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The success of Malaysia’s digital transformation will depend on strong political leadership, consistent government support, buy-in from key stakeholders like the business community and educators, and re-skilling of the country’s workers.
Automation is set to become a critical component in Asia’s productivity, and workers — particularly in low-skilled fields — are vulnerable to job displacement. The World Economic Forum predicts that 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t exist today.
Deloitte assesses that the empowered employee of the future will create value by identifying salient problems from the front lines of their program or project, working with a suite of technologies. Employees of tomorrow will have to shift their mindsets from task execution and process management to lifelong learning and identifying, defining and helping to solve problems.
This inexorable trend is not lost on planners and decision makers in Malaysia. In the past half century, Malaysia has shifted from a predominantly agriculture-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services. It has registered impressive gains in income, literacy and education, and enjoys the highest per capita gross domestic product in ASEAN, aside from the tech-savvy…
