Thailand Regional Forum: Session Topics 2001-2012:
Session Topics: 2001
• After the elections: implications for the economy and for business
• Bridging the human resource gap: how can business help reform the educational system which doesn’t deliver the
goods?
• Corporate Governance: Is Thailand different?
• Taking Stock: Half-year Forecasting Meeting
• Managing the Supply Chain: New Trends in Consumer Marketing
• Intellectual Property in a WTO era: Benefits and Costs of Recognising Intangible Ownership
• Watch Out! Here comes 2002: Annual Forecasting Meeting
• Dealing with Debtors: A Practical Survival Kit for Involvement with Corporate Restructuring
• Managing Change: The Human Factor in Organisational Re- engineering
• Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: The Thailand Outlook for 2002
Session Topics: 2002
• Settling out of court: Is arbitration an effective alternative for commercial dispute resolution
• Efficient consumer response: Better, cheaper, quicker supply chain management
• Productivity and competitive advantage: How can business help give Thailand the edge?
• The Regional Recovery and Thailand: Is it for real?
• Sourcing and motivating senior management: Techniques that bring results
• Annual regional forecasting: Will 2003 witness market recovery?
• Indochina Overview: opportunities in Thailand’s neighbours
• Dealing with Customs: A checklist for the Importer/Exporter
• Keeping abreast of changing Thai market patterns: Staying ahead of the trends
• Mid-semester success - or less?: Policy and practice outlook: half - way to the 2005 elections
Session Topics: 2003
• Intellectual property protection in Thailand: Closing the gap between law and reality
• Getting paid in Asia: Best practices for credit analysis and collection in Thailand
• 21st century Asian businesses: Issues to ensure continued sustainability
• Asia’s entertainment hub: Is Thailand ready to be the Hollywood of Asia?
• Corporate restructuring in Thailand: New directions or derailment?
• Measuring management performance: What works best?
• Property: Changing criteria for corporate location
• For better or worse: An outlook for 2004
• Career and succession planning for senior executives: Harmonizing corporate and individual achievement
goals
• Current consumer trends: Does the demand justify the hype?
• Critical issues for Corporate planning in 2004
Session Topics: 2004
• Bilateral trade agreements and investment treaties: How will they affect your business?
• Corporate and Strategic Planning: A roadmap for success
• Thailand political and economic outlook for the first quarter: Key developments, opportunities and challenges
• Winning in a fiercely competitive business environment: A blueprint for change management success
• Thailand as a regional and manufacturing hub: Implications for corporate policy
• The people factor: Gaining and keeping key human resources
• Keeping on track: Business Location in a Mass Transit World
• Moving towards mid-decade: As the election approaches, how will business fare in 2005?
• Regional Strategic Forecast: The Economist view of the world of tomorrow
• Keeping abreast of changing markets: A consumer market outlook
• 2005: Consolidation or Downturn in Asia
• The Strategic planners score card: Critical issues and warning signs in 2005
Session Topics: 2005
• Strategic Planning and Risk Management
• The Thailand Elections: what next?
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Legislation: doing business within the law
• Corporate Social Responsibility: how companies are meeting their obligations?
• Public Private Partnership: managing the new opportunities
• Corporate Pandemic Preparedness: planning the unthinkable
• Free Trade Agreements: how free and fair?
• Thailand in 2006: what the future holds?
• The Asia Pacific in 2006: do opportunities outweigh threats?
• Lifelong Learning: Lessons for Thailand’s business competitiveness
• Creating Corporate Excellence: the key role of human resource development
Session Topics: 2006
• Inaugurating 2006: the year of corporate social responsibility
• The Business Outlook for 2006: a year of progress or uncertainty?
• Streamlining Business Success: from strategy to process through IT solutions
• Regional Outlook for 2006
• Thailand’s Infrastructure Mega-projects: business as usual, or a casualty of political crisis?
• Mergers & Acquisitions: opportunities and challenges for Thailand
• Building a Better Bangkok: improving the mass transit environment
• Preserving Intellectual Property: the uphill enforcement path and free trade implications
• Free Trade Agreements: how free and how fruitful?
• Annual Forecasting Meeting: 2007, the year of recovery?
• Suvarnabhumi Airport: opportunities and challenges for multinational business
• Real or Nominal: use of nominee holders for land and shareholdings
• Thailand: back to square one? The impact of recent events upon the economic and business outlook
• An investment-friendly environment: identifying the necessary reforms
• Thailand’s human resource competitiveness: sourcing, upgrading and rewarding key skilled personnel
Session Topics: 2007
• Employee salary, health and social benefits: Thailand situation, best practices and international comparisons
• The new Foreign Business Law: championing transparency or eliminating foreign investment?
• Taming Thailand’s boisterous Baht: mitigating foreign exchange risks by currency management and hedging
• Asia’s long-term opportunities: a road-map
• Business Beyond borders: the Greater Mekong Sub-region as an investment and trade opportunity
• Tightening the screw on employment of foreigners in Thailand: new work permit and visa rules
• Keeping safe in an insecure world: assuring corporate and personal security
• The Thailand Outlook: 2007-2008
• Asia Strategic Forecast for 2008
• Government Policy Outlook for Business: any light at the end of the tunnel?
