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One of P&G Malaysia’s secret in retaining talent is by snapping up bright students before they graduate and plans vigorously their career pipeline within the organisation. The average age of the company in Malaysia stands at 28 years old. Now, that’s a lot of young people in the company. The CEO of P&G Malaysia, Brunei & Singapore, Ong Yuh Hwang shares how the corporate gia...

What does HRDF have in store to make sure Malaysia’s workforce is ready for the Industrial revolution 4.0? Dato CM Vignaesvaran, CEO at HRDF lays out the plans for 2017. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

90% of companies worldwide clearly state that leadership pipeline is on top of the list. However, not all of them practice it. If organisations do not invest in developing a leadership, they will find themselves having to deal with a leadership crisis within 2 years. Or less, if a bus hits the CEO. Anthony Devadoss from BTI Consultants shares with us some measures to be taken to address this crisi...

Majority of Malaysian industries are still at Industry 2.0. We have a lot of catching up to do as emerging economies like Myanmar and Vietnam have leapfrogged to the forefront of smart factories. ST Rubaneswaran, CEO of Knowledgecom is confident that Malaysian companies are able to achieve Industry 4.0 with Centre of Excellence in Technology (CoET) which offers programs from Kedah to Sabah. See om...

“If you’re good with people, you should be in HR.” How many times have we heard that whenever a job is vacant in the HR department? Today we have folks from the Australian Human Resource Institute as well as the CEO of HRDF to dispel the myths of everyone can be a HR practitioner. We list down a set of skills and behaviors that is required to do the job right. See omnystudio.com/...

What is PSMB Act? Dato’ CM Vignaesvaran Jeyandran is the CEO of HRDF is back to keep us up to date with the latest changes to the PSMB Act and the mandates imposed to all employers. So listen in to get first dibs on how the expansion of the PSMB Act will affect your business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Global Entrepreneurship Community or GE Community is a two-day event right here in KL from 8th to 9th December. This year's theme is "Reinmagine the Future of Entrepreneurs". This event aims toconnect a community of thousands of experts and like-minded entrepreneurs under one roof. Freda Liu speaks to  Ashran Dato' Gazi, CEO of MaGIC and Dash Dhaksinamoorthy on the what you can look forward t...

Marketers such as Unilever, GE and Ford are recognised for maintaining relationships of over 70 years with their agencies. However, are these long-lasting relationships still relevant in the ever-changing landscape? 4As and R3 Worldwide recently launched a free guidebook called “Finding an Agency” to share best practices to maintain client-agency relationship. See omnystudio.com/listen...

Insider is a marketing platform that enables marketers to leverage personalization, predictive segmentation and real-time technologies to boost loyalty and digital growth. In September, Insider secured a USD2.2 million Series A round of financing. Serhat Soyuerel, co-founder of Insider was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in Turkey. He has selected Malaysia as the regional HQ for Insider. We f...

Facebook is the theme for this month’s Digital Marketing Updates. Sandy Lim and Jan Wong sits in with us to give us the latest news in the digital marketing-sphere covering Facebook Marketplace, Food Ordering & Ticketing, Shop Section and Messenger Bot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hailing from East Malaysia, Borneo Art Forms Pioneer, Alena Murang, has learnt the traditional art forms of the Penan, Kelabit, and Kenyah people since the age of six, including singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, weaving, and design. Alena is also one of the first and few women to perform and teach a traditional lute instrument - the sape’. She strives to communicate her perspect...

Every day we produce data; from searches on Google, likes on Facebook or photo uploads to Instagram. This flood of information is dramatically changing the way we interact with each other and with the world. Data is an opportunity and a powerful took that can be used to resolve problems and to raise questions. But it also has its limitations. Here with to talk about ‘What Has Your Data Done...

Daniel Pans, VP at Malaysia Belgium Luxembourg Business Council shares the impact of harmonised food regulatory and trade opportunities with ASEAN neighbours and the EU. This is in conjunction of the upcoming EU-ASEAN Forum on Food Safety which will be held later this month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We know that the watch industry is being disrupted when watchmaker Fossil acquired MisFit, a fitness tech company, Misfit for USD260 million. We speak to Olivier Trolle, VP of MisFit who is now managing the integration of Fossil and MisFit, on how big companies deal with the age of disruption and uncertainties. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SEHATI is an outreach programme that tours across 11 states in Malaysia to introduce Social Entrepreneurship to various communities in the country. The last leg of the tour, SEHATI Grand Finale will be held on the 12th November. Arif Rahman, Senior Program Executive shares insights he learnt during the tour and also a sneak preview into what it’s like to work for MaGIC Social Entrepreneurshi...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Ryan bank was responsible in coordinating social media and online communication in managing The Deepwater Horizon crisis. Ryan will share the new communication methods he introduced during the crisis between agencies to enable the company to speak with one voice. See omny...

The Government had declared that 2017 will be the Startup & SME Promotion Year. With the recent announcement of Budget 2017, Yap Shin Siang, CEO of YYC shares the impact of the budget to SMEs and how they can leverage on it the RM6.7 billion that is allocated to develop SMEs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HRDF Conference and Exhibition will be held on the 6th and 7th December. This conference was conceptualised based on global human capital trends with the theme: Orchestrating Success: Leading, Engaging, Reinventing. We speak to Wan Yon Shahima, COO at HRDF and CB Soon, VP at Sensata Technologies on Leading Employee Excellence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Ooi and CJ See founded a BAFTA-nominated 2D animation studio, Inspidea. They are the largest animation studio in Malaysia with over 260 employees. The Endeavor entrepreneurs shares their view on the animation industry and how they developed creative talents in Malaysia to be a world-class animators. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrepreneurs are usually fired by the passion of an idea, which then they relentlessly work day and night to execute them. With all the fire fighting, they often put legal issues right at the bottom of their list. This month we will be listing down common legal issues that entrepreneurs should take note before it gets too late to realise whatever they are doing is not legally viable. This episode...

How do organisations get the best out of their HR functions in terms of improving process, outcomes for their businesses? EY’s Asia Pacific People Advisory Services Leader, Darren Gibson has over 25 years of experience working in multinational matrix corporations and he will share what are some of the management tools that managers can use to monitor their workforce. See omnystudio.com/liste...

Over 6300 people die each day from work-related accidents or diseases - that’s nearly 2.3million every year. In Malaysia alone, as of july 2016, we had 54 cases of death in the construction sector while over 1300 injuries in the manufacturing sector, according to Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH). Today’s topic is most relevant to the manufacturing sector as...

Entrepreneurs are usually fired by the passion of an idea, which then they relentlessly work day and night to execute them. With all the fire fighting, they often put legal issues right at the bottom of their list. This month we will be listing down common legal issues that entrepreneurs should take note before it gets too late to realise whatever they are doing is not legally viable. This episode...

Entrepreneurs are usually fired by the passion of an idea, which then they relentlessly work day and night to execute them. With all the fire fighting, they often put legal issues right at the bottom of their list. This month we will be listing down common legal issues that entrepreneurs should take note before it gets too late to realise whatever they are doing is not legally viable. This episode...

The tourism industry still continue to enjoy some growth despite recent events of terrorist attacks and natural disasters, according to the Global Business Travel Association. However, a recent study by GBTA has also stated that 28% of the business travellers said that their company may not have a proper risk management plan to tackle such unexpected events. What should companies do to have a robu...