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Issues

Volume 12 Issue 1 | Published on 28 Mar 2025

Reimagining Education: Keeping the human in the loop

  • Learning and Reskilling to Stay Ahead Amidst Disruption [PDF | HTML]
    Reforming adult and continuing education has become a key issue in an era defined by relentless change borne of constant technological advancements.
  • Learning: Human Versus Machine [PDF | HTML]
    Outdated education paradigms must be revamped to reclaim the all-important human quality: agency.
  • Reimagining Education: Keeping the Human in the Loop [PDF | HTML]
    How educators can work with generative artificial intelligence models to improve learning.
  • Skills for the Future [PDF | HTML]
    How Singapore’s SkillsFuture Movement delivers skills and employment outcomes.
  • Social Mobility What We Haven’t Talked About [PDF | HTML]
    More balanced understanding may curb unintended negative outcomes.
  • Greening Brown Sectors through Transition Finance [PDF | HTML]
    Financing not-so-green industries’ environmental transition could really move the climate needle.
  • How Can Foreign Commercial Vehicle Manufacturers Succeed in India? [PDF | HTML]
    Seven steps to achieve market entry based on lessons from recent market exits.
  • The Secret Ingredients Of Strategy Implementation [PDF | HTML]
    Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two very different things.
  • Mind the Green Skills Gap [PDF | HTML]
    The need to build tomorrow’s sustainable green economy today.
  • A Mother’s Work at Motherswork [PDF | HTML]
    Sharon Wong turned a desire for fashionable maternity wear into a journey with women into motherhood.
  • Wingspan: Taking Digital Learning to New Heights [PDF | HTML]
    How an internal learning platform became a market success.
  • Building Skills Now for ASEAN’s Future [PDF | HTML]
    Upskilling of workers is critical for building a more resilient workforce and future-proofing economic growth.
  • The Ethics of AI Nudges: How AI Influences Decision-Making [PDF | HTML]
    And why decision-makers should care about it.
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Volume 11 Issue 3 | Published on 08 Nov 2024

Urban Sustainability: The Singapore Experience

  • The Path to Greening Our Future [PDF | HTML]
    More than half of humanity currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts that figure will reach 70 percent by 2050.
  • Power Shift: Steering the Energy Sector towards a Net Zero Future [PDF | HTML]
    Balancing traditional operations with emerging sustainability demands.
  • Urban Sustainability: The Singapore Experience [PDF | HTML]
    The importance of green buildings, the circular economy, and zero waste.
  • Getting On Board With Incentivising ESG [PDF | HTML]
    What gets rewarded gets measured and done.
  • Why isn’t Formula 1 Going Electric? [PDF | HTML]
    Electric vehicles are not the only sustainable automotive option.
  • Our Roads Are Choking Us [PDF | HTML]
    Re-imagining transport systems to cut carbon emissions and drive climate change.
  • Urban H: Housing, Heat and Health [PDF | HTML]
    Future policy needs to triangulate the ‘triple-H’ to help marginalised urban populations.
  • Digital India [PDF | HTML]
    Promises, perils, and inspiration for the Global South.
  • Catching the Digital Wave [PDF | HTML]
    JUMBO Group shows how digital transformation and its seafood business can go together.
  • From Congestion to Connectivity [PDF | HTML]
    Southeast Asia is betting on new urban transit systems to solve its urban gridlock problems.
  • Pigs and the City [PDF | HTML]
    Urban greening requires a re-look at sharing space with animals and nature.
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Volume 11 Issue 2 | Published on 19 Jul 2024

