Fostering digital talents to achieve the goals of the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) journey toward a digital economy and digital society has been radically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years. This situation has led to an unprecedented rise in demand for digital skills while further stressing the importance of having a conducive learning ecosystem capable of cultivating more digital…

Digital Leadership — Outlook and Trends

With a career that spans over four decades, Alex Siow is well-known as Singapore’s first Chief Information Officer in the 1990s. He is the author of Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s First CIO, which is written for the next generation of CIOs, CTOs, and other executives who work closely with technology. It offers practical tips,…

Why must CIOs invest in business analysts to obtain better project outcomes?

According to the PMI Pulse of the Profession report, inaccurate requirements as a result of poor or missing business analysis processes are the second leading cause of project failure (39%), the first reason being changes in an organization’s priorities (41%). There’s no second thought that the requirement’s quality largely determines the end-product quality. Today’s organizations…

Powering a low-carbon digital Thailand

In the journey toward a low-carbon future, Thailand is the first country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to commit to carbon neutrality. At the 2021 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP26, Thailand proposed the visionary Carbon Neutrality 2050 roadmap to address climate change, mirroring the milestone laid…

5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships.  A key step in creating an effective and meaningful relationship is establishing mutually aligned expectations and a commercial agreement. This takes planning. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize…

Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

AssuredPartners is a full-service insurance broker providing commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits. The company, which has more than 8,500 employees, plans to continue growing by acquisition, and consolidating the global insurance market. I recently spoke with CIO Sankha Ghosh about how he has made IT part of the acquisition machine at AssuredPartners and…

A Golden Era of HPC in Government Meets Accelerating Demands

When Seymour Cray built what is generally considered to be the first supercomputer in 1964, it ran 1 megaflop, (a million floating point operations per second). Today, the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee performs one quintillion (a billion billion) operations per second. But the New York Times recently reported that Chinese researchers had broken the exascale computing barrier,…

Knowledge Base Health: How Do You Stack Up?

As you conduct business and try to keep up with the rapid pace of the work week, your documentation can quickly grow outdated. We’ll explain the big problems inaccurate knowledge can cause, how to determine if your knowledge base is inaccurate, and discuss how you can solve this common challenge. What’s life like without knowledge…