by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2017 | Workplace 2020
This glimpse of the future was crafted by Brad McBean We’ve heard it all before. Robots ‒ those elusive job munchers ‒ are making their way to an office near you. And the message is clear: they are smarter than you, they are cheaper than you, and they won’t vie for...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2017 | Workplace 2020
“This year, we started. Next year it’s either do or die,” says Ebrahim Dinat, COO of South African customer experience solutions provider, Ocular Technologies. He is referring to “digital disruption”, a term that could not be escaped this year,and the reality of doing...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2017 | Sustainability
On 23 November 2017, around 40 representatives from the WEEE Forum visited the Wecycle Service Center in Ede, the Netherlands, where end-of-life electrical appliances are sorted and dismantled, partly by people with a distance to the labour market. The members of the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Report-back
Disruption happens when companies and industries are so greedy that they don’t want to innovate. That’s the word from musician and entrepreneur will.i.am, who explains: “They get so greedy, they don’t realise there is another way to do things like distributing music...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Workplace 2020
Data is an organisation’s most critical, strategic and competitive asset. In order for businesses to remain successful, in it imperative that they protect their data. However, thanks to the proliferation of data-generating devices and technologies such as...
