Absa's Jacques Barkhuizen is the Visionary CIO 2018

Daka, CEO of JSE AltX-listed Etion, is the 40th winner of the prestigious IT Personality of the Year title.

Forrester Research predicts the CIO's role will be elevated in 2019, as the IT executive is given room to lead and orchestrate this vital company role.

The CIO must get the company ready for innovation and nurture a forward-thinking culture so it can leverage technology to optimise processes and drive digital transformation, says Charl Ueckermann, CEO at AVeS Cyber Security.

Local companies are missing a beat in not making better use of their data. They should see it as an asset that can add enormous value to their operations.

The global cloud industry is really gaining momentum, and with this growth comes a few changes.

Analytics has become an overwhelming challenge for many organisations, and demands built-in intelligence, says IBM.

Copying and extracting data allows it to lose value and context, and causes latency, which makes the data out of date, says IBM.

Make no mistake, Agile is here to stay, and is the way of work in the future.

The company predicts the top Internet of things trends that will drive digital business innovation from 2018 through to 2023.

Today's CIO must not only keep the lights on, but must also play a direct role in driving new products, services and business, says the IITPSA.

While CIOs and CISOs have no idea if and when attacks are happening at the edge, this is exactly where a company's greatest vulnerability lies, says Pieter Engelbrecht, Aruba BU manager for sub-Saharan Africa.