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“(Platformification) Is a plug and play business model that allows multiple participants to connect to it, interact with each other and exchange value.” – Ron Shevlin, Managing Director of FinTech Research. Fintechs have been quick to grab this platformification and have used this as a core technology to disrupt bankers and impress customers. Insurtech firms are not far behind but so are tradition...

The healthcare sector with its copious amount of patient data presents an attractive target for cybercriminals. With many focused on containing the COVID-19 pandemic, is there room to relax our guard against cyber contagion? With us today is Nilesh Jain, Vice President, Southeast Asia & India, Trend Micro, to discuss how Singapore’s healthcare sector is coping with the growing cyber risks and...

In a blog post, Brian Kropp , group vice president at Gartner, wrote “no one would dispute that 2020 upended business models, priorities and plans as organizations were forced to navigate a rapidly changing environment. HR was at the forefront of initiatives to respond to a wide range of internal and external transformative trends, from employee well-being to new workforce models and social justic...

Digital transformation is more important as we progress into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Today the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds are blurring, as consumers and businesses embrace the realities of a more digitally connected economy.  Yet some experts argue that as much as 70 percent of digital transformations fail. Why is that? In today’s PodChats for FutureCIO, w...

Across industries, organizations are accelerating digital transformation processes for long-term growth and profitability. Gartner says that 53% of the organizations surveyed remain untested in the face of digital challenge and their digital transformation readiness therefore uncertain.” What that we don’t hear often enough about is how the accelerated pace of change forced on consumers and busine...

According to the World Retail Banking Report 2021 , sponsored by Capgemini and Efma, “42% of bank executives polled said that they were not sure how to integrate and streamline mid-, back- and front-office functions effectively, and 46% said they are unsure how to embrace open banking, orchestrate the ecosystem or become a truly data-driven organization.”  At the same time, consumers adjusted to t...

Leadership is both a research area, and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. U.S. academic environments define leadership as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. It...

One of the few unexpected benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the acceleration of digital initiatives, and not just the customer-facing elements of it, but the modernisation of internal systems and processes.  The result is the proliferation of hybrid clouds. Now, contrary to marketing hype, managing an enterprise in a hybrid cloud is not as easy as it seems. Most public clouds are built on...

Gartner defines AIOps as AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. How AIOPs is transforming IT operations and management as organisations approach the next phase of their digital transformation journey is the subject of our PodCHats for FutureCIO. With us is Carlos Gómez Gallego, Ch...

Despite all the advances in technology, including advanced analytics, data management, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the CEOs that participated in the EY study, acknowledged significant gaps remain in their organisations’ ability to generate value from their data. In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, TJ Chandler, Managing Director, APAC at Fivetran, talks about strategies for...

Organisations have many choices in terms of how they want to design their hybrid IT architecture, there are many combinations available depending on the needs and the legacy systems of the organisations.  Exploring this model creates incredible flexibility but has the potential to inject greater networking and security complexity.  Sandeep Bhargava, Managing Director of Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), R...

The world has never been connected as it is today. We have the telecom industry to thank for that provided us with the connection to the world from almost any device, any platform, 24x7.  But isn’t this connectivity also one of the primary sources of cyber insecurity? With access and resources, you’d think these service providers could and should provide us with the protection we expect and deserv...

In the Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service report, Gartner says Enterprise iPaaS is foundational for supporting application and data integration, and increasingly used for B2B integration and API management. Ajit Melarkode, Vice President – Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), Boomi, speaks out on: What exactly is iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service)? What role d...

As organisations move applications to the cloud, how is this changing the views of CIOs with regards to keeping the lights on for legacy infrastructure? Matthew Hurford, field CTO and vice president, solutions engineering, Asia Pacific for NetApp, offers his take on the following issues faced by CIOs as they look to introduce AI in IT operations: The nature of business has evolved and enterprises...

It’s been observed that 2020 saw enterprises accelerate cloud adoption in part to support the unexpected remote working exodus that happened as a result of the pandemic. Some CIOs we spoke to said, however, commented that the cloudification of legacy enterprise applications is going to take a slower route. Pat Phelan, VP of Market Research at Rimini Street, to shed light on the options available t...

As powerful and innovative as the cloud is, it’s also complex and ever-changing. From a security standpoint, this creates lots of challenges and loopholes. In this PodChat for FutureCIO, Cathy Huang, associate research director, at IDC Asia-Pacific to talk about cloud security – what it is, what we are doing wrong, and what we are doing right about it.

Analysts like IDC and Gartner agree that cloud adoption in Asia continues to accelerate in 2021, thanks in part to the disruption to work caused by COVID-19 in 2021. Also, a big thank you to digital transformation which is another beneficiary of the pandemic. While the initial challenge for many organisations was figuring out which cloud approach works best for their business, those involved in th...

In recent years insurance has stepped up to the digital future driven in part by digital-led disruptions by insurtech startups, as well as the success of digital-native financial services. But beyond creating fancy user interfaces or more automated ways of customer onboarding or claims processing is the need to better understand what a customer wants and needs. Enter predictive modelling or the ab...

After years of hype, anticipation, and steady uptake, the Internet of Things (IoT) seems poised to cross over into mainstream business use. The number of businesses that use IoT technologies has increased from 13% in 2014 to about 25% today.  McKinsey notes that as IoT become easier to implement, it will open the door for wider adoption by enterprises spanning industry, business focus and even the...

The annual International Women’s Day is just around the corner. FutureCIO is running a series of interviews with women leaders from across industries and functions as our way of contributing to the gender equality movement. As our contribution to this year’s International Women’s Day, we continue the series with a candid discussion with Ms Grace Cheong, Vice-President, HR, Asia Pacific, China and...

In this episode, we look at how enterprises are responding to the evolving threat landscape in Asia. With us today is Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific at Darktrace.

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) which represents 290 airlines, the proportion of women holding C-level roles in the industry is just three percent. The aviation sector continues to have one of the poorest gender balances. The lack of females is particularly apparent at leadership level.  But what are the main barriers to women’s advancement in the industry? How can...

Chris Morris, vice president for cloud & partner ecosystems research at IDC Asia-Pacific says: "Organizations of all sizes now see cloud as a critical component of their forward-looking IT strategy. IDC expects that early adopters of cloud and other digital technologies are best positioned to ride out this kind of storm with the least amount of disruption from an operational perspective.&...

This year’s international women’s day campaign theme is Choose to Challenge. The call to action is “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.”  Ceri Howes,  Head of Regulatory at Opensignal, shares her experiences climbing the leadership ladd...

The annual International Women’s Day is just around the corner. FutureCIO is running a series of interviews with women leaders from across industries and functions as our way of contributing to the gender equality movement. Dana Nino, Senior Vice President for Global Growth, Customer Success and Partnership at global Fintech company Nium, lends her experience and expertise on how women can succeed...