Global economic downturns, changing demographics, changing consumers, new technologies--robotics, autonomous vehicles--all putting pressure on the supply chain demanding that it be responsive. How to meet these challenges and mitigate risks?

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Looking into the findings of KPMG Malaysia’s survey which indicated a 98 % increase in fraud amounts over the last three years; 94 % believed that fraud had become increasingly sophisticated: 90% of respondents were of the opinion that fraud, including bribery & corruption, is an inevitable cost of doing business in Malaysia. What needs to be done to reverse this course of business?

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The ‘unstoppable forces’ that are changing what banks need to do.  A report points out that the number of genuinely global banks is diminishing and the financial services industry will begin to rely heavily on alliances and collaboration to stay competitive. There are going to be new players in this field. What will happen to the landscape to meet customers’ needs?

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The ‘unstoppable forces’ that are changing what banks need to do.  A report points out that the number of genuinely global banks is diminishing and the financial services industry will begin to rely heavily on alliances and collaboration to stay competitive. There are going to be new players in this field. What will happen to the landscape  to meet customers’ needs?

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Yet another entrepreneur training and startup launch programme. Is this a matter of "if we build it, they will come?" The Klang Valley saw a chapter of Founder Institute set up about a year ago and it is now looking for its second cohort of entrepreneurs-in-the-making to tap into FI's netwok of mentors and resources.

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The textiles and textile products industry contributes RM9.5 billion to the country’s exports of manufactured goods. And that is 1.4% of export revenues. If the industry were to hike up its skirt and run faster, where would it get to? How much farther and higher? Andrew Hong gives us a peek under the textile industry’s skirt.

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AFTA will come into force in 2015 and will have implications for the trucking industry.  While undoubtedly this is good news to some (easier cross border traffic, possible lower of cost for users because of competition) it might also mean more competition for the suppliers and therefore, lower margins.  What lies below the surface while the trucks keep on rollin’

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The shopping mall is the gathering hole of urbanites. The temperature inside is controlled, the retail offerings pre-selected for the promised catchment area. But with so many malls and shopping centres to choose from, how does any one of them try to carve a niche for itself, balancing retailers’ and consumers’ interests. 

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A call for long-sightedness and a more comprehensive reporting in business when there are always the short-term thinking, demands and pressures. Balancing a bifurcated business imperative to create value.  Andrew Harding, CEO of CIMA details an initiative by the accounting industry and the value of a holistic approach to reporting giving stakeholders greater visibility into an organisation and its health.

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Companies are told to “innovate or be dead.” So the embarking on the innovation trail. While there’s the tendency, at the end, to look at creating new technologies to produce new products and services, the mental states of companies tend ‘oft to be o’erlooked’. Hear stories of local companies and what they did when present with opportunities to innovate.

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