The insatiable demand for quality content requires organizations to move beyond traditional advertising and to harness their ability to produce truly authentic, credible and relevant content, according to new research from Accenture Interactive. The research Read more…
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – Seeking to escape a cycle of falling prices and tight regulation, big telecom operators from Vimpelcom to Telefonica are set to reinvent themselves as internet players to escape the industry’s straight-jacket of Read more…
For Asia’s telecoms players, digital transformation requires an all-or-nothing strategy, buy-in at the top and a long-term view. The Asian Telecoms vertical is lagging behind others in digital transformation, according to Ovum’s ICT Enterprise Insights Read more…
People hold the power to shape and apply technology to create positive change, improve lives, and transform business and society, according to Accenture Technology Vision 2017, the annual technology report from Accenture that predicts the most Read more…
Accenture has released Fjord Trends 2017, its tenth annual report examining the most significant emergent digital trends expected to disrupt organizations and society in the year ahead, from mixed realities (AR, VR, etc) and humanized Read more…
The TM Forum Live! conference returned to Asia last week, and as many forum members might agree, it wouldn’t be a TM Forum event without Strategist and Catalyst Evangelist Tony Poulos getting into an onstage Read more…
One third of enterprises globally are underprepared for digital transformation, and while 60% believe their organization’s process of digital transformation is “well advanced” or “in progress,” only 7% believe it to be complete. That’s according Read more…
Weekly Wrap 5 features John Tanner and Tony Poulos discussing the news highlights from the week that was. For the week ending December 10: It was the week that the TM Forum Live! conference returned Read more…
The vast majority of Asian retailers and manufacturers plan to adopt disruptive technologies to boost competitiveness, according to a survey from NTT Communications, but security regulations, legacy IT infrastructure and procurement complexity are key barriers Read more…
Put a bunch of operators and vendors together on a panel about digital transformation (or just about any topic, really) and you’re going to get some diverse comments. But at a panel on “coming to Read more…
The TM Forum has given Asia-based members its first glimpse of a new Digital Maturity Model, a business tool to help telecoms players – and in fact any enterprise – get to grips with the Read more…
Accenture has opened a flagship location for Accenture Interactive in Hong Kong that will serve as a space for the company’s clients to co-create, innovate and apply the latest digital technologies and experiences. The 40,000+-square-foot Read more…
Cisco today launched Cisco ST>RT (pronounced “Start”), a new initiative to help Asia’s midmarket and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take advantage of the vast opportunities created by the region’s booming digitization by making Read more…
Huawei has announced the official establishment of its Computing Innovation Openlab, which it says is dedicated to “enabling computing innovation and digital transformation in the cloud computing and Big Data era.” The Computing Innovation Openlab Read more…
ITEM: Australia’s Communications Minister plans to repeal laws governing anti-competitive conduct in the telecoms industry. Telstra is delighted. Hardly anyone else is. According to ZDNet, Comms Minister Mitch Fifield announced the changes last Thursday, under Read more…
The Asia-Pacific FinTech landscape is witnessing unprecedented growth – much of it driven by digital payments – with FinTech solutions and services expected to gross more than $70 billion in revenue by 2020 (a CAGR Read more…
Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sports (MoEYS) that will see the deployment of an all-inclusive “education transformation framework” that aims to transform learning experiences for Read more…
Weekly Wrap 3 features John Tanner and Tony Poulos discussing the news highlights from the week that was. For the week ending November 26: It was the week where we learned that Singapore is the Read more…
ITEM: When the Economist Intelligence Unit put Singapore at the top of its first Asian Digital Transformation Index, one angle it didn’t factor in was its smart-city initiatives – at least not specifically. The index Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its very first index rating the digital transformation readiness of APAC countries on Tuesday – and Singapore is at the top of it, thanks largely to its advanced digital Read more…
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