AI+ Asia: The Opportunity
How AI Is Reshaping Business Across Asia
Asia is not one market. Stop reading it like one.
You can recite the headline AI stories — the Singapore bank, the super-app, the sovereign model — but you still can't tell structural shift from hype, or weigh a Jakarta opportunity against a Tokyo one. This book replaces the flat "Asia is catching up" story with a market-by-market map, the LEAP Framework, and a staged 90-day plan you can act on. Written by engineers who build production AI systems — for leaders who know Asia matters and need to move on it, one market at a time.
- A five-archetype market map that breaks "Asia" into its distinct centres of gravity
- The LEAP Framework — Localise, Ecosystem, Augment, Platform — to position your AI strategy
- The leapfrogging thesis: where less legacy means faster adoption, and where it's fragile
- The Asian regulatory patchwork made navigable, from China's rules to Singapore's framework
- A staged 90-day plan to map your market, run a LEAP pass, and ship one pilot
Business leaders, executives, senior managers and entrepreneurs operating in — or expanding into — Asian markets. Regional heads of multinationals, founders of Asian scale-ups, and strategy/transformation leads who must decide where and how to place AI bets across diverse Asian economies.
Also for:Investors, policymakers, consultants, and professionals in Western firms with Asian operations or supply chains who need a structured read on the region's AI trajectory.
- Identify how AI adoption differs across Asia's major economic archetypes; evaluate a business's position against the leapfrogging dynamic in emerging Asian markets; apply the LEAP Framework to translate the Asian AI opportunity into a market-specific strategy; assess an AI initiative against the regulatory and data-sovereignty patchwork of Asian jurisdictions; design a 90-day plan to capture an AI opportunity in an Asian market
- Diagnostic
- How ready is your business for the Asian AI opportunity?
- Chapter 1
- The Asian AI Moment
- Chapter 2
- One Continent, Many Markets
- Chapter 3
- Leapfrogging: Skipping the Legacy Stage
- Chapter 4
- The Real Economy: Manufacturing, Supply Chains, Logistics
- Chapter 5
- The Services Transformation: Finance, Retail, Customer Experience
- Chapter 6
- Language, Culture, and the Multilingual Challenge
- Chapter 7
- Talent, Skills, and the AI Workforce
- Chapter 8
- Governance, Regulation, and Trust
- Chapter 9
- Building an AI Strategy for an Asian Business
- Chapter 10
- The Opportunity Ahead: A 90-Day Plan
- Back matter
- Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference
Written by engineers who build production AI systems — for leaders who know Asia matters and need to move on it, one market at a time.