by Dianne Bayley | Oct 13, 2019 | Innovation
For centuries product innovation has been important to business growth and expansion, although many businesses also thrived through low-cost or customer service based differentiation, often with little real innovation. With the introduction of the Fourth Industrial...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2019 | Innovation
As Industry 4.0 moves increasingly beyond buzzwords into reality, mining is leading the charge, with African and South African companies at the forefront of both the creation of transformative technologies and their implementation on the physical and digital rockface....
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2019 | Security and Legal
In the early days of software development, the role of the Business Analyst (BA) played an integral part in creating new applications for business use. However, over the years this has evolved into something that is highly flexible and adaptive to change, writes...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2019 | Sustainability
The Commonwealth has launched a regenerative climate change model that marries the ancient wisdom of indigenous groups with emerging innovations, technologies and scientific approaches. Common Earth is the programme that will create a network of projects that could be...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2019 | Innovation
This glimpse of the future was crafted by Nial O’Brien, who says almost two centuries ago, the Victorian age descended on Great Britain. It was a tale of two Charles’s (Darwin and Dickens), an era of ingenuity, an age of political reform and social change, and a...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Employee enablement revolves around more than just training programmes or giving people the tools to become more efficient, says Ryan Jamieson, Solutions and Innovation Officer at Altron Karabina. It incorporates an integrated approach that stems from the C-suite and...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 8, 2019 | Innovation
Coding has become the universal language of the future and holds the key to unlocking a brighter future for millions of youth across Africa. In fact, it’s estimated that 80% of all jobs will relate to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) – and coding is...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 8, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The interplay between humans and machines is critical in the financial services (FS) organisations’ quest to keeping pace with customer expectations. Customers expect the same ease, speed and intuition from providers that they have become accustomed to in other areas...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 7, 2019 | Innovation, Sustainability
Kabelo Rabotho, Marketing Director, Nissan South Africa, says: “One hundred EVs with zero emissions and intelligent energy integration capabilities could power an entire building. We can now also recycle our batteries and give them a second lease on life as energy...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 7, 2019 | Security and Legal
Have you ever seen a hacker movie? When the other shoe drops, you can see the black hat scrambling for their computer, tearing out the hard drive and trying to erase them. They may even run neodymium magnets over them and then finish the job by driving an electric...
