by Kathy Gibson | Oct 22, 2020 | Features
Just six months ago, the extent of the changes the world has seen would have been all but unthinkable. The Covid-19 pandemic has shut down countries and forced people to quickly and radically change they way they live and work. However, people and organisations have...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 22, 2020 | Features
With the disrupted supply chains of today in the spotlight, supply chain management (SCM) has transformed as a consideration, moving from a “behind the scenes” organisational role to a prime driver of company business. By Baljeet Nagi As enterprises transition to the...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 22, 2020 | Features
As the world slowly opens up again, we are waking up to the realisation that supply chains are not as immutable as they were before. The logical conclusion is that local manufacturing must step up to take up the shortfall. But is this playing out? In this interview...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Fronting, where a black person or entity is given a stake but does not get the powers associated with it, remains the biggest challenge to the power of the B-BBEE Act to deliver on economic transformation, the B-BBEE Commission has warned. Speaking at the launch of...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 22, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Procrastination affects 45% of adults at some point in their lives and a quarter of adults describe themselves as procrastinators. One study estimated that procrastinating employees wasted a quarter of their working days, at a loss of $10,000 (R165,000) per year per...
