by Dianne Bayley | Jul 13, 2020 | Innovation
The story of how a Kenyan startup is digitally enabling informal traders and optimising their supply chains, to improve food quality, availability, affordability, service levels and sustainability, is one of true African ingenuity. The Twiga Foods story was a...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 22, 2020 | Innovation
In the digital age, data is a currency all on its own, writes Andrew Dawson, Managing Director at Cognizance Processing. The retail sector has lagged in leveraging the value of real time data, due to a number of factors. However, given the current economic climate,...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 28, 2020 | Sustainability
Having grown up in a “retail family”, Jennifer Farinha, owner of Grobank’s client Sutherland SuperSpar, has had to use all her experience and come up with innovative ways to deal with South Africa’s lockdown response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “When Government began...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 23, 2020 | Innovation
As we find ourselves in what we at Accenture refer to as the post-digital era in our latest Tech Vision 2020 report, we foresee radical transformation over the next five years, as businesses will have to continuously embed technology to reshape the way people live,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 15, 2019 | Internet of Things
Retailers have always been at the forefront of each new wave of digital advancement, in an effort to accommodate the increase in both the number of customers and the ensuing volume of products and transactions, writes Tony Nugent Executive, retail practice at...
