Most executives make their decisions based on the perspectives, trends and cycles that are already known today. However, this view carries the risk of thinking too linearly and of missing out on the crucial innovation point.

SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, just launched a new SAP Leonardo Center in Singapore to support its customers, partners and the broader ecosystem of universities and start-ups across the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. The new center will play a key role in realizing SAP’s growth strategy, pointing out that according to the World Economic Forum, Singapore is the most competitive economy in Asia Pacific and third globally.

The 6th Mobile IoT Summit during MWC focused this year on the rapid growth and momentum behind both NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies, since both are expected to grow exponentially in 2018.

PwC examined in a new report the impacts of three overlapping waves of automation - the algorithm, augmentation and autonomy wave. The research analyzed the tasks and skills involved in the jobs of over 200,000 workers across 29 countries in order to assess the potential impact of automation on workers in different industry sectors and of different genders, ages and education levels.

Kantar Millward Brown recently analyzed the world's most important digital media trends of the new year. According to the market research and consulting firm, a new distribution of advertising budgets can be expected, as well as consumer innovations in areas such as Walled Gardens, Branded Entertainment and Artificial Intelligence:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has found its way into our living rooms, as seen with Siri, Alexa, or Cortana, pointing out that the demand for real-time data analysis tools will heavily increase. Most IT applications will be supplemented by AI and self-learning, machine-learning (ML) -driven intelligent systems will gain the upper hand over the next three years.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become indispensable in science. Ultimately it is able to analyze large amounts of data much faster than the human brain. By now, the systems have even progressed so far that they deduce appropriate conclusions and can act accordingly. Thus, the discipline has made breakthroughs in discovering correlations in research in various fields, marketing being one of them.

In celebration of their second anniversary and 100th blog post, Just Imagine, our friends from Aurecon just published their first eBook #100GoodIdeas. The company’s award-winning future-focused blog encourage its readers arrestingly to explore what is possible through their imagination.

According to new data from Accenture Strategy, working professionals worldwide are more willing to work with intelligent machines than public opinion suggests.

The mobile advertising platform ‘AdColony’ met the stringent requirements from leading advertising accountability group, the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), and received the coveted Certified Against Fraud certification.

Sometimes referred to as ‘hybrid reality’, mixed reality (MR) is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.

AllRites just announced the launch of a global B2B marketplace for Asian film, tv, and sports broadcast content, providing an online platform to discover, negotiate and purchase content rights.

With the rise of technology, ransomware and other cyberattacks accelerate their proceedings. In fact, not only the frequency, but also the sophistication of attacks of online criminals are steadily increasing - with sometimes devasting effects. Just think about the extortionist Trojan ‘WannaCry’ launched last year, which taught us above all one thing: no company can feel safe nowadays.

According to Gartner, 25% of customer service and support operations will integrate virtual customer assistant (VCA) or chatbot technology across engagement channels by 2020, up from less than two percent in 2017.