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How the university of Salford MSc Digital Business has prepared me for a career in consulting in the UK.

Any sane person would have to wonder why Bruce Greeff, a nearly 60 year old IT Architect from Johannesburg would embark on reading an MSc in Digital Business from a University in Manchester.  On reflection there are many reasons. Starting with self-actualisation, it seemed like a good challenge, Salford is a highly ranked University. Which…

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Archi to the rescue – Reflecting on an IS Application experience

Reflections on use of an informal solution to enable the digital workplace. Using the Gibbs reflective model. Description I was assigned as the Solution Architect on a project implementing a cloud SaaS Application in a bank. In Enterprise IS transformation programmes, Semiotics are crucial. A picture is really worth a thousand words. When we tried…

What the Paper Said

In the Article Ethical governance model for the data economy ecosystems in Digital Policy Regulation and Governance · February 2023 DOI: 10.1108/DPRG-01-2022-0005 The authors synthesise prior work into a conceptual paper which discusses the ethical and governance challenges inherent in Emerging Data Ecosystems. Offering a conceptual solution based on Discourse and rules-based governance, they discuss…

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Data Ecosystems are Trending in Banking

Open Banking is one step on a continuum of Financial Sector Digital Transformation. It, and competition from Fintechs has had profound, transformative effects on banking. Originating from European political and social concerns and assumptions regarding limiting the power of large corporations. External imposition of digital transformation, from unrelated regulations ensuing from the global financial crisis,…