Jun 8, 2026
AI deployments do not usually fail on the technology. They fail on what was already broken before the technology arrived: data that nobody fully trusts, governance that exists on paper but not in practice, and teams that were never brought along. For most...
Jun 5, 2026
Someone at your institution is running a critical risk calculation from a laptop under a desk. You just don’t know which one. That’s not a hypothetical. At a major bank, compliance teams discovered approximately 36,000 systems operating across the...
Jun 5, 2026
The returns from digital transformation will remain elusive until business leaders confront an uncomfortable truth: the problem isn’t the AI, but everything underneath it. By Kgomotso Lebele, country MD at Accenture, South Africa Consider this: you lead a large...
Jun 4, 2026
The irony was palpable when South Africa’s Draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy was abruptly withdrawn in April. A document designed to establish the country as an ethical leader in AI governance was found to be riddled with fictitious, AI-hallucinated...
Jun 1, 2026
Across South Africa, many citizens are already familiar with seamless, data-driven experiences, often through services in the private sector. In these environments, data is used to support more connected and responsive interactions, shaping how services are delivered...
May 29, 2026
Rising IT hardware costs and supply constraints now carry real operational and financial risks, writes Marcelle Steyn: strategic sales lead at InnoVent. There’s a disconnect in many South African businesses right now. IT teams are under pressure to deliver on refresh...
