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GROUP1
Mei Xi Lim, Ratanavatey Kim, Zhijun Chen, Ziheng Ou

HOW THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CENTRES BETWEEN TWO CITIES, HONGKONG AND SINGARORE

This study focuses on which would be the next financial center in Asia –Hong

Kong or Singapore. There is much speculation as to who might dominate to

become the leading financial center of Asia. The agenda is achieve an overall

understanding of both cities’ historical background; Current situation, Strengths;

Dilemma, the role of the central government that plays apart, and the

contributing factors towards the development of the financial centers. Through

the network of analysis of roles theoretically, we have examined that the

environment’s stability –political, economical, social, technological, legal

regulations. These factors, especially the legal regulations have a significant

impact on its economic growth. It is conclusive that transparency and fairness in

the cities’ governance highly seek by investors. Furthermore, this paper explain

why the future prospects of Singapore is better than Hong Kong, by its current

situation and the challenges faced in such competition.

GROUP2
Qiuyue Yang, Qian Zhou, Xiaowen Li

HOW DOES THE SUNNING UTILIZE BIG DATA
TO ENHANCE THE PROFIT.

The topic of poster is how does Suning utilize big data to enhance profit? A case

study: Suning. There are six parts in the poster and it will give a detailed illustration

to explain the importance of big data to Suning.

The first part is introduction of big data, Big data is a term that describes the large

volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a

day-to- day basis. Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions

and strategic business moves. After understanding the concept of big data, next is

the background of Suning, Suning is one of the largest commercial enterprises in

China and not only has more than 1,600 chain stores but also has own well-known

online trading platform in China. The third part is SWOT analysis. An enterprise must

has a better understanding of its own business in order to have more space for

improvement. The SWOT will full description about the strength and weakness

Suning had, the opportunity and threat that Suning will face. There are three main

influence that big data brings to Suning. It use three examples which are tens of

millions home appliance of item demand, home appliances going to countryside and

suning cooperation with Xiaomi to respectively explain the influence about market,

target and cooperation of Suning from big data. Of course, big data as a new

technology also brings many problems, the poster provided two major issue about

speed and management. Then it also offer the recommendation to deal with these

issues and help Suning utilizing big data better and get more profit.

In general, suning uses big data to analyze the market needs and potential risks,

and ultimately provide more profit for its customers, stakeholders and suning

company through big datalink.

GROUP3
Jonathan Sutjianto, Alice Deresse, 
Audrey Ferrero, Yunzhu Yang

BIG DATA IS IN THE AIR

To answer the issue : “how Big Data affect firm’s marketing strategy?” we decided to do a case

study on Air France-KLM which is a French company pioneer in the using of Big Data. We are

going to explain the changes in the marketing strategy by analysing data collection and how

marketing strategy has become more data driven. We will present the personalization of

customer relationship, how the group revitalizes its image with big data, and the improvement

on the performance of advertisements and customer loyalty. However, using big data also

means taking challenges due to the immature development. There are some key challenges in

this area:

1. Considerable investments need to be put before using big data in aviation industry.

2. Data safety management.

3. Talents shortage in big data field.

4. Difficulty in maintaining a sustained competitive advantage from big data.

5. Difficulty in finding correlations between related areas.

About financial changes we will discuss how using Big Data has helped their financials in sales

and costs. We can see that thanks to Big Data sales has increased and that their external costs

has decreased. Finally, Big Data will improve results of the company and consequently their

incomes.

Finally, Big data will improve in the future. They will be more accurate. The process collection

big data will be directly gathered from the passenger. There is the project to digitize client

experience at the airport or during transfer to understand its behavior and habits. Then Air

France will develop the Hadoop technique to process amount of data. The company will in the

close future put tabs at premium clients’ disposal to improve their offer and permit it to fit

more the client’s expectation.

