Future pragmatists drive long-term vision

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Digital society is the key to our future, but as we focus on the detail of how to make digital transformation happen, we often forget the long-term vision. The future is a very difficult thing to talk about, remarks...

API disruption set to accelerate

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Thanks to application programming interfaces (APIs), anyone can build the next “killer app” – but there’s so much more to come. Paolo Malinverno, vice-president analyst at Gartner, says...

Learn from past failures how not to do AI

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – One of the best ways to design for the future is to look at the past – and we can learn how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) more effectively by examining high-profile failures. Some of the things we...

Prepare now for the AI workforce

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Artificial intelligence (AI) will drive new ways of working, and we will see the emergence of a whole new AI-enabled workforce. There will inevitably be job losses as this happens, but the experts tell us that...

How CIOs can transform to become digital leaders

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – The role of the CIO – largely unchanged for the last three decades – is under threat, and this is being exacerbated by the digital business transformation. The traditional CIO role is becoming...

AI is not a replacement for human skill

That Artificial Intelligence will replace the need for a human workforce, is a misconception. Rather, AI is an effective tool that can support a business to build a more efficient workforce and assist with cost-saving initiatives. This is the view of Wessel...