The old model is dead. Boards that outsource technology decisions to consulting firms are losing control of their future. Across Malaysia and Thailand, a new breed of builder-executive is charting their own AI direction — and the data says they’re right.
Microsoft Build 2026 Wasn’t About Windows. It Was About a Movement.
A solo-built AI platform that ingests, reasons, publishes — and rewrites its own code. Three flywheels, three weeks to production. An operator’s teardown.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how AI eliminates the Non-Value-Add Positions — any role, at any seniority, whose primary function is to collate information, compress it, and forward it upward or downward. The piece provoked the question I’ve been getting ever since: what does that actually look like in practice? So let…
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The old executive playbook is dead. AI doesn’t just automate tasks beneath you — it removes the scaffolding that made your altitude possible. The future belongs to hands-on leaders who actually do things.
At the end of the eighties, I studied in Germany, focusing on a business and economics degree, and started working a bit in my family’s company. I was so excited about this degree that I started writing the software my family business was to use, and even sold it to two more firms. Since my…
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Podcast Version. Introduction Since my early days in technology, I’ve been captivated by a fundamental question: how do we consistently generate new products and services that drive growth and productivity at speed? This question has propelled me on an insightful journey across diverse organizations, where I’ve witnessed firsthand how technology can drive powerful change when…
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Pivot Digital and InAdvance Consulting Group’s global Technology Trend Survey — how firms across continents are investing in innovation, and what the data reveals about where enterprise tech spend is actually going.
Looking back at our Central Tech Alumni gatherings, it strikes me that this wasn’t just a “team”—it was an era. Our journey began in Feb 2017, when I was given the mandate to build the Central Technology Organization from scratch. Fast forward to today, and that original team has evolved into what we now jokingly…
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The unfortunate truth about corporate consulting — why a few major players are responsible for the lack of digitization in corporations, and which firms are actually reinventing themselves.
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