{"id":649041,"date":"2022-12-08T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=649041"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:58:38","slug":"business-talk-bcx-executive-liziwe-maseko-shares-the-promise-of-4ir-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/649041\/business-talk-bcx-executive-liziwe-maseko-shares-the-promise-of-4ir-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 BCX executive Liziwe Maseko shares the promise of 4IR in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liziwe Maseko is the BCX Executive for Digital Software Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>She has an impressive history as a business leader in the South African technology industry, where she has led and managed many IT functions.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko has played a key role in developing, managing, and launching several market-leading IT products that have delivered revenue and growth targets for large customer bases.<\/p>\n<p>She also boasts expertise in helping companies maximise their technology investments, reduce their costs, and increase their efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Maseko explains how she got into the traditionally male-dominated ICT industry and discusses how the South African ICT landscape has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>She then unpacks what 4IR can do for South Africa and details the current adoption rate of digital transformation projects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko also outlines the biggest challenges South African businesses face when trying to digitally transform, before providing guidance on how these challenges can be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Liziwe Maseko is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLUxFGOwow4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, BCX executive Liziwe Maseko talks about how 4IR can transform South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":649143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4445,15578,17675],"class_list":["post-649041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-bcx","tag-business-talk","tag-liziwe-maseko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649041","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=649041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649149,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649041\/revisions\/649149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}