by Dianne Bayley | Nov 25, 2020 | Security and Legal
As the world becomes increasingly digital as a result of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), more and more of our devices are becoming connected to the open Internet as well as to each other, writes Vishal Barapatre, Chief Technology Officer at In2IT...
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 16, 2020 | Innovation
In today’s tumultuous business-scape amid increasingly intricate, and often vexing, marketplace conditions, curating and mining data to drive analytics-based decision making is just no longer enough. For competing with maximum, sustained impact and mitigated...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 15, 2020 | Innovation
Even before the pandemic, chatbots were emerging as one of the most convenient ways for consumers to interact with brands, writes Ernest North, co-founder of digital insurance platform, Naked. Among service organisations in a global survey from Salesforce in 2019, 23%...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 28, 2020 | Workplace 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic irrevocably redefined the way we communicate and work, remote working and mobile workforces have become central to doing business in the new normal, writes Dharshan Naidoo, SADC Sales Team Lead at Infobip Africa. This means that organisations...