The Future of Work

When sustainable leadership prevails, organisations and people prosper. The rise of the robots and AI automation is on its way and will have profound effects on what and how life and work gets done. The good news is Leadership cannot be replicated by machines. This series finale is for everyone who has recently taken on added responsibilities, been preparing for a career transition, promoted or have years of work experience but not formally guided in management and leadership skills.

Join Dr Kevyn Yong, Chief Learning Officer, SIM and his special guest Seah Chin Siong, President & CEO, Singapore Institute of Management and Ng Tian Chong, Managing Director, Greater Asia at HP, as they share their insights on the ever evolving role of a leader, the value they can bring to the ecosystem and the importance of upskilling to be prepared for the challenging environment. The session is hosted by Graham Brown, CEO & Founder, Pikkal & Co – B2B Podcast Agency.

Listen to the podcast to discover the conversations with leaders from across the region to discuss the forces, opportunities and challenges that are shaping the Future of Work.

The world is changing at an accelerating pace. Individuals and organisations must adapt and transform for their survival. Hypergrowth begins with people – the way they see problems and apply to create solutions. Creating a high performance of 10X involves a transformation of mindsets and behaviours. People do not resist change, they resist the transitions that change brings especially in a hyper growth company.

Join Dr Kevyn Yong, Chief Learning Officer, SIM and his special guests Ng Tiong Gee, Chairman, Yellow Pages Singapore and Mohan Mirwani, Think Quick, as they share some of the most successful hyper growth case studies in Asia and the tools that have been adopted by the biggest corporations in the region. The session is hosted by Graham Brown, CEO & Founder, Pikkal & Co – B2B Podcast Agency.

Listen to the podcast to discover the conversations with leaders from across the region to discuss the forces, opportunities and challenges that are shaping the Future of Work.

Chow Cher Wong is the Technical Director at the Advanced Remanufacturing & Technology Centre in Singapore. In this conversation, we take a journey from Chow Cher’s education origins in the industrial heartland of the United Kingdom to more recently, building the factory fo the future, available today at the ARTC. We discuss how the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) will impact work, both destroying and creating jobs, as well as how 4IR will underpin hypergrowth in the manufacturing landscape of Asia. Will 4IR level the playing field giving emerging markets access to skills that were once the competitive edge of Singapore? We also go deep into the world of robots and “cobots” - a term that may be unfamiliar to many but increasingly will become part of our daily work.

Howard Yu is the LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School, and author of LEAP. In this conversation, we share top level insights from Howard’s talk at the Singapore Management Festival. We look at how companies innovate for hypergrowth, not just in the short term, but over generations. Howard shares case studies on innovative companies that may surprise you such as John Deere (an agricultural machinery manufacturer). We also take a look at success and failure in Asia’s hypercompetitive markets, the role of diversity in innovation, and the 3 steps organizational leaders can take to nurture more innovative cultures. It’s a conversation that looks under the hood of business success and failure, companies that include Amazon, AWS, Tencent, DBS, Kodak and GoJek.

Host Graham Brown met with Dr. Nicholas Haan for the SIM podcast at the sidelines of Singularity conference in Singapore held by SIM. Dr. Haan is the Vice President of Impact and Faculty Chair of Global Grand Challenges as well Managing Director, Global Solutions Program at the Singularity University in California, USA.

Over the 40 mins conversation, Nicholas (Nick) shares with us his journey from being an aspiring doctor to actually becoming a teacher in Africa, as well as his past work with United Nations and then onto the current assignment with Singularity University. Given his wealth of knowledge in the area of food sustainability he talks about the changes taking place in the farm & food industry and the role technology is poised to play in the area of food sustainability.

Nick gives his views on the importance of driving the culture of corporate innovation within organizations and how Singularity University tries to make a difference in building this culture. Listen to the entire episode to know more in depth.

For this special episode of SIM podcast, host Graham Brown caught up in person with Jody Medich at the Singularity Conference held in Singapore by SIM. Jody is an Independent consultant for Product design as well as an international faculty & Graduate studies program mentor/advisor at the Singularity University in California, USA.

Over the 30 mins of conversation they talk in depth about the current Gig economy and “Industrial revolution 4.0”. Citing examples from the wearable devices space, Jody talks about the overload of data & its shifting impact on us. She also explains how greater process automation can elevate employees from mundane tasks to accomplish more enriching & value generating work.

Jody, who defines herself as a futurist, works on making technology speak the human language which she believes will unlock greater human creative potential. Listen to the entire episode to know more.

In this episode of the SIM podcast, we talk to Dr. Michael Gillam (CEO - HealthLabs, a discovery automation company for big data and machine intelligence models) as he joins host Graham Brown for a conversation on exponential data. Michael tells us how in this age of exponential data acute creation, a shortage of data scientists is leading to inefficiencies in organizational systems and explains to us terms like “dark data”, “data lake” “data pond”, “lake binding” etc.

They also talk about the Copernican shift taking place in the data space where the center of the universe is shifting from companies to the common citizens. We learn about the new protocols under experimentation using upcoming technologies like blockchain which will enable ownership and control of private data to remain in the individual’s hands stored within their digital data vaults, allowing individuals to monetize as well as securely distribute access to his/her data only to approved entities. Over the course of the podcast, we hear some interesting possible use case scenarios with generated & analyzed data in the future.

Listen to the entire fascinating conversation here to know more in depth about exponential data and the interesting path big data and analytics is going to lead us into in future. Also, Dr. Michael Gillam will be coming to Singapore for the Singularity University event to share his thoughts on thriving and surviving in the age of big data.

Nell Watson, Founder of QuantaCorp (Poikos) and who describes herself as a Machine Learning & Tech philosopher, joins host Graham Brown in conversation about Artificial Intelligence. AI is one of the hottest topics today and there are some burning questions that are often asked about the subject, like how is it going to affect businesses, or what will be it’s impact on society and us humans in general. There are endless debates raging about AI and ethics. Over the next 50 mins, Nell and Graham delve into the fascinating world of AI to understand Nell’s perspective on these questions.

Nell shines light on her journey in the field of AI and the changes in this field that she has witnessed over this period. She not only gives us her history, but also takes us through the history of AI as well. She talks about few sample problems she believes AI has solved or where it has vastly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of the process. We also get to know the relation between AI and human learning and her answer to the all important question of whether AI can one day replace humans.

A must listen podcast, especially for AI & Data Analytics enthusiasts, with scores of interesting anecdotes to explain some of the more complex issues of AI in a very simple manner.