Frederic Giron

Learn the three hallmarks of the most customer-obsessed technology executives.

It's no surprise that COVID-19 has had a significant impact on Asia Pacific firms’ business and technology priorities. According to our latest survey, 26% of firms are in survival mode versus 16% that are in growth mode.

During a crisis, humanity prevails through unity, empathy, responsibility, and leadership. Read our five strategic recommendations for airline executives to focus on during the coronavirus pandemic.

Airlines have a major role to play in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic because they are part and fabric of this interconnected world, carrying people and cargo.

Better Late Than Never: There’s Still Time To Improve Your Pandemic Plans Companies are showing renewed interest in business continuity and revising their pandemic plans in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Last week, federal banking regulators issued additional guidance to help banks and their customers cope with the financial fallout of the outbreak. And a review of the risk sections of the annual reports for the Fortune 50 showed that about half […]

Consumer energy will be a vital resource in 2020. We recap some of the predictions that our analysts in Singapore presented at a client event on November 19th.

Forrester's leading analysts share what to expect at our 2020 Predictions event in Singapore on November 19.

Key takeaways from EY’s Asia Pacific Blockchain Summit

On Thursday, October 24, Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China, exhorted the country to “seize the opportunity” offered by blockchain technologies. In particular, he called to “clarify the main direction, increase investment, focus on a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation.” I have […]

Can you imagine a digital-only bank that has served 100 million customers within four years since its establishment? Not to mention those 100 million customers are all un-/underserved by traditional banks. Tencent-backed WeBank has achieved this goal and has become the largest digital bank in the world. The secret sauces of WeBank are the tech-driven […]

Eight more digital-only banks are set to launch in Hong Kong by the end of 2020. Find out what sets them apart and what incumbent banks must do to compete in the region.

How airlines can connect the CX story to the money story.

On June 18, Facebook officially launched its Libra cryptocurrency project, which aims to leverage blockchain technologies to create a new stable cryptocurrency backed by a basket of fiat currencies. Facebook says its aim is to enable accessible and affordable digital payments for billions of people, including un-/underbanked people across the world. It aims to make […]

As leaders in the FS sector increasingly embrace customer-centric strategies, they will have to credibly connect the customer story to the money story. Otherwise, the legitimacy of often-heard CX slogans and promises can be easily challenged.

I love going to Japan, where everything works flawlessly and where customer obsession, or “omotenashi,” is deeply engrained into the culture of every institution: This is where, for instance, train operators apologize when their trains leave the platform 25 seconds earlier than scheduled. It’s also an economy stifled by a widespread risk-averse culture, a shrinking […]

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” — the Red Queen, Through The Looking-Glass I was reminded of this quote from Lewis Carroll’s book when analyzing the results […]

There’s a sense of urgency in Asia to capitalize on AI, not only to compete but to lead globally. Appier, established six years ago in Taiwan, is one of these firms. I recently attended its first analyst event in Taipei to better understand how the company approaches the AI opportunity and helps its clients deliver […]

Forrester’s Predictions 2018: A Year Of Reckoning calls out a looming digital crisis: Globally, more than 60% of executives believe that they’re behind in their digital transformation plans. The situation is similar in Asia. Our recent report, “Advance Your Digital Maturity In Singapore And Hong Kong,” indicates that most of the firms operating in two […]

“It would be wrong to think that there is an end date on our digital transformation. We will never go back to how we used to work.” This is how the head of strategic transformation at Poland’s Bank Zachodni WBK thinks about the bank’s current digital transformation. And in recent discussions with more than two […]