Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Last week, I attended a talk on "Innovation & Entrepreneurship in an Interdependent World"
by Dr. Georges Haour, IMD, Switzerland

It was quite an enlightening session. It gave rise to my inspiration to write on Innovation that is related to the Singapore Real Estate Agency and Agent environment which I am more familiar with due to they are our clients.

First of all, Agents and Brokers themselves are entrepreneurs. Sad to say, but it is a fact that real estate brokerage is not a vital industry in our economy. Therefore, they should put more weight on Innovation than the others. It is even more so during this global economic crisis we are in now.

Take the First Step

I was born in the era when there were no personal computers. The first personal computer that I encountered were in my upper secondary school days and it was the 1st generation of Apple computer. Back then, computers were only for the privilege and the "intelligent guy". Not only did the hardware was expensive, software were pretty much in their primitive stage. Most people were doing programming with it or using it for playing games. However, over a time span of over 19 years, computer has become a norm. And it has made the typewriter into near obsolete ... just that most of us cannot change the way we do things even when we are using the new things ....