The digital economy has become a major engine of the global economy. Green and low-carbon technologies have become new drivers for sustainable development. Asia-Pacific is ripe with opportunities for digital transformation, and a digital Asia-Pacific is rapidly approaching. According to the ASEAN Development Outlook report and the Southeast Asia Digital Economy Report, by 2030, ASEAN…
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…
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,…
At the Asia-Pacific Innovation Day — Digital Talent Summit, Professor Dr. Sirirurg Songsivilai delivered a keynote speech to address the cultivation of digital talent and advancing ongoing collaborations in the region. This is an edited version of his speech. Even though we find ourselves still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is light…
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…
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…
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…
The CIO role can open a lot of doors for career growth. When they’re ready to move on from leading IT operations at their organization, CIOs can shift into another C-suite position, take a leadership role at a technology vendor, start up their own venture, or leave the corporate environment altogether. For some, consulting is…
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…
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,…