BFM-Intermark Race To The Top

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The manufacturing industry in the country faces challenges when it can no longer compete on price; it has to relook at itself to adapt and to remain relevant in this ever-changing landscape. Chris Lee from Autodesk Asean elaborates on strategies for manufacturing companies and how they can better position themselves collectively as a manufacturing hub.

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For inventions to thrive there needs to be a culture that seeks to improve, a culture that recognizes and rewards curiosity. The SMEs in the country need new inventions, new IP rights in order to move up the value chain. Robest Yong shares his story and his observations on inventing.

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TNT Express is not only responsible for hosting the World Press Photo Exhibition in Penang and Kuala Lumpur, it  undertakes the logistics for it. World Press Photo, an independent non-profit organization that promotes the work of professional press photographers.

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CSR has come of age in the west and is encouraging Asian companies to follow suit. Instead of being ‘apart from profit’, CSR is integrated with corporate strategy, and companies are using their core competence to social ends.

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Tapping into a large organization to grow your business. The opportunities afforded through the Organization Islamic  with CEO of OIC International Business Centre.

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A financial institution with its own unique recruitment programme, but it is not on the television or on YouTube, at least for now. The candidates from the countries where the bank operates will be competing for a US$72,000 prize plus a chance to join the Global Maybank Apprentice Programme.

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MEs on the whole tend to create a product, test it on the market and only then look into protecting the intellectual property associated with it. But it may all be for naught and perhaps may even be too late. Geob International, the maker of Hypoband--a monitoring device worn on the wrist-- shares its IP story of copywriting, patenting, trademarking and surveillancing to protect itself from copycats and competitors and grow its business.

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Jason Chong is Chief Investment Officer of Manulife Asset Management Malaysia. Manulife’s latest quarterly Investor Sentiment Index (Manulife ISI) in Asia had some very recent findings on Malaysia, particularly the large percentage of Malaysian’s attachment to holding on to cash and general sentiment to investing in stocks and equity in Malaysia.

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How design thinking is central to innovation

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