Business Chief EMEA - December 2020 Edition
Stuart Irving
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As we enter into the final month of 2020, we speak to the likes of Andy Gladwin, Head of Mobile at Cheetah Digital, on the importance of mobile technology in a digital transformation strategy; Iron Mountain Data Centers’ (IMDC) Alex Sharp & Eric Boonstra on the company’s services, ambitions, and why sustainability is at the heart of its oper-ations; and Zoran Vasiljev, CEO at Centili, on why MPaaS (monetisation platform as a service) could be a decade-defining trend in digital monetisation.
Other leaders that feature include, Ntyatyi Petros, Head of Group Stakeholder Relations at Absa Group, who discusses the fund-amentals of stakeholder engagement and how the process is evolving as a result of technology innovation. While Fuad Chapra, Head of Family Business, KPMG (Saudi Arabia) provides his expert insight on investment management benefits and trends. “Similar to other industries, technology has become increasingly important to enhance customer experience [...] Blockchain could save investment managers approximately US$2.7bn through the use of distributed market infrastructure,” says Chapra.
Elsewhere, we discover what it means to be a digital brand in today’s world, as well as the ways in which companies can drive the most value out of their digital brand strategy in our roundtable discussions with McKinsey, Toluna and Ebiquity. While Vikas Butaney, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco IoT, explains how companies can get the most out of IoT; and Ray Joyce and Steve Gill HR Services at EY discuss the rise of human and AI collaboration in HR operations. “One major trend that is being shown at the present time is to provide HR and, in turn, organ-isations with greater insight to their data,” notes Joyce.
Finally to end the year, our December Top 10 ranks - by year - its top mergers and acquisitions made by companies in the EMEA region over the last two decades.
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Stuart Irving