Many SME leaders whom I’ve been talking to have expressed a strong sense of frustration about their endeavours being battered for the last few years by events beyond their control. This stretches back beyond this year’s COVID-19 outbreak to include the simmering global trade tensions of the...
The evolving digital business landscape in the Asia Pacific region is seeing a trend of operations moving into the cloud. Firms are collecting massive quantities of data that requires analysis, protection, and storage. This data brings significant business opportunities along with it.
SMEs, in...
The past decade has seen rapid evolutions, brought about by the accelerated digitisation of the world economy. Across Asia Pacific, people, businesses and even the public sector are collecting more data more rapidly than ever before.
In Singapore, digital transformation and smart nation initiatives...
It seems almost a cliché to say that one’s business is committed to quality; after all, the products and solutions offered by tech companies form the foundations of both work and leisure in the modern world, and customers have come to expect rock-solid quality assurance.
Southeast Asian Businesses must be prepared for the age of voice-first everything.
Would you
buy a product or service from a company you have not heard of but was recommended
by your voice-based personal assistant? Well, 46% of consumers in Southeast
Asia recently surveyed
said they would.
Recent technologies such as cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) have disrupted the business landscape, leveling the playing field for small medium businesses (SMBs) to compete with established industry players in today’s digital economy. With SMBs making up 99% of Singapore companies, contributing 50% of the...
As Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore stated in the 1998
article “Welcome to the Experience
Economy”: “From now on, leading-edge companies, whether
they sell to consumers or businesses, will find that the next competitive
battleground lies in staging experiences.” The experience thus becomes the
relevant unique selling point that is decisive for...
Cybersecurity threats from malware continue to be a significant risk for organisations large and small. The headline-grabbing, sophisticated attacks of the past couple of years have showcased companies’ vulnerability to threats, and these attacks are only becoming more common.
Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) reported that in 2018,...
As technology lowers the barriers to entry across a multitude of
industries, it is increasingly hard for SMEs to gain the attention of their
target audience’s attention in today’s saturated information landscape.
Consumers receive a constant stream of offers and marketing communications from
an array of brands and sectors across myriad...
