Oct 29, 2025
As organisations rush to adopt artificial intelligence, many are building sophisticated systems that solve imaginary problems, Nedbank’s group technology executive for product management Makopi Nkopodi has a clear message: AI initiatives must be explicitly...
Oct 1, 2025
Kasipreneurship – otherwise known as Kasi businesses – represents a vital yet virtually untapped economy across South Africa’s townships, where cash remains king and small businesses are excluded from formal financial inclusion due to traditional and outdated...
Sep 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making have reinforced data as the new currency of economic and social power. Dhesen Ramsamy, group chief technology and data officer at Old Mutual, talks data, value, governance and citizen trust. AI’s reliance on...
Aug 29, 2025
In the dynamic world of corporate reporting and planning, the terminology we use often reflects deeper shifts in strategy and technology. Over the years, we’ve witnessed the rise and fall of buzzwords like corporate performance management (CPM) and enterprise...
Aug 21, 2025
While businesses are racing to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI), many overlook a critical factor in success: the quality and structure of the data feeding these models. The reality is that a model is only as good as the data it is trained on. This is according...
Aug 15, 2025
As data becomes increasingly central to the business strategy, the expectations of data teams are shifting. They’re no longer just enablers; they’re expected to influence, initiate and lead. But influence doesn’t come from being right; it comes from being heard....
