Modern Work
Modern Work refers to a suite of IT Applications that allow a business enterprise to do 21st Century work safely. These includes applications for Email, content sharing, online meetings, co-authoring, borderless work, hybrid work, process automation, AI, mobile friendly…essentially apps that enable a firm to do work at the speed of digital.
21st Century, but we are not ready
As we move towards the 21st Century, global labour organizations start looking into the future of work, the requirements of the 21st Century workforce. Malaysia’s MOE has also issued the education blueprint for 2013-2025, in it, MOE outline’s its strategy of imparting 21st Century skills to the next generation, preparing them for the challenges they will face in the next century.
Corporate IT lags Personal IT
In our personal lives, we have embraced technology well. From eBanking, online purchases, online government, ewallets, social media, online chats etc. Much of daily lives can be conducted using digital technology. The government is even talking about a digital ID.
75% of Malaysia SME workforce is using outdated technology
Yet at work, our studies have found that in Malaysia almost 75% of SMEs, meaning 75% of the SME workforce, is using outdated technology for work. The only official IT tools the company subscribes to is typically MS-Office and Email. The rest, are free tools, shadow IT, etc. This exposes the company and its users to cybersecurity attack, leaks, information loss etc as the company has no administrative control over the free tools and have no idea how safe these free tools are.
