Market Trends & Outlook

Half Of Senior Leaders Rate Their Business Transformations A Waste Of Time (Forbes)

More than 1,000 C-suite executives and a similar number of business analysts found that nearly half of senior leaders believed their business transformations had been a waste of time.  This...

ASEAN

CFOs are becoming driver of Digital Transformation (Tech Observer)

When it comes to digital transformation of an organisation, most of us think that it is the CIO or CTO that lead the digital transformation journey but that is not always the...

ASEAN

Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology (Harvard Business Review)

A recent survey of  directors, CEOs, and senior executives found that digital transformation (DT) risk is their #1 concern in 2019. Yet 70% of all DT initiatives do not reach their goals. Of...

Indonesia

Indonesia invites Americans to invest in digital economy, tourism (Antara News)

The Indonesian government invited American investors to invest in the digital economy and the development of "10 New Balis", a plan that aims to replicate the economic effects of tourism...

Indonesia

Riding the wave of Asia's technological disruption (The Jakarta Post)

Less than half of the population in the region has access to the internet, Information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure is required to jumpstart the digital revolution.  This article originally...

Southeast Asia

Powering Smart City Developments in South East Asia

Southeast Asia is expected to become the world’s 4th largest economy by 2030 with projected growth rates of 5.2% between 2018 and 2022. As urbanisation and industrialisation in ASEAN increases,...

Asia Pacific

Southeast Asia 'smart cities' redesign roads and grids with Japan (Nikkei Asian Review)

Japan will help build "smart cities" across Southeast Asia, using artificial intelligence and networked devices to tackle problems like road congestion and energy conservation. This article originally appeared on Nikkei Asian...

Thailand

Schneider Electric expanding with IoT (Bangkok Post)

France-based Schneider Electric has committed to expanding its business presence in Southeast Asia with an Internet of Things (IoT) concept called EcoStruxure. Thailand was chosen as the first country in this...

Thailand

IoT regulations due next year (Bangkok Post)

A series of regulatory conditions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and related device connectivity are scheduled to be implemented by 2019 to handle machine-to-machine connectivity in the industrial sector, with...

Asia Pacific

Asia's overstretched airports brace for 4bn flyers (Nikkei Asian Review)

In the Asia-Pacific region alone, 228 new airports are being built, according to the CAPA Center for Aviation, a Sydney-based industry think tank. That is more than half the global...

Vietnam

Vietnam releases cybersecurity draft decree (Channel NewsAsia)

Vietnam on Friday released a long-waited draft decree on guidelines to implement a cybersecurity law that global technology companies and rights groups have said could undermine development and stifle innovation....

Malaysia

Malaysia’s Airports 4.0 Initiative to digitalize airport experience by 2020

Malaysia’s Airports Holding Bhd (MAHB) has allocated a budget of 100 million ringgit (US$ 24 Million) over next 5 year to introduce airport 4.0 for selected local airport network.

Singapore

Singapore: Our Approach to Digitalization (Bloomberg)

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the number of connected devices in and around people's homes will grow to 14 billion by 2022, from 1 billion in...

Asia Pacific

Securing smart cities in the age of IoT and AI (Enterprise Innovation)

By 2021, approximately 60% of Asia Pacific’s GDP will be derived from digital products or service and grow by 0.8% CAGR annually. One of the three top benefits of this evolution...

Asia Pacific

Global study reveals that 75% of APAC IT Security Teams believe that their IoT devices are not secure (Business Insider)

More than three-quarters of respondents believe their IoT devices are not secure, with 75 percent stating even simple IoT devices pose a threat. Two-thirds of respondents admitted they have little...

Thailand

Dassault Systèmes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa)

Senior officials from depa visited Dassault Systèmes in Singapore earlier this year in February at Asia IoT Business Platform Singapore and had the chance to meet with the team who...

Vietnam

Japan to lift investment in VN IT sector (Việt Nam News)

Japanese information and technology (IT) firms have been expanding their investment into Việt Nam and hiring more Vietnamese workers, according to experts at the Việt Nam-Japan ICT Day This article...

Vietnam

Vietnam Industry 4.0 -Manufacturing, Factories and Logistics

According to Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, technology trends and the Fourth Industrial Revolution provide a marvellous opportunity for development if we know how to unlock potential...

Southeast Asia

Singapore deepens digital capabilities through Singtel Innovation Centre (Channel Asia Singapore)

Singtel Innovation centre fosters collaboration between technology partners from small and medium enterprises as well as global technology leaders with Singtel and its customers, leveraging on the 650 million consumers across Australia,...

Southeast Asia

Has Asia bought into the concept of smart cities? (Tech Wire Asia)

According to a new report by IDC, smart city initiatives will attract technology investments of more than US$81 billion globally this year, and spending is set to grow to US$158 billion...