Our cover feature on digital transformation (DX) comes from a panel session with IDC and regional insights for the Asia Pacific. Although the COVID pandemic sped up many DX plans, many of those plans were already in place before the pandemic hit. Nikhil Batra, Associate Research Director with IDC notes, “There was a new approach to resiliency, where you are not just addressing business challenges but learning to respond rapidly to extreme changes in the external environment.” Digital transformation, he believes, has now evolved into digital resiliency and helping organisations achieve the stature of a future enterprise. Those that have achieve resiliency have treated this pandemic as not just a challenge but also as an opportunity to leapfrog some of their competition.
We also include some of the more notable ‘Movers and Shakers’ and provide event takeaways from the inaugural Cyber Risk Meetup in Adelaide and Jane Lo provides her highlights from Singapore’s SheLeadsTech event with ISACA.