Category: Though Leadership

Sri Lanka can unlock its tech potential by becoming an innovation powerhouse, fostering talent, embracing progressive regulation, developing world-class infrastructure, forging global tech alliances, driving sustainable innovation, and catalyzing digital disruption across sectors. Shanmuganathan contends that by learning from nations like Singapore, India, and UAE, Sri Lanka can foster visionary leadership, develop robust infrastructure, enact …

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AI IS ACCESSIBLE TO MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE AND THE RAPID DEVELOPMENTS BROUGHT ABOUT BY PLATFORMS LIKE CHATGPT-4 KEEP UNRAVELLING NEW OPPORTUNITIES. The advent of ChatGPT is making people nervous about their futures, much like people feared losing their jobs to machines during the first industrial revolution: which many indeed did. However, over time …

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It is very easy for all of us to imagine an interconnected world where everyone, citizens, consumers, investors, and workers, could seamlessly live their lives transitioning between physical and digital planes at will before this decade concludes, John Keells Group’s Executive Vice President and Group CIO Ramesh Shanmuganathan says. Web 3.0 is the much-needed foundational …

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No organization had a risk matrix that accounted for the speed and severity at which Sri Lanka’s economic troubles unfolded in 2022 in the aftermath of a prolonged pandemic. Everything happened at lightning speed, from an acute foreign exchange shortage, import restrictions, breakdown in electricity/gas supply and transport due to the fuel crisis, and loss …

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In every industry, digitally-led businesses have either disrupted or gained an edge because they tend to be more efficient, deliver greater customer value, and are generally seamless in how they integrate with stakeholders’ needs. However, many traditional companies struggle to make headway with their digital investments or fail to make the case for these in …

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A successful business must have the right people in the right roles who also have the right capabilities. Leaders focusing on fulfilling their mandate of developing other leaders must understand this is one of the key factors that will help them realise their vision and strategies for their business. It becomes imperative for an organisation …

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