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Forced Labour: Issues & Mitigation Conference
Unethical labour practices are a risk to business viability. Consumers and governments across the world are demanding higher standards of labour protection, punishing companies who are suspected of bad labour practices. Recently, a Malaysian glove company faced an import ban […]
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Learning Academy Masterclass – High Impact Delivery for Effective Decision Making
Time is money. More often than not, the success of an organisation depends on the effectiveness and quality of decisions made by its leadership. Therefore, it is important that one has the accurate, concise information and value-added thinking on potential […]
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PM’s Ministry initiates strategy for accountable results-based public service
Based on Cabinet proposal put forward by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a programme was initiated to launch and mainstream the strategy for Managing for Development Results (MfDR)/Results-Based Management (RBM) for the public service. The programme was initiated by the Ministry of […]
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PEMANDU Russia talks humanity at the Skolkovo Startup Village 2019
In the thick of what many call ‘the startup era’, aspirations towards effective and innovative entrepreneurship continue to loom large worldwide. And the buzz at the Skolkovo Startup Village 2019 event held in June, is testament that this is no […]
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Foresight and innovation for #NextGenGov champions in Sri Lanka
Similar to other countries in the region, Sri Lanka has experienced rising urbanisation, technological innovation, deepening inequality, vulnerability to disasters and dramatic environmental risks. A new generation of government leaders is imperative in ensuring Sri Lanka can effectively respond to […]
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IMF lauds Oman’s Tanfeedh programme
The National Programme for Enhancing Economic Development (Tanfeedh) — the Sultanate’s signature initiative for sustaining economic growth amid the ongoing global downturn — has come in for praise from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Executive Board of the specialised […]
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Malaysia, Kazakhstan to further boost constructive cooperation under Tokayev’s leadership
Dato’ Sri Idris Jala, CEO of PEMANDU Associates, extended his heartiest congratulations to Mr Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on his election as the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. “The people of Kazakhstan have entrusted Mr Tokayev with the responsibility of continuing […]
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Idris Jala confident ‘good things’ will come after new government’s transition phase
Malaysia’s new government is still “in the transition phase”, and it needs time to achieve the transformation it has set out to do, said Datuk Seri Idris Jala, President and Chief Executive Officer of PEMANDU Associates. “I think when you […]
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Learning Academy Masterclass: Achieving Organisational Breakthroughs
Ensure continuous performance improvement by knowing the trends that impact organisations and discovering the right remedies for you. This one-day programme, a collaboration between PEMANDU Associates Learning Academy and &samhoud, will allow you to explore techniques to attain quick and […]
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“We will deliver to the People of Saint Lucia!”
Saint Lucia Prime Minister Honourable Allen M. Chastanet gave an extensive and passionate presentation to the Saint Lucia Chamber of Commerce on Thursday November 15th 2018 as he addressed a packed room of members of the local business sector. The […]
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Industry 4.0 Blueprint on readiness assessment finalised, says Miti
The Industry 4.0 Blueprint or Industry4WRD assessment guidelines to assess manufacturing companies’ readiness for Industry 4.0 has been finalised. It shall be implemented in the screening of 500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) early next year. International Trade and Industry […]
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Government of Saint Lucia calls for projects under the key result areas of tourism and agriculture
Honourable Guy Joseph, Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation launched Saint Lucia’s Social and Economic Labs. The lab methodology is a new approach which the government is undertaking to develop and deliver on the Medium […]
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Learning Academy Masterclass – Beyond Grit: Achieving High Performance
How do you develop persistence and resilience to improve your organisational performance? How can you use grit to enhance your leadership skills? What does grit even mean? Seize the opportunity to elevate your success in the workplace and achieve inspiring […]
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Learning Academy Masterclass: High Impact Delivery
PEMANDU Associates’ Learning Academy Masterclass returns with a one-day workshop focused on improving participants’ ability to structure their communication as well as develop and deliver compelling and impactful presentations in their engagement with their superiors. This workshop is targeted at young executives to mid-management […]
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Learning Academy Masterclass: Transforming Engagements with the C-Suite
PEMANDU Associates’ Learning Academy is organising a one-day workshop focused on improving participants’ ability to structure their communication as well as develop and deliver compelling and impactful presentations in their engagement with their superiors. This workshop is targeted at young executives to mid-management executives. […]
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Youth employment in Ethiopia
At the initiation of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Big Win Philanthropy is developing a partnership with the Ethiopian government to create 1 million quality jobs for young people. With a large and rapidly growing youth population, generating productive youth […]
