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WE ARE LIVING
IN A SOCIETY WHERE THE
EXPECTATION IS DIGITAL
AND THERE’S NO GETTING
AWAY FROM IT.
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Juane Peacock, Managing Director: Coastal Region and Enterprise
Information Management at Datacentrix
Digitalisation: The
unavoidable key to unlocking
future opportunities
With local businesses
facing a ‘perfect
storm’ of data sources,
manipulations and
stores, Juane Peacock,
Managing Director: Coastal
Region and Enterprise
Information Management
at Datacentrix, says there
is a growing imperative to
act now.
T
he combined forces of the Internet
of Things (IoT), which brings
vast and untapped data sources,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine-to-
machine learning, requiring new disciplines
in terms of process and governance
and blockchains, where perhaps all our
asset registers will be stored, mean that
organisations must consider how their
businesses will be affected.
Not only will these new drivers bring
unforeseen opportunities, they will also lead
to different competitors and companies
must adapt their existing business
structures to be truly transformative.
for tomorrow’s onslaught of new forces.
In the local context this is perhaps even
more pertinent. South African businesses
are today no longer just competing at a
local level. The pressure is on to ensure that
they are ‘fit’ from a global perspective as
market forces and customer expectations
mean that best products, best services
and best prices are available to all. The
digitisation process effectively enables
businesses to remove wasted time and
cost and this in turn enables them to
focus workforces on customer, service and
productivity, the cornerstones of a globally
competitive business.
Digitalisation + EIM = Gold
The digitalisation of the business’
existing data capture, management,
work processes and insights (through
analytics) is the building block necessary
to ensure a business is prepared today
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Digitisation alone results in many
provable business benefits, but a solid
digitalisation campaign would go
nowhere without the foundation on
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