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This week Matt and Rich take another look at the weirder side of science and technology. Elon Musk’s Neuralink evokes The Force, enabling a quadriplegic man to play computer chess through thought alone, illustrating the technology’s potential for enhancing human interaction in digital environments.

Illusory patten recognition could hold the key to why some people are more receptable to conspiracy theories. An overdeveloped evolutionary response that causes some people to connect dots where none exist, making it easier for them to welcome false narratives. In keeping with the psychological tone of much of the episode, new findings are starting to challenge our understanding of female psychopathy and correcting historical male biases in the research.

No weird science episode is complete without a worm and this week’s is an ancient, nightmare-inducing and thankfully extinct worm species. A cryovolcanic comet brings devilish allure, while new research expands our understanding of PMO, a neurological condition that distorts visual perception and makes faces appear demonic.

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2024 - We are almost at the end of the first quarter of the year! Now is a suitable time to reevaluate how small and medium-sized businesses are “feeling” about the economy.

Malaysian SMEs enter 2024 with a mix of optimism and caution. A recent report by Employment Hero found that an impressive 79% of SMEs are confident about their own growth prospects, despite concerns about rising costs and inflation. This sentiment reflects a sense of resilience after challenging years, with many businesses looking forward to new opportunities.

To gain a deeper understanding of these trends, this episode of Enterprise Explores delves into the findings of the 2024 SME Sentiments Report by Employment Hero with Kevin Fitzgerald, the Managing Director for Asia at Employment Hero.

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In this episode, we take a look at the future of human insights and how generative AI will impact the state of business insights, whether it's by humans or AI with Jacquie Matthews, Global CEO at Ipsos UU (Understanding Unlimited).

Along the course of the conversation, Jacquie helped us get a better view on how human intelligence is going to be impacted by artificial intelligence or should it go hand in hand with one another to ensure the future of business insights is in safe hands.

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The term “Burnout” was coined in the 1970s to describe the consequences of severe stress and high ideals in “helping” professions like doctors and nurses, who often sacrifice themselves for others and would end up exhausted, listless, and unable to cope. Today though, almost everyone claims they’re burned-out. We discuss this dark side of self-sacrifice at work, its causes and consequences, as well as what we can all do to prevent burnout in 2023.

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Looking east for coaching programmes that better suits our Malaysian work culture 

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Business rarely moves in a constant ascending trajectory at 45 degrees or better without its dips. But, of course, the important thing is the correction: that after the dip, it moves up again, and hopefully to a position higher than before the downturn.

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Double-Degree Programmes (Mechatronics, Automotive and Business Engineering) at UM Pahang to produce "German" Engineers for industries in Malaysia. 

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Looking at consumer behavior of women-shoppers who fill their wardrobes with online purchases. The implications to online retailers, brick-and-mortar ones and to their marketing arms.

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Innovate to hire the ones with the right attitude and fit. CIMB places its trainees with NGO-partners to give these trainees opportunities to discover their heart’s interest.

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SMEs need to innovate and grow  yet access to information and technology isn’t always readily available.  Changing the terrain to give SMEs a leg up.

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Weaving together connections for brilliant ideas and profitable innovation. 

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The challenges countries face are now often more larger and more complex than governments can handle. Social enterprises are breaking the status quo as they move in to find solutions to social issues, and in the process they compel conventional businesses to reassess their raison d'etre.

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A business around an app? Is this stretching what it means to ‘do business’? Joon Chan, Managing Director & Entrepreneur-in-residence of Rocket Internet and Sidney Ng, Marketing Director from Food Panda share their experiences and insights.

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Organizations need to be agile and to do that it has learn quickly, but has to put in systems and structures to support this agility to learn. Sureish Nathan, VP Asia-Pacific of Centre for Creative Leadership maps out how.

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In this Year in Review Special on Resource Centre, Jostein Aksnes from Bangkok-based Seven Peaks talks to us about navigating Asia’s booming digital economy, as well as digital trends we can expect to see in business in 2023.

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How successful brands evolve and market themselves successfully over time to their target audience. Taylor’s education which has been around nearly six decades adapts its marketing as its target market changes.

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Training and feeding graduates into the fast growing hospitality industry

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Following on the heels of an interview with Ravindran Navaratnam, the VP of TiE (Technology, Innovation & Enterprise), the process of taking ideas from the laboratory to the market. We follow the path that Dr Yeong from UTM takes to realize his ideas into products for the marketplace.

To follow up from the previous interview with Puvanesan Subenthiran from TiE dated 28 March 2012 - here

And with Ravindran Navaratnam, Vice-President of TiE dated 28 March 2013 - here 

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Bringing change to PKNS, bringing to it a new work culture so that its employees are better engaged and better civil servants.

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Music calms a savage breast; music is the food of love. Colin Cox, master trainer of Neuro Semantics, points out that music can improve organizational communication, up performance and stimulate creativity in companies.

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Findings from a Dale Carnegie Survey on Employee Engagement which can be translated into concrete HR initiatives. Triana Newton walks us through the survey findings and implications.

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Because you may not be aware of it, your company company could inadvertently abet money laundering. Aaron Lau of AITLAU walks us through some legislations where ignorance of the related laws may not be a legal excuse. A reason maybe, but not an excuse to be the accidental money-launderer.

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Lingham; a Malaysian brand with cross-cultural origins

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The arts is often perceived as the corporate world’s stepchild with outstretched hand holding a tin cup begging for crumbs. Yet it is the arts that engender the environment that enables businesses to attract talent, hold conferences attract tourists filling the country’s coffers. Benefits talked about but not credited.

