
Rennie Naidoo
Professor in Information Systems (IS) at the Wits School of Business Sciences.
Rennie Naidoo is a professor in Information Systems (IS) at the Wits School of Business Sciences. An established NRF-rated researcher, his focus areas include data science, sustainable IT, artificial intelligence and cyber security.
Naidoo earned a Master of Commerce in Information Systems (with Distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Pretoria. His research appears in leading scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and the European Journal of Information Systems.
He has presented at premier academic conferences, including the International Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Devoted to lifelong learning and scholarship, he mentors students at the Master's and PhD levels at Wits. He actively serves the IS profession as a member of the Association for Information Systems and the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists.
Game-changers in online gaming
Enlightened digital entrepreneurs, designers and gamers should champion the social inclusion movement in online gaming.
Artificial intelligence is disrupting higher education
Traditional contact universities need to adapt faster and find creative ways of exploring and exploiting AI, or lose their dominant position.
Green is the new gold standard
Local ICT leaders and experts should be playing a greater role in addressing environmentally-sustainable IT goals.
Defending SA's critical infrastructure against cyber attacks
Cyber warfare and cyber terrorism pose a major threat to SA's critical infrastructure, and consequently, expose citizens to many risks.
Designing sustainable futures with digital mining
IT leaders in mining must address global sustainable development goals, while focusing on the economic outcomes and technological imperatives of digital mining.
The security challenge in DevOps
While Agile development approaches help organisations respond rapidly to new business opportunities, they pose significant security challenges.
Combating social exclusion during strategic change to IT
IT and business leaders risk marginalising, silencing and segregating IT employees during a strategic technology change.
Building resilient globally distributed IT teams
A cautionary note about the challenge of managing increasing tensions in globally distributed IT teams during major work role transitions.
Finding the sweet spot of human-centric RPA
A diverse set of social and technological actors is required to maximise the humanistic and instrumental benefits of robotic process automation.
Large-scale agile tensions in traditional banks
Improving agility while managing risk, compliance and governance proves to be a tricky balancing act for many traditional banks.
The yin and yang of digital HRM experiences
Companies find that digitalising human resources management (HRM) creates simultaneously positive and negative experiences for many users.
A 2021 vision for cyber security
We can choose to use our experiences from 2020 to secure our organisations and future, or miss another opportunity to contribute to building a safer digital world.