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Issues

Volume 07 Issue 2 | Published on 18 Nov 2020

COVID-19 Impact on the Global Economy

  • The Impact of Covid-19 on Asian Businesses and the Economy [PDF | HTML]
    The Covid-19 pandemic will likely end when a vaccine can be made available to everyone, or when we have achieved some measure of herd immunity.
  • Rebuilding Global Supply Chains from the Ground Up [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Dr Victor Fung, Group Chairman of the Fung Group, on the future of global supply chains. What are some of the key changes taking place in global supply chains?
  • Covid-19 Impact on the Global Economy beyond the Near Term         [PDF | HTML]
    The pandemic is likely to make long term changes to deglobalisation and medium-term inflation.
  • The Hedge Fund Evolution [PDF | HTML]
    Hedge funds offer numerous possible outcomes for investors and fund managers, but there is just no way the future can be predicted consistently during these uncertain times.
  • Trust and the ‘Hive Effect’ in Family Firms [PDF | HTML]
    Boosting creativity and innovation in family firms.
  • The Dorian Gray Phenomenon in Financial Markets [PDF | HTML]
    Looking at the current state of the global economy and the extent of financial market hedonism through the lens of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
  • Pinduoduo: Empowering Farmers with an E-Commerce Platform [PDF | HTML]
    A case study on how Pinduoduo's dedicated portal has helped farmers during the Covid-19 outbreak.
  • Healthcare Innovation from the Inside Out [PDF | HTML]
    How Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital had to strike a balance between reducing business-as-usual services and increasing outbreak-coping capacity when Covid-19 broke out.
  • Two-Way Mentoring: How Employees can Learn from One Another [PDF | HTML]
    Vibrant cross-generational interactions can result in strong relationships being formed, as demonstrated in the case of Tata Steel Ltd.
  • Solving the Work-From-Home Conundrum [PDF | HTML]
    Organisations can implement long-term policies that would make working from home a win-win situation for both employers and employees.
  • To Succeed, Make Hard Choices [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Jeff Tung, Founder, Chairman and Executive Director at Sheng Ye Capital Limited.
  • How Shall We ‘Hammer’ and ‘Dance’? [PDF | HTML]
    On the promises and perils of domestic tourism during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • A Matter of Life in Debt [PDF | HTML]
    Moving away from using debt to tackle economic downturns.
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Volume 07 Issue 1 | Published on 03 Jun 2020

The Future of Retailing

  • How Technology is Driving Business Change [PDF | HTML]
    How technology is driving business change.
  • Consumption, investment, integration and digitalisation lead growth in Asia [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Piyush Gupta, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group.
  • The future of retailing: When the artificial becomes real [PDF | HTML]
    Digital technology, including e-commerce and e-market exchanges, has been the most significant disruptive force for the retail industry in the last two decades.
  • Ageing in place: Sustainable technology solutions to support the elderly [PDF | HTML]
    'Silver tech' allows for a scalable and sustainable solution for intelligent monitoring, detection and notification of anomalous events, and collaborative support for seniors living alone.
  • The Indian Railways: On track for transformation [PDF | HTML]
    Manoeuvring infrastructure and digitisation challenges on a massive track network that runs nearly 70,000 route kilometres.
  • Closing the data-decisions loop: Deploying artificial intelligence for dynamic resource management [PDF | HTML]
    Improving predictions and allocations to determine the optimal matching of demand and supply in a dynamic, uncertain future.
  • Starbucks in China: An undisputed leader? [PDF | HTML]
    How Starbucks faces the emergence of ‘new retail’, or the seamless integration of offline and online retail.
  • eMarketplaces: Strategic challenges and considerations [PDF | HTML]
    Building scale and volume rapidly is key to surviving the roller-coaster journey and staying the course for a digital entrepreneur.
  • Adaptive mindset: An effective approach to leadership in cross-cultural contexts [PDF | HTML]
    Understanding cultural signals by exploring the ‘hidden part of the iceberg’ and communicating the benefits of change to team members.
  • Learn, adapt, and move on: An interview with Rajesh Lingappa [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Rajesh Lingappa, co-founder and former chief technology officer of RedMart.
  • Corporate governance: Of misses, awareness and improvements [PDF | HTML]
    Have a more robust and effective corporate governance framework that includes a focus on environmental sustainability and social impact.
  • When crises happen: Coronavirus and what we expect for global growth [PDF | HTML]
    An unflinching take on the negative effects on growth from both demand and supply channels.
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Volume 06 Issue 2 | Published on 25 Nov 2019

