Challenging The Uber Syndrome

Just yesterday, Grab announced its acquisition of Uber across South East Asia. Uber customers received notification that the Uber app will cease operations on 8th April in Singapore. While many bet on the winners and losers, one thing is for sure – the industry disruption continues.

Uber's Innovation To Success

Uber is synonymous with innovation and cross-industry disruption. When Uber surfaced in San Francisco in Mar 2009, it created a massive transformation in the transportation industry. 

Taxi companies no longer had monopoly of the business of transporting passengers. People could find peer to peer ride sharing, deliver and transportation via an on-line app. It offered convenience, transparent pricing and better service as the nearest drivers could be alerted saving time and passengers can track where the drivers are for visibility and safety. People found employment and free-lance opportunities to make a living that was convenient to their timing and location too.

The Uber Syndrome

Today, we use the term “The Uber Syndrome” to describe industry disruptions “where a competitor with a completely different business model enters your industry and flattens you.” This is a powerful quote from Judy Lemke, CIO of the Schneider Trucking Company. And growing meteorically from sheer entrepreneurship!

In the past, strategic change and management consultancies talked about business model optimization and creating viable independent business models. I studied my Masters of Business Administation and wrote my paper on the Viable System Model from Professor Stafford Beer who revolutionalized the Chile economy. 

That was great and is still used today in corporate restructuring and optimizing organizational efficiency. On top of that, executives now need to worry about competitors with new business models, who arise from outside the recognized landscape of traditional competition.

New Competitors That Aren't Classified As Competitors

IBM Institute of Business Value conducted the world’s largest Global C-Suite Study among CEO, CFOs and CMOs, the words "Uber-ized", "Uber-ization", "Uber Syndrome" and "digital invaders" were among the top concerns. The most striking quote from all the quotes collected from the executives - that is typical of what keeps executive awake at night is “The biggest threat is new competitors that aren’t classified as competitors”.

An executive from the study told us that he spends much of his time surveying the landscape of everything that is happening, constantly trying to apply his judgment to decide whether something is just a passing fad or hype that can be safely ignored, if it is a serious trend that needs to be addressed in a timely way, or if it is a tsunami that threatens to rise up and wipe you entirely off the map. Those are the worries that are causing top corporate executives to lose sleep these days.

Then there is the issue of competition across industries – or to put it another way, the blurring of lines between industries, and the threat of new, non-traditional forms of competition.

Whoever Dominates Data Science Wins

In fact, a full 54% of retail executives we talked to said that they expect competition from outside the industry to be more significant and impactful than competition from within the industry over the next several years.

More so than ever, data science plays a critical role to how executives can stay ahead of the competition. Our team at Systems on Cloud at Asia Pacific work daily with executives on cognitive computing, analytics, big data and artificial intelligence to power their journey ahead. For those new to Artificial Intelligence, we offer a discovery workshop where they can understand what it takes from data, resources and skills to embark on this journey.

Whoever dominates the data science wins. 

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Credits: Blog photo from Grab advertisement.

Try Your Hand At Quantum Computing

Following Watson, blockchain and artificial intelligence, quantum computing may provide the next powerful set of services delivered to solve our industry issues. Fortune 500 firms are trying their hand at Quantum Computing.

Quantum computing is a term that’s becoming more mainstream, but its complex nature means it’s not well understood beyond quantum physicists. 

What is quantum computing?

It is a computing model that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to process data. Quantum computing uses quantum bits or quits that can represent a one, a zero, or both at once. This is in contract to the binary digits used by classical computing.

From bits to quits

Quantum computing process information in quantum bits, or quits, which can hold more information than their classical counterparts and solve problems faster and more efficiently.

For the more technical, entangled quits in a superposition can be correlated with each other; that is, the state of one (whether it is a 1 or a 0) can depend on the state of another. A superposition is a principle of quantum theory that means each qubit can represent both a 1 and a 0 at the same time.

What about AI?

While technologies like AI or Artificial Intelligence , can find patterns buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen and the number of possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous ever to be processed by classical computers.

Examples of where Quantum Computing is creating breakthroughs

• In healthcare to advance the discovery of new medicines and materials by helping us untangle the complexities of molecular and chemical interactions. 

• In banking to make better investments by finding new ways to model financial data and isolate key global risk factors.

• In supply chain and logistics by finding the optimal routes across global systems like optimizing fleet operations for deliveries during the holiday season.

Where are we with Quantum Computing?

We are currently in a period of history when we can prepare for a future where quantum computers offer a clear computational advantage for solving important problems that are currently intractable. This is the “quantum ready” phase.

