by Kathy Gibson | Jun 13, 2019 | Report-back
The fourth annual E-Learning Summit in East London explored how technology can assists teachers and learners compete in the fourth industrial revolution. Delegates also debated the challenges that we need to overcome, and plotted directions for taking the country...
by Kathy Gibson | Jun 13, 2019 | Report-back
The African SAP User Group (AFSUG) held its biennial Saphila meeting at Sun City during June. Kathy Gibson reports Intelligent enterprise is all about the experience We are living the experience economy – it is happening to all of us in the workplace or at...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 12, 2019 | ITSM and Application Development
More than R1 billion was lost to the South African agricultural economy in 2018 thanks to livestock theft. According to a study released by UNISA, there were more than 29, 000 cases reported over the last financial year, with thousands of animals stolen. These thefts...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 12, 2019 | Sustainability
Felleng Yende, Chief Executive Officer of the Fibre Processing and Manufacturing Sector Education and Training Authority (FP&M SETA), looks at 4IR and what’s needed for South Africa to keep up. The Industrial Revolution dates back to the 1700s in Britain,...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 12, 2019 | Fintech
Accountants operate in an increasingly technologically-driven environment. Yet, as Professor Rashied Small, Executive of Education and Training at the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) notes, we’re still applying 2005 skills in a 2020...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 12, 2019 | Sustainability
An optimal energy mix for Africa relies on a variety of generation technologies. In fact, writes Paul Grota, Director: Industrial, Power & Project Medupi, WSP, Power, Africa, a 2015 report from McKinsey estimated that if every country in Africa had to build to...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 11, 2019 | Security and Legal
Redstor, a leading provider of next-generation data management, has come to the rescue of a vets hit by a ransomware attack. Terry Wilson, the practice manager at Teva Veterinary Clinic, revealed how staff turned up for work on a Monday morning to discover...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 11, 2019 | Innovation
With the rise of multi-media platforms offering different types of content from text to video to images, the race is on to win consumers’ time and attention, writes James de Waal, Head of Marketing, Business Imaging Group, Canon South Africa. Innovative companies,...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 11, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Chris Buchanan, Director Client Solutions, Dell South Africa, asks: “What does it take to keep good people?” Back in 2003, Rudy Giuliani wrote in his seminal book Leadership that “one quality every effective performer shared was a sense that their...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 10, 2019 | Workplace 2020
There’s good business sense in hiring South Africa’s skilled young graduates, and 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year’s Job Creator of the Year®, Phillipa Geard, founder of RecruitAGraduate.co.za and RecruitMyMom.co.za, asks South African businesses to see the sense in...