Corporate Innovation

  • Redefining Corporate Strategies and Functions [PDF | HTML]
    Redefining corporate strategies and functions.
  • Kick-starting economic growth: An interview with Dr K. V. Subramanian, India's Chief Economic Advisor [PDF | HTML]
    Dr K. V. Subramanian emphasises the importance of higher investment rates, good quality loans, and structural reforms for boosting India’s economic growth.
  • Corporate innovation: Digitising innovation management [PDF | HTML]
    Digitisation of innovation management allows organisations to spend less time managing innovation and more time on things that really matter.
  • Platform as brands: The inbuilt potential and perils [PDF | HTML]
    Rethink brand building through the concept of platform brands. Their key tenets—participation, personalisation and shared purpose—lay the foundation for transforming a brand.
  • Inclusive hiring: How to recognise talent [PDF | HTML]
    Organisations must learn to detect, discern and develop untapped talent through inclusive hiring practices.
  • Leadership capabilities: Transforming your organisation for the digital age [PDF | HTML]
    Leaders of large organisations need to strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, centralisation and decentralisation, and technology and the human touch.
  • Education and innovation: An interview with Charles Chen Yidan [PDF | HTML]
    Education and innovation are not only the engines of economic growth in an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, but they also lead us to the solutions of the crises we face today.
  • Iuiga: Defining an omni-channel strategy [PDF | HTML]
    Iuiga, a lifestyle retailer, has a curated range of high quality products at transparent, affordable prices, effectively leveraging the original design manufacturers’ model and an online retail platform.
  • Change management can be simple and complex [PDF | HTML]
    The success of any intervention is achieved by winning over the support of staff and aligning team members who are driven by different professional agendas.
  • Building customer-centric brands in Asia: How to compete globally [PDF | HTML]
    One crucial factor that would differentiate winning businesses from the others is the equity of a strong brand. They must learn to compete globally, sustain competitiveness, and master customer loyalty by building customer-centric brands.
  • From bitcoin to blockchain, and back again [PDF | HTML]
    In the context of the current FinTech revolution, it remains to be seen how the wealth of knowledge on new technologies and business models in the area of finance can effectively and efficiently drive change and seize the new opportunities being created in the vast and fast-paced world of digital and crypto-assets.
  • Infrastructure in Asia: The reality, the challenge, the opportunity [PDF | HTML]
    While the urgency to build and improve infrastructure is always imminent, investing in it is a high stakes game for emerging countries. Investments these countries make should be well-prioritised to maximise the economic winds that fill their sails.
  • Irrational exuberance: Panic rooms and flutters in financial markets [PDF | HTML]
    As the memory of the 2008 financial crash fades, there are cautionary thoughts on why we tend to overshoot in our optimism, and why even genius comes to grief in the face of capricious, mercurial capital markets.
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Volume 06 Issue 1 | Published on 27 May 2019

AI Gets Real

  • Profit, People and Planet [PDF | HTML]
    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.
  • Corporate sustainability: An interview with Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact.
  • AI gets real at Singapore's Changi Airport (Part 1): A learning journey [PDF | HTML]
    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.
  • Learnings from AI projects at Singapore's Changi Airport (Part 2): Distilling managerial insights and lessons [PDF | HTML]
  • Asian luxury retail: Stepping up the talent strategy [PDF | HTML]
    Digital giants such as Alibaba and Amazon, and online luxury specialists like Farfetch, Yoox and Net-a-Porter are thriving in Southeast Asia.
  • Family togetherness: The key to business sustenance [PDF | HTML]
    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 [PDF | HTML]
    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 [PDF | HTML]
    An array of scandals has rocked the world in recent times, such as financial malpractices, unethical practices, and environmental damages.
  • Doing business in Thailand: An interview with William Heinecke, founder and Chairman of Minor International. [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with William Heinecke, the founder and Chairman of Minor International.
  • Surecash: Promoting financial inclusion in Bangladesh [PDF | HTML]
    The street scene of honking cycle rickshaws, jaywalking pedestrians and precariously tilting buses in crowded Dhaka was an easy distraction.
  • A recipe for success for Asia's F&B franchising [PDF | HTML]
    Navigating to win in the Asian food and beverage franchise space.
  • Corporate sustainability: Beyond the buzzword [PDF | HTML]
    The journey to corporate sustainability
  • The global learning crisis: Towards 21st century education in the developing world [PDF | HTML]
    The path to 21st century education in the developing world.
  • Innovation: Does Asia need Newton or Edison? [PDF | HTML]
    Bridging the gap between the lab and the market.
  • Design thinking: Human-centred economic solutions and shaping common action. [PDF | HTML]
    How design thinking can contribute human-centred economic solutions and shape common action.
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Volume 05 Issue 2 | Published on 11 Dec 2018

