A TRAINING workshop was recently held at Laksamana College of Business (LCB). The workshop ‘Zero Marketing Mindset: Branding and Social Media Management’ was facilitated by trainer Mohd Zulhilmi bin Zainal, the Managing Director of Icon Marketing Consultancy. It is a local-based marketing consultancy that provides training, consultation sessions and assistance to start-ups, business graduates and SMEs in Brunei Darussalam since 2015. The participants included students from th

A ONE-DAY workshop on ergonomics was recently held at Laksamana College of Business (LCB), aimed at creating awareness on how work affects people in their working environment. It also looked into the development of solutions for the purpose of improving productivity, reducing discomfort and minimising hazards within the workplace. The workshop was conducted by Mohamad Ghazali Masuri, a UK-trained senior occupational therapy lecturer with 15 years’ work experience under Univer

THE Laksamana College of Business (LCB) recently hosted an insight session on the need for business strategy in an organisational structure, by Irwan bin Haji Lamit (pic below),the Managing Director of BIBD At-Tamwil Bhd. Irwan spoke to a group of 93 students in the 3rd Year Chester Bachelor of Business Programme, who displayed a keen interest to learn more about the real-life aspects of strategic management. In addition, the students were quizzed on a number of business stra

BID.CO emerged as winners of Startup Weekend Brunei, an entrepreneur workshop that took place from April 6-8 at the Laksamana College of Business (LCB). BID.co, an all-girl group, is an acronym for “buy, invest, donate, community”. Second place went to Academy Shack, while CeReally Company grabbed third place. A total of eight teams – consisting of youths aged 16 to 26 from local higher education institutions – took part in the workshop, pitching their way to the top prizes w

A BIG Data lecture was held at Laksamana College of Business yesterday. The session was facilitated by Khairil Anuar bin Md Isa, a guest lecturer from the Health Behaviour and Informatics Unit, Department of Basic Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. Khairil Anuar, whose focus is on specialised analytics systems and software, and Big Data analytics, covered three topics during his lecture: Introduction to Big data, Introduction to Hadoop for Data Storage, and Introd

LOCAL tour agents are in need of more licensed tour guides with Mandarin proficiency to cope with the growing number of visitors from China. Simon Keenan, Head of Business and Hospitality Department at Laksamana College of Business (LCB) said tour agents are currently “short-staffed” and looking for Mandarin-speaking tour guides to fill in the gap in the industry. He shared this during his remarks at the certificate presentation ceremony to award 13 tour guides for completing