{"id":36337,"date":"2013-04-26T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prelive.ceosuite.com\/news\/ceo-suite-serviced-office-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:58:00","slug":"ceo-suite-serviced-office-2","status":"publish","type":"new","link":"https:\/\/prelive.ceosuite.com\/en-id\/news\/ceo-suite-serviced-office-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO SUITE \u2013 Serviced Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are a great many providers of serviced office space in this region \u2013 over 30 in Singapore and Hong Kong strikes the century mark. And all business professionals understand the benefits of using serviced offices, so how is anyone \u2013 the small business person (typically, but not always) \u2013 supposed to choose between the different providers?<\/p>\n

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Well, the answer\u2019s quite simple. Don\u2019t focus purely on the facilities and the offices themselves \u2013 a mistake many business professional make. Of course, state-of-the-art facilities are vital, however, the real value comes with the service provided.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe position ourselves as a service company, not just a serviced office provider,\u201d says CEO SUITE, President, Ms Mee Kim, a Korean by birth, but lives in Jakarta and Singapore, with a Masters read at a university in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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CEO SUITE is Kim\u2019s brain-child, she is an owner-manager, with a great many years experience in the serviced office industry. Kim is also the mother of a five-year-old boy and balances a frenetic home-life with her globe-trotting commitments. However, her team, members of which she has hand-picked from across Asia, boasts no less experienced.<\/p>\n

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Says Carole Khoo, General Manager for Singapore: \u201cThere is a great deal of experience in this team. No one is fresh out of college. Even our receptionist has ten years of experience \u2013 not in being a receptionist, but in being an experienced receptionist in this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Khoo, a Singaporean, is a further example of this trend. Her background is in hospitality before she moved on to a large multinational serviced office provider, before being headhunted by Kim.<\/p>\n

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Like a great many other successful businesses, a good team may not be enough to survive adversity in the market. CEO SUITE clearly has a good team, but something more has helped it to actually expand with one new office per year over the last five years\u2026 all in a market which has forced many of its competitors \u2013 large and small \u2013 to fold.<\/p>\n

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The management team has a couple of important, survival of the fittest, qualities. They are experts at identifying opportunities out of the economic rubble, and they are aggressive.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly though, but by no means accidental, the team comprises almost exclusively of women. And this is where Mee Kim goes controversial \u2013 tongue-in-cheek, of course: \u201cNinety-five percent of our clientele is male\u2026 isn\u2019t it obvious that we should be women? Women are more intuitive and in my opinion have a better eye for this sort of business.\u201d OK, we\u2019ll leave that there. But one thing is for sure: spending their way out of bad economic times is something governments have been doing for years, but a business performing its own model of fiscal pump-priming is not only quite innovative, but also very courageous. And it\u2019s working, says Kim: \u201cYou have to spend money to make money. It\u2019s as simple as that. And that\u2019s why we have opened, and intend to keep opening, new offices. Shanghai is the latest, and we are looking forward to entry into that market.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of the day however, this organisation is just not about opening branches, and domination of the serviced office world \u2013 its management is clearly committed to a boutique-brand image \u2013 it\u2019s about quality of service. \u201cThere\u2019s a demand for creativity and we will endeavour to meet any request from a client,\u201d says Khoo: \u201cWe can cater for clients who just need our offices for cocktail parties or an international video-conference. You can hire a meeting room for one hour or you can set up a telemarketing floor. We are all focused about meeting needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And CEO SUITE has the clients to back-up its promises. They range from single proprietors and semi-retired professionals and consultants to Fortune 1000 companies \u2013 all satisfied that the people at CEO SUITE are adaptive enough to meet their special requirements.<\/p>\n

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