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 | Oct 27, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Over the past few months, the entire globe has been through the largest proof-of-concept in working from home, writes Amir Sohrabi, Area VP of Emerging Markets. COVID-19 has made remote working the new norm, as organisations were forced to experiment with a way of...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
If entrepreneurship, as defined by the Young African Leaders Initiative, is the “ability and willingness to develop, organise and manage a business venture to make a profit”, techpreneurship or technopreneurship is simply the application of entrepreneurship in the...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2020 | Innovation
Globally, the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market had to quickly adjust to the challenges that came with conducting a business in a world of social distancing, hand sanitiser and masks, notes Andrew Dawson, MD at MACmobile. Today, most formal retail outlets...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Innovation
If there was ever a need for technology to focus on the good it can do in this world, it’s right now. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, changing our lives in unprecedented ways, it’s technology that’s been our ally, sitting astride this pandemic and...