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The world through Covid

digital transformation glasses

By Doug Hunter, doug.hunter@za.syspro.com

SYSPRO listened to different perspectives at two events
in Kenya: one the CIO view and the other the CFO
view on digital transformation.

Chief information officer (CIO) malicious, users are twice as likely to intentionally harm data
Mombasa, Kenya: CIO 100. The hot sun is directly overhead, than make genuine errors – beware!
there is high humidity, white sands and a coral reef 1km
offshore. It is the ideal location to let ideas flow. SYSPRO believes that when going down the ‘yellow
tech road’, you should relook at business processes and
IT and infrastructure security came out strong. opportunities. Yes, pick low-hanging fruit, but this must
Whether cloud or on-premises, security of access, be a priority for your company and bring significant
data and supplier integrity are paramount to digital improvement/returns. Too many organisations reach too
close, seeing little return. Remember, you can’t learn to swim
transformation. Interestingly, they are also required to
L O GI S T I CS NEWS business IT. through, so make sure the change is relevant, important and
by paddling in the shallow water!
create customers’ confidence in the deployment of any
Transformation brings people-pain you have to go
With 27 percent of security/access errors listed as user
errors, where 9 percent are mistakes, but 18 percent are
returns value.

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