Accidental Captains

  • Here’s to an Open Economy [PDF | HTML]
    Should we be cheering or jeering? The U.S. trade policy and its impact on Asia are under the spotlight.
  • Singapore’s core values: An an interview with the seventh President of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with the seventh President of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan.
  • Accidental captains: How to sink strategy even before it is executed [PDF | HTML]
    Wouldn’t it be scary if captains of ships were hired at random, instead of through a careful selection process?
  • Incentives: Achieving business results with the right pay scheme [PDF | HTML]
    Much has been said both for and against using incentives to drive business results—be it revenue and profit, or market share.
  • Coming to grips with the reality of eLearning [PDF | HTML]
    In boardrooms all over the world today a scenario is played out again and again: Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) enthusiastically pitch the strategy of eLearning while chief executives remain sceptical over the outcomes.
  • Men’s cosmetics: challenging conventional marketing wisdom [PDF | HTML]
    Men and beauty seem to be two contradictory domains because we often rely on an outdated assumption that men only want to appear manly and nothing more.
  • Does demography determine talent? [PDF | HTML]
    Among the map of forces that shape a business environment, one of the permanent, pertinent and powerful factors is a nation’s demographics.
  • Pride and protectionism: U.S. trade policy and its impact on Asia [PDF | HTML]
    Many of the trade policies of the United States President Donald Trump’s administration are aimed at addressing the perceived adverse impact of trade on the country’s manufacturing employment, and improving trade deals the President sees as not being in U.S. interests.
  • Globe Telecom: Redefining telecommunications in the Philippines [PDF | HTML]
    Globe Telecom—a major telecommunications service provider in the Philippines—had a long, pioneering history in the communications business.
  • Lighting the spark in the Philippines: An interview with Rosemarie ‘Bubu’ Andres, the Global Chair of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with Rosemarie ‘Bubu’ Andres, the Global Chair of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.
  • Paris Baguette: A Korean's brand success in France [PDF | HTML]
    Winning the annual Coupe du Monde de Boulangerie, the most prestigious baking competition in the world, was no mean feat for South Korea’s Paris Baguette, a relatively new kid on the global baking block.
  • Doing business in Myanmar: Dressing up the bride [PDF | HTML]
    As one of the untapped frontiers of newly emerging markets, Myanmar is rich in natural resources, underpopulated but with growing purchasing power, and an easy place to do business.
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Volume 05 Issue 1 | Published on 30 May 2018

The Changing Face of Family Business

  • AI: Augmentation More so than Automation [PDF | HTML]
    Integrating Artificial Intelligence-enabled automation with people into workplace processes and societal systems is a complex and evolving challenge.
  • Of Tailwinds and Headwinds [PDF | HTML]
    Long-time readers of these pages are more than familiar with disruption, and the current shift in the world’s economic and political tectonic plates is assuming even greater interest for many of us.
  • Global economic outlook: An interview with the Global Chief Economist of The Economist Intelligence Unit, Simon Baptist [PDF | HTML]
    Of China, India, and a tempered global economic outlook.
  • Vietnam: Reaping long-term gains from agricultural land reforms [PDF | HTML]
    Agriculture in Vietnam is in need of flexibility, efficiency, modernisation and innovation.
  • Transformation: The new normal for next-gen family businesses [PDF | HTML]
    It is no longer business as usual–at least not as far as the next generation is concerned.
  • Public-private partnerships: The pro-poor gap evaluation [PDF | HTML]
    Improving the future design and implementation of public-private partnerships.
  • Productivity of society redesigned [PDF | HTML]
    Looking at productivity, not just of the plant, but of society as a whole.
  • Future for children in Indonesia: On walking out of poverty [PDF | HTML]
    A social enterprise project that has brought income and dignity to a remote community in Indonesia.
  • Japan: How Abenomics is impacting business [PDF | HTML]
    Since the bursting of the asset-price bubble in the early 1990s, Japan has faced the formidable challenge of boosting growth, ending deflation, maintaining financial and exchange rate stability, and securing fiscal sustainability.
  • Talent magnets: Three dimensions of a great place to work [PDF | HTML]
    Inside any successful business, you’ll find talented people front and centre, and India is no exception.
  • How Fintech startups succeed in financial inclusion to bank the unbanked [PDF | HTML]
    In the drive to bank the unbanked, digital technology may succeed where others could only dream.
  • Data or decisions: Designing business intelligence and analytics function [PDF | HTML]
    On designing a successful business intelligence and analytics function.
  • Negotiating the legal systems in ASEAN [PDF | HTML]
    One may ask: What is a thought piece on legal systems doing in a business magazine?
  • Asia: Embracing disruption confidently with farsighted policies and progressive ideas [PDF | HTML]
    Farsighted policies and progressive ideas will stand Asia in good stead as it embraces disruption with confidence.
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Volume 04 Issue 2 | Published on 28 Nov 2017

