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Translating consumer insights into BI

By Fay Humphries, Events programme director
Johannesburg, 19 Aug 2014
To be successful, senior executives shouldn't be fighting the competition, says Vusi Thembekwayo, keynote speaker at the ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014.
To be successful, senior executives shouldn't be fighting the competition, says Vusi Thembekwayo, keynote speaker at the ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014.

The complexity of issues faced by business leaders today is immense, says Vusi Thembekwayo, keynote speaker at the upcoming ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014 event.

Soon to be on local television screens as part of the South African version of Dragon's Den, Thembekwayo is the youngest director of a listed company, and serves on several boards. He ran a R400-million division in a R17-billion multinational company, where he achieved the highest EBITDA within the group, before moving into public speaking.

"There's never been a change curve as steep and as fast as the one leaders are being presented with now. To be successful, senior executives shouldn't be fighting the competition - they should be chasing the money. The next frontier belongs to those who are better at translating consumer insights into business intelligence," he notes.

During the past three years, Thembekwayo has spent time in over 13 African countries, including SA, gaining insights into how each does business. His "Africa rising - stretching business boundaries and conquering the continent" presentation at the third annual ITWeb cloud computing event will align with the conference's theme of: "Beyond forecast. Into business reality." He'll explore the many opportunities the continent presents, covering its growth industries, cultural considerations for investment, the prevailing people and consumer cultures, and the strategies that have worked, as well as those that have failed dismally.

Delegates at the event will also be privy to the release of the first CIO Cloud Perception Survey 2014, undertaken by TA Consulting in conjunction with ITWeb. The survey will investigate how CIOs perceive the cloud and what type of adoption (if any) they have done. It aims to explore the potential mismatch between CIO perceptions of the cloud, what it really is and what vendors are offering as a cloud solution.

ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014

ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014 will focus on the cloud evolution, highlighting the survival of the fittest - the business practices, consistently achieving success through adopting cloud practices - and the specific obstacles and dead ends, with a particular emphasis on the South African challenges and opportunities. Click here to register.

Also on the agenda is a presentation by Jonathan Kropf, CEO at Cloud on Demand, who will discuss: "CIOs vs the cloud: how does traditional IT remain relevant when pitched against self-provisioned cloud services?" Kropf, along with other subject matter experts at the event, will unpack the choices CIOs need to make regarding successful journeys to the cloud.

The early-bird offer for ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014 expires soon.

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