Around 56% of salaried workers in Southeast Asia, totaling approximately 137 million people, are at high risk of losing their jobs due to technological changes. The garment industry, which employs around 9 million people across Southeast Asia, will be most impacted. While technology will change many jobs rather than replace them, comprehensive strategies are needed to help workers develop new skills and ensure education systems prepare people for the jobs of the future. Digital transformation is driving significant demand for digitally skilled workers in technology roles.

1. changing Jobs and
Enterprises?
Jo B. Bitonio, DPA
Project Development and Management
How Technology is

2. The study, called ASEAN in
Transformation: How Technology
is changing Jobs and
Enterprises, has found that
around 56% of salaried workers in
South East Asia are at high-risk of
losing their jobs in the near future.
This 56% comprises of about 137
million workers, amongst which
those working in the garments
industry are the most vulnerable.
The garments industry, which
includes textiles, clothing, and
footwear, employs about 9 million
people across South East Asia, of
whom the majority are young
women.

4. PERCENTAGE OF WAGE WORKERS AT HIGH RISK OF AUTOMATION IN
KEY SECTORS IN ASEAN-5

5. [WEF (Sep. 2018)
Shaping ASEAN’s
Future Readiness]
Global value chains are continuing to
shift, especially from East Asia, but also
increasing reshoring… New technologies
are disrupting and fostering a technology-
based model of production, challenging
especially the region’s SMEs.”

6. “Can ASEAN Turn
Geostrategic
and Technological Disruption
into Opportunity?”
[Project Syndicate, Sep. 4, 2018]

7. “Trade war and costs speeding shifts
of production to ASEAN and USA”
[Next Big Future, Sep. 21, 2018]

8. Technology has changed business in the evolution of making
more profit in business with high speed, to get more
customers, to be able to serve more people worldwide, to
improve the product and services quality, speed up a
business process, less use of human power in high-risk
intensive works

9. Digital Transformation: Online Guide to Digital
Business Transformation
https://www.i-scoop.eu/digital-transformation/

10. Digital Business Transformation Areas
Digital transformation in the integrated and connected sense
which it requires can, among, others, touch upon the
transformation of:
• Business activities/functions: marketing, operations,
human resources, administration, customer service, etc.
• Business processes: one or more connected operations,
activities and sets to achieve a specific business goal,
whereby business process management, business process
optimization and business process automation come into
the picture (with new technologies such as RPA). Business
process optimization is essential in digital transformation
strategies and in most industries and cases is a mix of
customer-facing goals and internal goals today.

11. • Business ecosystems: the networks of partners and
stakeholders, as well as contextual factors affecting the
business such as regulatory or economic priorities and
evolutions. New ecosystems are built between companies
with various background upon the fabric of digital
transformation, information, whereby data and actionable
intelligence become innovation assets.
• Business asset management: whereby the focus lies on
traditional assets but, increasingly, on less ‘tangible’ assets
such as information and customers (enhancing customer
experience is a leading goal of many digital transformaton
“projects” and information is the lifeblood of business,
technological evolutions and of any human relationship). Both
customers and information need to be treated as real assets
in all perspectives.

12. • Organizational culture, whereby there must be a clear customer-
centric, agile and hyper-aware goal which is achieved by acquiring
core competencies across the board in areas such as digital maturity,
leadership, knowledge worker silos and so forth. Culture also overlaps
with processes, business activities, collaboration and the IT-side of
digital transformation. In order to bring applications faster to market
changes are required. That’s the essence of DevOps: development
and operations. In order to make IT and OT work together in
businesses/processes/activities, change is required too (it’s not just
the information and operational technologies, it’s the processes,
culture, collaboration). Etc.
• Ecosystem and partnership models, with among others a rise of co-
opetive, collaborative, co-creating and, last but not lost, entirely new
business ecosystem approaches, leading to new business models and
revenue sources. Ecosystems will be key in the as-a-service-economy
and in achieving digital transformation success.

13. [ASEC Aldaba, DTI, quoted by the Philippine
Information Agency on May 17, 2018]
“The recent assessment
report of WEF
showed that Philippines
has a low level of
readiness for future
production ”

15. Global Leadership Forecast 2018
• 50% of the 2006 Fortune companies no longer
exist
• Many companies are unable to keep up with
the pace

16. 2017 Microsoft Asia Digital
Transformation Study
86% of the Philippine business leaders
CONSIDER transforming into a digital business
to enable future growth as a key priority •
ONLY 32% have a full digital transformation
strategy in place

17. Are we ready?
World of constant disruption and innovation”
URGENT NEED to groom digital leaders
for Philippine businesses to grow and
remain relevant in the future

18. • Manufacturing production processes
are transforming in terms of
geography, jobs and efficiency
• Certain sectors and groups will face
particular disruption
• Technology will “change” a lot of
jobs rather than “replace” them
• Making skills, training and education
systems “fit for purpose” will require
major effort
• Comprehensive multifaceted growth
and investment strategies are now
required in the technological age

19. Technology recruitment will be robust in
2018, with digital transformation driving much
of the demand. Many businesses in the future
looked to integrate a digital strategy into their
overall business approach. This has led to
huge demand for digitally astute candidates in
all areas of technology.

20. Reference
• ILO (2017) ASEAN IN TRANSFORMATION HOW
TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING JOBS AND
ENTERPRISES
• Hideki Kagohashi (2018) Disruptive Technologies,
Future of Work and Cooperative Future. 3rd
International Conference on Cooperatives
“Cooperative Transformation in the Changing
Global Economy” at Development Academy of
the Philippines Conference Center, Tagaytay City,
Philippines
https://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/cstd2016_p24_Jae-
HeeChang_ILO_en.pdf