Digitisation of nature: Opportunities, risks

Digitisation of nature: Opportunities, risks

By Simon Carpenter, Chief Technology Advisor at SAP Africa The field of bio-engineering is not new, despite its recent prominence: humans have been domesticating and selectively breeding animals since as far back as 12 000 BC. More recently, advances in technology...
Is another tech bubble brewing?

Is another tech bubble brewing?

With global technology stocks enjoying strong returns, the big question is whether another tech bubble is brewing? While some market analysts say ‘yes’, Gerrit Smit, Head of Equity Management at Stonehage Fleming has a different view. “The returns being produced in...
Workplaces that encourage productivity

Workplaces that encourage productivity

Scroll back if you can, to the office of the 1970’s – ‘working 9 to 5’ was the norm and employee happiness had little or no bearing in a largely autonomous corporate environment. Today we know that the employee experience businesses create, could decide whether they...
Institutions, students wrestle with technology

Institutions, students wrestle with technology

Being client-centric takes on a new meaning when the client is a tech-savvy millennial student who expects technology and devices to enable the delivery of realistic, immediate and digital material on flexible platforms that offer students the choice to learn in their...
Smart technology builds smart businesses

Smart technology builds smart businesses

By Gysbert Kappers, CEO of Wyzetalk In today’s digital age companies are having to adapt to an increasingly dispersed workforce and business that extends far beyond the typical 9-5 workday. Large industries are also now looking for ways to improve their connection...
Humans will still be at the centre of work

Humans will still be at the centre of work

Digital business execution is requiring more frequent and complex decision making, continuous problem solving and rapid pattern recognition, all of which require workforce digital dexterity.  In most organisations, however, responsibility for helping employees develop...
Making the digital workplace a reality

Making the digital workplace a reality

It comes down to digital transformation, MPS and devices, writes Carro Ford, content marketing strategist at Xerox. There’s an opportunity to fire your business up to the next level, but it’s really not a choice. If you don’t innovate the way you work and connect, you...
Cybercrime booming in 2017

Cybercrime booming in 2017

This year has proved to be a lucrative year for cybercrime as prominent malware and attack methods continue to evolve, creatively bypassing existing security solutions, says Check Point in its mid-year report. In 2016, we witnessed sophisticated new malware emerging...