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 23, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Enterprises of all sizes are finding themselves in uncertain times. With the current COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world, businesses are questioning how this will impact their future existence or how they will even be able to operate in the future, writes Biase De...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2020 | Sustainability
One of the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic is the fact that it has made people realise the importance of having adequate life, disability, and funeral cover in place. And with clients considered the most disruptive force in the insurance industry, insurers would do...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 22, 2020 | Workplace 2020
As Black Friday approaches, both shoppers and retailers need to ensure safe practise and Coid-wise practices. Burt Rodrigues CEO of Biodx and Alan Hirsch founder and CEO of Hirsch’s Homestores give their insight into shopping this Black Friday. Before you go out and...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 22, 2020 | Innovation
If any sentence starts with ‘the biggest challenge the world has faced’, the reader immediately knows that what lies ahead is discussion around the impact of COVID-19 writes Xavier Nel, head of product at CloudGate. The pandemic is on every mind, board meeting and...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
A massive 70% of South African adults will be shopping Black Friday and other festive sales days this year. A Finder.com survey of 1 524 South African adults reveals that 70%, which equates to around 27-million people, are planning to shop the festive sales this year...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 18, 2020 | Innovation
The state-of-the-art Western Cape Government Health (WCGH) Chronic Dispensary Unit (CDU) in Parow, Cape Town, has moved into high gear this year, helping to reduce the risks of chronic patients contracting Covid-19 through preparing their medicine parcels for home...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Much has been made of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and how it will impact the jobs of today, writes Martin Ndlovu, Skills Programme Manager, Microsoft 4Afrika. 4IR is the age of intelligence, with an increasing overlap between the physical and technological...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organised by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 17, 2020 | Internet of Things
In June, at the height of the national lockdown, citizen engagement platform GovChat stepped in to help the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) manage the millions of Frequently Asked Questions that resulted from the R350 grant. As the COVID-19 crisis...
