Ideas for better-informed decisions

Published, comparable pricing data on offline and rural research recruitment in Southeast Asia is thinner than the industry's confidence on the topic would suggest — which is itself the more useful finding for a research buyer.

16 September 2026

Indonesia's June 2026 EV incentive package ties the size of the subsidy directly to battery chemistry — and analysts are already asking whether the local-content rules behind it are strong enough to build a real industry rather than a cheaper import market.

11 September 2026

Deloitte's 2026 survey puts a number on the pilot-to-production gap in Singapore — and the wider region's own figures show adoption running well ahead of the world average while deployment maturity tells a more uneven story.

9 September 2026

Bain's 2026 consumer confidence research shows nearly 4 in 10 Southeast Asian consumers cut spending this year — yet Gen Z is redrawing the line between needs and wants rather than pulling back on engagement altogether.

7 September 2026

Benchmarks now put real numbers on a gap researchers have long felt informally: AI translation for Southeast Asian languages still lags well behind high-resource language pairs, and the shortfall is largest exactly where research synthesis needs precision.

4 September 2026

Global chipmakers keep announcing Malaysia expansions. The useful question is which announcements build durable capability, and which the country's own talent numbers say it cannot yet fully staff.

2 September 2026

Why regional opportunity must be balanced with country-level context—and how leaders can identify what should travel and what must adapt.

23 August 2026

Research creates value when findings clarify choices, challenge assumptions and guide action—not merely when a report is delivered.

22 August 2026

A practical view of how AI can improve exploration and synthesis without replacing accountability, context or experienced judgement.

21 August 2026