by Dianne Bayley | Nov 25, 2020 | Sustainability
With the economic rollercoaster ride of 2020 drawing to its uncertain conclusion, CIOs and business leaders are formulating and finalising strategies for what is hoped to be a new year of growth and recovery, writes Tim Wood, CIO, Vox. There can be no doubt that...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2020 | Sustainability
When we published Accenture’s 2020 Technology Vision trends report in February, COVID-19 was not yet a global pandemic, notes Willie Schoeman, Managing Director for Accenture Technology in Africa. Now, everything has changed. This pandemic is the greatest challenge...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2020 | Sustainability
One of the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic is the fact that it has made people realise the importance of having adequate life, disability, and funeral cover in place. And with clients considered the most disruptive force in the insurance industry, insurers would do...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organised by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Sustainability
What a year it’s been. We’ve had a global pandemic, mass unemployment and a US election that was a spectacle to follow. Following Biden’s win, the markets were on the up. But I am not convinced that Biden was the primary reason for the upturn. Following the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Sustainability
Haven’t business and tech communities been discussing the ‘future of work’ for the past… decade? Twenty years? asks Kristine Dahl Steidel, Vice President End User Computing EMEA, VMware. Well, step forward 2020 where practices have in fact superseded predictions. And...
