by Dianne Bayley | Jul 6, 2021 | Innovation
Encouraging public sector organisations to become more innovative has always been important, writes Kgomotso Lebele, Managing Director for Health and Public Service at Accenture in Africa. However, doing so has likely never mattered more as the world wrestles with the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2021 | Innovation
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we live, work and how organisations operate. Many activities have moved online, and telecommuting, video conferencing, distance education, and telemedicine have become the new normal. In this context, digital technology...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2021 | Sustainability
Although organisations worldwide found their businesses disrupted, projects postponed, and strategies challenged during 2020, South African companies were very adept at coping with business related challenges as a result of Covid-19, says Project Management Institute....
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2021 | Innovation
In 1988, a Cornell University graduate student named Robert Morris wanted to measure the size of the Internet. He wrote a program that could spread across a network, install itself on machines, and then Morris would count the instances. From that, the now-infamous...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2021 | Workplace 2020
In the past year, organisations were forced to start working remotely and employees had to adapt to new ways of doing things. Companies had to find ways to ensure that their teams were keeping with the times and had to guarantee the upskilling of their employees. This...