From food crisis to export ban in next normal until further notice is read from news from countries here and there. Some are export ban palm oils, wheat, chickens, the list goes on. The pressure and impact of war accelerate the global food crisis. The world bank warned of world record rises in food prices,
US entering recession, an inverted yield curve and rising interest rates on the back of high inflation (8.5% in March), with COVID uncertainty and disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thrown in, that’s what economists told us. Let’s put aside what it will impact the US economy, and focus on the rest of the
COVID-19 pandemic caused the problem of interconnections and slowed down the multi-locaization of production systems. As you can observe, the current US president is proposing a US-First policy, to bring back all the strategic capability domestically, to produce works. From what has been really carried out, we can interpret that the nurture of the world’s
Pandemic will continue but COVID-19 ends, this is the most widely accepted in the current market. Despite the fact that the new COVID-19 variant has come out, one after another, most of the world countries, in particular for those practicing co-exist strategy, put COVID-19 ends and move on. You can see they are starting to
As COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ease in many parts of the world, as co-exist strategy adapted, employers hope to get back to business as usual. How to get employees return to work and what workplace environments change that needed be the new focus area for most employers. The reality for adapting automation, digital workspace and cloud
80% of world consumers have altered their shopping habits since COVID-19 pandemic. Searching for product information and buying online has become the new norm. Most people get used to new channels for product fulfilment this way. People who used to perform physical retail shopping are rapidly diminishing, and it is challenging for the rational to
Except for the existing zero-COVID strategy enforcement countries, the rest who adopt co-exist are undergoing and implementing various return-to-office policies. Most modern enterprises had some sort of digital workspace capability, be it from make use of the existing cloud-based office suite, real time call, web meeting and chat, or for some with the VPN and
China currently is under campaign for the zero-COVID strategy where most major cities practise isolated and lockdowns. China has been one of the major supporters for the zero-COVID strategy. The rest of the world is adapting a more flexible and reasonable approach, once the majority of the population get their vaccination, to soft-land the hard
2 years after COVID-19 pandemic where are we going? First we had the Omicrons variant, then we had the Russia-Ukraine conflict that turned to war and followed with a lot of sanctions. The world is in the process of COVID-19 pandemic response, recovery to endemic, and we have the world accelerating toward recession, as supply
Russia Ukraine invasion with cyber warfare, malware deployed to denial of services to data wipeout from banking to government agencies. It provides real life demonstration of how important it is for the nation to possess cyber warfare capability, from both cyber offensive and cyber defensive. If you zoom out and look back, the digital Cold