Here is How African Businesses Can Overcome the Technology Adoption Gap.

As a forward-thinking IT leader, Connectikpeople.co observes that, a lack of technology adoption is preventing many African businesses from achieving growth and progress. The primary reasons found by Connectikpeople.co include: a need for technology leaders to play a greater role in terms of real solutions to problems, a lack of IT skills development across the continent, information security concerns, and misinformation.

Today, Connectikpeople.co shares with you  the results of a new study entitled ‘Setting the pace in Africa: How IT leadersdeliver on the potential of emerging technologies’, which found that while nearly 87 percent of African IT leaders rank new technologies such as analytics, cloud, mobile and social media as being critical to business success, only 53% are pushing forward with adoption.

This survey conducted by IBM’s Center for Applied Insights, in collaboration with the IBM Center for CIO Leadership, includes 180 IT leaders across 29 industries in Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Morocco.

The findings captured by Connectikpeople.co shows that 36% of the African businesses embracing emerging technologies could be considered “Pacesetters” amongst their peers in terms of their focus on prioritizing and rapidly adopting technologies.

According to this survey, African businesses identified as Pacesetters take a very different approach to addressing IT concerns: 85% of Pacesetters link IT investments to business outcomes, compared with 67% of their peers. 79% of Pacesetters use metrics and scorecards to assess IT risk, compared to 46% of their peers. 46% of Pacesetters develop IT skills to meet future business needs, compared to 26% of their

peers.

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