Think of it this way: What if everyone in the 1960s had a decade to prepare for PCs, from hardware to programming over the cloud, while they were still prototypes? In hindsight, we can all see that jumping in early would have been the right call. That’s where we are with quantum computing today. Now is the time to begin exploring what we can do with quantum computers, across a variety of potential applications. Those who wait until fault-tolerance might risk losing out on much nearer-term opportunities.

What is IBM's role?

Following Watson and blockchain, quantum computing may provide the next powerful set of services delivered via the IBM Cloud.

IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems for business and science. Today, IBM has a sophisticated prototype commercial quantum processor that will form the core of the first IBM Q early-access commercial systems for clients.

Leading Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and research labs are joining IBM Q Network to explore practical applications of quantum computing for business and science. The IBM Q Network provides organizations with quantum expertise, resources, and cloud-based access to the most advanced quantum systems.

Watch this video that explains quantum computing

See how playing cards can help us understand the unique way quantum computers work.  https://youtu.be/5faqB9YLS_8

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Anubis on Consciousness, Spiritual Tourism and Love

Consciousness, Spiritual Tourism and Love
Received from Anubis
Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 10th February 2017

Who are you?
I AM Anubis.  People call me the Protector of the Underworld.
The veil between the worlds is so thin. What is above or under the world? What’s life before or after death? What moves across the world is your soul. The state of your soul is reflected in its consciousness. I assist in the transition of the soul and consciousness across dimensions.
I AM the Protector of Consciousness.

What is consciousness?

Consciousness is an experience. What you experience is what you choose to perceive. What you perceive is what your view of the world is. Your view of the world is what you are learning.

When you call on me Anubis to protect you from evil, what does evil mean to you? You pray to seek reinforcement of your belief that you need protection.  That belief comes from your perception of good and evil. But what you are actually asking for is to confirm your desire or intention.  Your intention is for the goodness to triumph to have a smooth life or after life.  When your heart is pure in its desire, genuine and true, your prayers will be answered.  When your intentions are clear, it will manifest.

As your desires are being purified, belief systems fall away, vibrations and frequencies are raised, and intentions are manifest, your soul experiences an expansion of consciousness.
My role in your ask is to hold your vibrations, endorse your intention with honour, power and authority. I AM therefore protecting your consciousness in its expansion for you to realize your full potential.

Have you always been with us?
You are in (Egypt) the land which is multi-dimensional, where the veil is most thin. We come through the land, portals and dimensions that many are not aware or conscious of.

As humans who hold the light, do be extremely aware and conscious of who you are.
You are made up of energy fields in your physically body. Every cell and organ has its own consciousness, intention and experience individually. Yet integrated into one physical body with trillions of DNA with its own communication, senses and melding into a greater singular intention and experience.

I am here to remind you of your magnificence.  I am here to guide you, as you experience the different realms and frequencies, crossing into past and new territories and parallel time lines.  There is nothing to do, but everything to receive. Love, seek and you will find, ask and it shall be given – the raising of your consciousness or experience.  I am here to support you on your journey.

Is tourism helping spirituality this land?

There is little awareness of consciousness now from this land for this land.  Consciousness may have evolved early among the first on earth on this land, but it has gone underground.  The flowers in the dessert have huge torns.  There is beauty in the people and the land. Greed and superficial money making are the thorns that become self defence mechanism for survival.

There is no coincidence that you chance upon those who prey on spiritual seekers to make money in the name of spiritual tourism.  Allow this experience.  It is an opportunity to understand the people and to express your spiritual intentions clearly and firmly.  You will be led to places catered to tourists and full of marketplace noises. Quieten your heart. Be aware. Be perceptive. Be conscious.  Even in the noisiest market, one can find peace and enlightenment.  Listen to your intuition and act accordingly.  The guides are with you. I AM with you.

When you experience the dark, your light shines brighter and light will find you.  Another one from this land who has purity of heart and a desire in his soul, will be led to you.  Embark on the adventure with him and your light will raise his consciousness.  You will form a spiritual bond and you will both bring more spiritual experiences and awakening for those in this land and many from other lands.

What is love to you?

Some may find love in the same dimension or not.  Just as you have experienced so much uncontrollable laughter, my love fills me over the brim with joy, pure uncontrollable joy. It is a kind of love ecstacy that we experience in our ethereal body that explodes like a timeless orgasm. The love that brings out the best qualities and gifts in the other person is most pure.  Love and compassion are part of the experience and evolution of consciousness.

About Anubis:
Anubis is one of the most iconic god from Ancient Egypt in the earliest civilizations in the First Dynasty.

