Disruption response: Singapore can do much more

Singapore

MOST local business leaders believe that Singapore companies and the government still have a ways to go in responding to disruption.

It is a phenomenon they are mindful of, one through which new technologies can either trigger economic displacement or create opportunities for entirely new economic sectors to emerge.

A joint survey by The Business Times and Standard Chartered Bank has found that more than 84 per cent of chief executive officers (CEOs) in Singapore say that, on a national level, the country can do more to deal with disruption.

Only nine pe…