Streamlining the way the future of work opeartes with technology is key enabler to a modern workplace. Asia Pacific (APAC) business decision makers are calibrating their digital transformation strategies while balancing cost management initiatives and plans for growth in new markets. In a recently released report, The APAC Transformation Vision: Balancing…
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Winson Group proved power of cloud through rapid response to pandemic. When things began to not feel right during an 2019 trip to China, Alan Webster general manager Information Technology at Winson Group decided to act immediately and ordered new mobile devices as a “just-in-case”. Within days of the just-in-case…
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India’s ICT Spending to grow by over 10 per cent to reach US$91 billion in 2021. Enterprises’ focus during the current pandemic to ensure future growth, innovation, and resilience is helping to revive Indian ICT spend to a strong positive outlook in 2021. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts India’s ICT Spending…
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Australia’s national science agency needs someone bring it all together. The CSIRO is currently looking for a Digital Transformation Strategist to work with IM&T, Data61 and BUs to bring together a CSIRO Digital Strategy. Digital Transformation of CSIRO’s scientific inquiry is critical for its future leadership and relevance on the world…
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Kuroda Haruhiko Governor of Bank of Japan talks about fintech as a service. The term “as-a-Service,” appearing more frequently nowadays, seems to indicate servitisation of product functions or, to put it simply, a business model for providing “services” on customer demand, instead of “sales” to sell products out to customers.…
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Developing efficient digital capabilities to cater to mass markets. Both traditional Asian banks and top foreign banks in the Asia Pacific region are experiencing growing competition from two types of technologically advanced players. One is the emerging WealthTech firms that are developing advanced B2B and B2C digital solutions, while the…
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Aimed to stimulate Japan’s economic growth. Japan plans to drive mass-scale digitisation across the country in support of its Society 5.0 vision and towards an inclusive recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic. The program will be conducted in collaboration with Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) Program. Takuya Hirai Minister of…
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Sponsored content: Thursday, 25th February 2021, Asia Today’s complex IT environments make maintaining ‘the always-on’ availability more challenging than ever before, even as IT has become central to most business operations. Maintaining uninterrupted business operations has become more complicated as IT environments involve a complex mixture of hybrid and cloud…
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As profits dropped due to the global pandemic in 2020, global financial institution focuses on agility and digital mindset HSBC has reported profit after tax down 30 per cent to US$6.1bn and reported profit before tax down 34 per cent to US$8.8bn from higher expected credit losses and other credit impairment…
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