Nurturing Entrepreneurship and Growing Entrepreneurs

  • Whether in the classroom or the marketplace, there’s no perfect formula for innovation and entrepreneurship [PDF | HTML]
    Successful innovation is never easy, and the fine line between creating the next tech unicorn and the next failed start-up often lies in the founders’ capacity to learn from both their successes and setbacks.
  • Innovating Today to Build a Sustainable Tomorrow [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Daryl Ng, Deputy Chairman of Hong Kong-based real estate property developer Sino Group.
  • Nurturing Entrepreneurship and Growing Entrepreneurs [PDF | HTML]
    How Southeast Asia’s universities can pave the way.
  • Cognitive Technologies [PDF | HTML]
    AI and the revolution of work.
  • Igniting Creativity in an Organisational Rainforest [PDF | HTML]
    Tata Group’s quest for Open Innovation.
  • Supplier-Complementor Alliances [PDF | HTML]
    Enhancing value creation for the ecosystem.
  • Entrepreneurial (Re)vision [PDF | HTML]
    Transforming DMK footwear for the next-gen market.
  • The Creativity Conundrum [PDF | HTML]
    Balancing remote work and face-to-face collaboration in Asia.
  • Setting Up the Right Guardrails [PDF | HTML]
    Using a stakeholder orientation view to steer infrastructural public-private partnership projects.
  • Driving Success with Data [PDF | HTML]
    Aaron Tan leveraged his computer science education with venture capital experience to build a unicorn.
  • The Growth of Southeast Asia’s MSMEs [PDF | HTML]
    Funding winter presents opportunities to reboot for the future.
  • Staging Singapore’s Cultural Economy [PDF | HTML]
    Growing and cultivating soft power is the name of the game.
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Volume 11 Issue 1 | Published on 28 Mar 2024

Hello, JARVIS

  • AI may be the future of work, but caveat emptor [PDF | HTML]
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) could well become the phrase du jour for 2024.
  • Developing Singapore as a Smart Nation [PDF | HTML]
    Creating trust in digital services is key to building a tech-enabled society.
  • Hello, JARVIS [PDF | HTML]
    How AI-enabled interactive agents will reshape our workforce of today and tomorrow.
  • Superminds at Work: The Promise of Human-AI Collaboration [PDF | HTML]
    Shaping a collaborative future.
  • Navigating Sustainable Futures [PDF | HTML]
    A leadership imperative.
  • Smart Heuristics for Smart Management [PDF | HTML]
    How leaders can make effective decisions in a VUCA world.
  • Service Transformation that will Boost Your Business [PDF | HTML]
    Focus on your customers to catapult your company to success. However, leaders must drive a culture change to make it happen.
  • EyRIS: From the Lab to the Market [PDF | HTML]
    Singapore’s trailblazer AI algorithm for detecting diabetes-related eye diseases.
  • Navigating Through Chaos [PDF | HTML]
    How AI and optimisation models can strengthen supply chain resilience.
  • The Chatbot Challenge: How SMEs can Leverage AI for Growth and Engagement [PDF | HTML]
    Enhancing SME workforce efficiency with chatbots for improved business communication.
  • Maximising the AI Revolution in Southeast Asia [PDF | HTML]
    For that, the region must narrow the digital divide.
  • From Emergency Rooms To Boardrooms [PDF | HTML]
    How doctors think can improve business decision-making.
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Volume 10 Issue 3 | Published on 30 Nov 2023

Does Elite Quality Matter?

  • Building Urban Sustainability with Quality Elites [PDF | HTML]
    Do elites contribute to a society more than they extract from it?
  • Leading by Example and Giving Back to Society [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder and former Chairman of Infosys.
  • Does Elite Quality Matter? [PDF | HTML]
    Yes, it can make or break a society.
  • Reimagining Sustainable Urban Communities in Hong Kong [PDF | HTML]
    Using environmental and social urban design principles to create future new towns.
  • Increasing the Acceptance of Cultivated Meat [PDF | HTML]
    Factors to consider when designing communication strategies for diverse nations.
  • Riding the Decarbonisation Wave: BHP and Its LNG Dual-Fuelled Vessels [PDF | HTML]
    What does it take to decarbonise charter-related shipping?
  • Novus ex Machina: Realise Your Organisation’s Creative Potential with AI [PDF | HTML]
    Innovation managers must learn how to harness AI’s transformative potential.
  • From Mindset to Action: Accountants as Stewards for Sustainability [PDF | HTML]
    They need to start preparing for this new role now.
  • Pursuing Profit and Sustainability in the Age of Climate Change [PDF | HTML]
    Building dual-agenda innovation capabilities is the way to go.
  • Building Success in the Philippine Retail Sector [PDF | HTML]
    Jimmy Thai tells us about how the Primer Group has expanded to become the retail giant it is now.
  • The Rise of Multi-Homing in Asia's Ride-Hailing Industry [PDF | HTML]
    Getting it right secures environmental and economic wins for the present and future.
  • Delivering Healthcare to the Underserved [PDF | HTML]
    Non-profits, governments, and businesses need to come together and use a data-driven approach to improve local basic healthcare access.
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Volume 10 Issue 2 | Published on 07 Jul 2023

