William Mzimba is chief executive officer at Vodacom Business Group, where he is responsible for Vodacom\u2019s enterprise units in Africa, leading a team tasked with driving digital transformation in targeted industries and markets.<\/p>\n
Vodacom Business Group is the B2B unit of the Vodacom Group, which consists of B2B fixed and mobile, Internet of Things, Cloud & Hosting, Wholesale and Carrier Services and Security businesses.<\/p>\n
Prior to Vodacom, Mzimba served as CEO and chairman at Accenture Africa. In that role he oversaw the growth and strategy of the business. During his 18-year career at Accenture, Mzimba worked in various industries government, utilities, retail, banking & insurance. He advised clients on their business strategies, helped to transform their businesses and built technology platforms.<\/p>\n
Mzimba holds an MBA, BA (Honours) in Business Studies, Management Advancement Programme (MAP) and diploma in Datametrics and has a proven track record in leveraging technology as a business enabler to drive results, as well as implementing successful strategies in growing businesses.<\/p>\n
In this episode of Business Talk, Mzimba tells Michael Avery how Vodacom Business has aligned its strategy around the government’s response to Covid-19, and new digital native businesses that have emerged in South Africa in recent years, creating and up-scaling its digital platform to create a thriving ecosystem for SMEs.<\/p>\n
The aim for Vodacom Business is to create an all-inclusive financial services<\/a> capability for customers which includes new capabilities like VodaTrade and VodaPay.<\/span><\/p>\n He said that the recent announcement of a ‘super app<\/a>‘ will enhance this ecosystem even further. The group announced plans for a super app in July last year, to allow consumers to shop online, pay bills and send money, in partnership with digital payment provider Alipay.<\/p>\n The full interview is embedded below. You can find all the Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n