Every sector is impacted by digitalisation. Many sectors are beginning to employ the use of AI. Check out this article on how the real estate sector is progressing in digitalisation and use of AI !
Author: LS H
Business Management Consultant | Executive Coach
“He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Amazing Amazon career
This is an amazing story of how an executive was willing to be humble, learn a new trade and progressed through the ranks to become the country head of Amazon Singapore. Congrats to him and what an example for PMETs!
Professional sculptors are losing their jobs to robots…
Every industry is experiencing disruption, including the sculpturing industry. The city where Michelangelo lived is seeing many sculptors employing the use of robot sculptors while they focus on the touching up work. Their role is to level up to control the robots. Will the economics work out for them? What’s your view?
Are workers really more creative and productive in the office?
There are different views as to whether workers are more productive working in the office or at home. Many people save lots of time in commuting when working from home. They get more time to sleep and with their families. But it may also mean more distractions. What’s your take on this?
Sales Manager opportunity (Infocomm Industry)
One of our clients is seeking Sales Managers who are familiar with the InfoComm industry. Do contact us if you or any of your contacts may be interested in this opportunity. The following is the job description:
Job Responsibilities
- Achieve and exceed sales targets.
- Develop s sales plan and strategy to achieve sales targets.
- Have a good understanding of the BI space and market overview.
- Generate new business and grow customer base via an existing network of industry contacts.
- Manage all aspects of the sales cycle to secure new customers, such as follow up on sales leads; canvassing and cold calls; product presentations; negotiation and deal closure.
- Understand, align and convey clearly business objectives of customers and business partners.
- Liaison between internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage business partners including Distributors/Re-Sellers/Systems Integrators.
Job Requirements
- Prior experience in IT Software Sales or Solution Selling.
- Independent, resourceful, self-motivated and have a strong desire for success.
- Strong sales instincts with strategic consultative skill and committed towards sales target achievement.
- Good team player.
- Passionate and take pride in work.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Able to lead and facilitate meetings with C-suite involvement.
Offers exciting company benefits annual increment, bonuses, incentives, employee cohesions allowances.
More firms set to cut office space…
With work-from-home becoming the norm and companies getting used to having employees operate from home, more companies are set to reduce their office space footprint. This will probably trigger a downward trend for commercial rents and a rising demand for shared office operators like Regus & Wework.
On the other hand, there are worries that office vacancies in New York will hamper recovery.
Here’s how you can be a better team player
We love team players. How can we be a better team player? Here are 4 tips: 1) Be a good listener 2) Do the hard work 3) Stop the blame game 4) Be accommodating and flexible. Check out this article…
Shalom Christian Media Goes Online
We congratulate Shalom Christian Media (SCM) for the successful launch of their Online Bookstore (www.shalomchristianmedia.com) . We are glad to be their implementation consultant in this project.
It was our honour to partner SCM in this undertaking, streamlining the end-to-end process – procurement, inventory management, last mile logistics, digital marketing, accounting – a transformation from brick & mortar to co-existence of the physical & virtual store. Do check out this digitalisation success!
Can Singapore survive a global minimum tax?
ManyGlobal companies site themselves in Singapore because of the tax advantages they have by operating here. But with the global minimum tax, there must now be better reasons why they would keep their headquarters here. Thankfully it is not difficult to find those reasons: safety, security, ease of doing business, efficiency of airport, sea port, family-friendly environment, clean & green, technologically advanced, etc . In fact it is more difficult to find reasons to leave this lovely country.
Omni-channel retailing – the way ahead
Rental & salaries are usually the top two cost items on retailers’ P&L. How can they manage these effectively in the face of the online shopping trend?
Some retailers (like Robinsons) have totally gone online. But is this the best thing to do since there are still customers who prefer to do physical shopping? There are others who have adopted an omni-channel approach – which I think may be the way to go. But it will require careful management of processes so that the experience of the shopper is not compromised.
Take inventory as an example. You need to maintain two separate sets of inventory, yet attempt to optimise it such that either channel can draw on the other. The online customer cannot experience a situation where his order was given to the customer who was at the store physically. Just how ready are retailers to embrace such operations? Check out this article.
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