Podcasts about in mind your business

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Ian Lim, field chief security officer, Asia Pacific, Palo Alto Networks about coping with the aftermath of a data breach with digital forensics experts. Digital forensics can help businesses better understand digital trails, also why there've been so many damaging data breaches recently, and how to mitigate those associated risks.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now that working from home has become the norm for many, it is more important than ever for organisations to re-vitalise their data security practices to fully adapt to these current circumstances. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Sriram Narayernan, Principal Consultant for Security at ThoughtWorks SEA about ramping up cybersecurity for the mobile workforce. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to a PwC survey, one of the largest studies of the global workforce, the pandemic has accelerated digital upskilling but key groups are being left out. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Martijn Schouten, Workforce Transformation Leader, PwC South East Asia Consulting on what this means for the future of work and how businesses and employees can prepare themselves for these shifts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can the banking industry develop its existing talent to meet the needs of the current era? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Jynn Goh, Executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates about developing innovative and inclusive leaders to drive future growth of banks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Olivier Guillaumond, global head of Innovation Labs and Fintech at ING about addressing gaps in decision intelligence in supply chain operations and finance.  ING Labs Singapore operates as an incubator focused on specific value spaces that best match the local expertise and vibrant ecosystems in Singapore, namely, Trade. Stemly will be the first venture to be spun out from ING Labs Singapore and bears testament to how ING Labs has successfully invested and nurtured fintech start-ups. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to James Cook, Director of Digital Security, Asia Pacific and Japan at  Entrust about the risky business of SMS OTPs. Earlier this year, the Singapore police noted a rise in scams involving OTPs, and victims here have recorded losses of up to S$15.3 million from malicious OTP requests. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can diversification help entrepreneurs manage investment risks, reduce swings in income, and achieve consistent returns? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Ng Lilian, Country Head of Business Banking  and Philip Kunz, Head of Global Private Banking for Southeast Asia at HSBC Private Banking about separating personal and business wealth and diversifying funding sources.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Michael Chen, CEO and founder of global HR Tech enterprise, BIPO about business expansion into Asia despite border restrictions and quarantine regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Dr. Sze Tiam Lin, Head, Innovation and Technology, Innovation Partner for Impact about tech roadmapping and scouting for SMEs.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to the winners of the National Youth Entrepreneurship Awards 2021, Gavriel Tan and John Lee, co-founders, Altimate Nutrition, Singapore's first company to turn insects into food for human consumption. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Raen Lim, Group Vice President of South Asia & Korea, Splunk on how businesses can ace their digitisation journey, and how the new observability tool would come in handy as companies continue to increase their IT spending. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to a new SAP Customer Experience study released recently, Asia Pacific’s digital pivot last year has in fact widened the gap between what consumers expect of brands, and what businesses actually deliver. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Peggy Renders, General Manager & Senior Vice President, SAP Customer Experience Asia Pacific Japan about how customer experience gaps hinder growth and recovery of businesses.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Jasmine Kan, Director of General Merchandise of ezbuy to find out how they’re delivering consumer satisfaction by leveraging in-house logistics to keep costs, quality and speed in-check. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While the confidence and adoption of AI is growing rapidly in Asia pacific, many businesses find it difficult to integrate the technology into their systems. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Lee Ming Kai, Head of Systems Engineering, APAC, Juniper Networks about the state of AI adoption in APAC businesses.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DBS recently reported strong traction among its SME clients for loans which reference the Singapore Overnight Rate Average. The bank has issued more than $450m in SORA-pegged loans as at end April 2021, just over six months after it launched the market’s first SORA-pegged business property loan. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Joyce Tee, Group Head, SME Banking at DBS to dind out how this is helping the entire SME sector here in Singapore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HSBC has launched their first multi currency digital wallet for corporates, and it is also available to SMEs as well. The launch is another step in HSBC’s commitment to building up our SME banking franchise in Singapore. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Ng Li Lian, Head of Business Banking & Winnie Yap, Head of Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC Singapore to find out more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Covid-19 has upended lives and businesses, and wealth management has gone through a paradigm shift. In fact, there have been significant changes in the way high-net-worth clients interact with their relationship managers. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Omar Shokur, Asia Chief Executive Officer and Singapore Branch Manager of Indosuez Wealth Management. to find out more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Data privacy is clearly an issue that cannot be handled with a black box approach as more organisations provide data-informed or AI-powered apps and services. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Qlik’s Chief Data Officer, Joe DosSantos about how businesses can keep up with data privacy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Charlie Baillie, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Ampverse about the Covid-19 pandemic and if it affected the fast growing e-sports sector at all. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Research from Forter, a leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, found that retailers stand to lose up to 75 times more revenue to false declines than they do to fraud. Described as New User Missed Opportunity (NUMO), this swell of new online shoppers has led to a corresponding increase in new shoppers being falsely declined. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Monica Acree, VP of Sales, APAC, Forter on how NUMO could be costing e-tailers millions in lost opportunities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April, which also marked the launch of the Singapore IP Strategy 2030. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Tyler Capson, Managing Director of EverEdge Global.about Singapore’s IP strategy. EverEdge Global are specialists in intangible assets and feel strongly  about their importance to a vibrant knowledge economy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To help businesses understand how digital products drive business success and improve customer retention, Amplitude, a San Francisco-based startup backed by GIC, will be launching the Amplitude Digital Optimization System on 27 April. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Julio Bermudez, Vice President of Amplitude in Asia Pacific and Latin America about transforming the way businesses manage and measure digital success. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What can be done to bring an innovative approach to enable trade among SMEs? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Samir Neji, founder & CEO, dltledgers about helping SMEs contribute to the bigger economy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can SMEs ensure their digital infrastructure remains strong and flexible enough to accommodate the return of employees while staying prepared for any changes as the situation continues to evolve worldwide? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Bidhan Roy, Managing Director, Head of Commercial & Small Business, Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China at Cisco about what the impact of return to work will have on SMEs.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Mike King, Deputy Managing Director SEA, IKEA about reinventing workspaces as more of us get to go back to the office in this new never normal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can industries manage their electricity portfolios in a cost-effective manner which also helps them to achieve sustainability goals in the long run? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Alan Jones, CEO and Founder of AECO Energy for his thoughts on Singapore’s maturing Open Energy Market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Tan Chee Wee, Executive Director, Advocacy & Actions, Singapore Business Federation about their recently launched MAP initiative to help businesses in the wholesale and retail sector. The initiative aims to provide guided assistance and better position businesses for post-pandemic recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The UOB SME Outlook 2021 Study found that two in five SMEs who had implemented digitalization initiatives last year experienced stronger revenue growth than non-adopters. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Lawrence Loh, Head of Group Business Banking at UOB to find out how digitalization efforts are paying off for SMEs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The outlook is promising for Singapore's economy and we continue to be one of the most competitive and pro-business economies globally. What is the Government’s vision for the SME sector which hires 70% of the workforce and powers half our economy? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Dilys Boey,  Assistant Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Singapore for more insights. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Gibu Mathew, Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific at Zoho Corporation about the use of chatbots to engage with customers more effectively, beyond customer support. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director of APAC at Darktrace about the latest Critical Information Infrastructure Supply Chain Programme announced during the Committee of Supply Debate 2021 recently. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Bryan Zhao, founder of Harvesting Accounting on how he’s taking a holistic view on this year’s Budget support for SMEs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Jun Ting, CEO and Co-founder of AImazing  to find out how they're helping SME retailers level with the tide of digital transformation. AImazing has developed a simple plug-and-play solution to help the hard-hit retail and F&B sectors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to we speak to Thomas Po, Co-founder, Zairyo who managed, during circuit breaker, to increase sales and revenue of his Japanese supermarket by 400%. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 2019 Internet Report, created by growth equity firm Asia Partners, made a bold prediction that Southeast Asia is entering a golden age, with the rise of internet companies having a big part to play in that. Since Covid-19, Asia Partners has released the latest update to its report, which takes stock of the impact of the pandemic. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Nick Nash, Managing Partner and co-founder Asia Partners and YPO member to find out more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Athena Lee, CEO & Co-Founder of ZumVet, a remote veterinary telemedicine services, about transforming the region’s veterinary healthcare space. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Dev Dhiman, Managing Director of Asia Pacific at GBG to discuss the emergence of financial crime 4.0 and how their center can safeguard financial institutes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Andy Ng, Vice President, Managing Director for Asia South and Pacific region, Veritas Technologies about his insights on the growing data gap.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Lim Ee Ling from 500 Startups about the future of working and learning in Singapore and how Budget 2021 will continue to help support businesses and workers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Sriram Narayernan, Principal Consultant for Security at Thoughtworks SEA on how organizations can take ownership of protecting consumers’ data and keep it secure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Ng Li Lian, Head of Business Banking at HSBC Singapore about Singapore SMEs anticipating longer path to recovery. HSBC's latest Navigator survey revealed that two-thirds of SMEs are adapting to the new environment brought on by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Ben Thompson, Chief Executive Officer and founder of people management platform Employment Hero about how successful digital transformation of any workplace needs to be driven by its people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blockchain continues to captivate Singapore’s institutional and private sector players. The Singapore Blockchain Ecosystem Report 2020 in fact found that 80 percent of local businesses expressed optimism for the tech’s growth and maturity. So, is blockchain finally more than a buzzword for Singapore’s business ecosystem? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Gowthaman Ragothaman, CEO of Aqilliz to find out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Stephen Braim, VP, Governmental & Regulatory Affairs, IBM about the importance of Singapore continuing to be part of the conversation about data trade flows in the digital economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Luke Tucker, Senior Director of the Global Hacker Community at HackerOne on how Artificial Intelligence is not the panacea for all cybersecurity woes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Vincent Goh, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at CyberArk about what businesses can do to fill the talent gap in the cybersecurity space and how they can equip fresh graduates with the skills they need in this fast-paced industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singapore-based Jenfi is a financial technology company which provides revenue-based financing to rapidly growing businesses in Asia. In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Jeffrey Liu, founder and CEO of Jenfi about their revenue-based financing model: Growth Capital as a Service. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks Richard Farrell from Eaton and Matthew Ootsveen from Pure Storage about to balancing digitalisation and sustainable growth for data centres. Data centres are notorious energy guzzlers, estimated to account for 12% of the country’s total energy consumption. So what would encourage the emergence of a greener pathway to digitalisation? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Essential industries such as education, healthcare and supply chains are innovating because of the global pandemic. Cisco and Jungle Ventures have partnered to shine the spotlight on these industries and the innovation triggered through these challenging times. For more insights, we speak to In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Naveen Menon, President, Cisco ASEAN about the emerging disruptors in education, healthcare and logistics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this competitive climate, digitization has become a must for SMEs, but cost has always been a challenge. So what needs to change with regard to small business financing and using technology? In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim spoke to Vihang Patel, Co-Founder and CEO, Finaxar and Kunal Chatterjee, Visa Country Manager for Singapore & Brunei about their collaboration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.