by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Security and Legal
The past few weeks and months have seen arguably the biggest exodus and purge of leaders from the country’s top companies and SEOs in recent history, with more heads expected to roll in future. Some are justifiably walking the plank, due to egregious performance in...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Fintech
Technology has changed – and is still changing – many industries, but none more so than financial services. From the introduction of ATMs, to internet banking via apps, to today’s seemingly new online-only digital banks, technology is transforming the business models...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Sustainability
Ford has found a clever way of reusing millions of plastic bottles. Each EcoSport SUV that the company produces is fitted with carpets made using 470 single-use plastic drink bottles. Since Ford launched the EcoSport globally in 2012, it has provided a new lease on...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Following Youth Month, Martin Pienaar, COO of Mindworx Consulting points out that we are still left pondering the perilous state of their future and that of our country. The government’s recent commitment to create an additional 2 million jobs over the next decade is...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 1, 2019 | Innovation
We’ve got software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), even disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) among a host of “as a service” offerings – so it was only a matter of time until device as a service (DaaS) came into its own. It’s not too obvious why it...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Security and Legal
South African mining operations are set to embrace next-generation automation and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems to slash costs and increase production, but they risk crippling shutdowns and threats to human safety if they fail to adequately protect...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
The prospect of a fully sustainable Blue Economy for Africa gathered significant momentum following the second Africa Blue Economy Forum (ABEF2019) held in Tunis on 25-26 June. Fishing, aquaculture, shipping, ports, energy and finance industries all came under the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 26, 2019 | Sustainability
The 2019 Sanlam Benchmark Survey – South Africa’s leading annual survey of the retirement industry – has revealed that, for many employers, group risk fees rose by upwards of 50% over the past few years as a result of a deterioration in claims experience across the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 26, 2019 | Sustainability
The mobile telecommunications industry is busy consolidating. However, in doing so, it runs the real risk of curtailing its ability to innovate. Pretty bold statement, I know, but in merging, the sector loses diversity and diversity, is one of the key things that...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 26, 2019 | Innovation
The recent Saphila 2019 conference, the African SAP User Group’s (AFSUG) biennial conference for SAP users, closed with a presentation from a keynote speaker who spends much of his time in the future. And this is fitting, because the job title of Tom Raftery is...
