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10 tips to ensure your business' operational continuity

In today’s highly dynamic global marketplace, planning and preparedness are the best defenses against emergency situations. It is important to have a detailed plan in place outlining the actions needed to maintain business operations in times of emergencies. Failure to plan ahead may result in lost revenue, lower productivity and customer dissatisfaction, as well as damage to the company’s brand reputation. While, in some cases, certain factors are external and beyond control, there are still ways to prepare and cope with unforeseeable situations, thus mitigating significant losses for the company. Here are the following ten tips for businesses and governments that can help ensure operational continuity.

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10 tips to ensure your business' operational continuity

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Is your office chair killing you Singapore?

Have you ever thought that the thing that you spend most of your life with could actually be your enemy not your best friend? I’m talking about your office chair not your pet.

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10 leadership lessons from the world’s top visionaries

What makes a great leader? Here are 10 powerful philosophies from the most admired business leaders in the history of the world.

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Why you must measure customer satisfaction

A frequent mistake made by many Singapore organizations has been to focus continuous improvement effort on what managers or employees assume is important to customers.

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The changing face of beauty in Asia

Singapore is ranked as one of the world’s top destinations for plastic surgery. The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Singapore’s Health Infrastructure 3rd out of 55 countries.

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Neil Humphreys – a Singaporean brand made in Britain

Neil Humphreys is a cultural phenomenon. He is a British expat who has made a success of living in Singapore and created a rogue expat brand for himself. He is the exception to the rule and Singapore and people who read his books are better off as a result of it.

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Career advice article: Should I study for an MBA?

AS Singapore progresses through the 21st century, new and exciting technological advances are continuing to occur at an ever-increasing rate, and global commerce is fast becoming the standard for today's marketplace.

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You are what you wear

Singapore is Asia’s leading business hub. However, when it comes to business dressing, many will agree that we are not leading in the region.

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What do Apple, Google and Disney have in common?

The mobile computing industry is the convergence and consolidation of PC and mobile devices, software and apps, media and content.

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Planning the success of your consumer mobile services

When building a consumer mobile service, the initial focus is on working toward a successful launch, meeting deadlines and ensuring the system works properly for the “grand opening,” the press release, the ribbon cutting and photo opportunities.

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Managing a bigger workload in fewer hours

Asia’s banking and finance sector is feeling the pressure from global economic turmoil, with redundancies, weak trading volumes and stiff industry competition shaking employee confidence. To maintain balance sheets and achieve growth targets, financial institutions are putting pressure on leaner workforces to produce more results.

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Social Media within marketing and sales plans for 2013

In organizations around the world discussions and meetings are now ongoing in regards to their respective income and cost budgets for 2013, an integral part of 2013 planning are the marketing and sales plans and the expected ROI from the various activities.

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Housing oversupply in Singapore

With the US and European economies still adjusting to the recent drop in domestic property values, experts are already wondering if a similar scenario is due to hit Singapore in the next couple years.

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7 social media lessons from the Amy Cheong saga

With immediate effect, Ms Amy Cheong, the former Assistant Director of NTUC membership division, was fired from her job, for her hateful and disrespectful Facebook posts with regards to Malay void deck weddings.

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Is business copying bad?

“Good artists copy, great artists steal” – Pablo Picasso.

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What businesses can learn from Gangnam Style

The other day, I was preparing a video on Gangnam Style during my undergraduate class on strategic management so as to discuss its lessons for business. Even while I was testing the video, with just one “nanosecond” of the starting music, many of the students immediately yelled with much glee - “Gangnam Style!”

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