by Dianne Bayley | May 8, 2019 | ITSM and Application Development
With the tenth-fastest growing economy in the world this year, Kenya is in the midst of a transformative period of economic growth and advancement. In fact, according to the latest Harvard Centre for International Development report, three of the ten fastest economies...
by Dianne Bayley | May 8, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The South African workforce is growing, says Reneshan Moodley, Agile consultant at IQbusiness – and companies will have to rethink their employee processes for a strategy that accommodates a changing workforce. The number of public university graduates continues...
by Dianne Bayley | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
With mobile money continuing to dominate the continent’s commerce growth, opening doors to business to everyone from a rural farmer to an entrepreneur, and cross-border seeing inter-country transactions on the rise, the continent is making a play to be the world’s...
by Dianne Bayley | May 7, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Talent shortages are at a 12-year high and new skills are appearing as quickly as old ones disappear. Almost all employers are pursuing one or more talent strategies to secure the skills they need and companies with a plan are more confident of expanding their...
by Dianne Bayley | May 7, 2019 | Internet of Things
Two forces are set to converge soon – the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G. On the surface, this is exciting, with the potential for both emerging technologies to usher in a slew of new capabilities, writes Patrick Shields, CTO,...
by Dianne Bayley | May 6, 2019 | Workplace 2020
From 29 April until 4 May 2019, the payroll industry recommitted itself to increasing the global payroll professional’s skill level through education, training and networking opportunities. The second annual Global Payroll Week, the brainchild of the Global Payroll...
by Dianne Bayley | May 6, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Dana Eitzen, corporate and marketing communications executive at Canon South Africa says the analysis of data is all well and good – but it doesn’t become valuable until you have a strategy to use it. Big data requires big action… The recent...
by Kathy Gibson | May 2, 2019 | Report-back
While malware in general continues its relentless growth, Africa faces particular threats in the areas of industrial systems and mobile payments. Kathy Gibson joined Kaspersky Lab for its Cyber Security Weekend in Cape Town to learn more. Threats to look out...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Sustainability
City-wide hydroponic rooftop farming co-operatives have the potential to become the next big thing in commercial agriculture. The prediction comes from Signium Africa, an executive search and talent management company with a large book of agri-business clients in...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Internet of Things
Fraud is rife in the insurance sector as a whole, from short- and long-term insurance to medical and health insurance. Fraudulent activities are perpetrated not only by clients, but internally as well, and the cost of such fraud runs into millions. By Kumar Utpal,...