CEOs look to digital business rescue

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – For this generation of business leaders, digital transformation could be a defining career issue, so they are serious about making it work. This is a major departure from how CEOs thought about IT and technology in...

Will you survive, thrive or nose-dive?

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — The platform model is starting to dominate the economy today, providing a way for information, goods and services to be shared between suppliers and consumers. But not every organisation will win in the platform...

Why is it so hard to get user experience right?

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – User experience is important if we want technology to become widely used — but it is hard to deliver. Gartner analyst Magnus Revang points out that there are 27 credible definitions of user experience —...

Talent cliff threatens digital transformation

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — There is a looming talent cliff for technology skills — while there has also been a 60% growth in non-IT skills. What organisations need is people with digital dexterity. Gartner finds. These people need to...

More data specials from Cell C

Cell C has continued on its wooing of customers with a range of new LTE-A data products and promotions. “As a business, we try to ensure that customers get the best value on offer and we believe that these new products will fall into that category. Data is an...

Rand Merchant invests in Bitcoin platform

One of the world’s most popular Bitcoin platforms, Luno, has announced it has expanded into 35 new markets across Europe, and a R120-million Series B funding round, led by London-based Balderton Capital. Rand Merchant Investments, through its fintech investment...