10 Digital Tools For Individual Productivity

From smartphone apps to online resources, here are some useful digital tools you can use to maximise your efficiency and boost individual and company productivity.

SMU’s MPA Helps You Accelerate Your Career in Accounting and Finance. Here’s How the Programme Is Helping Me Achieve My Goals

Ivan Chong, director at RSM Corporate Advisory, was keen to obtain his licence to become an approved liquidator. He knew SMU's Master of Professional Accounting would give him the qualification he needed.

Student Interview Series: Yuta Morita, SMU Master of Business Administration (MBA)

After working for more than a decade in Japan decade in corporate banking and real estate, Yuta took advantage of an APEC Scholarship to study his MBA at SMU and to build skills that will help him someday start a peer-to-peer lending related company.

My SMU MWM Gave Me the Technical Knowledge I Needed to Boost My Career

Chuck Ng’s first degree was in chemical engineering, but he knew he wanted a career in finance even before he had graduated. He shares how he made the decision to enrol in a specialised programme that focused on wealth management to obtain his academic grounding in finance.

The Future Robo-advisor (MITB Thought Leadership Series)

Catalin Burlacu, Adjunct Faculty of the SMU MITB (Financial Technology) programme sets out the main trends that will affect the industry in the next five years: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Conversational Computing and Immersive Technologies.

I Wanted to Learn More About Data Analytics to Enhance My Career. SMU’s MSA Is Giving Me the Skills I Need

Ng Pei Lin was keen to deepen her knowledge about data analytics after realising it was playing an increasingly important role in her work.

Big Data and the Consumer (MITB Thought Leadership Series)

Big data isn't something new—it's existed from the very day humans began to make records of their work. So when exactly did consumers come into the picture? SMU Lecturer Seema Chokshi shows us the evolution of big data.

Tech Disruption in the Legal Sector is No Longer a Question of When, But How.

With the rapid expansion of digital technology into every aspect of daily life and the commoditisation of data, it’s now a mad scramble for governments and the legal profession to play catch-up. Assoc Prof Warren Chik gives us the lowdown on the complex evolution of law in the digital era.

Student Interview Series: Joel Ng, SMU Master of IT in Business

Four years after the completion of his bachelor's degree in SMU and after taking a myriad of online tech courses, Joel Ng decided to return to his alma mater to pursue a Master of IT in Business. We find out the motivations behind his decision.

Breaking Down Barriers With Cai Yinzhou

Everyone has the ability to effect positive changes on society if we can first open our eyes to the reality that social barriers are omnipresent. And no one exemplifies this better than SMU Masters student Cai Yinzhou.