As companies and workers transition into an endemic world, upskilling remains a key driver to build new capabilities and soar forward. According to business leaders however, skills mismatch continues to be the most prevalent form of mismatches (63%).
This is in comparison to experience...
Singapore outlined plans in November to establish itself as
a global hub for developing, test-bedding, deploying, and scaling AI solutions,
as part of its National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy. This was
announced by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation
Initiative and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore, at...
Over 75 per cent of Malaysian businesses have embraced at least one FinTech product or service over the past 12 months, according to findings from a new regional survey of business FinTech usage by global professional accounting organisation CPA Australia.
Mobile payments and digital wallets...
Singapore moved up two notches in the 2023 Global Innovation Index (GII) to 5th in the world and regained its top spot in Asia after coming behind South Korea in the last two years.
The GII is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization...
One in four Malaysian small businesses surveyed in CPA Australia's Asia-Pacific Small Business Survey 2021-2022 are planning to introduce a new product, process or service to the country, or indeed the world, this year.This innovative small business culture is critical to Malaysia attaining a 'high technology nation' status...
A global talent shortage is limiting the take-up of new technology for more than a third of businesses in Hong Kong, according to a CPA Australia's survey.
A regional survey of business technology adoption by CPA Australia found 73 per cent of respondents in...
Sophos has announced the findings of its global survey, “The State of Ransomware 2021,” which reveals that the average total cost of recovery from a ransomware attack for businesses in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) has more than doubled in a year increasing by more than US$1 million,...
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...
Nielsen has released its 2022 Annual Marketing Report, expanded for the first time to a global audience. It uncovers that marketers have key priorities for the year ahead, and where marketers have struggled over the past two years due to consumers’ changing media habits.
Small and medium-sized businesses (or SMBs) are not ready for cyberthreats. A 2020 report PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong revealed that 73% of SMBs do not have a dedicated cybersecurity team, and only 53% of them have antivirus solutions in place.
The same study found that...
