Category Archives: Insights

Danai Pathomvanich Jun 29, 2015 Singapore’s shared autonomous driving initiative is scheduled to reduce cars on the road by as much as 80 per cent and decrease travel times and pollution in the next decade. This initiative and Google’s more widely-known self-driving car project are helping us imagine mobile transportation’s robotic future. Fleets of self-driving…

K I Woo Jun 16, 2015 During the past decade, innovative entrepreneurs have successfully disrupted many established businesses and industries. Apple’s iPod totally disrupted and transformed the music business by selling single songs digitally for $US .99. At the same time, Amazon redefined the book sales industry by offering customers access to millions of book…

Danai Pathomvanich Jun 12, 2015 As smart phones proliferate, many mobile finance success stories are beginning to appear. Recently, I had the pleasure of reading how Budi Gunadi Sadikin, CEO of Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri has successfully attacked his country’s consumer-banking explosion by using easy-to-use minimalist digital smart phone platforms. Indonesia’s retail banking boom During a…

Danai Pathomvanich May 29, 2015 In Asia and other parts of the world, powerful brand owners have used their highly distinctive characteristics to successfully introduce innovative new products. In their recent article “Incumbents as attackers: brand driven innovation”, Jean-Baptiste Coumau, Victor Fabius and Thomas Meyer show how several well known companies with dominant positions in…