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In a February 2021 report, Morgan Stanley’s global head of M&A, Rob Kindler said: “All the elements are there for an active M&A market in 2021, from corporations looking for scale and growth to private equity firms and SPACs looking to invest capital. Just what exactly is driving M&A activities, particularly in Asia, and what is the role of the CFO, particularly in these uncertain time...

Agile started off as a discussion on how to improve product development. That was in 2000. 20 years on, is the context in which it was conceived still relevant? In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, Cliff Berg, founder of Agile 2 and consultant and founder of Agile Griffin, and Lisa Cooney, principal agile coach at Axios. They share their views on how Agile 2 addresses the limitations of the...

Not since the introduction of GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation have we seen a resurgence in discussion around the protection of personal privacy in light of the growing calls against indiscriminate use and possible abuse of customer data. But just how do you deliver or tailor a solution to a customer without violating the rights of the customer to his or her privacy? At the same time...

How business was conducted changed dramatically in 2020 due to COVID-19, driving companies of This 2021, IDC expects worldwide UC&C growth to be driven by customers across all business size segments (small, midsize, and large) with interest especially in video, collaboration, UCaaS, mobile applications, and digital transformation (DX) projects.  In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO Peter...

A 2020 study commissioned by NordPass revealed that most people, on average, have about 100 passwords to remember. That number increased by 25% from 2019 and is attributed in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people doing more things online, and thereby introducing the necessity to generate new accounts. Just how many of these 100 passwords are iterations of a few is up for speculation. The obvi...

Some time back Gartner proclaimed "The Data Centre is Dead". Gartner was clear that the days of the traditional enterprise-owned data centre serving as the sole location to source IT services were waning. According to Statista, in 2021, the US had over 2,670 data centres. China was a distant 4th place with 416 data centres. Should companies still own their own data centres - co-located o...

Gartner says site reliability engineering (SRE) enables organizations to fulfil their reliability needs at scale to support the demands of digital business.  Site reliability engineering (SRE) promises methods to improve resiliency in organizations while they pursue agility in digital transformation.  In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, Wes Hummel, Vice President of Site Reliability and Clo...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

It goes without saying that the workforce experienced a cataclysmic shift to remote models due to COVID-19. Businesses were forced to digitalise in a matter of days, a process that would have traditionally taken months if not years. With the entire workforce working from home, cyber-attackers saw this as an opportunity to step up their criminal activity and exploit vulnerable employees. In today’s...

There has always been a need for protecting private data, but long gone are the days when sensitive customer documents were locked on a filing cabinet at the end of the workday. In our digital world, customers share more information about themselves than ever, across a variety of platforms. We often hear in media and at conferences about advances in technology to catch up with regulations on data...

“(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...