GROUP4
Theerapong Theerahsapphawittaya, Apichaya Manoseela, Thanawan Nakwaree, Thi Tuyet Mai Lam

BIG DATA: A NEW REVOLUTION IN MARKETING

The first phase of this project involves the definition of big data and its scope and

some information about the topic’s background. The main purpose of this project is to

discover how big data can affect firms’ marketing and advertising strategies. The second

phase will be the main content where there is an explanation about the impact of big data

towards companies, especially focus on marketing and advertising strategies. Here, we also

provide a case study of how Wendy’s company utilized big data and what are the main

outcomes and improvement to the firm. There were evidences supported that the firm had

been able to increase revenue and reduce its operating costs by analyzing and making best

use of the big data base to better position the firm to meet its target customers’ expectations.

Utilizing big data can create both positive and negative impacts to not only Wendy’s but all

kinds of organizations. Example of positive impact is to help firms to increase profit by

efficiently reducing costs or boosting sales and etc. Example of negative impact is that the

whole process of big data from collecting to implementing results normally costs very high

and takes big amount of time. The last phase will be a recommendation of how company can

more effectively make use of big data to develop every single parts of business and create

an effective business transformation. We also provide prediction about the use of big data

for future days, whether there will be more companies successfully make best use of this

tool or there will be other potential tools replace the big data.

GROUP5
Hoang Mai Pham, Nhat Duy Bui, Thi Khanh Van Tran

MAJOR FINANCIAL CENTRE OF ASIA
HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE

Financial market is a broad term describing any marketplace where buyers and sellers participate

in the trade of assets such as equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives. Financial markets are

typically defined by having transparent pricing, basic regulations on trading, costs and fees, and

market forces determining the prices of securities that trade. Particularly, it plays an important

role in the modern development of economy as fostering economic growth by creating strong

incentives for investment and promoting trade and business linkages. In Asia, Hong Kong and

Singapore have known as important international financial centers since Asia market have

developed rapidly these recent years. Specifically, Singapore has developed into the Asia

region’s largest center for foreign exchange and commodity trading, as well as a growing wealth

management hub. On another hand, Hong Kong has strong links with London and New York

City, top 2 financial centers in global market .It is an international financial centre that is

involved in a significant proportion of Asian financial transactions and has maintained a

presence the world's 100 largest banks in the nation. However, each center has different

challenges which influence to the development of finance sector.

The report will determine and analyze three main purposes of the project. First of all, we intend

to identify the key factors which influence the development of financial centers which have been

selected as Hong Kong and Singapore. As the second purpose, we will indicate the growth

opportunities and challenges which will be faced in the future of each center. By that, we will

suggest and provide essential recommendations to solve the important issues. Last but not least,

the most important purpose is to forecast and identify which country will be the next financial

center of Asia based on the data and information figures. This presentation will maintain our core

findings as the history and the current situation, role of central governments, the comparison

analysis of PESTLE (Politics, Economic, Social, Technology, Legal and Environment) and

SWOT(Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) issues of both country as Hong Kong

and Singapore.

GROUP6
Steven Djohan, Nadia Djunaedy, 
Revin Alton, Viona Altin

AISA'S NEXT MAJOR FINANCIAL CENTRE

HONG KONG VS SINGAPORE

Nowadays, the development of financial centers plays a very crucial role in modern

economy. A well-developed financial center will increase economic activity, create more jobs

and improve country’s tax revenues (Cheung & Yeung, 2007). Strong and rapid growth in the

economy of Asian region has given rise to the development of the financial centers in this

region. Countries in this region are competing to make their way up as the next major

financial center. This is no exception to Hong Kong and Singapore. The competition between

the two has always been fierce since the late 1960s. This project is to predict the next

financial center in Asia between Singapore and Hong Kong. In this project, the development

of the two financial centers will be assessed through five factors which are business

environment, human capital, infrastructures, reputation and general factors, and market

access. Next, we will also address the several opportunities as well as potential threats for

Singapore and Hong Kong as financial centers due to the constant changing fortunes and

developments of Asian economies. We are also going to talk about the history, current

important issues of these financial centers and recommended solutions for those issues. Last

but not least, with all those information in hand, we are going to give prediction on the next

major financial center between Hong Kong and Singapore.

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