Digital transformation, resilience key to business survival

Digital transformation, resilience key to business survival

Kathy Gibson reports from the IDC CIO Summit – With all the changes that Covid-19 has brought about over the past year, a massive 62% of South African CIOs have accelerated their digital transformation initiatives. “This is a positive indicator that...

Quantum computing edges into the mainstream

Investments in quantum computing are expected to increase in the next 24 months, according to new survey results from International Data Corporation (IDC). The number of organisations allocating more than 17% of their annual IT budgets for this technology are expected...

Customer-obsessed companies grow much faster

CIOs and technology leaders guiding their firms through the challenges of the 2020s must enable technology-driven innovation and deliver on the goal of customer obsession if they hope to compete in a post-pandemic marketplace. This is according to Forrester, which...

Bank customers more willing to engage digitally

The latest engagement statistics for Standard Bank’s mobile banking app show that customers are becoming increasingly more comfortable engaging digitally for more than just basic banking. Standard Bank reports that there have been more than 1,2-million unique...

After big data, get ready for small and wide data

Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of organisations will shift their focus from big to small and wide data, providing more context for analytics and making artificial intelligence (AI) less data hungry. “Disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing...

SA can expect a challenging, risk-driven future

As many parts of the world deal with the Third Wave of Covid-19 infections, there are growing concerns that South Africa may face harsher lockdown measures in the future as the country ramps up its vaccine rollout program. This will have a telling impact on society...