NUS-ISS SkillsFuture Series Seminar: Why Business Agility Matters in Digital Transformation

Sharon has 20 years of career in Information Technology (IT), with vast experience in Retail and Telecommunication industries. She is an experienced technology leader who had worked in multinational companies for Asia Pacific region and excel at strategic planning, business engagement and portfolio management. Sharon’s passion is to educate and enable business leaders in all aspects of technology strategy, especially in the focus of implementing best practice methodologies and continuous improvement programs for corporate organisations. She is an enthusiastic lifelong learner who believe never stop learning because life never stops teaching.

Boon Nam has over 25 years of management experience in IT, holding management portfolios in IT planning, architecture, governance, quality and process improvement, application development, operations, human resource development, financial management and outsourcing. He has also developed and implemented various IT management processes, and successfully led IT organisations in achieving CMM / CMMI Level 3. He was also engaged in national IT efforts including marketing CITPM to regional computer societies as the then Secretary of the Special Regional Interest Group on Certification in the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation as well as being the Honorary Secretary in initiating the set up of the National Infocomm Competency Centre (both organisations being predecessors to current regional and national IT competency organisations). At ISS, he oversees the Digital Agility practice area – i.e. teaching, consultancy and applied research in the area of business agility and the digital-enablement of such agility. In addition, he also teaches and consults on enterprise architecture and digital leadership.

Jamie has spent over 20 years improving the business value of IT Services for public and private organisations in the UK, Australia and South East Asia. Jamie’s experiences gained at global companies such as CSC, Dell Australia, Fujitsu Services UK Ltd and Orange Asia have empowered him with a deep understanding of the inner workings of Business and IT and helping many companies to achieve organisational benefits by applying effective management practices, organisational change, improvement and the pragmatic application of technologies. Jamie is a co-founder of VisionLed, a company that provide advisory, delivery and education services with focus on Digital Transformation such as Digital Strategy to transforming business models by utilizing new technologies and using Agile practices to creating a collaborative environment that responds proactively to change.

Dr. Ng has been coaching teams and organisations since 2000 in the areas of agile, lean, architecture, innovation and digital. His clients include the likes of Samsung (Seoul), Sony (Tokyo), Huawei Technologies (China). Dr Ng believes in continuous improvement and innovation in everything that we do, and actively works towards this goal with like-minded people. He co-authored Aspect Oriented Software Development with Use Cases (2004) and Essence of Software Engineering (2012), and translated Implementing Beyond Budgeting (2017) and Agile People (2019) to Chinese. Dr Ng currently works in DBS helping to drive its transformation agenda.

Peng Wei is currently the Chief of Information & Technology (IT) Strategy & Management Practice at the Institute of System Science (ISS), National University of Singapore. He has more than 30 years of working experience in Business and Technology Services. He begin his teaching career with ISS as an adjunct lecturer for ISS eGovernment leadership programme delivering courses in Cambodia, China, Singapore and Sri-Lanka in 2014 and joined ISS officially in 2016. Prior to joining ISS, He was the co-founder of a US-based Start-Up working on an integrated online-offline marketing promotion platform. In his work career, he has held various leadership positions including being the Asia Pacific President for a Global Automotive Dealership Solution Company (CDK), South East Asia Managing Director for Electronic Data Systems and HP China’s General Manager for Application Services. He has worked across many industry sectors including Automotive, Electronic Manufacturing, Logistics and Finance. Peng Wei has a good understanding of cultural diversity having worked and lived in China (8 years), Taiwan and the US (3 years).