Where the World is Heading in 2023 and Beyond

  • Editor's Note [PDF | HTML]
    Charting directions and steadying the ship amidst the storms, waves and currents
  • Pursue Sustainability, Stay Paranoid in a Post-COVID World [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Ho Kwon Ping, Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings.
  • Where the World is Heading in 2023 and Beyond [PDF | HTML]
    The global economy is showing resilience, despite strong headwinds.
  • What Really Works Best in Vision Creation [PDF | HTML]
    The answer might surprise you.
  • Navigating Investor Expectations [PDF | HTML]
    Why start-ups need to speak the language of numbers.
  • China's MYbank: Creating Shared Value [PDF | HTML]
    Online banking has delivered financial inclusivity and profits, but has it also created shared value?
  • Making Manufacturing Strategic for the 21st Century [PDF | HTML]
    The role of the manufacturing executive must be upgraded too.
  • Beyond a Single Quadrant [PDF | HTML]
    Rethinking platform businesses in the digital era.
  • Care Labour Shortage Needs a Cure, Not More Band-Aids [PDF | HTML]
    Retaining care workers will become more difficult for Asia’s ageing economies.
  • Achieving Success in Silicon Valley [PDF | HTML]
    Desmond Lim tried, failed, and finally succeeded with Workstream, an app that helps businesses hire and manage hourly workers.
  • Rebuilding Supply Chains in APEC [PDF | HTML]
    This calls for greater collaboration.
  • Future-Proofing Healthcare Systems [PDF | HTML]
    This includes tackling climate change challenges too.
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Volume 10 Issue 1 | Published on 16 Mar 2023

Creating the Capacity for Digital Government

  • Digitalisation touches everything [PDF | HTML]
    “There is no alternative to digital transformation…[and] those that don’t adapt will fail.”
  • Steering Steadily in the Post-Pandemic World [PDF | HTML]
    Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank, speaks with Tan Chin Tiong about the future of banking in Thailand and the region as the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Creating the Capacity for Digital Government [PDF | HTML]
    It's more than tech.
  • Social Media: Enabling Touchpoints Beyond Advertising [PDF | HTML]
    An effective customer service platform and a strategic communication channel.
  • How Boards can Up their Digital Game [PDF | HTML]
    Board leaders need to keep up with the accelerating rate of change.
  • Robowealth: Boosting Financial Inclusion in Thailand [PDF | HTML]
    Advanced fintech lowers barriers to investing.
  • Participatory Digital Futures [PDF | HTML]
    How digital transformation can be made good for all.
  • Harnessing the Power of Video Ads [PDF | HTML]
    In digital advertising, video ads as a top-of-funnel function have a longer-lasting effect than display and search ads on a consumer's consciousness.
  • Real Estate Assets: To Build or not to Build? [PDF | HTML]
    It’s about when, not whether.
  • Don't Try to be a Superman [PDF | HTML]
    N. Edwin Widjonarko, co-founder and Director of Technology of Xurya, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in Indonesia’s solar power generation space.
  • Helping Asia’s Elderly to Become Digital Citizens [PDF | HTML]
    This needs an urgent ‘whole-of-society’ approach.
  • Don’t Fear the Reaper [PDF | HTML]
    Digital transformation in Singapore’s MICE industry.
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Volume 09 Issue 2 | Published on 20 Oct 2022

