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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
For Australian CIOs, digital transformation is firmly embedded into their organisation’s formula for success, and the focus in their role is shifting to reflect this change. “With their extensive knowledge of how the business operates, they’re now seen as the agent of change management, the guardian of data excellence, head of business intelligence and the…