by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Workplace 2020
A great deal has been written about how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world of work forever, with many companies choosing to establish permanent work from home strategies going forward, writes Richard Firth, CEO, MIP Holdings. As face-to-face meetings have...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Sustainability
What a year it’s been. We’ve had a global pandemic, mass unemployment and a US election that was a spectacle to follow. Following Biden’s win, the markets were on the up. But I am not convinced that Biden was the primary reason for the upturn. Following the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Security and Legal
As we in South Africa are only too aware, the cost of fraud can be overwhelming. Zaakir Mohamed, a director and head of corporate investigations and forensics at commercial law firm CMS RM Partners, points out that, “Companies lose not only an estimated 5% of their...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Fintech
Socrates said, “Change is inevitable, so the best thing we can do is plan for it,” notes Phillip Moepya, Group Head, Experience Design at Standard Bank Group. It’s a great sentiment but not many people in the world could have prepared for COVID-19 and the profound...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Sustainability
Haven’t business and tech communities been discussing the ‘future of work’ for the past… decade? Twenty years? asks Kristine Dahl Steidel, Vice President End User Computing EMEA, VMware. Well, step forward 2020 where practices have in fact superseded predictions. And...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Security and Legal
Many businesses have adopted the paperless policy by taking measures to stay ahead of time, especially during the Covid- 19 pandemic and its effect on businesses. Businesses are now moving away from the traditional way of signing documents and using electronic and...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 16, 2020 | Innovation
In today’s tumultuous business-scape amid increasingly intricate, and often vexing, marketplace conditions, curating and mining data to drive analytics-based decision making is just no longer enough. For competing with maximum, sustained impact and mitigated...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 15, 2020 | Innovation
Verizon’s analysis of more than 32,000 security incidents and 3,950 breaches has revealed that the financial sector ranks fourth among all sectors in security incidents (1,509 incidents), and seventh in data breaches (448 breaches). In addition, these financial...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 15, 2020 | Innovation
Even before the pandemic, chatbots were emerging as one of the most convenient ways for consumers to interact with brands, writes Ernest North, co-founder of digital insurance platform, Naked. Among service organisations in a global survey from Salesforce in 2019, 23%...
by admin | Nov 12, 2020 | Past Editions
Covid-19 and the mental health crisis, RPA enables the low-code revolution, technology drives innovation, Kaspersky and the unhackable future. Read this month’s issue of Business IT here.
