Against a year that has been challenging, Malaysia continues to display immense resilience and growth. The vaccine rollouts are well underway, trade performance remains steady, and we continue to attract foreign direct investments. With the business landscape shifting the world over, MNCs that have set up their bases in host countries are re-assessing the infrastructure and its relevance to support their growth and expansion strategies, while others are deferring their investment plans to see what the outlook would be like.
ManagePay Systems Berhad (MPay), a fintech and payment solution enterprise, has selected Oracle Cloud to help it improve its customer experience and deliver on its brand promise of being a trusted partner for Malaysia’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The company said, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) MPay now has a reliable, secure and scalable platform underpinning core applications within its digital ecosystem that enables Malaysia’s small businesses to trade online.
Microsoft Corp, together with the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC), Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec) and Sunway iLabs is forming an alliance aimed at supporting the Malaysian startup ecosystem in their pursuit of success. In a statement, Microsoft said will be supporting participating startups through skilling efforts incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT) and big data.
On 27 July 2021, Junior Achievement (JA) Malaysia, celebrated the launch of their Young Enterprise E-Commerce Platform – JAM Mall, the first of its kind developed to foster entrepreneurship education amongst secondary school students. Our CEO Siobhan Das and also a member of the Board of Trustees of JA Malaysia was invited to deliver a speech at the launch.
AMCHAM introduced the Young Enterprise (YE) Program to Malaysia as a community service project in 1989, to give our member companies an opportunity to give back to their communities while connecting them with potential futures in the business world. The Young Enterprise program started 33 years ago with five AMCHAM Members Companies, matched with five schools. The following year, YE as it became affectionately known, expanded into Penang, with 6 additional companies and 6 schools.
The purpose of the Young Enterprise program was to give 16-year-olds / Form 4 students an opportunity to better understand the business world by becoming entrepreneurs; by identifying and producing a product and creating and managing their own companies to deliver it to market. This exercise was to inspire, to trigger new ideas, awaken a business acumen, reinforce the importance of diversity of thought and teamwork. It was also a good opportunity to learn other life skills and, the opportunity in failure.
Today is another step one that is remarkable – we are moving into the digital domain and the world of e-commerce.
This new platform not only demonstrates the continued commitment to your entrepreneurship education but thrusts all YE students into the 21st century and the digital economy. Through it, you will learn how to navigate these emerging frontiers.
AMCHAM would like to congratulate JA Malaysia on a successful launch and all the best!
For more information about the JAM Mall, head over to https://jamalaysia.org.my/
Key points in a message should always be communicated effectively. Sometimes these points end up getting lost due to the structure or lack of understanding the recipient. Today, AMCHAM held its 5th session of the GATE Program, this time a workshop on Key Message Development. Whitney Foard Small, Senior Associate at CS & A, returned from the launch of the GATE Program in May to conduct the workshop.
Attendees were given practical guides and tips into constructing a message in a way to get the point across, to match the target recipient. In this workshop, the attendees were split into several teams where they designed a message meant for a specific target audience, learning the different steps and refining the approach along the way.
A very useful workshop for participants to learn and develop critical messaging skills effectively. Special thanks to Whitney Foard Small for returning and conducting the workshop and thank you to the attendees for participating. We also would like to thank both our event partners – U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur & PayPal – for supporting this program.
