Very few companies on the Fortune 500 list can boast of a 130-year-old legacy, yet ABB continues with a strong show in all the market segments it serves – utilities, infrastructure, power plants, petrochemicals, robotics, data centers, transport, and many more.
Shedding light on the organisation’s journey in this part of the world is Johan de Villiers, managing director, Singapore and Southeast Asia, ABB, who as keynote speaker at HR Tech Interactive 2018, Singapore, spoke about the four key ingredients for building success in artificial intelligence (AI).
ABB has been in Singapore for four decades, currently employing more than 1,000 employees. In this time, the company has evidently seen much success in digitalisation and AI, shifting focus from heavy manufacturing to investments in new, digital technologies and robotics. So despite having a similar number of workers as we did previously, we have tripled productivity in this period,” de Villiers shares.
“More importantly, staying agile to respond to the market changes has helped create new opportunities for our employees,” he adds. In fact, among the management team at ABB, there isn’t a single person who is in the same role as they were 10 years ago – in fact about 95% are not in the same role as even five years ago, he affirmed.
Check out highlights from the Malaysia edition of this conference.
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