Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The proportion of Vietnamese enterprises thathave not adopted digital transformation is about 1.5 times higher than theglobal average.

The biggest problem for businesses was that they did not know where to startthe transformation, said Nguyen Khoa, FPT director general, speaking at the FPTTechday 2019.

He said if businesses failed to get moving, they would be left behind.

FPT Techday 2019 under the theme “Smart Start” was held in Hanoi on November 21.

The event attracted more than 3,000 attendees, including 500 senior leaders oflarge enterprises and banks, and technology experts.

Digital transformation had no other purpose than to help businesses change,increase their competitiveness and promote development, said Hoang Viet Anh,FPT deputy director general.

“In order to effectively implement a digital transformation, FPT believes thatit is necessary to think big, start smart, and increase scale quickly,” hesaid.

“The smart start is to identify and focus on the essentials for the business;select highly feasible projects, and select simple projects during the pilotprocess," he added.

"Our enterprise carried out its digital transformation with the motto“thinking big"", said Dinh Toan Thang, deputy head of the researchand development board at the Vietnam Post Corporation (VNPost).

VNPost was a State-owned enterprise that had been operating for over a centuryunder an outdated labour structure, he said.

Realising core areas such as postage and retail had become more competitivethanks to the wave of fintech and e-banking, the board decided to adopt adigital transformation strategy based on foreign frameworks, putting newtechnologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) into operation, said Thang.

As a result, the company achieved revenue of 1 billion USD last year, withprofit pushing to 400 million USD.

Nguyen Anh Nguyen, deputy director general of information technology at MasanGroup, said in order to develop, there was no other way but to change andimprove.

For Masan, branding was the most important. “Brand means money,” he said.

The group had undergone three digital transformations since 2013, he said.

Nguyen Hung, director general of TPBank, said that a leader must be a digitalleader in the digital era.

The bank has applied Industry 4.0 technology to nearly all its activities,including Big Data, biometrics and an open communication gateway.

Big Data had successfully helped the bank analyse customer behavior and storestructured and unstructured data, he said. The technology had been applied byTPBank in behaviour analysis to review and approve loans.

Meanwhile, the biometric application had helped the bank authenticate customersand keep customer information confidential, said the director.

"Using this technology, we avoid the risk of fraud for ourcustomers," he added.

“A smart start is very important to the banking industry”, he said.

"We have seen many benefits from this step. The digital experience is nowpart of TPBank," the director emphasised./.