Revealing Yamato's secrets to success

Singapore

INNOVATION is an essential part of business that all corporations try to encourage among their employees. At Yamato, there exists a synergistic fusion of Japanese-style management and a culture of innovation that has led the company to where it is today.

The Japanese logistics specialist, which owns popular delivery service TA-Q-BIN, currently uses Singapore as a testbed to explore innovative business models for various industries in South-east Asian operations.

The group's South-east Asian subsidiary, Yamato Asia, partnered with the Economic Development Board to set up its Asia Business-Model Innovation Centre (ABIC) in Singapore, which tests out new technologies and studies ways to implement the…