The COVID-19 pandemic has driven companies to reinvent their operations to effectively deal with the changing needs of their customers. For businesses in the food and beverages industry, undergoing a digital transformation has become instrumental to ensuring business continuity and resiliency at the advent of the so-called new normal. The…
Published February 1, 2021, 8:00 AM
This is part of a series of profiles on a new generation of leaders, thinkers, creators, innovators, and trailblazers across many fields in the country. The list is drawn under the theme “What’s Now, What’s New, What’s Next” in celebration of Manila Bulletin’s 121st anniversary as an exponent of Philippine progress.
Pauline Suaco-Juan: A case of reinvention
When former fashion editrix
Pauline Suaco-Juan was appointed executive editor of the Center for International Trade, Expositions, and Missions (CITEM), it wasn’t at all like she moved to a new planet. To her, it’s the same thing, just a different medium. And then the pandemic happened. “It’s surreal how life before the pandemic was only about a year ago but is already an entire chapter of world history unto itself,” she muses. Yet Pauline and CITEM adapted just as quickly as she moved from one industry to the next as though just changing shoes.