Stop buying AI. Start redesigning work

Operating model, capability and process, not technology alone, will decide who turns AI investment into measurable value, writes Kim Moore, executive associate: people solutions division at Change Logic. Every executive conversation about AI eventually arrives at the...

How has enterprise IT management changed in 20 years?

Twenty years ago, managing enterprise IT in South Africa was a considerably more contained job. By David C Howell, regional sales director at ManageEngine South Africa Most employees worked from an office, using desktops connected to a corporate network, while...

AI’s value comes down to integration and articulation within systems

The organisation only feels the value of AI when it is deeply connected to the business it serves, writes Jacqui Bond, practice head of AI transformation services at Braintree. In 2026, companies are simultaneously pressured to invest in AI and showcase the value of...

SA’s datacentres need to be treated like critical infrastructure

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in the systems running the economy, the buildings housing that intelligence become part of its attack surface – whether or not anyone ever finds them on a map. By Gary Peel, cloud business development manager: southern...

The real cost hiding in businesses isn’t on the balance sheet

South African businesses have gotten good at spotting cost pressures. Inflation, fuel, hiring freezes – none of it goes unnoticed. What gets missed, according to Nic Laschinger, technology director at Euphoria Telecom, is the money quietly leaking out of a...

Africa’s AI future depends on what we choose to own

Africa does not need to build the world’s largest AI model to shape its place in the AI economy. Our more urgent task is to decide where control must sit as AI moves from pilots into live services. By Brian Pinnock, go-to-market executive of The Cloud Crew Policy...