{"id":1788,"date":"2026-01-20T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/cimb-pledges-rm-75-million-to-new-3d-academy-to-propel-groups-digital-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:02:30","slug":"cimb-pledges-rm-75-million-to-new-3d-academy-to-propel-groups-digital-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/cimb-pledges-rm-75-million-to-new-3d-academy-to-propel-groups-digital-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"CIMB pledges RM 75 million to new 3D Academy to propel Group\u2019s digital ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIMB Group Holdings Berhad has pledged RM 75 million over the next three years to the CIMB 3D Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy premised on digital, data and disruption \u2013 is aimed at helping CIMB embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to propel its digital ambitions via a Group-wide people development initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Group aims to equip its 36,000-strong workforce across all levels and categories with digital knowledge and skills appropriate to their jobs, by end-2019, through an estimated two million staff learning hours.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D Academy\u2019s objectives are three-pronged: to enhance the digital quotient in all job roles; to enable the Group\u2019s digital transformation; and to build an agile, innovative, tech-savvy workforce across the board. To this end, its competency framework will be anchored on various pillars including digital world awareness; agile &amp; entrepreneurial thinking; and data science &amp; analytics \/ data-driven decision making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a leading ASEAN universal bank, CIMB has always prioritised our most valuable asset, our people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the 4IR fast eclipsing existing digital revolution, we want to make CIMB the most powerful incubator possible for the development of talent, to propel the Group\u2019s next growth phase. In tandem with the digitisation of our core with a data-first principle, the CIMB 3D Academy is a crucial component to help us develop a workforce with the right skillset to help achieve our digital ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the Academy, our staff will be trained for agility, adaptability, creativity and an open mind to, among others, think like an entrepreneur and disrupt conventional thinking, in order to identify and reap opportunities to improve the Group\u2019s value proposition for our 13 million customers and stakeholders across ASEAN,\u201d said CIMB group chief executive officer, Tengku Datuk Sri Zafrul Aziz.<\/p>\n<p>Academy will spearhead digital training with the goal of enhancing the Group\u2019s business powered by improvements in competency, mindsets and relationships within the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>A core group of roles to be developed include emerging ones such as agile leader, agile coach, scrum master, scrum product owner, and tech geek.<\/p>\n<p>Other digital-centric roles include data scientist, data engineer, data analysts, design thinker, UI\/UX designer, as well as digital Marketer.The 3D modules, which will be conducted primarily through a digital and interactive platform, will be developed both in-house and by external curriculum developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIMB Group Holdings Berhad has pledged RM 75 million over the next three years to the CIMB 3D Academy. The Academy premised on digital, data and disruption \u2013 is aimed at helping CIMB embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to propel its digital ambitions via a Group-wide people development initiative. 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