The INDEX: Views Summit is over now, but we have got tons of interviews to digitalize and upload. We recently uploaded an interview I made with Idea Factory’s CEO and Managing Director Tony Lai.
Tony Lai is an emerging thought leader on business innovation and its changing systemic roles in corporate transformation, competitive strategy, strategic planning and organisational development.
Through a successful buy-out of the global company, Tony has been the Managing
Director/CEO and Senior Partner of The Idea Factory, an innovation business that was
founded in San Francisco in 1996. He set up the Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore in June
2001, which has since become the Global Headquarters. The Idea Factory consults and
facilitates businesses and government institutions on their strategies for innovation as a
critical component of competitiveness. Some of the organizations which Tony has
personally consulted, and facilitated are Levis Strauss & Co. Asia Pacific, Abacus Travel,
Pan Asia Paper, Accenture Singapore, Maybank Sdn Berhad, Microsoft, Media
Development Authority Singapore, National Arts Council and the Institute of Systems
Science.
Before The Idea Factory, Tony had accumulated extensive experience in the areas of
innovation and transformation at the national/country level in tourism and human
resources. Over a period of 6 years, Tony headed corporate development at the
Singapore Ministry of Manpower and was involved in corporate planning with the
Singapore Tourism Board.
Concurrently, he is a Board Member of the Singapore Human Resource Institute and the
Singapore International Foundation.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Tony Lai on your right side.