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CEO of Kakitangan.com on Rethinking People Management in the Digital Era

by Thomas Cheah|19 May 201821 April 2020|Business Innovation, Digital Transformation

For many years, Effon Khoo, the CEO of Kakitangan.com, has been empowering organizations to take advantage of technology in managing people and creating an efficient work environment. He recently joined our Hard Talk session at SME Innovation Stories #3 (hosted...

Providing High Quality Customer Service through Integrated Communication Strategy: An interview with the CEO of Soft Solvers Solutions

by Thomas Cheah|12 April 201821 April 2020|Business Innovation, Digital Transformation

When it comes to providing superior customer service, today’s SMEs are facing the challenges of coping with the rise of newer customer support channels such as social media, email, website, instant messaging, and phone. Soft Solvers Solutions have been promoting...

5 ways how non-tech companies can leverage on start-ups for innovation, growth, and talent

by Thomas Cheah|02 January 201410 April 2019|Business Innovation, Business Start Up

This article is specifically for business owners of non-tech companies. Start-ups are commonly perceived as young companies that build and sell new gadgets and other cool technological products, where they are often seen as operating in its own world (tech...

Contact Management vs. Relationship Management

by Thomas Cheah|27 January 201310 April 2019|Business Innovation

“I hate managing contacts, but I absolutely love meeting new people and establishing relationships.” That’s the phrase that hit me to write this when I come across this article Evernote Contact Manager written by Adam Boettiger. He articulated in a...

Choosing eCommerce platform for your online store

by Thomas Cheah|31 December 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation, Software Technology

Happy 2013 everyone! This is my first article for the new year. If one of your goals for the new year is to build an online presence for your business, this is an article might come at the right timing....

How to embrace innovation

by Thomas Cheah|20 November 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation

This is a continuation of my previous article Why We Don’t Innovate. This was excerpted and summarized from the original article Why You’re Blind To Innovation, where the author shared his experience after 25 years of working with the world’s...

This is an interesting article excerpted and summarized from Why You’re Blind To Innovation, “Top people at leading companies often fail to respond to new innovation even as it threatens their very existence. There’s the U.S. auto industry’s lack of response to the onslaught of Japanese cars in the ’80s, or IBMs failure to shift from mainframes to PCs, an oversight that nearly sent them into bankruptcy in the late ’90s.” We resist innovation because it appears to be less profitable.

Why we don’t innovate

by Thomas Cheah|20 November 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation

This is an interesting article excerpted and summarized from Why You’re Blind To Innovation, “Top people at leading companies often fail to respond to new innovation even as it threatens their very existence. There’s the U.S. auto industry’s lack of...

How technology enables business model innovation

by Thomas Cheah|21 August 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation

I am a strong advocate of using technology (IT to be specific) as an enabler to business model innovation. It’s important to understand that innovation is not limited to technological innovations by high-tech companies, but also includes marketing innovation, management...

利用 iPad 電子書，行銷商品無國界

by Thomas Cheah|28 April 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation, Software Technology

iBooks Author 製作的電子書，除了有豐富的動畫，影片，照片文字等素材可以在 iPad 電子書平台展現。2012年4月26日，跟台灣的網絡行銷及故事行銷大師劉奶爸一起合作開課，傳授利用電子書的網絡行銷技巧與策略。 2012年1月20日，Apple 公司發表了免費的電子書製作軟體 iBooks Author 嗎？只要學會這套軟體，您或您公司的產品就能編輯成冊，行銷到全世界囉！電子書的市場在這幾年被廣泛的討論，尤其是網路書店的平均業績早已超越實體書店的情形下，接踵而來的改革正要興起！環保意識抬頭，紙本出版品面臨許多不利的威脅，加上實體通路的開拓對原創作者來說更是困難重重，許多作者或專家們，想好好的寫一本自己的著作，卻又不願意被出版社挑三撿四又重重剝屑，於是開始興起了自己出版電子書的念頭！尤其在 iPad 2 上市之後，iBooks 的電子出版品不但超越了傳統的紙本書籍，也超越了像 PDF 這類電子書單調的「紙本電子化」書籍。更棒的是，電子書行銷術在網路行銷佔有非常大的比重，學會利用電子書來行銷您公司的產品，打響知名度，結合智慧手機 APP，讓您的行銷手法更上一層樓。

4 simple tips when considering technology for business model innovation

by Thomas Cheah|25 February 201210 April 2019|Business Innovation

Technology can play a key role in business model innovation, though most people still find it a black art when comes to the proper process of using technology to innovate their business model. Some people use whatever that their peers...