Singapore's "Disrupt Yourself First" Strategy for Fintech Innovation
Fintech (short for ‘financial technology’) has seen massive growth in Singapore, rising from just 18 fintech startups in 2015 to more than 300 today. That’s an increase of over 1600% over the last two years! Hence, it is no surprise that Singapore is currently leading the fintech wave in Southeast Asia; which coincides well with […]
Corporate Innovation: No One Size Fits All
Companies are not waiting to be disrupted by startups, leading to the push of corporate innovation. 68 of the world’s largest companies on the Forbes Global 500 List have interacted with startups with in the form of hackathons, accelerators, partnerships and venture funds. Our analysis of a dozen recent initiatives, including The Coca-Cola Founders accelerator, […]
How Adobe Drives Employee Engagement Towards Customer Centricity
In 2012, Adobe was making headlines. The company was undergoing a revolution in its performance management system while introducing a subscription-based service for their customers. Our team interviewed Sarah Dunn, Head of People Resources, Asia Pacific at Adobe to share on this change in the organization. She explains how it has encouraged employees to pursue innovation […]
Asia's Usage of Blockchain and Bitcoin: Insights from Vijay Ayyar, Head of Business Development at BitX
We had an interview with Vijay Ayyar, Head of Business Development at BitX, to explore how Asia is leveraging on Bitcoin and blockchain technology. BitX is a universal Bitcoin platform that provides highly secure mobile wallets, institutional quality exchanges, and various APIs for merchant and other business integration. The company started out building Bitcoin and […]
Sharing economy in Asia: interview with Jia Jih Chai, former Airbnb's director for Southeast Asia and VP of C2C commerce app Carousell
We had a chance to interview Jia Jih Chai, former Airbnb’s Managing Director for South-east Asia and currently in charge of growing social commerce and mobile commerce app Carousell internationally as VP. He shares his experience within Airbnb, the challenges he faced in the different Asian countries, as well as his ideas on the main sharing […]
What is the gaming scene like in Asia? Interview with Devin Nambiar from leading publisher of games Electronic Arts
In the beginning of September 2016 when we assisted the Millennial 20/20 summit in Singapore, we got a chance to interview Devin Nambiar from leading publisher of games Electronic Arts, and learn more about the gaming scene in Asia. In our conversation, Devin touched on some major themes in regard to the APAC markets (China, […]
