EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent CIO Africa . A new Gartner Inc survey has revealed that 87 % of business leaders expect to increase their organisation ’ s investment in sustainability over the next two years . Customers are the primary stakeholder group creating pressure for organisations to invest or act on sustainability issues , selected by 80 % of executives , followed by investors ( 60 %) and regulators ( 55 %). The survey was conducted in June and July 2022 among 221 respondents in North America , Europe and Asia / Pacific . Respondents were executives in director roles or above within organisations with enterprise-wide annual revenue of at least US $ 250 million for fiscal year 2021 , which are currently engaged in sustainability-related activities .
In this regard , we continue to cover articles in the magazine that address the issue of sustainability and how CIOs and IT teams can help their organisations to develop sustainability programmes .
Gracing the cover of this month ’ s edition is Afolabi Ilesanmi , Head of Governance , Architecture and Planning , Access Bank , who outlines how the bank has transformed its operations from being at the bottom of the list of banks in Nigeria to being rated the largest bank in Africa by customer base and number one bank in Nigeria by assets . other bank in Sub-Saharan Africa that has the same number of active customers ,” says Ilesanmi .
Among the many insights , Ilesanmi shares that : “ Five years ago , we sat down and said if we are serious about Digital Transformation , we need to move to a software-defined environment instead of buying more midrange servers which were totally unsustainable . The risk of not making the shift was clear to Access Bank . There was potential for the bank to start losing the ground it was trying to make up to be Nigeria ’ s preeminent bank .” You can read more by turning to page 50 .
Elsewhere in the magazine , we look at how CIOs and the organisations they lead can be more agile with cloud solutions . You will find this feature on page 34 .
As usual , we have all your favourite features , opinion , insight pieces and analysis articles from the African continent . You can also read daily news updates on our website at www . intelligentcio . com / africa /.
And kindly , don ’ t forget if you would like to get in touch , please email me at manda @ lynchpinmedia . com .
Once again , I would like to wish you a great month . Enjoy the read !
“ The story of Access Bank has been one of transformation from being at the bottom of the list of banks in Nigeria to being number one . There is no
Manda Banda Editor
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