CUHK MBA x IBM – Business Leaders “Shaping” the Future
“Business Leaders Shaping the Future” is a series of speaker events in collaboration with IBM, which will be held throughout the first half of 2017. It features distinguished Business and Technology Executives from IBM to share about the most impacting and disrupting technologies.
In collaboration with IBM, we are proud to present a series of speaker events titled “Business Leaders Shaping the Future” which will be held throughout the first half of 2017. There will be a total of four talks organised monthly from January onwards. This Speaker Series features distinguished Business and Technology Executives from IBM to share about the most impacting and disrupting technologies that are re-shaping the world, the industries, and how people-device-business interact. The first two talks were successfully held on 19 January and 22 February.
The Speaker Series was kicked off by Mr Ernie Hu, General Manager, Cloud, IBM Greater China Group with the topic “What is Digital Transformation to an Enterprise”. Mr Hu gave a remarkable speech on how industries today are being disrupted by technologies, how can we stay ahead in the time of digital transformation and explained how business and Industry are evolving their business model.
The second talk of the Speaker Series was presented by Mr. Barry Chan, Partner, Financial Services Sector, IBM China/Hong Kong Limited in our MBA town Centre. Mr. Chan has 20+ years of business strategy and transformation consulting experience. He is responsible for multinational banking project engagement with regional deployment across Asia Pacific leveraging IBM global delivery capabilities. He also has a proven track record in delivering technology led transformation projects to the financial services sector and have been counselling clients on digital banking, business operation and IT strategy.
On the day, Mr. Chan explained what is meant by Cognitive and Cognitive technology and stressed that by “Becoming a Cognitive Business”, organisations needs to converge digital business with a new level of digital (artificial) intelligence to form a new cognitive business model. He also shared examples on how Business leaders of tomorrow’s world are leveraging cognitive to increase competitiveness or to transform their future business model.
If you missed the talks, remember to register for Premium Highlights on: mba.cuhk.edu.hk/IBM
This articles were first published in the website by CUHK Business School’s MBA programs on 25 January and 28 February 2017.