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Reinforcing ERGP with Malaysian economic model
As Nigeria’s economic blueprint, Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) is yet to register accelerated impact on the economy, the Federal Government is introducing a Malaysian model to strengthen the process. In the hay days of economic recession, egg heads […]
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Nigeria: ERGP – NEPC Mulls Malaysian Model to Support Exports
As the federal government intensifies effort to diversify the economy, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has advocated the possibility of adapting the Malaysian model as part of strategic collaboration to promote Nigeria’s export trade. The Acting Executive Director/CEO of […]
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Private sector complains that Stuart administration is on pause
Although Barbados has not been hit by any major hurricanes so far this Altantic season, the head of this country’s private sector today complained that the country was effectively on pause, with the Freundel Stuart administration seemingly on “hurricane watch”. […]
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Maha cabinet nod for BFR method to improve work in govt depts
Mumbai, Sep 19 (PTI) The Maharashtra cabinet today approved a proposal to implement Big Fast Results (BFR) method by ‘PEMANDU’ (performance management & delivery unit) of Malaysia to improve the work culture in some key sectors. The Planning department’s proposal […]
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Maharashtra turns to Malaysian scheme to reduce infant deaths
Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet has approved the planning department’s proposal to adopt Malaysian government Performance, Management & Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) devised Big Fast Result (BFR) methodology for special performance in select areas of school education and sports, public health, water […]
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Maharashtra To Adopt Malaysia’s PEMANDU
State Public Health Dr Deepak Sawant said that the Malaysian government’s PEMANDU’s BFR will be used for reducing Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to single digit The Maharashtra government will adopt Malaysian government Performance, Management & Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) devised Big […]
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Ministers to learn from Malaysian experience in project management
KATHMANDU, April 6: All the ministers, ministers of state, planners and few lawmakers will gather at Hyatt Regency Kathmandu on Sunday to learn from Malaysian experience in handling development projects. According to the program schedule seen by Republica, the ministers […]
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PEMANDU Begins Transition
PUTRAJAYA 23 JAN 2017: The Prime Minister’s Office today announced that the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) would commence the final transitional phase of the National Transformation Programme (NTP) work to the civil service over a two-year period During […]
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Growing Pains: Why the proposed Petrol Subsidy Programme (PSP) may hurt now but pay off later
By Endry Lim Zhen Wen, Associate Vice President of PEMANDU Associates The recent 2020 Budget was meant to elevate the country’s financial well-being and reduce the fiscal deficit – starting with a reform of the current fuel subsidy system. In […]
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Training Wheels Not Provided: Seizing Opportunities for Self-learning
By Ng Chean Yew, Associate Vice President of PEMANDU Associates Life as a consultant is a challenging, albeit rewarding one. Consultants are often put in a situation where they are expected to resolve issues and problem solve independently. More often […]
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Reflections and the Way Forward
As we close the year 2019, I took the opportunity to reflect on some of the trends from the last decade and also provide some pointers for the next decade. REFLECTIONS (2010-2019) First, in my opinion, the fiscal models pursued […]
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Giving students the tools to experiment
By Tengku Azian Shahriman, Executive Vice President & Partner of PEMANDU Associates “WHAT is your name?” I asked. “Muhammad,” whispered the young boy wearing a jubah, who was representing his tahfiz school at the recent Young Innovators Challenge. When I […]
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Advancing the Dayak Agenda Through Transformative Methods
While the Dayaks in their traditional feathered headdresses, loincloths and ornate shields are often a mandatory inclusion in the picture of a multicultural Malaysia, the same level of inclusivity cannot be said of their partaking in Malaysia’s socioeconomic development since […]
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Outlook 2020 – the tourism industry at a glance
2020 is gearing up to be a big year. Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohammad launched the new Visit Malaysia 2020 campaign earlier in July complete with a logo, slogan and new tourism targets for next year. Building off 2018’s achievements […]
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Going Green – Sabah’s ecotourism industry going on strong
Today, more people are planning to go green not just at home but also on holiday. In recent years, there has been a major growth of interest in responsible travel or ecotourism, outpacing interest in the more traditional sun-and-sand holiday. […]
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Transformation on the Street – Rejuvenating old cities
As a city, Kuala Lumpur (KL) is ever-changing, with new multi-story buildings being built to support the growth of new businesses and new shops opening on every corner. During the day, people flock to the city for work, shopping or […]
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What’s the deal with Industry 4.0?