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A graduate entrepreneur shares the benefits of some hand-holding and coaching from Cradle.

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According to a global study by Adobe, more than 165 million new creators joined the Creator Economy in the last two years. In this Year in Review Special on Resource Centre, Simon Dale from Adobe Southeast Asia & Korea talks to us about who these new creators are, what they do, as well as the feasibility of content creation-related businesses in the years to come.

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 Bringing together those with a social conscience, a technology bent and a business plan to solve social problems. Lim Soon Heng spoke with Andrew Tan, Innovation Director and Izwan Ismail, UX Practice Lead, VLT and founder of UX Malaysia.

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Using social technologies to improve collaboration and innovation within an enterprise ecosystem, including suppliers, partners, employees and customers. We spoke to Prof Nick Wreden from Perdana School of Science, Technology & Innovation Policy UTM.

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Corporations said they want to be paperless, then strived for less paper only to discover that there is indeed an increase. The entire printing industry is slated to grow by about 2% in 2013 when theoretically it should be a shrinking industry. So what can your company do?

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Dipping into the Zappos well to find what quenches customers to make them cheery and celebratory to the point of parting with their cash to make the e-commerce site one of the world's largest. Jonathan Wolske, the Culture Evangelist within the organization, spreads the gospel of creating superior customer care and service

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As citizens become better educated and consumers more conscious of social issues, they will demand that enterprises be more responsible. Whitney Keyes points how social enterprises can be sustainable and how they can partner up with traditional businesses.

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In collaborating and forming an accelerator here in Kuala Lumpur, BootstrapLabs and MAD aim to take local entrepreneurs onto the world’s stage. In the process assist the the technopreneur-culture in the country evolve. Silicon-Valley based seed and venture capital funder BootstrapLabs wants to replicate its successes like Prezi.com from Budapest.

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When hospitals and doctors can’t promote themselves, can’t advertise or market, how will the public know the available services and from whom?

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What roles do awards play in acknowledging successful entrepreneurs and how do entrepreneurs gain winning these awards.

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What do the Chinese want and what can the world and Malaysia offer. Dr. Marcus Lee is the MD and China Chief Economist of Hampton Court Investment Bank.

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Johnson & Johnson Malaysia automates and reduces cycle time, non-conformance and improves batch consistency and quality and record retention of each produced batch.

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2022 has been a tumultuous year coming out from the height of the pandemic, with businesses and the workforce transitioning to a normal that was unlike the normal we remembered. In this Year-in-Review special on Resource Centre, Lee Yun Han from Deloitte shares some key 2022 highlights around human capital in Malaysia, including how we coped with FWA, cost of living and minimum wage - as well as what HR leaders need to focus on in 2023.

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Azka Capital, a private equity advisory firm focused on halal industry initiatives, was recently launched by Tun Abdullah Badawi during the recent World Halal Forum. This company will be responsible for managing a USD500 million fund for developments in the global halal sector. 

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Taf’eel Design Studio has been certified a Worldblu member. This is a global network of organizations committed to practicing freedom and democracy in the workplace. Can enterprises be democratic or is this another marketing ploy to become employer of choice?

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Entrepreneur Ooi Kah Hin takes a gamble with brands known overseas but not locally, and then makes a business with them. He tells his story and the risks he took and the dividends.

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In Resource Centre, we are covering the perspectives of different political party in marketing themselves. This time, Tony Pua from DAP, a member of Parliament for Petaling Jaya Utara talks about the perceived differences of the three parties in Pakatan Rakyat and constructing a uniform message that underlies the similarities of the different parties.  

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While large corporations may have the economies of scale to offer attractive fringe benefits, SMEs may be hampered. Mellissa Lee, the founder-MD of PerkPool offers an alternative.

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Educationally transformational but will it be equally economically transformational?

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Malaysia has at best a loose apprenticeship programme. But under a collaboration between the Malaysian-German business communities, things are being put into place to birth a formalized apprenticeship with examinations and certification.

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Futurist, Daniel Burrus, who claims he made correct predictions the last 25 years, shares how to anticipate the future. He recently authored the book, Flash Foresight, which points out seven foresight triggers. Listen to find out what these triggers are.

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The young entrepreneurs not only started an eco-friendly social enterprise but in the process used social network to create an online and on-ground community with Nadzirah Hashim, founder of Friendly Fashion.

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A whole (social?) enterprise set up to share with other enterprises how to incorporate happiness into their core values. idealistic? Realistic? If the Happiness bus is making its run, can happiness be far behind?

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It all started with The Great Resignation. Then came Quiet-Quitting. And now, Moonlighting. In this Year-in-Review special on Resource Centre, Organisational Psychologist & CEO of O-Psych Hetal Doshi joins us to discuss the ebbs and flows the workforce experienced in 2022, and what to expect in 2023. 

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Intellectual property isn’t just about patents and rights over designs of machines and products. Sherena Razaly the owner of Enak KL--an eatery--and Geetha Kandiah tell about protecting the branding and trademarks associated with a food destination.

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Alex Malley, the man behind the Naked CEO, discusses how to grow aculture of innovation when the dominant public culture is authoritarian, directive, status-conscious and censorious. Lip-service is paid to Innovation but chains to education. And little-to-nothing much is done to facilitate dialogue, free flow of information and reasoned debate of ideas.

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