The Sustainability Edge

  • Constant Vigilance and the Fork in the Road [PDF | HTML]
    Once upon a time, liberty was the ‘desired end result’ of constant vigilance. But in our fluid era of disruption, even this noble sentiment has been upended.
  • A new toolkit for Thailand 4.0: An interview with the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva [PDF | HTML]
    Thailand 4.0 will need a new toolkit, if it is to transition out of being a middle-income country.
  • The sustainability edge: Driving top-line growth with triple-bottom-line thinking [PDF | HTML]
    As technology and capital become abundantly available, the use of resources in this region will accelerate, and naturally raise environmental concerns for Asia.
  • Team of rivals: Co-opetition for technology start-ups [PDF | HTML]
    Meaningful value is derived when a company is an active participant in shaping the environment to its own strategic advantage.
  • From rags to riches: Following the East Asian blueprint by governments and firms [PDF | HTML]
    In East Asia, the quintessential roadmap for progressing from third world to first, and its approach towards development, has yet to catapult would-be tigers in other emerging markets to the same levels of prosperity.
  • Exposed and under pressure: Why mid-level leaders aren’t prepared for challenges [PDF | HTML]
    It is not an easy task for middle management to be prepared for today’s challenges.
  • Global garbage cans: Towards better household hazardous waste management in Asia's developing countries [PDF | HTML]
    As mobile phones and other electronic gadgets become more affordable, with its large populations, Asia now generates the most waste.
  • Banko: Reshaping the Philippines rural banking system [PDF | HTML]
    Ayala Group created a bank, BPI Globe BanKo, which went on to disrupt the Philippines’ traditional banking system.
  • Attaining the peak: Three factors that inhibit performance [PDF | HTML]
    To increase performance, individuals and teams need to experience the ‘discomfort of adaptation’—as opposed to the ‘comfort of learning’. 
  • Asia: Is high-end innovation in medical technology a blessing or a curse? [PDF | HTML]
    The reach and quality of regional healthcare remains a considerable challenge.
  • Examining the paradox of part-time employees working overtime [PDF | HTML]
    A discussion on studies that reveal those on part-time work arrangements are voluntarily working either longer hours or more intensively.
  • The flow of funds in ASEAN [PDF | HTML]
    Unique challenges faced by ASEAN countries and their equally unique solutions.
  • The Chicago Plan: How sustainable is debt being funded? [PDF | HTML]
    Observations on the US economy in the 1930s and the Chicago Plan, the then-radical idea of sustainable debt and its modern relevance.
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Volume 04 Issue 1 | Published on 22 May 2017

Navigation Innovation

  • On the Fascination with Uncertainty: Life in Interesting Times [PDF | HTML]
    Probably every generation considers itself as living within a vortex of change, but these last few months must be particularly challenging, even for futurists, let alone CEOs and business practitioners.
  • The Revival of the Philippine Economy [PDF | HTML]
    The greatest opportunity and challenge for the Philippines is in the technology space, with a particular challenge being the maintenance of policy continuity.
  • Navigating Innovation: A Leader’s Guide [PDF | HTML]
    Despite the newfangled business models and market game changers, the old axiom of industry continues to ring true: leadership matters. 
  • Harnessing the Youth Bulge [PDF | HTML]
    How Asia can take advantage of its changing age composition.
  • Country 2.0: Upgrading Cities with Smart Technologies [PDF | HTML]
    Advancements in technology are being used to transform our cities into smart cities, but the process is not without its risks.
  • Building Capacity in Asia [PDF | HTML]
    Policymakers need to be equipped with tools to analyse economic developments and make sound policy decisions.
  • Skills 4.0: How CEOs Shape the Future of Work in Asia [PDF | HTML]
    Companies need to ensure that they are ready to embrace disruptions and fend off potential skills gaps and talent shortages.
  • Skyscanner: Globalising a Business Model [PDF | HTML]
    In order to compete in Asia Pacific’s one-stop travel market, Skyscanner reinvented itself from the inside out.
  • Building Negotiation Capital [PDF | HTML]
    Today, unlike the marketing or supply chain tasks, the negotiation task remains unstructured, sporadic, often improvised, and rarely analysed critically in the post-deal stage.
  • The Sandwich Approach [PDF | HTML]
    ‘Doing good’ requires execution of sound strategies that effectively engage stakeholders.
  • Management Education out of Africa [PDF | HTML]
    Is a distinctive African management education model possible, achievable, or even advisable?
  • Why Every Manager Needs a Sponsor [PDF | HTML]
    What do successful managers have in common? The truth is—apart from being great in their jobs, many successful managers often credit their success to someone, somewhere along the way—who not only gave them a pivotal career break, but also pushed them, inspired them and helped them grow.
  • The Global Impact of Changes in U.S. Trade Policy [PDF | HTML]
    Be prepared for tectonic shifts.
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Volume 03 Issue 2 | Published on 09 Dec 2016

