The ‘competitive DNA’ for South East Asia: Does your business have it?
February 24, 2012
Raffles Hotel, Singapore
By 2020, South East Asia (SEA) is expected to be among the world’s 10 largest economies and the fourth largest in Asia. The demographic fabric will consist of more than 650 million people, most of whom will be middle class, educated and aged below 30, with rising disposable incomes and a strong appetite for consumption. A growing consumer market and significant economic integration efforts across the 10 South East Asian nations is giving birth to a new regional business destination.
Accenture has recently conducted a study with South East Asia’s business leaders, public sector organizations and industry associations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam on businesses seeking new growth frontiers in the region. Our research indicates that several opportunities exist within national as well as regional borders as South East Asian nations continue to build and grow their economies. These range from meeting investment demands in less developed nations or leveraging existing advantages in certain sectors such as high value-add manufacturing, to opportunities that are driven by increasing consumer demands or complementary strengths across the region.
In this thought-provoking session, we will explore:
- To what extent will South East Asia be impacted by the continued volatility and uncertainty in global markets?
- Whether the region’s diversity creates operational complexity or can be embraced as an opportunity?
- How will the competitive landscape evolve as innovative local and regional players come to the fore?
For more information, please contact Joyce Ong.
24th Chief Information Officer Workshop
From Downturn To Growth: The Complexities That Come With It
May 24-28, 2011
Singapore & Hong Kong
After a period of bumpy rides between 2009 and 2010, countries in Asia Pacific now look to take the lead in driving global economic growth. In light of this, enterprises are looking for innovative ways to help them gear up and accelerate their businesses toward greater growth and profitability.
However, today’s business environment is a changed landscape for a few reasons. Firstly, as cloud services take flight amongst consumers and businesses, they create new demands for service providers for a more flexible model, and new levels of scalable, faster and more agile IT requirements. Secondly, social computing has gained tremendous traction and as a result, this has changed people’s expectations of the way they should connect, communicate and collaborate with each other. Thirdly, innovation as a driver for growth is no longer an option. In order for any business to gain competitive advantage, innovation must be deeply woven within the fabric of any enterprise.
The added complexity that comes with this changed landscape is the new workforce whose outlook toward work is radically different from generations before. The 24th CIO Workshop looks to breaking down these complexities and creating greater understanding of these new dynamics for CIOs in order for them to make future strategic systems decisions and business planning.
For more information, please contact Joyce Ong.
23rd Chief Information Officer (CIO) Workshop
May 25-29, 2010
Singapore, Beijing
Banks and insurance companies are engaging in mergers and acquisitions and replacing core systems. Telecommunications service providers and media companies are creating new digital content businesses and rolling out high-speed infrastructure.
Governments and utilities are working together to create smart grids and more sustainable cities. Health providers, health insurance companies and governments are reforming medical and patient care systems.
In the IT environment, the game is also changing, primarily driven by three factors. First, with the rapid maturing of cloud computing and cloud process service offerings, organizations can now gain rapid access to computing capabilities and the flexibility to purchase services, capacity and functionality as needed.
Second, green ICT can play a significant role in contributing to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business.
Third, the next-generation national broadband network in Singapore will redefine the game and spawn new business models.
The combination of these three is starting to present a new game for CIOs and with it, new risks and rewards. This workshop seeks to address these three areas and present the risks and rewards in store for CIOs.
For more information, please contact Joyce Ong.
Analytics Campaign
March 15-26, 2010
Companies need timely, in-depth actionable insights if they are to remain competitive globally—in effect, what's needed is a “whole business” approach to analytics to deliver business outcomes. Accenture can help our clients move from “what?” to “so what?”—and from “so what?” to “now what?” Because we are business driven and technology enabled—not the other way around—we help clients out-think and out-execute their competition through actionable actions and implementable interventions. No more information overload without the benefit of insightful intervention.
Workstream 1: Customer Analytics
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8–10:30 a.m.
Stamford Swissotel, L66, Equinox Private Dining Room 1
As businesses seek to grow revenue in recovering economies, they have to deal with two fundamental changes:
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First, customer behavior has changed and this behavior is continuing and accelerating. They have embraced alternative shopping channels, discovered new voices for themselves and opened up powerful online information sources.
- Second, their best competitors have moved to scientific, analytics-based marketing and customer management to stay ahead. The companies that truly understand the next-generation customer are adopting an agile approach marrying information management with a commitment to achieve consistent and meaningful interactions with their end customers. They take a broad view of the challenge across a range of customer touch points—from the Web to face-to-face. At the heart of this agile approach is the application of sophisticated analytics and tools to optimize the customer experience and drive business outcomes.
Workstream 2: Enterprise Analytics
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
8–10:30 a.m.
Stamford Swissotel, L66, Equinox Private Dining Room 1
This session, led by Brian McCarthy, will look at how exploiting quantitative data and predictive analyses can help organizations make better informed decisions that drive the bottom line. We will examine:
- The rising demand for analytics capabilities.
- Which high-performing companies are using analytics to deliver business outcomes and how they are doing it.
- The obstacles to building a successful analytics capability.
- The people, processes and technology involved in building an advanced analytics capability.
For more information, please contact Chow Yi / Sarah Conrick.