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Axel Bührmann

CIOs just don't get it

At a time when visionary leadership is needed, most South African CIOs are stuck between two eras – the industrialisation of yesteryear and the digitalisation of tomorrow. It’s a transition that key IT industry also finds difficult to keep pace with, and there will be blood.

Mobile printing’s hidden security risks

There’s just no stopping the BYOD tsunami, especially in light of statistics such as those from IDC, which indicate shipments of tablet PCs to South Africa increased an astounding 107.1 percent year-on-year in the final quarter of 2013.

On the spot

Axel Bührmann

The relevance of international research

How critical or relevant is research from the big international ICT research houses for South Africa’s CIOs and other technology leaders?

Figures at your finger tips

Axel Bührmann

The CIO’s worst nightmare

Emerging technologies could be a blessing or a curse, with the potential to further overwhelm already overburdened IT departments. Brainstorm asked industry insiders to identify key technologies and trends keeping South African CIOs awake at night.

On the spot

Axel Bührmann

The bright promise of Project Isizwe

Pipedream or reality? Free WiFi continues its inexorable march across South Africa.

Trends

Axel Bührmann

Visionary CIO finalists

The Visionary CIO award, now in its sixth year, recognises an executive who has demonstrated visionary leadership in using technology to support and grow business. Here are this year’s finalists.

Trends

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Dual-shoring empowers

Dual-shoring sees an international company operating from two global delivery centres: one at an overseas location, like its headquarters, and the other at a subsidiary or a client in another country.

Trends

Axel Bührmann

Saving Eskom billions

Sal Laher, Eskom’s new CIO, has driven a stunning 14-month turnaround in the public utility’s IT division, taking it from total breakdown to the organisation’s top-performing division.

Cover story

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Integration and innovation at the coalface

One of the world’s oldest industries is meeting one of its newest, but often only piecemeal and at a snail’s pace.

Innovation

Axel Bührmann