Opinion stories
A skills gap in critical systems is widening as veteran mainframe engineers near retirement, pushing firms to train new recruits with AI support.
Australian knowledge workers are spending 6.5 hours a week on AI oversight, with the hidden burden linked to burnout and higher churn risk.
AI-made fake payslips and deepfakes are exposing lenders that still rely on fragmented mortgage checks, experts warn.
Discreet packaging, clearer product information and easier repeat ordering are helping buyers of continence products avoid embarrassment and confusion.
Manual tax tracking can leave exporters facing customs delays, extra charges and hours of avoidable admin as order volumes rise.
Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.
Poor-quality sanctions lists can swamp compliance teams with false alerts while letting real matches slip through, raising regulatory risk.
Crew members could save time and cut cyber risk as maritime firms replace physical SIM swaps with eSIMs for shore connectivity.
Businesses that stop at ERP risk leaving approvals, invoices and card spend manual, undermining the clean data the ledger needs.
Only 7% of organisations say their data is ready for AI, risking weaker personalisation and costlier technology investments.
A bespoke office server now cuts a 70-slide medical presentation editing job from two and a half days to 15 minutes, keeping pharma data secure.
Banks risk losing customer control as instant payments force fraud, identity and authorisation into one real-time trust system.
Stolen credentials can become an operational foothold within hours, leaving annual assessments too slow to catch the real attack paths.
Singapore banks and telcos face a narrower window to stop AI-assisted attackers chaining small flaws into major breaches.
Only 18% of organisations are turning AI investment into measurable growth, highlighting a leadership gap that may slow adoption across ASEAN.
Cyber defences falter when staff know the rules but still fail to act, making psychology as important as software for resilience.
States risk losing strategic autonomy as cloud, chip and cryptographic dependencies spread beyond borders and into foreign-controlled systems.
Dealerships risk stale pricing and wasted staff hours unless digital systems reach the forecourt, where paper labels still lag behind live data.
Relying on Companies House alone can leave UK firms exposed to hidden ownership, weak screening and regulatory scrutiny.
Cloud spending is set to trigger costly remediation for Canadian firms as undocumented systems, rising costs and security gaps pile up.