Modern travellers expect a seamless journey, from destination research to hotel booking, flight confirmation, up until when they reach their homes. However, the hospitality industry has been slow in adopting new technologies.

Larger companies have the benefit of a larger workforce but in contrast, small business managers likely feel more pressure to get the most out of every person they hire to fill voids faster. 

From cloud computing and robotic process automation to analytics, AI, and machine learning,  a new class of digital disruptors is transforming the role of finance.

Times of change present many challenges throughout organisations — especially for front-line managers, who need to implement change through their people and do more with less.

Operational cost cutting has always been a retailers’ favourite tool to boost their bottom line. It is even more crucial for Walmart as the giant’s key competitive edge is price.

You hire a foreign manager, who has the right skills and experience. However the manager doesn’t perform well or meet your expectations. The question here is do you attempt to work out the problem with the new manager or do you fire them?

Robert Haft, an American HR consulting firm, has conducted a survey on 150 Singaporean CFOs to collect the results and the accuracy of their hiring decisions.

Through various ups and downs, Toys-R-Us declared bankruptcy and completely shut down in June this year. Back in its glory days, it was the place that sparked joy for many kids, and its success was envied by many retailers.

Traditional retailing seems no longer relevant to the current overview of the industry. Customers nowadays either do their shopping entirely online or buy the items online and pick them up in store.

The inspiration for this blog post stems from a common situation of employers. They confided that their best managers were doing a lot of extra work, but their efforts didn’t align with the overall business goals.

Digital transformation has huge and positive impacts on traditional businesses. The hotel industry is not an exception.

Collaboration would be beneficial to not only the company but also to the employees. Working collaboratively creates an inclusive environment, allows individuals to be more creative, daring and striving towards excellence.

Infor SunSystems is a comprehensive financial management solution combining technological innovations and usability with a depth of functionality achieved through decades of practical application.

Though lesser known among other software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, Infor has gained tremendous popularity by offering deep industry-specific applications and suites, cloud deployment and extremely user-friendly interfaces.

Financial Data must be protected from unauthorised access to safeguard the privacy and cyber security of an individual or organisation. Therefore, this is one of the biggest concern of companies wanting to protect their financial information.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) is an end-to-end ERP solution that provides comprehensive functionality suitable for any process mode, from make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO) to engineer-to-order (ETO).

At HITEC 2015, Infor announced the great effort and plans for its hospitality division.

Hard skills can be trained while soft skills are harder to teach and takes time to fully develop. Soft skills are the elements that build up and strengthen relationships in the workplace.

There is no doubt that the breach in personal privacy in this digital age where marketers collect reams of personal information from Facebook, Twitter, e-commerce sites and even emails to target potential buyers, is a huge concern.

Collaboration would be beneficial to not only the company but also to the employees. Working collaboratively creates an inclusive environment, allows individuals to be more creative, daring and striving towards excellence.

No matter what industry your business is in, there will be a lot of weekly, monthly and annual seminars and events where like-minded people congregate to discuss various topics related to your business as well as your concern.

If you want to be a good leader, you must set up a process for developing your leadership skills and implementing them effectively. It is said to be an important factor to improve and enhance the operational quality of your business organisation.

Company culture, or organisational culture, is a set of values, beliefs, practices shared among all members of the organisation. It is valuable and important to both the employees and the business.

It is a generally accepted fact that projects, when done by a group of people, yield better results and require much lesser time to execute.

Many of us do not like to admit that we are in the wrong. The power of being ‘right’ takes control of your judgement, turns into an obsession, an irrational fear which could put pressure on yourself or put a strain on many relationships.

Both enterprises and individuals have to process some kind of data every day, whether it is a short message, a notification, etc. If we accumulate all the data acquired in a month, the amount guarantees to shock anyone.

We all know at least one or two enthusiastic salespeople. They are persistent, quite annoying at times, but their energy is contagious, and the majority of them are extremely good at what they are doing.

As a manager, once you have delegated a task to an employee with clear objectives and set deadlines, what is your next move?

As the New Year approaches, people will be making resolutions to get more achievement. While these are worthwhile goals, we have a more important challenge for young people: Think seriously about your development as a leader.

Digital takes an important role today in every operation across industries; we can do almost everything using any digital devices. Emails, mobile apps, computers have made it easy for us to do almost everything we would like to.

When you are feeling lost and having no willingness to get out of it, what should you do to keep your mind free of negative thoughts, to keep your motivation level high and to keep thinking positively?

Being born long after IQ but Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has become the current trend for self-development.

To promote the project management community, TRG International held a TRG Talk - Project Management seminar with the topic "Technology and Project Management".

Grab, the leading car-sharing service in Southeast Asia, has adopted a Tableau BI solution to make more informed, data-driven decisions across their entire organisation.

As Samsung is popular for their reputation of having quality and innovative products, this has put a great pressure on the company to continue remaining on top.

In today’s modern society, the concept of “Professionalism” is definitely the norm, the “must-have” for every business practice and every professional. The question is “Do businesses and employees hold the same definition of professionalism”?