{"id":670753,"date":"2023-03-07T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=670753"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:54:09","slug":"business-talk-ndomba-tshiendela-andy-wilson-and-jonathan-lamb-discuss-the-incredible-story-of-the-umoja-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/670753\/business-talk-ndomba-tshiendela-andy-wilson-and-jonathan-lamb-discuss-the-incredible-story-of-the-umoja-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk &#8211; Ndomba Tshiendela, Andy Wilson and Jonathan Lamb discuss the incredible story of the Umoja app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, Michael Avery meets with the co-creators of the Umoja app that is powered by the WyzeTalk technology platform \u2013 Ndomba Tshiendela, Andy Wilson and Jonathan Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Ndomba Tshiendela is the acting Commercial Director of Kamoto Copper Company (KCC).<\/p>\n<p>Before joining KCC, Tshiendela headed up a financial portfolio at Alphamin Bisie Mining and was the Managing Director at Kisenda Copper Company.<\/p>\n<p>Standards Bank\u2019s Executive Head of Platform Business and CIB Digital, Jonathan Lamb, is also part of this interview.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb is an expert in digital channel and product strategy formulation and has been part of Standard Bank Group\u2019s Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) for over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Wilson leads the Digital Co-X team at Vodacom Business, where he brings the power of the Vodacom ecosystem to the digital transformation journeys of enterprise customers.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson previously worked at IBM, SAP, Standard Bank, and PwC, where he developed a deep understanding of the relationship between disruptive technologies, business value and human experiences.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, these three business leaders discuss the ground-breaking app, Umoja \u2013 which was developed to strengthen communications between KCC and its full-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson unpacks how the Umoja app works and how it benefits everyone at KCC.<\/p>\n<p>Tshiendela then discusses the challenges KCC faced that caused it to look for a solution like the Umoja app in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb details how Standard Bank, Vodacom Business, and KCC all worked together to build the Umoja app.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, Tshiendela, and Lamb also touch on the full range of benefits the Umoja app offers to the KCC, the success of its rollout, and their expectations for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this interview below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ytVk6xBbM50\" 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>In this Business Talk interview, Michael Avery meets with the co-creators of the Umoja app \u2013Ndomba Tshiendela, Andy Wilson and Jonathan Lamb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":670755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-670753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670753","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=670753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670781,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670753\/revisions\/670781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}