airport is lauded the world over for the efficient, safe, pleasurable and seamless service it offers the millions of passengers that pass through its facilities annually.
Industry Watch
Asian luxury retail: Stepping up the talent strategy
Digital giants such as Alibaba and Amazon, and online luxury specialists like Farfetch, Yoox and Net-a-Porter are thriving in Southeast Asia. Yet, even as online commerce sales is rising five times faster than the overall market, forecasters agree on one thing: online sales for luxury will flatten at around 25 percent of the total market by 2025.1 Farfetch was bracing itself for this plateau when it clinched a partnership with Chanel in 2018. Their goal is to become the leading luxury retail operating system.
Family togetherness: The key to business sustenance
Family-controlled businesses are the dominant form of business organisation across the world, and particularly so in many Asian countries.
Recognising and developing leadership in Asia
Across many countries in Asia, we are witnessing local leaders rise to the level of country leader or managing director in their home country.
Responsible leadership: A behavioural perspective
An array of scandals has rocked the world in recent times, such as financial malpractices, unethical practices, and environmental damages.
Case In Point
Surecash: Promoting financial inclusion in Bangladesh
The street scene of honking cycle rickshaws, jaywalking pedestrians and precariously tilting buses in crowded Dhaka was an easy distraction. It was December 2017 when Matteo Chiampo, an advisor to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP),1 was writing an advisory report on the future growth strategy for SureCash, a mobile financial services (MFS) company in Bangladesh. Brainstorming for questions, and not answers, was something he had not tried before.
Executive Brief
A recipe for success for Asia's F&B franchising
Navigating to win in the Asian food and beverage franchise space.
Corporate sustainability: Beyond the buzzword
The journey to corporate sustainability

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