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Investment in people pays off

Investec’s Kerusha Kanjee aims to create a collaborative space where people can contribute ideas, take risks, and learn from their experiences.

The dreamer

Why aren’t we doing better with educating students, and why can’t they find jobs? Taddy Blecher has some ideas.

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Matthew Burbidge

SPAR and SAP: What went wrong?

In hindsight, Spar’s SAP implementation could have been a little smoother.

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Matthew Burbidge

2024’s best CIOs

Brainstorm has been hosting its annual CIO Banquet for a decade, and to mark the occasion in 2024, we singled out two individuals who have excelled in their roles in the private and public sectors.

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Lesley Stones

Taking MTN from telco to techco

MTN’s Group CIO Nikos Angelopoulos is passionate about AI, data and cloud.

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Lesley Stones

Big Blue’s power duo

Standard Bank CIB is not going to be cutting the Gordian Knot of its legacy systems any time soon.

Standard Bank CIB

Matthew Burbidge

How to bring the NHI to life

South Africa’s health department opts to build its own systems, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be any public cloud.

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Matthew Burbidge

Women in tech: the widening pay gap

Despite promises of commitment and the best intentions, women are underrepresented in South African workforces and boardrooms, especially in tech jobs, where reality often falls short of rhetoric.

Malisha Awunor

Kate Thompson Davy

Absa’s technology champion

Absa’s tech COO Philile Mkhize has fought racism and sexism to get to where she is today.

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Lesley Stones

The people's bank

Capitec now has more customers than any other bank. How did it manage this?

Andy Baker

Matthew Burbidge and Lesley Stones

Bidvest Bank reaps fruits of diversity

Bidvest Bank was an opportunity she didn’t know she wanted, says CIO Nomonde White-Ndlovu.

Nomonde White-Ndlovu

Lesley Stones

Innovation for social good

What gets Discovery Insure’s Sne Dlamini up every morning is the conviction that her products are having a positive impact on South Africans.

Discovery Insure

Lesley Stones