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How You Can Rock a Gig Economy

Walter — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:27:20 +0000

With the global economy stuttering, choice jobs are scarce. However, freelance gigs have grown exponentially. What can you do to ride this wave?

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Lessons from Sports in Social Media

Walter — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:10:00 +0000

All eyes will be on Neymar tonight (courtesy of Happy Holidays 2014) Tonight (or tomorrow afternoon), soccer fans around the world will be eagerly catching two monumental World Cup 2014 quarter final matches: France vs Germany and Brazil vs Colombia. While many would catch it on TV, I bet that their fingers will be actively […]

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Can Small Really Become The New Big?

Walter — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:11:00 +0000

Courtesy of Chorus + Echo I just read an interesting HBR blog post by Hemant Taneja on The Economies of Unscale. In the post, Taneja claimed that the advent of global manufacturing, trade, and the Internet have created a new playing field for small businesses. Quoting from the post: : “A series of breakthrough technologies […]

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Insights on the Collaborative Economy

Walter — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:27:00 +0000

Courtesy of The Altimeter Group Imagine if your customers stopped buying your products and services. Instead, they choose to rent, loan or hire, trade products and services with each other, or choose to go to the “crowd” for their needs. According to Jeremiah Owyang and his colleagues at The Altimeter Group, such a future may […]

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What Chinese Want: Book Review

Walter — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:27:00 +0000

With a population of 1.3 billion sprawled over a gargantuan 9.6 million sq km, the People’s Republic of China is widely known as the factory of the world. The middle kingdom’s dominance of global economic and socio-political affairs is impressive, with many regarding them as the “factory of the world”. Its ability to mobilise epic […]

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