• Thailand’s 2008 Economy: the Consumer Demand Challenge
• Adjusting to Hundred Dollar Oil: can the global (and Thailand) economy survive?
Session Topics: 2008
• Corporate Social Responsibility: measuring Thailand’s maturity
• Thailand’s Intellectual Property Outlook: progress or backtracking?
• Foreign Business and Investment: Outlook under a new government
• Asia Strategic Forecast: First Half 2008
• Human Resource Selection and Retention: cross-cultural environment
• Indochina: New Markets for Thailand, or Serious International Competitors?
• The Impact of high energy prices on the Thai economy: discussion with Dr. Piyasvasti Amranand
• From Entrepreneur to CEO: Thailand’s maturing management
• Who pays the Piper: Corruptions in Thailand
• Asia Strategic Forecast: preparing for a tougher year
• US Financial Market Meltdown: Impact on the Thai Economy
• Thailand’s Economic Outlook: can we manage ‘Business as Usual’, when the politics are ‘Chaos as Usual’?
• Thailand 2009: what to expect, and how to meet the challenges
• Thailand’s New Consumer Protection Legislation: risk issues for producers and suppliers
• Business after the Blockade: Suvarnabhumi shutdown, Constitutional Court judgements
Session Topics: 2009
• New government policies: how is business reacting?
• Beating the downturn: strategies for developing business in challenging times
• Cost-of-living and salary trends: results of recent surveys
• Asia-Pacific Regional Forecast
• Doing Business in Myanmar: opportunities and challenges in the land of 50 million forgotten consumers
• Corporate Social Responsibility: good deeds for difficult days
• Thailand Political Outlook: Thailand Political Risk Outlook: It’s all about shirt colours!
• The People Factor: managing and motivating the most valuable organizational asset
• Global Crisis and Global Recovery: an insider’s view
• Thailand Mid-Year Economy: Fair winds ahead, or the eye of the storm?
• Pandemic preparedness: are we under-estimating or exaggerating the seriousness?
• Human Resource Management: Through downturn to recovery
• Thailand Energy Outlook: alternative energy promotion and energy conservation
• Better safe than sorry: Preventive and protective measures against terrorism and high risk situations
• Regional Economic Outlook: Forecasting 2010 and beyond
• Thailand Business Outlook: Consumer demand in recovery?
• Investment and Environment: How can they be reconciled?
• Supply Chain, Customs and Consumer Issues: Asia Pacific trends for 2010
Session Topics: 2010
• Expatriate Work Permits in Thailand: upcoming crisis or routine regulatory adjustment?
• Good Governance in Action: is honesty the best policy?
• ASEAN + 2: Taxation Regulatory Update
• Asia-Pacific Regional Forecast
• Risk Management Strategies: the role of hedging and futures in business planning
• Thailand Risk Management: does politics rule economics?
• Thailand Business Outlook: How will recent, present and future conflicts impact upon the operating environment –
and what can be done to mitigate the risks?
• Personal tax planning in an international perspective
• Thailand Outlook: reconciliation, recovery or recrimination?
• Cross-cultural Relationships in Management and Negotiation: the changing Thai environment
• Business in Burma: an insider view Boom time for ASEAN’s last frontier
• The Thailand Outlook for 2010/2011: Bright economy, dim politics?
• Asian Regional Outlook for 2010/2011: the race for Asia
• Succession planning: Developing the next generation of top management
• Paradise Regained or Lost?: implications for Thai economy of Baht currency appreciation
• Looking ahead to 2011: the key strategic issues for business
Session Topics: 2011
• From CSR to Social Entrepreneurship
• Digital Marketing: opportunities and pitfalls
• Myanmar 2011: new opportunities or old challenges?
• Asia-Pacific Forecast
• Human Capital: the vital factor for enterprise achievement
• Countering Corruption: is Thailand winning the transparency battle?
• Thailand Economic and Business Outlook: Pre-election, second half-year 2011
• Reconciliation or Recrimination: the new government line-up and prospects for growth oriented policies
• Thailand Inc under new management: the economic and financial outlook
• Global Realignment: what happens next?
• Conventional and Alternative Energy for Thailand: the strategic issues
• Thailand Outlook: Growth opportunities and risks
• Thailand in crisis: human resource strategies for recovery and reconstruction
• New Year 2012: what does the future hold?
Session Topics: 2012
• ASEAN Economic Community: can Thailand compete without governance?
• Myanmar: the Opportunities and Challenges of the Golden Land
• Global Rebalacing: reviewing the Asian business strategy
• Customs Principles and Practice in Thailand challenges and clarfications on royalty issues
• Thailand economic and financial outlook: land of hope and glory?
• Myanmar Update: a balanced view
• Thailand's Tightening Labour Market: Are migrant workers a solution or a challenge?
• Limitations to free trade: present and possible future export controls
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): a new investment vehicle and business opportunity
• Minimum Wage Increases: preparing or handicapping: Thailand's entry to the ASEAN Economic Community?
• Asia's Market in 2013: Strategies for Riding the Rapids
• Thailand's Consumer Market Outlook: building a strengthening domestic economy to offset a weakening external sector?
• Myanmar: Market Bonanza or Mirage?
• The Thailand Business Outlook for 2013, and the longer term view beyong the ASEAN Economic Community