Developing Climate-Resilient Cities

  • Sustainability, a Priority [PDF | HTML]
    The word ‘sustainability’ is thrown around liberally these days. But what does it really mean?
  • Agriculture and Sustainable Farming in Vietnam [PDF | HTML]
    Le Minh Hoan, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, talks about the future of sustainable agriculture in ASEAN.
  • Developing Climate-Resilient Cities [PDF | HTML]
    We need to be quicker.
  • The Alphabet Soup in Reporting and Measuring ESG [PDF | HTML]
    Harmonising frameworks with the Impact-Weighted Accounts Framework.
  • How the Fast Food Industry can Protect Its Lunch (and Eat It Too) [PDF | HTML]
    The digital transformation of the industry.
  • Encouraging Social Entrepreneurship [PDF | HTML]
    It’s about taking the first steps.
  • Ageing Strong [PDF | HTML]
    Making the best of the third age.
  • Looking Beyond the 'Middle Class' for the Other Chinas [PDF | HTML]
    A new perspective on China’s consumer population.
  • Acquiring an Entrepreneurial Mindset [PDF | HTML]
    Key ingredients to facilitate the acquisition.
  • Building a Sustainable End-to-End Aquaculture Solution [PDF | HTML]
    Gibran Huzaifah, founder and CEO of eFishery, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in the aquaculture space.
  • Asia’s Waste Crisis [PDF | HTML]
    A festering issue.
  • Leading by Example [PDF | HTML]
    Leadership lessons from Singapore’s pioneer civil servants.
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Volume 09 Issue 1 | Published on 29 May 2022

Transforming Health System

  • Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF | HTML]
    As COVID-19 infection rates stabilise throughout the world, countries have already begun to prepare for life beyond the pandemic.
  • Agility and Focus Save the Day [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Eddy Kusnadi Sariaatmadja, Founder and President Commissioner of Indonesia’s PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi.
  • Transforming Health Systems in a Post-COVID World [PDF | HTML]
    Three recommendations for building system resilience.
  • How to Smoothen AI Implementation in Healthcare [PDF | HTML]
    Three domain-focused prescriptions.
  • Mission Possible [PDF | HTML]
    Overcoming challenges to bring clean water to rural India.
  • External Asset Managers in Singapore [PDF | HTML]
    Opportunities and challenges for the sector.
  • NIO's Battery-as-a-Service Strategy [PDF | HTML]
    A game changer in the EV industry?
  • Designing Successful Strategic Partnerships [PDF | HTML]
    The Achilles’ heel of digital transformation.
  • Digital Entrepreneurship in ASEAN [PDF | HTML]
    Capitalising on the COVID-driven digitalisation phenomenon.
  • Pivoting to Robo-Advisor Services in Wealth Management [PDF | HTML]
    A white space for digital banks.
  • TurtleTree: Cultivating Food Sustainably [PDF | HTML]
    Lin Fengru, co-founder of TurtleTree, speaks about her entrepreneurial journey in the biotech space.
  • Philanthropy in Asia [PDF | HTML]
    Its changing face and evolution.
  • The Executive’s Guide to Getting AI Wrong [PDF | HTML]
    It’s all math. Really.
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Volume 08 Issue 2 | Published on 16 Nov 2021

Global Mobility Reshaping National Policies

  • Navigating the Pandemic as it Enters its Second Year [PDF | HTML]
    Many countries, enabled by the rapid vaccine rollout, experienced some moments of relief from the Covid-19 pandemic as they embarked on their long and winding transition toward normalcy.
  • Global Mobility: Why People Migrate [PDF | HTML]
    Implications for a nation's human resources and technology policies.
  • The Procrustean Bed Revisited: Ways to Scale 'Physical Service' Platforms [PDF | HTML]
    The course of their growth and extension never did run smooth.
  • Transforming Businesses with E-Commerce Intelligence [PDF | HTML]
    Finding the right E-Commerce Intelligence solution for your firm.
  • Cashing in on Disruptions from Covid-19 [PDF | HTML]
    Promoting cashless payments at Singapore’s hawker centres.
  • Carlos Ghosh: The Rise and Fall of an Automobile Legend [PDF | HTML]
    Was it politics, greed, or hubris that led to Carlos Ghosn’s downfall?
  • Mediate, not Litigate, to Resolve Disputes [PDF | HTML]
    A leader’s first resort.
  • The Global Chinese Consumer [PDF | HTML]
    At the forefront of growth in the luxury goods market.
  • Getting the Best of both Worlds [PDF | HTML]
    Pair a technical expert with a generalist for successful change management.
  • Start Small. Do it Well. Then Expand your Offerings. [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Binny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart.
  • Asia Embraces Digital Currency and Cryptocurrency [PDF | HTML]
    A decade ago, everyone was sceptical about cryptocurrency.
  • Luxury Back in Vogue [PDF | HTML]
    Not just a rebound, it is set to flourish in the coming decade.
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