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1Nov 20201 Nov 2020

Making Retail Augmented and Personal

This week Robinsons announce they are closing their last two stores in Singapore. Robinsons is over 160 years and survived…

12Sep 202012 Sep 2020

Missed opportunity for a great O2O experience

I received my IKEA catalogue recently. I don’t know what is it about the IKEA catalogue but there is still…

7Mar 201412 Sep 2020

Design thinking or system thinking?

Design thinking is about empathy. I had the opportunity to participate in a design thinking workshop where we were examining…

Transforming business by being digital first

16 Jul 20157 Oct 2015

Recently IESE organized a webinar on digital transformation and fostering the digital mindset. I had the opportunity to join Professor Evgeny Kaganer as a guest speaker on this topic which…

Festival of Media Asia Pacific

22 Mar 201520 Mar 2016

Second year judging the entries at the Festival of Media Asia Pacific. Always a pleasure to help evaluate the work of companies and their agencies across all the countries in…

Internet of Things in Manufacturing

6 Mar 201520 Mar 2016

Internet of things demo at SAP. Various compelling scenarios from port management, manufacturing, automotive, sports, city planning and retail were set up. This one is related to factory floor operations…

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Bitcoin, Internet of Things and your friendly Robot companion

24 Jan 201524 Sep 2015

As a first post this year, thought I will reproduce a list of articles that talk about areas in digital technology or digitization which we can expect to see more…

Transformation in digital agencies

2 Dec 201410 Oct 2015

Recently I was on the judging panel for Campaign Asia's digital agency of the year. The work and achievements that I had the privilege to review showed just how vibrant…

Cautionary tales from my time at Nokia

24 Oct 201410 Oct 2015

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will be rebranding its mobile phones to remove the "Nokia" name from its Lumia smartphones. For most customers, this will be the most visible sign…

What has digital distress got to do with unicorns and a nudist colony?

30 Jul 20147 Oct 2015

At the recent Adobe Digital Marketing Symposium, on a panel, Vinay Dixit, VP of Strategy at Electrolux gave an analogy that was widely tweeted during the symposium. He said a…

Internet of Things – 8 Observations from IoT Asia

24 Apr 20147 Oct 2015

I am intrigued by the Internet of Things. The prospect of internet technology embedded everywhere and what kind of a world we will live in when that happens. Self driving…

Growth hacking is just … brilliant marketing

23 Apr 20148 Oct 2015

I attended a talk organized by Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) that featured the founders of Pirate3D talking about their successfully KickStarter campaign…