Techseen, India: Senior Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work Says Digital is Creating Entirely New Ways of Working

“The dawn of true digital business is just breaking and Asia Pacific is poised to corner a bulk of the economic rewards of business transformation,” writes Manish Bahl. “Digital transformation will put US$5.9 trillion (approximately SGD 8.1 trillion) in revenue up for grabs for companies across industries in the region by 2018.” Excerpts:

“There is a little doubt in the minds of business leaders that digital transformation is strategically important to their corporate, and personal, fortunes in the immediate future. But for winning in an economy of algorithms, automation and AI, businesses and people will require new skills, new tools and rethinking of the human-machine relationship.

It would be pertinent to understand the changing nature of work, the changing nature of commerce, and the changing characteristics of success in this brave new world in 2017 and beyond.

The focus on human-centric skills will increase sharply. The gap between digital leaders and laggards will widen. The Internet of things (IoT) will lead to “the vulnerability of things.” AI will come to reality and become a real business.

The accelerated pace of digital is creating entirely new ways of working, created by the new tools.”

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