Building Asian Business Schools

  • On Inspiration, Aspiration and Innovation [PDF | HTML]
    Although it is true that learning never stops, the way we learn is changing every day.
  • Vietnam’s Economic Transformation: Embracing Change [PDF | HTML]
    Future generations should constantly adapt and learn as, in 40 years, the world will be a very different place.
  • Building Asian Business Schools: Hindsight, Insight & Foresight [PDF | HTML]
    Schools should cross-pollinate and create Asian case studies that can be taught in both western and Asian schools.
  • CONNECTING INDIA [PDF | HTML]
    Great inventions will not be born in the absence of the will and intent to embrace change and solve wide-ranging societal problems.
  • UEBER-BRANDS [PDF | HTML]
    How to make your brand priceless?
  • ASEAN’s Digital Economy [PDF | HTML]
    Transforming industries, enriching lives and propelling progress.
  • Putting Parent and Subsidiary Relationships Right: Lessons from Japanese Corporate Groups [PDF | HTML]
    How do Japanese corporate groups manage their subsidiaries?
  • Grab Taxi: Navigating New Frontiers [PDF | HTML]
    A drive for growth in the sharing economy.
  • Smarter Banking [PDF | HTML]
    Can blockchain address non-performing loan-related issues in the Indian banking system?
  • Can Asians Be Creative? [PDF | HTML]
    Culture’s impact on creativity and ways to boost it.
  • Is Your Waste a Waste? [PDF | HTML]
    Rethinking the linear economy.
  • A Bankable Future [PDF | HTML]
    Efforts to promote financial inclusion in Cambodia are paying dividends economically, and unlocking opportunity.
  • Media Reinvented [PDF | HTML]
    The brave new world of digital media.
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Volume 03 Issue 1 | Published on 17 Nov 2016

National Branding

  • The Rustling of Leaves [PDF | HTML]
    Earlier this month I watched Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko touch down after nearly a year in space, 340 days to be precise. During their stay they managed to tweet the most spectacular photos of the earth to their followers. Who would have thought it possible to document and share their experience in this way even a few years ago?
  • Education and Leadership: Indispensable for Nigeria’s Economic Development [PDF | HTML]
    An interview with former President of Nigeria (1999 to 2007), Olusegun Obasanjo.
  • Rethinking Intellectual Property for the 21st Century [PDF | HTML]
    New models are undermining the traditional views of intellectual property.
  • Nation Branding [PDF | HTML]
    Emerging nations need national champions, and national champions need strong support from the state. 
  • The New Dragon Dance [PDF | HTML]
    China’s evolving growth model.
  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Vietnam [PDF | HTML]
    Opening up a bold new world for Vietnam’s trade and industry may not be so easy.
  • The New Face of Business Model Innovation [PDF | HTML]
    Are Chinese Internet companies eclipsing American inventiveness?
  • From Lights Out to Lights On [PDF | HTML]
    How Sunlabob went from providing affordable, sustainable energy in rural Laos to becoming  an international turnkey operator and co-developer.
  • Achieving Excellence in Strategy Execution through some Uncommon Practices [PDF | HTML]
    When good strategies fail in execution, it’s time to consider some uncommon practices.
  • Inspiring Innovation [PDF | HTML]
    How large organisations can leverage the digital advantage for innovation. 
  • The Frugal Innovator [PDF | HTML]
    Creating change on a shoestring budget the frugal innovator.
  • Singapore’s Vision of a Smart Nation [PDF | HTML]
    Thinking big, starting small and scaling fast.
  • Bringing Silicon Valley to Thailand [PDF | HTML]
    Searching for unicorns.
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