Final part of our Innovation@Work Series in collaboration with UCSI Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre, which has together with ECSI Consulting, Europe, produced the first ever study on Strategic Innovation with findings on how companies in South East Asia practise innovation. This week we look at how to identify and avoid the Hidden Enemies to innovation with brilliant case studies - Nespresso, Facebook, Disney.

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The Cooler Lumpur fest, a multidisciplinary arts festival organised between PopDigital and The British Council kicks off today. What does running a festival involve? How do you reach your target market? Is there money to be made? Hardesh Singh, founder of Popdigital, answers these questions and more.

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The BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study, now in its ninth year, is the only ranking that uses the views of potential and current buyers of the brand, alongside financial data to calculate brand value. Find out which brands made the Top 10, and what Malaysian companies can learn from them.

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The global luxury industry saw sales exceeding the 300 billion USD mark last year with increases expected in 2014. But what part does South East Asia and Malaysia play in the whole luxury industry? Are we just customers, shopping hubs or can we actually be creators of worldwide luxury ourselves? Robb Young, whose by-lines have graced the pages of The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Vogue Magazine, shares his observations and future outlook for the luxury industry in Malaysia and the region. 

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Part 3 of our Innovation@Work Series in collaboration with UCSI Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre, which has together with ECSI Consulting, Europe, produced the first ever study on Strategic Innovation with findings on how companies in South East Asia practise innovation. This week we look at Ideation Capacity and the Impact of Systematic Training.

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What happens to your business when disaster strikes? You may be protected against fire and theft, but what if your business doesn't make money? What can you do to safeguard your business and even go so far as to raise capital with insurance?

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Society has evolved in such a way that we demand to be engaged, entertained, made to feel some kind of emotion. That everything we wear or utilise has to speak of our own individual identities and represent some kind of virtue. If you're a business or a service- you have to engage your stakeholders - not just your customer, but your employees, your investors, your suppliers. Darren Suresh of  Globalknox tells us how to activate the art of engagement.

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Part 2 of our Innovation@Work Series in collaboration with UCSI Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre, which has together with ECSI Consulting, Europe, produced the first ever study on Strategic Innovation with findings on how companies in South East Asia practise innovation. This week we look at Strategic Processes and ROI (Return on Innovation).

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Final  part in our series on social media covering the future of Social Technology. How might social technology change the way we communicate, work and live our day-to-day lives and what does this mean for businesses?

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We take a look at current leadership, with a glimpse of trends in Europe, the US and Asia today. What can be said about corporate leadership (or lack of) in Asia today?

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