{"id":651997,"date":"2022-12-15T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=651997"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:37:45","slug":"business-talk-dr-nkosi-kumalo-breaks-down-mtns-transition-to-a-techco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/651997\/business-talk-dr-nkosi-kumalo-breaks-down-mtns-transition-to-a-techco\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Dr Nkosi Kumalo breaks down MTN\u2019s transition to a TechCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Nkosi Kumalo is the General Manager of Product and Capability at MTN.<\/p>\n<p>He is responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the execution of product strategies, as well as identifying gaps and opportunities for portfolio expansions through partnerships and acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>Kumalo is an experienced leader who brings sales and technical expertise from various functions he has performed in the past \u2013 including leading a team of solution experts to deliver over R1 billion of net new revenue across numerous technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Dr Nkosi Kumalo discusses the difference between being a Telco and being a TechCo and explains why MTN is working towards becoming the latter.<\/p>\n<p>He then talks about why MTN has partnered with Microsoft and how this partnership will benefit current MTN clients \u2013 including through improved service offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Kumalo also discusses the potential that the partnership holds for the future and how it could impact the entire African business landscape.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview with Dr Nkosi Kumalo below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6FGmXFblTE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Nkosi Kumalo is the General Manager of Product and Capability at MTN and has a deep insight into the partnership between MTN and Microsoft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":652001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[17709,28,17707],"class_list":["post-651997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-dr-nkosi-kumalo","tag-mtn","tag-techco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651997","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=651997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652003,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651997\/revisions\/652003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}