by Dianne Bayley | Apr 22, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Business continuity plans have become even more valuable as COVID-19 sweeps across the globe forcing us into social distancing and then a lockdown. Many companies have been, and are still, scrambling to find their feet to face this pandemic with no crisis...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 22, 2020 | Innovation
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill towards the end of WWII. The world has not, since World War II, been faced with such a crisis, notes Biase De Gregorio, Managing Partner at IQbusiness. However, as the quote...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 13, 2020 | Sustainability
Our world has changed, writes Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State. The aspects that we have accepted as daily occurrences, and those that we have taken for granted, are no longer possible. Anxiety and uncertainty have...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 13, 2020 | Sustainability
Supply chain professionals are responsible for maintaining South African supply chains, even as Covid-19 brings massive challenges. To do this, they need to ensure the efficient supply and distribution of food, basic goods and medicines, while mitigating the risks...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 13, 2020 | Sustainability
The current lockdown is testing the ability of business to adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Companies that have embraced more digital ways of working have been far less impacted. Several slower respondents are turning their focus away from only the cost...
