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Digital transformation strategies for South African FSI business leaders.

Turn AI innovation into competitive advantage.

Dr Bongani Andy Mabaso (Altron Group CTO) and Musa Kalenga (Brave Group CEO) share what works: using AI to transform data, achieving single view of customers with pattern recognition, pricing POCs strategically, and innovating at the customer.

Discover why 90% of innovation fails, how to escape pilot purgatory, and practical frameworks for digital transformation in South Africa's financial services sector.

Andy reveals Altron's AI Factory initiative. Musa shares real examples from FSI on using data to challenge bias and design for shifting customer behaviours.
Chapters
  • 00:02 Introduction to Local Logic and guests
  • 00:59 Using AI to transform data
  • 02:41 Quick wins with AI adoption
  • 05:33 Turning AI innovation into competitive advantage
  • 07:06 Moving from data collection to actionable insights
  • 08:51 Foundations for enterprise-scale innovations
  • 10:58 Pricing POC's to encourage experimentation
  • 12:06 People-centred innovation approach
  • 12:57 Building sustainable and scalable innovation
  • 15:54 Leveraging data to identify problems and solutions
  • 18:09 Avoiding innovation distractions
  • 20:52 Long-term transformations for competitive advantage
  • 23:15 Using innovation to deepen customer relationships
  • 25:56 Most innovative enterprise AI solutions
21 Oct English South Africa Business · Technology

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