Which Ecosystems to Explore in 2024 for Your Learning Expedition?
In 2024, business and technology professionals are turning towards India, South Korea, and Sweden for enriching Learning Expeditions. These countries offer unique ecosystems to explore the latest innovations and practices in technology, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility. This article dives into the heart of these dynamic destinations to reveal why they are essential for leaders seeking to broaden their perspectives and stimulate growth in an ever-evolving world.
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 […]
Can South Korean Startups (and the government) Save its Flailing Giant Tech Conglomerates?
With 17 percent of the GDP, it’s fair to say that Samsung is South Korea, or at least has represented it on the global business stage for the last decade or so. But for the last year or so, with the contraction of the global economy and the dynamism of Chinese (Xiaomi) and Indian (Micromax) competitors […]
A visit of FuturePlay, Korea’s hard tech startup accelerator
It’s hard to find the good wording for FuturePlay, as its founder Jung-Hee Ryu says it’s not an accelerator per se, and the entities they take care of are not « startups » but « techups« , to stress the strong technology DNA of the ventures he supports in their growth. So no e-commerce or photo-sharing app here, but […]
The growth of online shopping
Shopping happens to be one of Singaporeans’ favorite hobbies. Bringing it online seems to be a sure-win recipe for retailers and not surprisingly, e-commerce is growing a lot in Singapore. According to Paypal research, the Singapore online shopping market has grown from S$1.1 billion in 2010 and is estimated to reach S$4.4 billion this year. […]
Learning Tour Israel 2015: welcome to the Startup Nation!
As we co-organized the Learning Tour Israel 2015 with our friends at Challengy, we felt extremely excited to bring some of our clients to the Startup Nation, at one of its key moments, during the DLD Tel-Aviv festival, which gathered more than 4,000 attendees, from all around the world and representing various sectors: private companies, […]
China mobile stats for 2015 – Here comes the giant!
Here are a few useful digital statistics and trends from China, after we spent two days at the GMIC Beijing conference. The digital landscape is really amazing both by its sheer size – and there’s a lot of room for increase – and its specificity, which you can find more about in our other posts: […]
O2O: Why China leads the "Online to Offline" revolution
O2O has been one of the main buzzwords talked about during GMIC Beijing conference, the leading mobile event in China with 20,000 attendees and a platform for all the Chinese tech giants to announce their innovations. Some call it “our industry’s stupidest acronym” (Tech in Asia), other “the trillion dollar opportunity” (Techcrunch). If o2o as […]
The state of India startup ecosystem: here comes the growth (and 10,000 startups)
To kickstart the NASSCOM Product Conclave Conference in Bangalore, Rajat Tandon, Director at NASSCOM and Sunil Rao, Country Head-Startup Ecosystem at Google India, gave an amazing overview of the state of the India startup ecosystem. Their report, dubbed « NASSCOM 10000 Startups Report » or « Startup Landscape 2014 », shows the growth of India as the 4th largest […]
