OOCL Receives Digital Transformation Award
OOCL Receives Digital Transformation Award
OOCL is very proud to receive the Digital Transformation Award from ESCP Europe – a leading European business school celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. The awards program recognizes outstanding achievements and success in the organization’s digital transformation journey. In the evaluation process, the judging criteria for the award was based on the following key considerations:
- Companies that have transformed themselves through technology;
- An overall vision that leverages technology across customer experience, employee experience and business processes;
- A long-term transformation driven by top management;
- Human Resources management based on both recruiting external digital experts and supporting current teams through the transformation;
- Positive initial results reflected in turnover growth, market share gain, process optimisation or new products & services.
Mr. Steve Siu, Chief Information Officer of OOCL represented the company to receive the honor at the awards ceremony held on February 18, 2019, in Paris, France, where he also participated in a sharing session to talk about digital transformation to an audience well over a thousand guests from the business community.
OOCL Chief Information Officer, Steve Siu, (right) receives the award from ESCP Europe.
“An award like this is always very rewarding and encouraging for us to do better,” said Mr. Siu. “Digital technology is developing and evolving very quickly and it is very important for OOCL to be at the forefront of innovation to ensure we remain ahead of the competition.”
OOCL has always been a pioneer in leveraging technology to make a real business impact on operations while improving its services to customers. Equipped with a talent base of over 1,000 developers located in San Jose, Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Shanghai and Manila, OOCL has been working very closely with its sister company, CargoSmart, a software solutions provider, to leverage artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and big data to improve visibility and network operations efficiency with predictive insights since 2012.
OOCL also developed close collaborations with other business partners on this digital transformation journey which involved various key areas including the
nurturing of AI developers and achieving specific targets such as cost-saving improvements in operations.
With the vision to improve the efficiency of the entire industry and supply chain, OOCL joined hands with eight other partners in the transportation and logistics sector to form a consortium called the
Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), an open digital platform which aims to connect all stakeholders in the supply chain by leveraging blockchain technology facilitated by CargoSmart.
OOCL Chief Information Officer, Steve Siu, (third from left) talks about digital transformation to an audience well over a thousand participants from the business community at the ESCP Europe campus in Paris.
To learn more about OOCL’s digital transformation journey straight from the Chief Information Officer, please click on the following hyperlink to a video interview recording with Mr. Siu:
“Orient Overseas Container Line" and “OOCL" are trade names for transportation provided separately by: Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (“OOCLL") and OOCL (Europe) Limited respectively and both are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Orient Overseas (International) Limited, a public company (0316) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Hong Kong, China, OOCL is one of the world's largest integrated international container transportation and logistics companies, with more than 370 offices in over 80 countries/regions. Linking Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Mediterranean, Indian sub-continent, Middle East and Australia/New Zealand, the company offers transportation services to all major east/west trading economies of the world. OOCL is one of the leading international carriers serving China, providing a full range of logistics and transportation services throughout the country. It is also an industry leader in the use of information technology and e-commerce to manage the entire cargo process. (
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