February 15, 2023 | 16:00
AI has been around for some time, essentially being just another human tool, entirely under our control. The internet may be AI powered and even influence us, but it is still essentially a tool for people. Control is needed by a person for it to have any use.
September 01, 2022 | 22:00
The world around us is changing fast. One hears plenty about transformation, automation, AI, and “the great resignation”. All of this is speeding up, often as a side effect of the pandemic. These changes are having such an obvious impact on business, and they simply cannot be ignored.
June 23, 2022 | 13:52
All businesses and sectors are fundamentally changed by digital transformation. Journalism has changed more than most, as any form of mass communication is naturally tied to technology. That has been the case for hundreds of years since the first printing presses were invented. Whilst the need for technology has always been there, what is new is the pace of change.
May 22, 2021 | 08:00
All this talk of “modern, human, 21st century, soft, cognitive, transformed and 4.0” skills – what does it actually mean in practical terms? The simple answer is; a person’s ability to do a modern job. I prefer to call the new competency requirements “common sense survival skills”.
May 04, 2021 | 08:30
When I first arrived in Vietnam in 1995, the country was poor by international measures. Many such countries I had visited before were clearly unorganised and unsafe.
November 27, 2020 | 19:54
Whilst many companies struggled during the pandemic, a few turned the situation to their advantage and now call the crisis a “golden time” or “lucky moment”!
August 07, 2020 | 09:00
Recently a Japanese investor in Vietnam was proudly showing me his system for bringing Vietnamese software programmers up to Japanese standards.
July 03, 2020 | 08:00
Change can be fun but to many people, it is often scary. However, the unavoidable reality is business and technology are changing ever faster, forcing companies to at least keep up with the competition.