CDOTrends

CDOTrends is the only content platform in Asia specifically catering to the needs of Chief Digital Officers. It provides up-to-date news, showcases best practices, explores new trends, and serves as a vital resource for CDOs and other business leaders involved in their organization’s digital and data strategies. The platform is designed to adapt as the roles and responsibilities of CDOs evolve in the digital landscape. CDOTrends offers valuable insights and analyses on crucial topics that shape the future of enterprises, focusing on six main areas: Digital Strategy, AI & Machine Learning, Customer Experience Management, Digital Privacy, Analytics, and leadership insights through case studies featured on CDOUniversity. Additionally, CDOTrends takes a practical approach. We understand that the title of CDO may vary or be an extension of roles held by other executives like CIOs, COOs, or CMOs, yet the primary goal remains consistent: to define and implement a company's digital strategy and create a digitally and data-driven organization. Our platform, newsletter, and events are crafted to support CDOs and those responsible for digital initiatives, keeping them informed about the latest strategies, innovative technologies, and best practices. It serves as a comprehensive source for news, whitepapers, research, and case studies, while also offering leadership insights from fellow CDOs to help expand their career opportunities. For marketers, CDOTrends represents the most effective way to connect with CDOs and those responsible for the digital vision and strategy within their organizations in Asia. Our blend of website content, e-newsletters, research, conferences, and tailored events fosters an engaged community of these often hard-to-reach executives.

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The Battle for Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun

1 week ago | cdotrends.com | Ted Schadler

I passed a barefoot man strolling down a sidewalk on a chilly day in May. His hair was short. He was clean-shaven, wearing a multicolored blanket hoody. He exuded serenity as he grounded himself in the concrete beneath his feet, granting his chi permission to exchange greetings with the earth. Through that lens, every day, all 8 billion of us could be grounding (also known as “earthing” by believers — all I know is that it feels good in the summertime).
Your Customer Rant Will Fuel Tomorrow’s AI

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Every time you’ve been placed on hold, you’ve unknowingly contributed to one of the most valuable — and trapped — datasets in the digital economy. Buried in the digital vaults of call recording companies like Nice, Verint, and Genesis lie billions of hours of raw human conversation, locked away in proprietary formats like medieval texts awaiting translation. The voice is primal.
Decoding AI ROI Paradox: Why 85% of Projects Die in Production

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Here’s a familiar scenario: The chief executive officer talks up a cutting-edge AI pilot and makes it an imperative, gets the boardroom excited about why AI is the future and why the organization needs to get on the bandwagon, and then gets the budget approval. That was how it looked during the last Chief Digital and Data Officer Asia Summit 2024. In the latest edition — Chief Digital and Data Officer Asia Summit 2025 — the mood had turned somber.
AI vs. AI: How APAC Banks Are Fighting New Fraud Types

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The financial services industry is evolving fast. And so is fraud. Take “friendly fraud.” A staggering 42% of Gen Z consumers now engage in it – deliberately disputing legitimate transactions they actually made. It’s not a glitch in the system; it’s now part of a new financial landscape where AI-powered attacks and digitally-native dishonesty are becoming the norm across Asia Pacific’s banking sector.
Identity Gets Intelligent: How 1datapipe Is Redefining SEA FSI Security

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

When it comes to financial services security, Southeast Asia is at the epicenter. Rapid digital adoption has opened up security holes, a fragmented regulatory landscape allows threat actors to hide, and is where sophisticated identity fraud syndicates call home. Financial services players in Southeast Asia also face another challenge.
Blinded by Prevention: It’s Time To Close the Security-Forensics Gap

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Is the modern enterprise cybersecurity apparatus an expensive illusion? Companies spend billions annually on perimeter defenses, threat detection systems, and security operations centers — yet breaches persist with alarming regularity. The truth is that most security strategies suffer from a fatal flaw: they are designed to stop attacks but are unprepared to investigate them when attacks succeed.
Tariff Toss-Up: Did the West Just Accidentally Supercharge Asia’s AI?

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The digital revolution has a new geo-economic battleground: Asia’s AI ecosystem. As U.S. tariffs upend regional supply chains and inflate hardware costs by up to 34%, the USD722 billion APAC tech market is facing fragmentation that could either forge a new era of innovation or create dangerous "islands of intelligence" cut off from global developments. Welcome to tech’s new Cold War.
The Race to Zero-Downtime: EDA Gives DC Networking an Edge

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The most stable data center is the one nobody touches. That used to be the conventional wisdom among network engineers, at least until the explosion of AI workloads and cloud computing shattered that paradigm. Today’s reality is different. Your data center network faces constant change, mostly due to the unpredictable demands of AI. And either you engineer it for stability under those conditions, or you’re headed for trouble.
Designing the Future CFO: How GenAI Is Recalibrating the Role

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The days of Excel spreadsheets haunting the dreams of CFOs may be finally numbered. GenAI is already creating waves across industries, from creative services to software development. It is also placing the once-rigid domain of corporate finance — traditionally married to deterministic models and auditable certainty — at an interesting flashpoint.
AI-first Businesses Ease Up on AI Adoption

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Paul Mah

Companies attempting to get a head start by jumping headlong into AI are running into problems. And at least one of them is easing up on its aggressive AI adoption strategies, according to various reports. In December, buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it had paused all hiring a year ago and that its investments in AI capabilities are seeing AI do the work of 700 customer service agents. This has brought the company’s headcount down by 22% to 3,500 employees – mainly by attrition.