More than three decades ago, articles arose touting the need for CFOs to become strategic: “a business partner and not just a bean counter.” Finance professionals must operate the traditional finance functions, while broadening their horizons to embrace modern innovations and strategies. This requires constant transformation, as the world continues to evolve. If CFOs can […]
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iOCO Hosts Retail Maestro to Chat All Things Digital Transformation
“The question that needs to be asked is not what the best technology is, but what technology will fit in best for the needs of your organisation”. This was the view of Hungry Lion CEO, Adrian Basson, who addressed us at our recent knowledge sharing event at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Prior to taking […]
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The Future of IoT is a Symbiotic Relationship
The world around us is changing, devices are getting smarter, jobs are being replaced by machines and technology is growing exponentially and becoming ever more present in our daily lives. One of the technologies shaping the future is the Internet of things (IoT). In simple terms, IoT connects dumb devices to the internet. What this […]
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iOCO Academy Students Shine as Practice Makes Perfect
The 2019 Academy officially kicked off in February with a renewed commitment to skills development and job creation. Throughout the year students have truly excelled by successfully completing multiple in-house projects which have added incredible value to our organisation. We’re delighted to share the details of each project and congratulate our Academy students on a […]
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Changing the World, One Conversation at a Time
With such phenomenal disruption taking place around us recently, thinking differently and working differently should be a priority for everyone. Why? Because changing the world starts with an exchange. Imagine what would have happened if Marc Randolph and his pal Reed Hastings never had that chat about late returns at the DVD store. Nothing. And […]
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Mobile Banking: There’s a better way to do it – Agile helps you find it
The problem with the Waterfall approach to software development is that you can’t change your mind. With Waterfall, there’s an assumption when starting out that you know exactly what you need, when it will be delivered, and how much it will cost. It never works this way. In almost every development project, we guarantee that, […]
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The Key Factors to Disrupting Guest Experience
Within the hospitality sector the guest experience is vital to the success of organisations. In today’s market, hospitality organisations are being met with the very real challenge of having to keep up with customer expectations in a highly technological and rapidly evolving environment. Many organisations seem to fall short of the key factors disrupting guest […]
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Transforming the Culture of Guest Experiences
Modern day technological advances have seen a radical transformation in the culture of guest experiences. In order for hospitality businesses to keep abreast with, and create, the demanded technologically advanced guest experience culture, these businesses need to understand the elements that comprise the modern-day guest experience. Three Key Elements of the Modern-Day Guest Experience Technology […]
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Things to consider if you’re managing your own AWS environment
The self-service capabilities of cloud services like AWS have greatly simplified the lives of business users and technical teams alike. However, those same self-service capabilities are creating new challenges for companies trying to manage their ecosystem on their own. Like any other DIY project, do-it-yourself cloud will never be as easy as it would be […]
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South African companies are not taking data literacy seriously enough
With spending on data and analytics projects projected to rise above $200bn in 2020 the need for a data literate workforce has never been more important. Gartner’s 3rd annual CDO survey cited poor data literacy as the second most significant roadblock to data and analytics project success and yet companies still grapple with how to […]
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