Mar 25, 2015
Kathy Gibson at the IDC CIO Summit, Sandton – A CIO is someone who reports to the CEO of the company – and, if you don’t, you are not a CIO. This is according to Len de Villiers, group CIO at Telkom, who says this truly the bottom line. “Proper CIOs talk 50% of...
Mar 25, 2015
Kathy Gibson at the IDC CIO Summit, Sandton – What is the bottom line; and what can CIOs do to address the changes in the relationship between IT and the business? Lise Hagen, research manager: software and IT service at IDC South Africa, points out that the...
Mar 25, 2015
Kathy Gibson from the IDC CIO Summit, Sandton – The CIO is losing his grip on ICT budgets, with 80% of IT spending currently funded by line of business managers and out of the hands of the IT organisation. Bill Keyworth, vice-president: research at IDC, says a...
Mar 12, 2015
Cloud is now a viable option for many IT projects, requiring infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to expand the scope of systems as they actively consider those that are cloud-based, according to Gartner. This is the first of four major I&O impacts...
Jan 30, 2015
The past three decades in the ICT industry have seen many disruptive waves of technology, but never as many waves hitting simultaneously as we are seeing today. That’s the view of Servaas Venter, country manager of EMC Southern Africa, who says: “CIOs in today’s...
