The big trio: CFOs, technology and finance

The big trio: CFOs, technology and finance

The accelerating speed of business and increasing volumes of data are changing the nature of finance, writes Matthew Kibby, vice president for Sage Enterprise Africa & Middle East. To keep up, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) need to embrace their role as ‘economic...
What has AI done to human intelligence?

What has AI done to human intelligence?

If we were to strip away artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it today, Matthew Kibby, vice-president: enterprise for Africa and Middle East at Sage, is not convinced that humans would know how to cope with life. Without AI, there’d be no Waze or Google Maps to...
Starting an SME: Two things I wish I had known

Starting an SME: Two things I wish I had known

By Steven Cohen, Head of Sage One International (Africa, Australia, Middle East and Asia) One of the questions other entrepreneurs most often ask me is what I wish I had known when we first started the Pastel business in 1990. Looking back over the past 26 years, I...