by Dianne Bayley | Jul 2, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Today’s workforce is unable to regularly refresh the knowledge and skill levels needed to capitalise on new challenges and opportunities, writes Kirtan Sita, Sales Managing Director for Accenture Technology, Africa. This situation threatens to worsen over time unless...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Following Youth Month, Martin Pienaar, COO of Mindworx Consulting points out that we are still left pondering the perilous state of their future and that of our country. The government’s recent commitment to create an additional 2 million jobs over the next decade is...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 25, 2019 | Workplace 2020
If you are not a digital native, you may remember a time when the phrase, “The customer is king,” could be met with a measure of cynicism, if not outright derision, writes Maxim Nartov, Customer Solutions Director, Nexign. Customer-centric businesses were often little...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 25, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The evolving digital world and resultant online presence of the population is no doubt changing the way people engage and how business is conducted – but also what information can be sourced online, prior to such engagement taking place. While available online...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 18, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Businesses that want to compete in the digital economy have a central goal: to use digital transformation to secure and drive competitive advantage – to achieve this, there must be an obvious connectedness among employees and a clear ability to leverage smarter...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 18, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The marketing function has undergone unprecedented change in recent years, with consumers now wielding the power in the relationship between customer and brand, notes Michelle Janse Van Vuuren, Marketing Director, Canon SA. As a result, businesses are putting a...