The coming Chinese New Year 2007 celebrates the Year of the Red Pig and here ASAP Asia presents our “2007 Lunar New Year Horoscopic Needs Assessment”. Working with our trusted geomantic soothsayer, Master Ai Ahn Yi-Qing, we have used the trigrams to examine each of the individual 12 animals different fortunes and identify the services you will need in the future. Enjoy!
An excellent year to engage with ASAP Asia to provide business corporate team gathering, strategic risk analysis and consultancy on new marketing direction. Spending budget tucked away last year on ASAP Asia will be wise. By slowing down your hectic travel schedule, you will have more opportunity to “learn something new” before making any major corporate changes, or moving offices.
A good year to grow & expand your network of contacts, as the majority of Oxens will have good fortunes under the pig year. It will also be a year when all of your expertise will be required to manage new risks in partnership with others. Expect travel to be extensive but productive. Yet, this will be a good year for Oxen to outsource work to ASAP Asia, because all of the travel means a loss of time at home, more stress, and it will be difficult for you to gain sympathy or support if you refuse to contract out some of the work.
It will be a “lovefest” for you at headquarters, and almost everyone will want to lend support to your cause. This is a good year for Tigers in terms of wealth from work as there are lucky constellation stars impacting all around. In fact, Tigers can expect a year of good communication thus this will be a good year for you to place ASAP Asia on a long-term retainer to help you conduct risk audits and for your team to implement our recommendations for improvements to bolster team spirit to enable you to manage problems and relations with other people with ease. Although your passion to get the job done will be well received, you should retain ASAP Asia to manage conflict with Monkeys and Snakes, who will not “feel the love”. Possibly these conflicts will involve fraud investigations or attacks in places where your perception of risk is lower than the real threat level.
Rabbit: VERY GOOD 1915,1927,1939,1951,1963,1975,1987,1999,2011,2023
This is the year for Rabbits that have not used ASAP Asia in a while to re-establish close contact, and let us help you increase your comfort level that risks are being well managed leaving you more time to enjoy life. This year will be a fantastic year to retain ASAP Asia to provide that “gotcha” piece of business intelligence or help you reap brownie points in your work relations. In doing so, we can help you make this the year of your “big win”, which you’ll brag about into retirement.
Dragon: GOOD 1916, 1928,1940,1952,1964,1976,1988, 2000,2012, 2024
Sometimes it pays to be lucky, which fortunately you are. But you should not be complacent. Steady progress on existing projects must remain your major focus, and this year you’ll need to do more to “make your own luck”. ASAP Asia will be pleased to continue to provide the advice and support that brings peace of mind to our Dragon clients. An investment early in the year which involves ASAP Asia to conduct “big think” risk reviews and market surveys, will help you win in the future. This year you will have more money to spend on new initiatives, and we encourage you to consider new ways to take advantage of ASAP Asia’s growing team of specialists world-wide.
ASAP Asia recommends a focus on health and human safety. Those in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and agri-businesses should focus on product contamination as well. Retaining ASAP Asia to conduct a safety and security “health check up” would be wise, as would an examination of K&R and extortion risks. Bird flu, poor or unsafe travel and transit conditions for you and your team, environmental risks, all pose challenges. The upside is that you may be promoted if things are handled well, and you should receive the budget to do more with ASAP Asia than you think possible.
A year for consolidating your team, focusing on simple tried and true solutions, and engaging ASAP Asia to give you a steady feed of information and insight about the future. This is the year you should engage ASAP Asia’s 24/7 on call service to provide for that any special need or as a “safety net”, where our crisis management team can respond to any loss event. Consult with our ASAP Asia staff to provide executive protection, lend a hand on an investigation, or local translation. You know that a little extra help will prevent you from experiencing the setbacks of the past. At the end of the year, retain ASAP Asia to generate the solutions that will generate success in 2008.
Sheep: VERY GOOD 1919,1931,1943,1955,1967,1979,1991,2003,2015,2027
Luck and good fortune will bestow the sheep this year if you can find ways to cut costs and reap in the benefits available. Better security and corporate function management at a reduced cost is possible if you retain ASAP Asia’s independent and reliable experts to generate expense-reducing ideas. This will also be the year for you to retain ASAP Asia to conduct pre-transaction due diligence inquiries to gain the insights that will ensure good corporate partnerships. Sheep should engage the services of our concierge service to enjoy unique, first-class corporate and personal travel experiences (backed by I-On Asia’s security experts).
A good year to keep your head down, Monkey. You will need all the help you can get to accomplish essential tasks. Monkeys will loose sleep and money on internal and external fraud, and a failure or loss at headquarters may lead to attacks on your capabilities (think about reputation risk). This could also make it difficult for you to keep the budget you know you need to make improvements. Request help from the qualified professionals at ASAP Asia to identify the problems and fix them – not just CYA – with a focus on return on investment.
Rooster: GOOD 1921,1933,1945,1957,1969,1981,1993,2005,2017,2029
This is the year to hand over to ASAP Asia the work you’ve been stuck doing, but don’t necessarily like. Due diligence, organizing employment training, annual events plus management, and other basic services can be reliably handled by ASAP Asia. With this newfound freedom, you’ll have more time to affect real strategic change – and improve corporate culture. (Just don’t be too blunt!) So unencumbered, you can also confidently chase that internal promotion, or move on to the next job that takes better advantage of your energies.
Dog: GOOD 1922,1934,1946,1958,1970,1982,1994,2006,2018,2030
You have learned the hard way that bad things can happen to good people. But past events may not recur, and you need to focus on the future. Dogs are leaders and should utilize ASAP’s concierge to make sure that ‘the boss’ gets his fishing trip, and that it goes off without a hitch. By taking advantage of ASAP Asia’s focus on detail, you will achieve what you want. ASAP understands that you retain us to help other people, and we win when you do.
Pig: VERY GOOD 1923,1935,1947,1959,1971,1983,1995,2007,2019,2020,2031
Pigs eat and sleep more but worry less than the other animals. This is what makes them lucky! With spirits and energy levels high, Pigs will make lots of money this year. With water being a “fighting element”, Pigs should allow ASAP Asia to plan and protect against the next tsunami, floods, hurricanes and other disasters involving water (especially for those in “high places”). Pigs will have the budget from this year’s good fortune to build operations and so it is the best time to seek for those much needed solutions now. Strengthening relationships and building the team is important this year for Pigs to achieve their much sought after targets.
