Accenture Digital's Wayne Hull on business today and tomorrowAfter spending 13 years in the Middle East, Pakistan and Switzerland where he was at the forefront of the cutting-edge technology in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics and online media, Wayne Hull recently assumed the role of MD and head of Accenture Digital for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Wayne Hull Hull joined the company at such a time when the impact of the fourth industrial revolution affects business and government. Here, he shares more about his new role and explains what this means in terms of the digital opportunities and challenges facing the latter today and tomorrow…
We are operating and living in a new world. A world where digital is creating changes at unprecedented levels of speed and scale. There is no doubt that all businesses and governments will be impacted in some form, and for most, in a very significant way. This creates a reality of opportunity and risk. I am excited to be able to partner with our clients as we together prepare for and take advantage of this brave new world. I truly believe Accenture Digital globally and in SA is best positioned through its experiences and people to lead, support and partner with our clients and the overall digital ecosystem. This is exciting!
I never think about my achievements. I spend my time thinking about the journeys that I have been on, what I have learned from them, and how I can leverage these lessons and new insights to make my current journey remarkable and memorable. The most recent professional journeys that really stand out for me are: setting up new businesses from ground zero in Pakistan and Qatar; managing a business in the Middle East in the height of the global and Dubai economic crisis; and the success and failure from building an international IoT software venture. And now, I am in the midst of my digital South African journey.
Accenture Digital South Africa’s aspiration is to more than double our business over the next three years, both organically and through potential acquisitions. We partner with our clients to imagine, create and deliver extraordinary digital experiences with transformational results. Our strategy to achieve our aspiration is: by building a leading digital interactive agency, by moving our clients’ data from a system of record to a system of insights and to a system of engagement, and by being able to deliver all digital experiences through different platforms.
I love what I do! And I love it because I believe deeply that the two equalisers in life are the internet and education. The digital opportunity for South Africa as a country and for its citizens is to leverage this new digital world to accelerate our socio-economic situation, and bring new innovations and business models to our business that make us globally competitive. |