Enterprise Explores

The Titanic disaster may have happened 106 years ago, but businesses are still learning a thing or two from the infamous event. One of the biggest mistakes came from a marketing standpoint, particularly brash campaigns that created a sense of complacency during the monumental voyage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s mobile prehistory at this point, but there was once a time when the ultimate smartphone you could get was a BlackBerry. Then came the iPhone, and the Android. And Blackberry? They just couldn’t keep up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apparently working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There was a time not too long ago when playing video games for a living was a pipe dream. Now, some players are supporting their entire families from in and students are considering it as a tangible career goal -- and some schools have decided to help them with that goal, in the US.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Entrepreneurship Framework (NEF), which the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development began developing in late 2018, is expected to be launched by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in July, says SME Corporation Malaysia (SME Corp).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The reputation economy is making us a little more careful in everything we say, how we say it, and what we do because we have to evaluate each other -- it has created equal power on both sides.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Social media and review aggregators like TripAdvisor play a major role in the popularity of local tourist destinations. With that in mind, the Malaysian tourism board is seeking travel advice from TripAdvisor on how to enhance the appeal of certain destinations in the country to up our tourism game. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fake news. Disinformation. Echo chambers. Biases. These issues have amplified in mainstream media over the last three years, which leads analysts to believe that in the near future, our news sources won’t come from giant conglomerates, but rather from smaller, more personalized, sources of our choosing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The role of the “influencer” or KOL has changed over the years, but their appeal to the (mostly) younger generation cannot be ignored. H&M has leveraged on this appeal by launching its own influencer-style shopping platform called Itsapark in an attempt to replicate the kinds of pictures people secretly envy on Instagram.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a company decides to diversify their business, it’s a toss-up as to how successful they will be. Amazon found success in selling more than just books, but Apple has struggled to innovate further in recent years, culminating in the cancellation of the AirPower charging bed and a seeming lack of care for their main product line, computers. So does diversification improve or dilute your core values?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.