Tag: job redundancy

Does anyone remember when banks and insurance companies lamented that customer information couldn’t be leveraged effectively? This was because it was locked up in silos. Surprisingly, you don’t need a long memory - this was only about 12 months ago. And it remains a major issue for large organisations. Many still struggle to integrate disparate divisions dealing with the same customers, but separately.

It is anticipated that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology will grow Africa’s economy by $1.2 trillion by 2030. Fuelling this growth are South African tech start-ups, 357 of which have raised a combined $994 million and employed an estimated 11,000 people since 2015.