ASEAN

Takeaways from AIBP Insights Hyper-Personalisation for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance: Revisualising Customer Experiences

The customer experience in the financial ecosphere holds massive untapped growth potential. The Harvard Business Review recently reported that 58% of enterprises are seeing a significant increase in customer loyalty...

ASEAN

A Data-driven Approach to Direct-to-consumer (D2C) Distribution: Key Takeaways

The session opened with a presentation by Charles Sevior, Chief Technology Office, APJC, Unstructured Solution, Dell Technologies, on Deriving Actionable Insights from Unstructured Data with AI/ML which included key trends...

ASEAN

User experience, security among top cloud buying drivers in ASEAN (Channel Asia)

The biggest change in ASEAN enterprise cloud buying behaviour, according to GlobalData, is security, which has shifted from being the top barrier to the third most important driver. This has...

Southeast Asia

E-commerce sales in Singapore forecast to hit $13.4 billion by 2026: Report (The Straits Times)

"E-commerce now outranks gaming as one of the top activities consumers do online, possibly because it is evolving to blend entertainment with shopping... Online channels have become more prevalent, from...

Southeast Asia

Trucked and loaded: a greener way to move cargo (The Star)

The efficiency of trucking is improving as new digital freight forwarding marketplaces allow cargoes to be matched better with trucking capacity, reducing the number of journeys made with little or...

ASEAN

Key Points on Customer Interactions in the Internet Economy

Customers today want convenience, and it is the responsibility of service and product providers to develop or adopt strategies and solutions that cater to consumer preferences. As digital adoption becomes...

ASEAN

The Future Retail Ecosystem: Key Highlights

As ASEAN’s internet economy burgeons, It is now easier than ever for businesses in customer-facing industries like retail and services to gain access to potential customers. In recent years, many...

ASEAN

The Tech Edge for ESG: Key Takeaways

An economic powerhouse with immense potential for growth, ASEAN’s awareness of ESG is still at the stage of infancy. However, as ESG becomes part of a firm’s priorities, projects will...

ASEAN

Peeling off the greenwashing label (The Business Times)

Sustainable assets in Asia hit new highs in the second quarter of this year, a testament that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments are still on-trend. Total assets invested in...

ASEAN

South-east Asian consumers prefer digital financial services: study (The Business Times)

South-east Asian consumers are blazing the way for digital financial services, as a recent study from VMware revealed that 57 per cent of consumers in the region prefer engaging with...

ASEAN

Green finance in Asia: Emerging themes and the need for innovation (The Business Times)

A report by DBS and UN Environment on Green Finance Opportunities in Asean estimated that US$200 billion of green investment is needed annually from 2016 to 2030 in Asean to...

ASEAN

How the pandemic has changed ASEAN managed services buying habits (Channel Asia)

“The COVID-19 pandemic not only has accelerated managed service adoption in ASEAN, including the SMB [small- to medium-sized business] segment, but also changed enterprises’ buying behavior while considering new ICT...

ASEAN

Food for Thought: Improving Sustainability in ASEAN’s Agri-food Sector

As the agrifood sector grows, consumers become more aware of issues on sustainability of food production and increase their scrutiny on how businesses in the sector conduct themselves, especially in...

ASEAN

Asian businesses step up to ESG reckoning (The Business Times)

There is a growing body of evidence relating a company's social and environmental impact and its financial performance. A meta-study by New York University's Stern Center for Sustainable Business and Rockefeller...

ASEAN

Food for Thought: Opportunities for ASEAN's Agri-food Sector

ASEAN is poised to be the world’s 4th largest economic bloc by 2030, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Currently, there is a rising middle class demographic in Southeast...

Food for Thought: ASEAN's Growing Demand for Food: How Will Technology Help?

In our first post, we outlined the factors that are expected to drive the rise in demand for food, by as much as 60% in 2030, from 2015 levels.  There...

Can Smart Meters be "Smarter"?

47% of the 650 million ASEAN’s population now live in cities, and by 2030, it is expected that another 90 million people will migrate to these major cities. ASEAN’s rapid...

ASEAN

Food for Thought: Technology and Innovations to Minimise Food Loss and Wastage

Today, we see a rising momentum in the drive towards the zero waste movement as businesses look to operate in a sustainable manner in order to reduce wastage and conserve...

ASEAN

Industry 4.0, Steering the ASEAN Towards EV Manufacturing

The automotive industry has seen a major shift in terms of the most dominant players. In the mid 20th century, the largest player included the USA with their production levels...

ASEAN

Utility of the Future: ASEAN’s Power Companies Drive to Innovate - Takeaways from AIBP Focus, 13 July 2021

In lockstep with strong economic growth, Southeast Asia is one of the fastest-growing regions in the world in terms of electricity demand. Driven by the growing ownership of household appliances...