We’ve seen three Industrial Revolutions pass by, each fundamentally changing the way employment and business operate – for good and for bad. The economic changes of the first Industrial Revolution reshaped policy and laid the groundwork for the welfare state. […]
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Creating tomorrow’s top public transport app
There’s still no sign of flying cars by 2020 but technology has given us a way to make public transport safer, greener, more convenient and more efficient. No longer do we need to go all the way down to a […]
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Transformation on the Street: From running errands to transforming businesses
With more people running businesses online or from the comfort of their homes, there is a growing demand for short-term help. GoGet Malaysia is a home-grown company that is helping businesses and individuals hire part-timers, re-born as ‘GoGetters’, to help […]
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BFR Untold: Delivering Big Fast Results – a PEMANDU experience
Beginning as a delivery unit tasked to assist the government of Malaysia in pushing forward a nation-wide transformation, PEMANDU Associates has spent the last ten years helping governments and corporations across the globe to deliver results. Applying their proprietary Big […]
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Delivery Units 101
All citizens expect governments to make choices that are in our best interests, improve the quality of life within the country, and be transparent and upfront about the changes they would be making. The difficulties faced today by governments (and […]
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Transformation on the Street: Delivering transformation to Malaysia’s public transport system
When the idea to build a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) in Malaysia was first put on the table in 2010, it was met with varying degrees of both resistance and cynicism – resistance from pockets of community where the rail […]
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Pursuing Big, Fast Results in Climate Change
Popular science educator and children’s show host, Bill Nye, appeared on Last Week Tonight Sunday on May 12, 2019 to deliver an extremely blunt and expletive-laden message to hammer in the point that climate change has very real, very dire […]
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Preserving Malaysia’s Green Spaces
Forest, the New Economy As climate change concerns grow and increasingly weighs itself on policymakers globally, PEMANDU Associates saw an opportunity to exercise their Big Fast Results (BFR) Methodology – 8 Steps of Transformation© to work on a project that could […]
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Transformation on the Street: Business with a Purpose
NUDE is a small shop in Petaling Jaya with a mission to reduce waste and change the way Malaysians think about going zero-waste. Selling a range of items from soap, skincare and snacks, NUDE encourages customers to buy only what […]
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Transformation on the Street: Improving education, one Fellow at a time
Teach for Malaysia (TFM) is a not-for-profit, independent organisation bent on ending education inequality in Malaysia. They recruit fresh graduates and young professionals (fondly known as Fellows) to teach full-time in schools in high-need communities across Malaysia for two years. […]
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BFR Untold: Helping to shape a national education blueprint
A lot of our consultants at PEMANDU Associates came onboard as fresh graduates with little to no working experience and we’re proud to see how far they’ve come since then. Engku Fazuin binti Engku Azahan was one of those who […]
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Help Wanted!
Unemployment, especially amongst Malaysian youth, is rising. In fact, youth unemployment in Malaysia has been at a high of over 10% for the past two years in a row, reaching 10.8% last year. In 2017, graduate unemployment in particular constituted […]
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Transformation on the Street: The “Purrfect” Therapist?
The number of autism cases in Malaysia and the rest of the world has risen dramatically in recent years. We spoke to the Autism Behavioral Center (ABC) to understand what autism is as well as how it can be treated. […]
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BFR Untold: Project Overland
Ziad Hafiz Razak is an Executive Vice President & Partner at PEMANDU Associates. He’s also the guy who spent 84 days travelling overland from Malaysia to England. Find out how this amazing journey changed his life and gave him new […]
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BFR Labs: Driving Businesses Towards A New Horizon
While oil and gas remain among the top commodities in the world today, there is a growing interest in alternatives to fossil fuels which are finite and in danger of getting depleted. Just last year, the International Energy Agency announced […]
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Transformation on the Street: Has the Smoking Ban Made a Difference to Malaysians?
It’s been just over 2 months since the smoking ban was implemented in Malaysia. How have the smokers, non-smokers and business owners been affected since?
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PEMANDU Associates Away Day 2019
As the old adage goes, ‘one step back, two steps forward’. Watch what went down at PEMANDU Associates’ 2019 Away Day.
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Why Transformations Fail
Transformation is often on the agenda of many governments and businesses. And with the plethora of talents nestled within these organisations, it begs the question: why do some pursuits of transformation miss the mark? Fear of the road less travelled. […]
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Recruitment in the Digital Age
Seeing to believe The art of recruitment has evolved throughout the years. Before the internet and social media, the modus operandi for companies was to put out a piece of advertising with a nice headline, coupled with requirements for the […]
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Where to, Malaysia Baharu?
ay 9, 2018 was a historic day for Malaysia. Malaysians collectively decided a bold change was needed. And so, after more six decades into its independence from British rule and as a sovereign nation, a new government took seat in […]
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Transformation on the Street: Facilitating Empowerment and Sustainability In A Rural Setting – A Project WHEE Perspective
Rhonwyn Hagedorn, a little lady with a big heart for the people of Bario. Channeling that love towards teaching and developing the community there, she hopes to open up new means of generating income for the “land of a hundred […]
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Top Tips on New Year’s Resolutions from a Man Who Realises Them for a Living
New Year’s resolutions. Everyone makes them. Few keep to them. PEMANDU Associates’ CEO and President, Dato’ Sri Idris Jala has built a career on turning around companies and helping governments to deliver on their promises. In between his business travels, […]