{"id":291378,"date":"2018-12-19T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291378"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:07:56","slug":"telkom-appoints-new-chief-information-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/291378\/telkom-appoints-new-chief-information-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom appoints new chief information officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has appointed Althon Beukes as chief information officer for the group with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Areas of focus and responsibility includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group IT and Digital Strategy<\/li>\n<li>IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Improving IT alignment with Business Units<\/li>\n<li>Business Process Improvement<\/li>\n<li>Group Procurement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beukes has extensive leadership experience in the ICT industry and in the Telkom Group, having previously assumed roles such as managing director: Cybernest; chief operations officer: BCX; chief of international business: BCX and most recently chief commercial officer at Openserve, Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>Smangele Nkosi will continue to act as Openserve chief commercial officer, the operator said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/287130\/telkom-says-you-can-now-transfer-and-rollover-unused-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telkom says you can now transfer and rollover unused data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has appointed Althon Beukes as chief information officer for the group with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":286404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,65],"class_list":["post-291378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291382,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291378\/revisions\/291382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}