by Dianne Bayley | May 7, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Talent shortages are at a 12-year high and new skills are appearing as quickly as old ones disappear. Almost all employers are pursuing one or more talent strategies to secure the skills they need and companies with a plan are more confident of expanding their...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Iniel Dreyer, Managing Director of DMP SA says the move towards “Everything as a Service” (XaaS) is revolutionising business, and Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) – the latest offering in this basket of solutions – is gaining popularity, driven largely...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 29, 2019 | Workplace 2020
In the 1990s, organisations began outsourcing specific business activities , mainly as a cost-saving measure. Functions not related to their core business – accounting, human resources, data processing, security and maintenance – were contracted out to...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 17, 2019 | Sustainability
South Africa’s skills shortage is preventing the country from achieving the 5% annual GDP growth, which is the only real chance of making a dent in poverty. In a 2018 report, Pew Research estimated that some 900 000 people born in South Africa were living abroad in...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 9, 2019 | Innovation
By Martin Pienaar, COO of Mindworx Consulting A lot of people are afraid of robotics because they think it means robots are going to take over their jobs. That’s the wrong way to look at it. In fact, robotics will create jobs and in South Africa this can only ever be...