In the ancient Egyptian language, he was called Anpu or Inpu. This name has the same root as a word which means ‘a royal child.’  It is also related to the word “inp”, meaning “to decay”.
Anubis is the Greek name of the god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion. It is usually depicted with a man with a golden jakal head. He is depicted in black, a colour that symbolized both rebirth and the discoloration of the corpse after embalming.

His parents are Nephthys and Set. Anubis’ consort is Anput (Goddess of mummification & funerals). His daughter is the serpent goddess Kebechet (deity of embalming liquid or cooling water).

Name in hieroglyphs

First published: http://annephey.com/anubis-on-consciousness-spiritual-tourism-and-love/

Being Authentic. I Am Who I Am

A well meaning head hunter called me “Hey, did you leave IBM? Why didn’t you tell me so I can place you?” “No, I have not left. I will definitely tell you if I am looking out. Do you know something I don’t?” I laughingly replied. He replied, “Your LinkedIn job title changed to “Mindful Ledaership” so I thought you quit.”  That was just one reaction, among many connections that reacted to my profile change in surprise, happiness, curiosity, cautiousness and even disapproval.

What garnered these responses was just a change in my profile to “Mindful Leadership”. I had decided to integrate my career self and my spiritual self into one.  I had previously kept two separate identities – one professional identity as “Anne Phey – Innovator” as a kick-ass Marketing Director at IBM and another identity “Anne Phey – Mindful Meditator” that I shared about my journey of self discovery in holistic practices.

Here are the Top 5 reactions and my response:

1.  “Won’t your boss think you are spending time to blog about non-work stuff and affect your career?”

I am grateful that IBM practices work life integration and I have understanding bosses.  We recognize that team members need a healthy balance of work and private time.  While many employees may spend their week nights or weekends with their parents or children, I choose to spend my time on holistic practices and sharing them on social media.  The employee is evaluated on the results, and not how they spend their time.  So, sharing about mindfulness does not make me any less effective as an employee.

2. “You are a social advocate, why a title on mindfulness and not IBM?”

As LinkedIn’s top Social Seller, I am an advocate of social media as a medium for corporates to reach out to partners and customers.  Being an advocate does not mean talking only about one’s company all the time. Often social media becomes a bombardment of corporate jargon. People trust people.  We earn that trust by being genuine and having an opinion. I am an IBM ambassador, not one that blindly drum-beats corporate messages, but a human that one can relate to and have a conversation with.  I can share both about mindfulness and corporate content.

3. “Don’t you think it is unprofessional to share about mindfulness on corporate platforms?”

Mindfulness is an attitude, an approach and a holistic practice.  It is not contrary to corporate work. In fact, it adds to a better person, environment and work outcomes.  In the tech industry, disruptions are changing the way industries and customers are behaving.  If one practices mindfulness, one can navigate these disruptions with ease.

Personally, I have gained from mindfulness with calmness in my approach, better clarity by being able to observe alternative perspectives on situations, confidence in handling obstacles, positive encouragement to team members, motivation to do good and tenacity to outlast the issues.

Our Human Resource Director Craig Stewart too writes about mindfulness in his blogs. (See more at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindfulness-isnt-just-fancy-way-saying-yoga-stuff-craig-stewart)

4. “Recruiters can’t categorize you if you put mindfulness into your job title.”

Human Resource as a function no longer relies on job titles and abilities on CVs but about how a person’s intrinsic qualities such as mindfulness and leadership can take the role and job scope to success.

Here is an example of incorporating mindfulness into your profile. Techfucius is a CIO (Chief Information Officer) who is a seeker of salvation from IT woes.  Instead of seeking salvation atop a mountain somewhere, he has to practice mindfulness with deep reflection within to manage a tech world riddled with disruption and uncertainty. His blogs talk about the power of strengthening what lies within (See more at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-strengthening-what-lies-within-techfucius-say)

5. “Have you quit your job to go full time into holistic work?”

Changing my job title to “Mindful Leader” gave many the impression that I am no longer working in the corporate world.  Most people believe that you have to either be a corporate warrior or a peaceful holistic practitioner.  I choose to be both.  I love my job at IBM and I love what I do to help individuals transform their lives. And I love showing by example to transform my life to a better person, boss and team mate at my workplace. 

Corporate and Mindfulness Merge As One

We sometimes draw such well defined lines around areas of our lives – our work, our home, our children, our recreation club and our spiritual practices.  As I discover more about myself, I become more of who I truly am at home and at work. There is just one me, I am who I am.

In fact, several social advocates have contacted me to ask how I managed to integrate mindfulness, corporate and social media.  Many have asked for further discussions and tips as they see social media and social selling cross the chasm of regurgitating corporate jargon to sharing from the heart of what matters to the person be it personal, professional or corporate development. 

