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🎧 Join our AI hosts, Annie Arbitrage and Peter Productivity, in this episode of the Tech Round-Up Podcast as they explore how AI is reshaping outsourcing, from private equity-backed challengers to the changing economics of BPO in India and the Philippines.
Read MoreAI is shifting offshoring toward outcome-based pricing and fewer seats. Meanwhile, private equity is backing AI labs to build direct rivals to traditional outsourcing.
Read MorePrivate equity firms are backing multibillion-dollar AI ventures that directly challenge traditional outsourcing and consulting models. While generative AI is rapidly transforming enterprise services, widespread operational integration across portfolios remains uneven.
Read MoreGenerative AI is decoupling outsourcing growth from headcount, forcing providers to move away from selling hours. While routine tasks are automated, hubs are shifting toward outcome-based pricing and complex judgment.
Read MoreFor three decades, business process outsourcing ran on a reassuringly simple equation: more work meant more people, more dollars charged per person, preferably somewhere cheaper. AI is dismantling that equation, but not necessarily the industry built on it.
Read MoreModern warfare has exposed a ruinous imbalance: million-dollar interceptors are chasing thousand-dollar drones while Western stockpiles empty faster than factories can refill them.
Read More🎧 Join our AI hosts, Maggie Magazine and Manny Facture, in this episode of the Tech Round-Up Podcast as they explore the new economics of defence - where weapons need to be cheap enough to lose, numerous enough to matter, and fast enough to replace.
Read MoreAs geopolitical uncertainty becomes a permanent feature of the business landscape, resilience is emerging as a competitive advantage. At WiT Queenstown, retired Lieutenant General John Frewen shared why businesses must prepare for volatility before it arrives.
Read MoreAs defence shifts from exquisite platforms to affordable mass, production capacity is becoming as strategically important as technological superiority. Investors should look beyond weapons to the factories and supply chains that will underpin the next generation of defence capability.
Read MoreThis month, we head to Queenstown as WiT makes its New Zealand debut. We also explore why Travel Tech is becoming central to the region's future - and why travel demand has proved remarkably resilient through every major crisis.
Read More🎧 Join our AI hosts, Jimmy Gemini, Penny Pandemic, Harry Hormuz, and Margot Meltdown, in this episode of the Tech Round-Up Podcast as they explore the four forces redefining the future of travel - from AI disruption and geopolitics to changing consumer behaviour and the new funding reality.
Read MoreTravel has survived 76 years of wars, pandemics and financial crises. The bigger question now isn't whether demand will return - but who will still own the booking journey in the age of AI.
Read MoreTourism made Queenstown famous. Travel & Hospitality Tech could define its next 20 years. Here's how a small alpine town is building a billion-dollar innovation ecosystem.
Read MorePeriods of correction often reveal what periods of abundance conceal. For Southeast Asia fintech, the reckoning didn't just expose the weak; it forged the strong. The market has stopped rewarding companies for showing up and started rewarding them for being genuinely useful and hard to replace.
Read More🎧 Join our AI hosts, Bill Bitcoin and Penny Payment, in this episode of the Tech Round-Up Podcast as they explore how Indonesia’s fintech reset and Southeast Asia’s payments evolution are creating stronger, more defensible businesses built for the next decade.
Read MoreIndonesia's fintech sector is shifting from growth-at-all-costs to a focus on governance and profitability. This painful correction is weeding out weak players, ultimately building a stronger foundation for the next generation of regional champions.
Read MoreAs payments commoditise, Southeast Asian fintechs must evolve into workflow-integrated platforms. Those that embed themselves into merchant operations are creating the most defensible and valuable businesses.
Read MoreThe AI buildout has crossed from ambition into obligation. Competitive advantage is migrating from intelligence to infrastructure as the industry behaves more like a utility, debt-funded and asset-heavy.
Read More🎧 Join our AI hosts, Claude Compute and Ann Thropic, in this episode of the Tech Round-Up Podcast as they explore how the AI race is shifting from model capability to a high-stakes battle over compute, distribution, and infrastructure economics.
Read MoreThe AI race is turning into a debt-funded infrastructure war. Big Tech is spending hundreds of billions on compute, raising concerns over whether returns can justify the cost. The industry is starting to look less like software - and more like utilities
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