by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2017 | Workplace 2020
“This year, we started. Next year it’s either do or die,” says Ebrahim Dinat, COO of South African customer experience solutions provider, Ocular Technologies. He is referring to “digital disruption”, a term that could not be escaped this year,and the reality of doing...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2017 | Sustainability
On 23 November 2017, around 40 representatives from the WEEE Forum visited the Wecycle Service Center in Ede, the Netherlands, where end-of-life electrical appliances are sorted and dismantled, partly by people with a distance to the labour market. The members of the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Report-back
Disruption happens when companies and industries are so greedy that they don’t want to innovate. That’s the word from musician and entrepreneur will.i.am, who explains: “They get so greedy, they don’t realise there is another way to do things like distributing music...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Workplace 2020
Data is an organisation’s most critical, strategic and competitive asset. In order for businesses to remain successful, in it imperative that they protect their data. However, thanks to the proliferation of data-generating devices and technologies such as...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Security and Legal
By Kezia Talbot, Legal Adviser, BDO Wealth Advisers With the rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies, and more particularly, Bitcoin, the question which isn’t immediately thought of by investors is: how do cryptocurrencies fit into your estate plan and have you...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Innovation
Smart cities are enabled by technology, but there’s a lot more to them than that. “A smart city is about people, intentions, programmes and initiatives,” explains Edwin Diender, Vice President, Government & Public Utility Sector in Huawei Enterprise Business...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 23, 2017 | Security and Legal
Software as a Service (SaaS) and the cloud have become essential components to grow a business in the digital environment. Patrick Ashton, managing executive of Cirrus, a subsidiary of the SilverBridge Group, believes that insurers across Africa will significantly...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 22, 2017 | Security and Legal
The annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales offer great shopping opportunities – but they are also peak days for financial phishing attacks, and consumers are significantly safer on Grey Saturday, when the number of such attacks drops by up to a third despite it...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 21, 2017 | Innovation
By Ben Leo, CEO of Fraym The data age has opened up a world of renewed understanding in the ways we live and work, providing insights that hold the potential to improve lives for billions around the globe. The ability to collect and process vast numbers of data...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 21, 2017 | Sustainability
By Aalia Manie, Senior Associate at Webber Wentzel Artificial intelligence (AI) is the apex of today’s technology age as we push the boundaries towards Industry 4.0 and superintelligence. It is already here in disruptive narrow forms, cutting across the economy and...
