Trends: A Crucial Strategy Tool

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

October 25, 2023
3:00 pm-4:00 pm Singapore Time

Location

Webinar

Event Resources

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See trends analysis in action with this live demonstration exploring the implications of AI for manufacturing in ASEAN, factoring in important factors, such the shifting global outlook, a dynamic regulatory landscape and ongoing automation in the region. Hear the perspectives of BSR’s directors in Singapore and Shanghai in a guided trends exploration developed and led by BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab.

This is the first of a series in which we’ll explore how we can draw on different foresight techniques to inform business strategy, to be followed by a Scenarios workshop.

Scheduled Speakers

• Anna Iles, Associate Director, Transformation, BSR
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Anna Iles
Associate Director, Transformation, BSR
Hong Kong
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Anna leads BSR’s work on emerging issues, including our publication The Fast Forward, as part of the Sustainable Futures Lab. 
Before joining BSR, she worked for Forum for the Future, first as editor of its sustainable solutions magazine Green Futures and then as founding curator of the Futures Centre, a horizon-scanning and sensemaking platform. She went on to lead her own foresight and innovation agency, Flux Compass, working with business and global bodies, such as Swire Group, Kering, UNICEF, and UNDP, as well as youth groups and educational institutions.
Publications include a paper in the Journal of Futures Studies (2020) on using futures to build dialogue in conflict and two books with Springer, The Innovation-Friendly Organization (2017) and The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire (2014). 
Anna holds a BA in English and French from Oxford University and a MA in Gender Studies from SOAS, London University, and is a certified life coach. 
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• Rosa Kusbiantoro, Director, Transformation, BSR
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Rosa Kusbiantoro
Director, Transformation, BSR
Singapore
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Rosa works with companies across various sectors such as extractives, agriculture, and manufacturing on sustainability management, including human rights and supply chain sustainability.
She has over 15 years of experience conducting on-site human rights impact assessments and social impact assessments in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, India, and Australia. She also supports companies in the development and implementation of human rights and sustainability strategies and management plans in alignment with international standards and good industry practices.
Prior to joining BSR, Rosa worked as a consultant for Cardno Emerging Markets, where she helped mining, oil, and gas companies develop social impact management plans, stakeholder engagement strategies, and health, safety, and environmental policies in countries such as Burkina Faso and Timor-Leste. She also has provided program coordination for an AusAID program in Indonesia with more than 200 national and international advisers.
Rosa holds a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Finance from Drexel University.
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• Lin Wang, Director, Transformation, BSR
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Lin Wang
Director, Transformation, BSR
Shanghai
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Lin leads BSR’s work in China, with a focus on women workers’ empowerment and supply chain sustainability issues.
She has extensive external and government relations connections and experience and is one of the leading thinkers on supply chain, economic development, and labor issues in China.
Lin started her sustainable business career at the ILO in Geneva, where she designed a project on human resources management and labor relations in China’s special economic zones. She returned to China in 2001 to serve as the project’s chief technical advisor. In 2005, IKEA recruited Lin as a sustainability manager, where she was responsible for the overall IKEA China supply chain sustainability scope, including social and environmental compliance and external relations, as well as for contributing to global sustainability strategy and action plans. 
Lin holds an M.P.S. in International Development Policy from Cornell University and a B.A. in Political Economics and Education from Shanghai Teacher’s College.
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