by Dianne Bayley | Mar 10, 2020 | Workplace 2020
As the novel coronavirus Covid-19 continues to spread around the world, the economic symptoms are emerging. More than a dozen global firms have announced they will miss their financial goals for the upcoming quarter due to the combined impact of supply chain...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Sustainability
As South Africans settle into the routine and inconvenience of load shedding and planning their activities around shifting electricity supply, it is businesses that are taking the biggest hit through the loss of operational capabilities, productivity, and...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Fintech
As South Africa officially enters a recession, the local venture capital industry remains resilient, with investors continuing to look for deals and untapped potential in the market. The latest South African Venture Capital Association (SAVCA) annual survey notes that...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Innovation
As companies embark on their application and data modernisation programmes and look to the cloud and infrastructure required to support their plans, most land on a hybrid cloud strategy with application and data workloads balanced across both public and private...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Sustainability
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) is clearly taking a toll on the global economy, writes Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix . Productivity is lagging as companies restrict travel and workers in affected areas remain...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Sustainability
As debates concerning the implementation of carbon neutral sources continue to make headlines, also increasingly rife, is the energy industry’s endeavour to explore a broader array of renewable energy sources including biomass, according to Africa Energy Indaba. Great...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 9, 2020 | Workplace 2020
The global drive towards digital transformation is having a profoundly disruptive impact on all areas of our lives, but will have the most significant impact on the way we work, where we work and the type of work we do, writes Jo-Anne Botes, Executive for Marketing at...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 6, 2020 | Sustainability
Effectively calculating a return on investment (ROI) is not the most intuitive exercise at the best of times, writes Rousseau Kluever, Managing Client Partner, Decision Inc. But given the growth of data in business today, it becomes a particularly challenging...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 4, 2020 | Innovation
To many, robotic and computer coding are reserved for techies, geeks and sci-fi movies, but today these terms are fast becoming the norm in society. There is no denying the fact that if we do not embrace this wave of change, we will be left behind while the world...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Features
Black Swan events – those out-of-the-blue, large-scale occurrences that might only be rationalised with hindsight – can cause massive destruction. According to Opinion from Aon The One Brief, what distinguishes Black Swans from other disasters or crises...
