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On The Path Unwinding: Making Sense Of The Circular Economy
SME Magazine Singapore

On The Path Unwinding: Making Sense Of The Circular Economy

Our economy is based on production and consumption.

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February 2019
What's On The Horizon For Adtech In 2019?
SME Magazine Singapore

What's On The Horizon For Adtech In 2019?

Contextual marketing trends to look forward to next year

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February 2019
Prioritising Mental Health At Work
SME Magazine Singapore

Prioritising Mental Health At Work

Stress in the workplace is far from uncommon.

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August 2019
The Future Of Retail Is Digital
SME Magazine Singapore

The Future Of Retail Is Digital

Buying stuff used to be so easy. Customers walked into a shop, paid for whatever they wanted to buy, and left.

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May 2019
Italy: Trader With The World
SME Magazine Singapore

Italy: Trader With The World

The Italian Peninsula has a long and storied history of trade. Glass beads from the Roman Empire have been found as far afield as Korea and Southeast Asia. Medieval Venice grew wealthy through trade with the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world. Spurred on by tales of riches, Italian explorers such as Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered new routes to the Far East and the New World, helping to usher in the Age of Discovery.

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May 2019
Small Business Logistics To Become Hyper-Personalized
SME Magazine Singapore

Small Business Logistics To Become Hyper-Personalized

The biggest trend in logistics right now is arguably not artificial intelligence, blockchain or even visibility, it’s personalization— which is ushering in a new era of delivery once only accessible to big global companies and corporates.

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May 2019
Strange Out In Semiconductors
SME Magazine Singapore

Strange Out In Semiconductors

Entry into the semiconductor market is daunting, as the costs for doing so are prohibitively high.

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May 2019
Salespeople Beware Tyre Kickers, IP Thieves & Time Wasters
SME Magazine Singapore

Salespeople Beware Tyre Kickers, IP Thieves & Time Wasters

Salespeople Beware Tyre Kickers, IP Thieves & Time Wasters

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April 2018
Slotting And Location Systems To Improve Warehouse Operations
SME Magazine Singapore

Slotting And Location Systems To Improve Warehouse Operations

Slotting And Location Systems To Improve Warehouse Operations

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April 2018
Our Sexual Harassment Policy
SME Magazine Singapore

Our Sexual Harassment Policy

Our Sexual Harassment Policy

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April 2018
Technology Redefines APAC Work Environment
SME Magazine Singapore

Technology Redefines APAC Work Environment

Technology Redefines APAC Work Environment

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April 2018
Goh Chee Hoh
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Goh Chee Hoh

Goh Chee Hoh

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April 2018
Doing Business In Vietnam
SME Magazine Singapore

Doing Business In Vietnam

Vietnam, or more accurately, Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a country located on the easternmost part of the Indo-china Peninsula in South east Asia. “Vietnam”, as it means, translates as "Viet south" where "Viet" is an ethnic self identification dating to a second century B.C. kingdom in the region and "Nam" refers to its location in relation to other Viet kingdoms around it.

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February 2017
GE 14 - What's Next For SMEs?
SME Magazine Singapore

GE 14 - What's Next For SMEs?

THE 14TH GENERAL ELECTION (GE14) RESULTS SURPRISED MOST MALAYSIANS AND EVEN ANALYSTS WHO HAVE BEEN OBSERVING THE ELECTIONS. HOWEVER, ONE BIG UNDERLYING QUESTION IN THE MIND OF CORPORATES AND SME OWNERS IS: WHAT COMES WITH THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT?

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June 2018
Roman's Reign
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Roman's Reign

HOW ABRAMOVICH DEFIED THE ODDS

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June 2018
The Co-Working Space Challenge
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The Co-Working Space Challenge

Own a company with a very small team and you do not want to rent a permanent address? Co-working space might just be what you need.

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June 2018
Future Proofing Your Business
SME Magazine Singapore

Future Proofing Your Business

UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS TO ENABLE THE WORKPLACE OF TOMORROW

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June 2018
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Does Your Organisational Structure Work?

Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for upgrading customer service and uplifting service culture. He is author of the bestselling “UP! Your Service” books and founder of UP! Your Service.

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June 2018
Of Victory And Crutches
SME Magazine Singapore

Of Victory And Crutches

VICTORY HAS A THOUSAND FATHERS, BUT DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN - JOHN F KENNEDY

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June 2018
Asean Logistics Forecast To 2025
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Asean Logistics Forecast To 2025

By 2025, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is expected to be the next destination for global participants, replacing China, with its geographic proximity, large consumer base, and low costs attracting traders.

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May 2018
Data-Centric Marketing For Financial Services Companies In APAC
SME Magazine Singapore

Data-Centric Marketing For Financial Services Companies In APAC

Over the last three years, searches for banking products like credit cards and personal loans have been steadily increasing. Singaporeans searched for personal loans 84 per cent more than they did before, while interest in credit cards in the Philippines increased by 31 per cent. In Australia and India, 80 per cent and 89 per cent of searches related to financial services are related to these categories.

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May 2018
SME Magazine Singapore

Learn The Truth About Yourself

Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of this rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer.

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May 2018
Financial Intelligence
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Financial Intelligence

For years, academic experts have been measuring people’s intelligence by administering an I.Q. test. More recently, behavioral scientists and those in the field of psychology have been discussing a principle they call emotional intelligence. I would submit there is another intellectual area of expertise I would call financial intelligence.

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May 2018
Hospitality Food Service, Tourism Heading Into Headwinds?
SME Magazine Singapore

Hospitality Food Service, Tourism Heading Into Headwinds?

Shelter, food, water, clothing. These are the basic needs that we need to survive. Of course, if one can afford to travel or eat out, it’s more likely than not that one’s basic survival needs are well taken care of. However, as we travel, we depend on others to fulfil those needs – to varying degrees of adequacy.

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November 2018
Setting The Right Foundation An SME Guide To Invoicing
SME Magazine Singapore

Setting The Right Foundation An SME Guide To Invoicing

For many founders and leaders of SMEs, setting up internal policies and processes are often the last things that they want to do. Most company leaders prefer to focus their time and energy on building their business and increasing revenue. Having to establish policies and processes can come off as somewhat administrative and not the best use of their time.

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November 2018
Business Backup Don't Lose Your Data!
SME Magazine Singapore

Business Backup Don't Lose Your Data!

In our digitised and interconnected world, it is increasingly the case that a company’s most valuable assets are not its machines or premises, but the data that it possesses.

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November 2018
Run Faster
SME Magazine Singapore

Run Faster

I was in Shanghai last month on business. I have been visiting Shanghai at least once a year over the past two decades. Yet, I continue to be amazed by the pace at which the municipality is growing.

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November 2018
Multitasking Myths And methods
SME Magazine Singapore

Multitasking Myths And methods

You may have noticed in most fields of endeavour that the latest cutting edge information or state-of-the-art breakthroughs often shift and change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of nutrition.

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July 2018
SME Magazine Singapore

The Beautiful Life: Understanding The Luxury Market

For millennia, people around the globe have satisfied themselves with the possession of luxury goods. From the purple dyed silk of antiquity, to today’s Hermès Birkin bags, luxury has always been associated with wealth, class, and power. History suggests that acquiring luxury seems to be a basic human instinct; even nomad kings who led a Spartan life were likely to be buried with goods of silk and gold.

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July 2018
How To Avoid Getting Hooked By Mobile Phishing
SME Magazine Singapore

How To Avoid Getting Hooked By Mobile Phishing

The first recorded use of the term ‘phishing’ was in 1996, in the earliest days of the Web. So why is this 20+ year-old method of online fraud still with us?

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July 2019