Digital Transformation and Disruption: two overly-used phrases that get thrown around so often that they’re losing their essence. Some things get repeated again and again for a reason. Everybody says Paris is beautiful. It’s cliché at this point. But is Paris not beautiful? This article is about digital transformation dilemmas: the self-imposed boundaries and justifications …
What Executives Need To Know About Cybersecurity
In 2013, Target Corporation was hacked. Soon thereafter, its Chief Information Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of 35 years, were fired. Two years later, in 2015, Sony Pictures was hacked. Among the embarrassing details, a long history of Chairwoman Amy Pascal’s personal emails were leaked. She was let go of immediately. Two years after that, …
Running AI on legacy infra is like singing without knowing the lyrics
“IT DEPENDS”, a common phrase that shouldn’t apply to many aspects of digital success. The answer of this article is: IT DOESN’T DEPEND. How would it feel to sing a song on a stage in front of 200 people without knowing the lyrics? How would Nutella taste on moulded bread? Take a moment to think …
A simple way of understanding the application of Mixed Reality
Nature has gifted us with five amazing senses: hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight, all of them producing sensations which enable our mind to create its own reality. Our own reality is what makes us special, sometimes limited and other times thriving. Until the emergence of technology our reality was dependable on what our five …
Evaluating blockchain enabled collaborations against your company setup
New technologies represent a set of highly sophisticated power that can either make or break not just a single company, but the whole industry. This disruption paradigm is freighting for many leaders, especially those who lead companies operating in innovation static industries which historically did not entail them to think and act as disruption agents. …
Telcos to deactivate banks’ USSD service over N120bn debt
To assess compliance with this directive, the report compared identical transactions carried out with the same provider, one via the USSD menu and the other via a mobile application. Telecommunications operators in Nigeria say they have been granted approval by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to disconnect banks Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) debt, which …
Gebeya set to empower thriving marketplaces in East Africa and beyond
Gebeya, a Pan-African online freelance talent marketplace is set to empower 100 existing tech marketplaces in East Africa via its innovative Marketplace-as-a-Service model. This groundbreaking initiative allows companies to access top-tier developers without the traditional recruitment and management hassles. Gebeya offers three comprehensive service suites: G-Talent for tech talent recruitment, G-Staffing for full-time hires, and …
CBN debunkes 10 years BVN life span
Central Bank of Nigeria The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) debunked rumours that the Bank Verification Number (BVN) issued by the Bank in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) expires in ten years, revealing that it has no expiry date. The apex bank’s explanation came amid speculations that the BVN has a ten …
Who is Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s prospective CEO
Linda Yaccarino, head of advertising at NBCUniversal The Wall Street Journal reported that Linda Yaccarino, head of advertising at NBCUniversal, a US-based multinational mass media and entertainment corporation, is in talks to become Twitter’s chief executive officer. This report came following Elon Musk’s announcement that he had found a new female leader for the social …
Elon Musk announces new Twitter CEO
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Twitter has announced a new CEO of the microblogging platform. Musk made this public on his official Twitter handle on 11 May 2023, stating that the new CEO will resume in six weeks while he takes over as executive chairman and CTO of the company. “Excited to announce …