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CEO Favoriot Dr. Mazlan Abbas, Kedudukan 10 Teratas 100 IoT Influencers

August 13th, 2018 Posted by favoriotadmin BLOG 0 thoughts on “CEO Favoriot Dr. Mazlan Abbas, Kedudukan 10 Teratas 100 IoT Influencers”

Sumber: Otakit

Jika anda baca pencapaiannya sahaja, pasti merasa kagum. Pengasas dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Favoriot Sdn. Bhd, berada pada kedudukan 50 teratas Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders oleh World CSR Congress 2017, 10 Teratas pada IoT Top 100 Influencers oleh Postscapes 2017, Kedudukan ke 20 Thought Leader in IOT by 2014 Onalytics Report, 100 Teratas Thought Leaders and UTM Alumni Industry Personality 2016.

Sila baca artikel sepenuhnya di SINI.

Why Are We Still at Industrial Revolution 2.7 (IR2.7)?

August 9th, 2018 Posted by favoriotadmin BLOG 0 thoughts on “Why Are We Still at Industrial Revolution 2.7 (IR2.7)?”

Somehow, we are at a very confusing Era. At one end, we have the vision and wish to move towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution but in actual fact, we are still in a mixed era of IR1.0, IR 2.0 and IR3.0.

Last night I was invited to one of the prestigious events hosted by a tech organization. The first thing I noticed was the registration process is still manual i.e. using pen and paper to jot down hundreds of attendees! That’s what I called IR1.0 ! And you can imagine the queue and time to find the attendees names.

Basically, in a nutshell, we can easily identify which Era are we in by looking at these criteria:

1st Industrial Revolution – Manual Labour or at least steam engine
2nd Industrial Revolution – Electrical
3rd Industrial Revolution – Internet and Database
4th Industrial Revolution – Intelligence

A simple form of registration process can also be converted from IR1.0 to IR4.0 by:

1st Industrial Revolution – Pen and Paper
2nd Industrial Revolution – Computer with an Excel Spreadsheet
3rd Industrial Revolution – Internet Registration
4th Industrial Revolution – RFID or Barcode Tag or Biometrics Registration or Payment via Cryptocurrency!

We have made an unofficial survey among the industry peers and asked the question “Where are we now?” And the surprising answer is we are still at 2.7 ! We have not reached the full Era of IR3.0 yet. Thus, how do we jumped into this era?

Technology is not the main problem. Whether we like it or not, whether we design it in Malaysia or not, this technology will mature in other places around the world. And it’s a matter of time, it reaches the shores of Malaysia.

There are a couple of factors we need to consider:

Talent – We are 3-5 years behind. Content, syllabus and new courses need to be introduced fast.
Mindset Transformation – Taking the risk and plan early. Sometimes we feel too comfortable in our work and not willing to change.
Generation Gap – Between the “old and traditional” management and the “young and techie” employees who wanted to change but have limitation to execute.
Regulatory – It’s a balance between making equipment and citizens safe and ensuring innovation will not stifle.

There’s a difference between the word “Revolution” and “Evolution”. Revolution is about transformational change and evolutionary is incremental change. These two have a different set of a thinking process. Are we ready? Please share your thoughts.

5th Professional and Management Kinabalu Conference 2018

August 6th, 2018 Posted by favoriotadmin BLOG 0 thoughts on “5th Professional and Management Kinabalu Conference 2018”

The event was held on 1-2 August 2018 at Klagan Regency Grand Ballroom, 1Borneo Kota Kinabalu. The theme for this year focused on “Fourth Industrial Revolution – Quest for Wisdom“.

My session was in the afternoon with two other panelists Pn. Marsineh Jarmin, Mantan I-IMATEC, and En. Azhar Bin Mad Nayan, Technical Advisor PSDC. The moderator is Cik Norti Hj. Sirin discussing on “Fourth Industrial Revolution – Issues and Cyber Threat“.

Personally, I felt that Cyber Threat is not only about security and privacy of our data but the threat can be to the existing jobs – making them obsolete. That feeling of job insecurity will have an impact on the speed of the digital transformation process. People tend to “take their own sweet time” to make things happen.

On other aspects of making IR4.0 more secured, I pointed out that “a chain is no stronger than the weakest link” whereby we can secure all layers of the 7-Layers of OSI (Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application) but if it involves not securing the Passwords itself, it can open up to further hacking and stealing of data.

Overall, it is a good step forward for Sabah to begin it’s IR 4.0 education and creating more awareness. The biggest challenge for such an industrial revolution is the balance between moving forward fast and ensuring others are not left behind. In a big State like Sabah, the bridging the digital divide issue needs to be tackled too. Many areas require basic infrastructure such as water, electricity and Internet connectivity before we can even introduce IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing, AI, VR/AR, Blockchain among others.