The importance of innovation cannot be over emphasised in today’s world. Entrepreneurship is all about innovation. But how can we harness it correctly in what we do?
Nurturing tomorrow's businesses
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Social Business: a sustainable way to do good
It is possible to do good in a sustainable way without resorting to charity. Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has started up at least two dozen Social Businesses to help his people in Bangladesh.
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Eastern Values, Western Methodologies
We believe in the integration of eastern values with western management techniques to create profitable businesses in a sustainable world – one with a Soul, for the Common Good.
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Our Experience
We have been involved in a lot of things, technologies and markets. We have managed groups across multiple continents, developed board-level strategies for multi-national corporations and led teams in the smallest organisations.
Introduction to Alphatech
We work with entrepreneurs, start-ups and corporations to build new business, refine their strategy and develop executable plans.
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Talking Points
Recent gravity defying valuations of social network companies like Facebook and Twitter have raised some eyebrows. Are internet companies making a comeback? Or just hot air?
Be nimble, be focused, be excellent at what you do. Those are the characteristics of the Mittelstand companies. They are very specialised, small and do what they do so well that they are sometimes the only option available.
Electric Cars today are mostly coal-powered
It isn’t immediately obvious that electric cars today are mostly coal-powered. Read more to find out why this is meant to jolt your thinking patterns.
Doing Good
We believe that what we do must be socially responsible, support sustainable practices, and benefit the Common Good.
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How We Can Do Good
How Social Business create Change
Getting involved in Grameen Danone also affected how Danone employees and shareholders see the world. Read how helping malnourished children in Bangladesh changed their perspective.
Social Change and the Impact of Technology
Social change can be effected by many kinds of technologies, high-tech or otherwise, and be used in many forms. How the technology is applied makes the difference.
Meet Jack Sim, Social Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
The founder of the World Toilet Organization, Jack Sim, presents at GCL@NUS his perspective about what it means to be a social entrepreneur.
Lessons in Marketing to the Silver Generation
As people live longer, demand for products and services for ‘seniors’ dramatically increases. Lessons can be learned from Japan in how they market to the ‘silver generation’.
Doing Well
Achieving all the 3P's (people, planet, profit) together requires good business skills - only then can we do good well.
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How We Can Do Well in Business
Even before we have a business plan, we have to have a plan to do business. We list five areas to think about before starting your own business.
How to assess a business’ viability, particularly that of a start-up? How do you know if a business proposal is viable? Is it market size? Or what IP it owns? It is much simpler than that.
Learn about product positioning and how to create your marketing message in this briefing. A walk along the subway can be very instructive.
What business model do VCs use?
Most start-ups look to venture capitalists for funding to get started. But how do VCs make their money?