So here I am, on this path of integration. I will be blogging about mindfulness on how it has helped become better persons in the corporate world, and also about the tech industry with mindfulness.   

Join me, be bold and shine as who you are. Be authentic.

High Vibration Naica Mined Gypsum Selenite Meditation

Naica Mine of Chihuahua

Photo Courtesy of NatGeo Magazine

Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it home. "There is no other place on the planet," García-Ruiz said, "where the mineral world reveals itself in such beauty."

The Naica Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico, is a working mine that is known for its extraordinary crystals. Naica is a lead, zinc and silver mine in which large voids have been found, containing crystals of selenite (gypsum) as large as 4 feet in diameter and 50 feet long.

A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals—translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet (11 meters).

How did the crystals reach such superheroic proportions? For millennia the crystals thrived in the cave's extremely rare and stable natural environment. Temperatures hovered consistently around a steamy 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), and the cave was filled with mineral-rich water that drove the crystals' growth.

The chamber holding these crystals is known as the Crystal Cave of Giants, and is approximately 1000 feet down in the limestone host rock of the mine. The crystals were formed by hydrothermal fluids emanating from the magma chambers below. The cavern was discovered while the miners were drilling through the Naica fault, which they were worried would flood the mine. Without specialized suits and equipment, the scientist could experience severe symptoms such as loss of consciousness and elevated blood pressure. Now García-Ruiz is advising the mining company to preserve the caves.

Newly brought to light, these crystals have already started channeling messages to mankind. You may have heard Jinky Amores and Gigi Kristensen share at Heart Mind Body Festival. Many have chosen to find their homes here in Singapore and have started communicating to Gerald Kwek and Anne Phey. Many have collective and personal messages for their keepers, and are sharing records of our ancient history and evolution.

Do you resonate with high vibration crystals? Are you a reincarnated Planetary being, Lemurian or Atlantean? If so, these Selenites will ignite your remembrance and assist you in your journey. Join us this Sunday 4th December at 3pm for a Crystal Meditation where we will channel collective and personal messages.

If you have already are a keeper of these Selenites, do bring them for this meditation for collective energy and messages. If you do not have any, come and receive the blessings that have been kept in Mother Gaia for you. Gerald has been attuning the crystals to their keepers aligned to their joint mission. Anne Phey has been receiving shapes, colours and poems. These selenite crystals are out of this world. Come and find out what is in store for you. We will also have special guest Gigi Kristensen who will share about the Crystal Caves and Messages if you have not heard them at HMB.

For those who attend, a special rate will be given for attunement and crystal poem channeling with a beautiful keepsake to go home with your crystal. Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1267984839907343/

More info on The Naica Caves of Chihuahua

• Naica Mine on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drrYFj91Ko 
• Naica Mine on Nat Geo: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/crystal-giants/shea-text
• Photo of Naica Mine of Chihuahua. Photo Courtesy of NatGeo Magazine N

Unlock Earthly Crystal & Planetary Portals

Come access Earthly #Crystal & Planetary #Portal energy to help us in our #awakening and access to our innate talents and align more to our #lifepurpose.  This workshop is suitable for those who desire to move their life to the next phase, #shift to high vibrations and who want to know more about their #galactic connections.  Besides sharing of knowledge, it will be an experiential session where you will travel across #dimensions with the earth and planets. Come if you are ready for #transformation! http://annephey.com/product/unlock-earthly-crystal-planetary-portals-workshop-2016-nov-9/ @annephey #thehulalife

Unlock Earthly Crystal & Planetary Portals

To truly move to a higher awareness and consciousness, we can tune up tune up our vibration to the 5th dimension and beyond. We can become better versions of ourselves and our world by tapping into an infinite loop of unconditional self-love, co-creation and mastery, unity and peace.

This workshop will share about the resources that have been made available to us before and after the harmonic convergence – our galaxies and stars, crystal grids within earth and our own subtle bodies. Learn how to unlock these portals to access the immense library of vibrational knowledge.



Since 2012, new #channelers like Anne Phey have been called to share the new energy from the planets, connect with the #galaxies, earthly #crystalgrids and access energy ###portals and activate our crystalline bodies. Behold the old has past and the new has come. Rise to the new #multi-dimensionional #vibrations, allow for #lightlanguage activation and receive freshly channeled energetic messages and divine knowledge. Change is here but #transformation is a #conscious choice.
 Anne will channel messages from Pleidia for humanity, and help us to understand the keys given to our living earth by the Pleidians.

Come on this journey to the higher dimension and frequency, experience the healing and receive channeled messages for each individual.

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2016
Time: 7:30pm to 10pm
Venue: Qi New Age & Healing Centre Singapore, 42 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198896
Energy Exchange: $88