Foresight & Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region

This book explores the importance of strategy and how to make it work in an environment characterised by constant change. With a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region, anticipated to become the epicentre of global economic activity, it offers insights into the optimisation of economic potential and social cohesion enabled by leaders, which is crucial to the global economy and living standards. It highlights sound foresight, strategic thinking and innovation as the critical underpinnings of successful business and provides a comprehensive guide to combining practice and theory to ensure successful strategies, from formulation to execution.

The book also builds on the concepts of change, the purpose of business, foresight, strategic thinking, strategic planning and innovation to present a holistic view of how these essential elements can be integrated in practice. Combined with a special contribution by Chaly Mah, the CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific, the book carefully balancesprofessional and academic insights to optimally benefit its readers and will be of interest to industry practitioners, researchers and students alike.

• Business Leadership in the Asia Pacific
• Business Management in the Asia Pacific
• Business in the Asia Pacific Region
• Business insights in the Asia Pacific
• Emerging Trends in Asia Pacific
• Foresight & Strategy in Asia Pacific Business
• Innovation and the Asian mind
• Innovation in Asia Pacific Business
• Strategic planning in Asia Pacific Business
• Strategic thinking in Asia Pacific Business
• Strategy execution in Asia Pacific
• TripleV Strategy Model in Asia Pacific Region

“An engaging and insightful read. The authors challenge business leaders to evolve from traditional Asian leadership norms to take into consideration a rapidly changing environment that demands swift adaptability and inspiring creativity.  A well-structured book that provides unique and much sought-after Asia Pacific perspective on how strategy can be implemented for the sustainable future.” (Chiew Chun Wee, ACCA, Head of Policy, Asia Pacific)

• Director, Professional Studies, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  Luke van der Laan

• Regional Managing Director, Risk Consulting Division, Deloitte (Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific), Singapore, Singapore

  Janson Yap

Dr Luke van der Laan is the Director of Professional Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and member of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business Development (ACSBD). With extensive board-level executive experience as a CEO, non-executive director and trustee, he describes himself as a pracademic integrating both practice and scholarly insights in his efforts to de-mystify the practice of strategy. His work in the areas of foresight, strategic thinking and leadership is internationally unique and honed by his interests in futures research. In addition to ongoing international research collaboration, he has presented seminars and keynote addresses throughout the Asia Pacific region and published widely.

Dr Janson Yap is the Regional Managing Director of the Risk Consulting Division at Deloitte (Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific). Embedding the innovation culture into the DNA of the Deloitte Southeast Asia organization is also part of hisbusiness portfolio where he also holds the title of Innovation Leader. With significant professional experience in multi-national corporations as well as having conducted advanced research into strategy implementation, his implementation evaluation techniques complete the book’s end-to-end strategy solution.

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