TRAINING AND RESOURCES

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) Academy offers public training programmes, workshops, study missions and customized corporate training services for diversified sectors. The programmes and services are tailor made to the needs of industry, enterprises and individuals.

HKTDC Research provides diverse market information, including guides for doing business in different markets, economic factsheets and statistics to facilitate enterprises in conducting market research.

Go eCommerce is an online platform that both Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation andSME Corporation Malaysia developed together. It serves as an active learning platform and hub that acts as a comprehensive guide for all SMEs who are keen to explore and build their businesses via eCommerce. The aim of Go eCommerce is to enable and empower SMEs to channel or diversify their businesses digitally. The digital marketplace is vast and vibrant – trading activities are not limited by geographical boundaries and is open twenty four-seven – making it an extremely viable business direction that most SMEs must make. It also comes with a specially made SME Readiness Tool feature where members are able to obtain information in an instant and find out what level they are at. It is also programmed to aid SMEs in choosing the best solutions, according to the tailored needs of each and every company. Go eCommerce welcomes everyone to sign up as members of its platform. Registration is FREE. SMEs who are registered with SSM will have exclusive access to additional amazing content here.

MATRADE e-LEARNING Programme was designed to assist Malaysian SMEs to improve their export knowledge and skills. It also benefits students and Malaysians at large to increase their awareness in export knowledge.

Remote Working & Mental Health: A Young Professional’s Guide The guide offers a lot of great information, such as:

• Why remote working has become the new normal due to lockdowns;
• How remote working can significantly affect physical and mental health;
• Different ways you can alleviate stress when working from home, such as creating a comfortable work environment and taking regular breaks; and
• How employers can help to make working from home healthier and less stressful for their employees.

Included in this directory are: Chartered Accountants and Certified General Accountants, Lawyers, Barristers and Solicitors, Chartered Business Valuators, Certified Auditors and other legal services.

APEC CBET is designed for global SMEs to receive the most practical, professional, scalable and localized cross-border e-commerce trends, knowledge, hands-on skills, as well as entrepreneurship guidance on a wide range of startup concepts in the new global value chain. It’s a knowledge sharing and entrepreneurship fostering program, comprised of offline APEC CBET workshop and online e-learning platform.

The program aims to build a community through online and offline activities to empower women to realize entrepreneurship by effective sharing, learning and awarding.

Included in this directory are consultants who bring businesses together to cooperate and undertake projects or actions that will enhance their competitive edge. It is not related to computer networking.

Corporation for the Promotion of Production Corfo has a variety of programs as guarantees and grants, for domestic and foreign companies that operate in Chile. These programs can be helpful for entrepreneurs, to innovate, to improve the productivity of a business or to invest. Corfo is the Chilean economic development agency that works daily to the competitiveness and the productive diversification of the country by encouraging investment, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Digital Business Kits provide the tools and resources required to help businesses embrace the world of digital business.

The Employees Retraining Board (ERB) is an independent statutory body established in 1992 under the Employees Retraining Ordinance. The ERB co-ordinates, funds and monitors training courses and services that are market-driven and employment-oriented so as to meet the changing needs of the employment market. The ERB has appointed about 90 Training Bodies with around 400 training centres across the territory to provide training courses and services. The ERB offers around 700 training courses straddling nearly 30 industries.