https://www.scmp.com/rss/324435/feed Omar Abbosh is Accenture’s chief strategy officer en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Many companies are preparing to adapt to a world that will be constrained by national boundaries, as policies and legislation tighten national control over cross-border flows of IT products and services, talent and data. This digital fragmentation represents a threat to growth and digital progress as it constrains the way companies operate – and is already forcing some businesses to revise plans for international expansion. The issue is firmly recognised at board level, with 88 per cent of CIOs... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2117225/digital-cross-border-constraints-are-threat-business-growth-so?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2117225/digital-cross-border-constraints-are-threat-business-growth-so?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:22:23 +0000 Technological changes and regulatory pressures are putting a range of traditional industries in Asia under threat and performance data suggests some have unwittingly begun a prolonged operating margin decline that will become harder to reverse. Unless these companies revive the core business and free up investment capacity required to expand into new businesses, obsolescence may become unavoidable. We believe companies today must “rotate to the new,” a journey we think of as a conscious and... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2116127/how-pivoting-can-help-aid-corporate-survival-world-rapid-change?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2116127/how-pivoting-can-help-aid-corporate-survival-world-rapid-change?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Oct 2017 01:32:24 +0000 Business disruption today can strike companies quickly, with a “big bang” when a product that is better and cheaper than anything else on the market suddenly becomes available. But it can also creep up on you slowly. And when it hits, it hits hard. As a character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises asks: “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways,” comes the answer. “Gradually, then suddenly.” The first distinguishing feature of this gradual form of disruption is a prolonged decline in... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2094832/spotting-danger-signs-slow-disruption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2094832/spotting-danger-signs-slow-disruption?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 May 2017 04:48:53 +0000