Multinational professional services firm, KPMG, has unveiled its first and foremost Digital Centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Centre brings together the firm’s collective capabilities across signal sensing, design thinking, data and analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital transformation, strategy, business process, and technology.
With other KPMG Insights Centres in over twelve cities across the world, Nigeria’s commercial capital has joined in on KPMG’s quest to provide digital solutions to its clients. In attendance at the launch were Nigerian foremost businessmen Aliko Dangote, Chairman, Dangote Group and Zenith Bank Plc’s Chairman, Jim Ovia, among others.
In his remark, Aliko Dangote stated that the Centre would transform businesses in various industries.
“I would like to congratulate KPMG for putting this Insights Centre here in Nigeria, which is the first in Africa, and I think this will really help to transform the way that we do business.”
“Going forward, I’m sure this will help in taking us to the next level, and this will assist in our own businesses by predicting our customer behaviour, and our operations in various industries because we have a lot of industries that are very complex, but this will help sort out our issues and help us run our businesses. It is more reassuring to see that with this kind of innovation, our businesses will be smoothly run. We are at about 4 billion dollars revenue now, and we are going to 30 billion dollars but with this kind of innovation, we are very comfortable; so I must congratulate KPMG,” said Dangote.
Jim Ovia also expressed his optimism on the Insight centre;
“We are very impressed with the Insights introduction into various innovations; the digital economy that KPMG is introducing in Nigeria, which we understand is one of its kind in Africa and obviously the 17th of such in the Global KPMG activities.”
“We are very impressed with the AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the innovations, and we do think that’s the future, and many organisations will look forward to partnering with KPMG in this regard,” he said.
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More on the Centre: The Senior Partner, KPMG in Nigeria and Chairman, KPMG Africa, Kunle Elebute, at the launching said,
“We are excited to open the KPMG Insights Centre in Lagos. This helps us to bring together our capabilities in innovation, facilitation and leading/ emerging technologies in a new way that represents how KPMG is transforming businesses across the industry and how we can help our clients succeed.”
The KPMG Insights Center in Lagos, Nigeria, incorporates a state-of-the-art facility to showcase the art of the possible using data and analytics, artificial intelligence and digital capabilities. Also at the Center are Innovation Lab, Technology Solutions and the Living Room, a mindful space with an exquisite finishing, and an executive innovative space for person-to-person interactions, and a coffee bar.
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