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Lanre Bamisebi, Executive Director, IT & Digitalisation at Access Holdings Plc, has called on technology leaders and professionals to rethink how progress is defined in the digital age, asserting that the future will belong to those who simplify best and not who build the most.
Bamisebi made this call recently at the Inaugural Guest Lecture Series organised by Quest Merchant Bank Technology Academy, where he presented a thought-provoking address titled “Less, But Better: Why the Future of Technology Will Belong to Simplifiers (Process Reengineering, Discipline, and Building Systems That Actually Work)”.
In his address, he challenged the industry’s growing fixation on constant expansion, feature overload, and technological excess, urging a shift toward disciplined system design and operational clarity.
“The institutions that will win the next decade are not the ones that build the most,” Bamisebi said. “They are the ones that simplify the best. Progress in technology is often not about adding more, it is about having the discipline to remove what no longer works.”
Drawing on global examples, Bamisebi highlighted how leading organisations have achieved transformation through simplification rather than expansion.
He referenced how Steve Jobs led the turnaround of Apple Inc. in 1997 by
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Lagos, Nigeria – April 7, 2026: Lanre Bamisebi, Executive Director, IT & Digitalisation at Access Holdings Plc, has called on technology leaders and professionals to rethink how progress is defined in the digital age, asserting that the future will belong to those who simplify best and not who build the most.
Bamisebi made this call recently at the Inaugural Guest Lecture Series organised by Quest Merchant Bank Technology Academy, where he presented a thought-provoking address titled “Less, But Better: Why the Future of Technology Will Belong to Simplifiers (Process Reengineering, Discipline, and Building Systems That Actually Work)”.
In his address, he challenged the industry’s growing fixation on constant expansion, feature overload, and technological excess, urging a shift toward disciplined system design and operational clarity.
“The institutions that will win the next decade are not the ones that build the most,” Bamisebi said. “They are the ones that simplify the best. Progress in technology is often not about adding more, it is about having the discipline to remove what no longer works.”
Drawing on global examples, Bamisebi highlighted how leading organisations have achieved transformation through simplification rather than expansion.
He referenced how Steve Jobs led the turnaround of Apple Inc. in 1997 by drastically reducing its product lines, restoring focus and profitability within a year. He also cited Jeff Bezos’ architectural mandate at Amazon, which laid the foundation for Amazon Web Services by enforcing structured system communication.
In addition, he pointed to the transformation of DBS Bank, which evolved from being perceived as inefficient to becoming one of the world’s most awarded banks through continuous process improvement.
“None of these transformations began with a moonshot,” he noted. “They began with one honest question: what exactly is broken, and why?”
Sharing insights from his experience at Access Holdings, Bamisebi emphasised that sustainable digital transformation begins with stability, not expansion. He noted that system failures are often the result of poor processes rather than flawed technology
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L-R: Maji Allamogu, Chief Information Security Officer, Quest Merchant Bank; Omo Osemwegie, Chief Information Technology Officer, Quest Merchant Bank; Olamide Adeosun, Chief Financial Officer, Quest Merchant Bank; Lanre Bamisebi, Executive Director, IT and Digitisation, Access Holdings, Funke Shobanjo, Head of Strategy, Quest Merchant Bank, and Leslie Gumut, Chief Audit Executive, at the Inaugural Guest Lecture Series, organised by Quest Merchant Bank Technology Academy in Lagos…recently
