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IEIT Holdings welcomes Cogent to the group


Johannesburg, 27 Aug 2019

IEIT Holdings has established a strategic and joint venture partnership with Cogent. Founded in 2018, Cogent focuses on digital transformation (DX), the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and beyond.

To solve a problem, outcome or service digitally requires a combination of digital verticals. Businesses are looking to resolve their business problems; they want to future-proof their operating model through digital transformation, and are forced to procure technology, products, platforms and services from multiple partners across digital verticals.

Cogent currently leads the conversation around disruptive and alternative business models and is best described as an aggregator or wrapper for all things digital. Cogent refers to its approach and methodology as “distributed lateral thinking (dlt)”, as its distributed ecosystem comprising in-house divisions, equity and ecosystem partners take part in a combined exercise to produce a cogent outcome. Cogent's verticals for digital and solutions to problem statements scale laterally outwards and so does the company's thinking. It is constantly evolving its ecosystem with the best talent and partners it can find.

Cogent’s head office is in Stellenbosch, and it has operations, including its ecosystem, in Cape Town (CBD), Gauteng and Mauritius.

Cogent is headed by Co-Founder and CEO Pieter Grobbelaar, a well-respected thought leader who has been a contributor to the tech and digital community for more than 20 years.

"Cogent sees the future of services businesses to be outcomes-based. Our business model supports this, and value creation is what can be expected from Cogent and its ecosystem. We don't only do, we listen as well," says Grobbelaar.

Matthew Mead, CEO of IEIT Holdings, commented: "We are excited to have Cogent as part of our exciting new ecosystem, providing a one-stop IT solution-based service to our existing and future clientele. Aligning our value creation strategy with Cogent guarantees a reliable partnership.

''We look forward to seeing exciting growth in this space," says Mead.

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