by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit South Africa’s small business sector hard and there are grim statistics to bear this out. By Ameen Hassen, head: shari’ah banking at Standard Bank Group Those statistics will not be repeated here. After all, if you are a small business...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
More than 50% of IT teams believe that employees have bad security habits. Habits they’ve developed since moving their offices into the home and that put their information, systems and employers at risk. The statistic comes from the Tessian Back to Work Security...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a bright spotlight on our leaders. With companies switching over to remote working in unprecedented numbers, a new form of leadership is needed. Although the uncertainty of the time puts pressure on both employees and management,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
With South Africa’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry voted the most favoured offshore CX delivery location in 2021 in the annual Ryan Strategic Advisory BPO Omnibus Survey, the burgeoning sector is well positioned to play a critical role in ‘Impact...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Operational technology (OT) is the cyber physical foundation that enables the world’s factories, energy production and transmission facilities, transportation networks, and utilities to function. By Rick Peters, CISO Operational Technology at Fortinet To boost...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
One of the many impacts of COVID-19 is that organisations had to change the way they communicated and engaged with employees and clients. Corlia Boshoff from Bizmod Consulting says that the first quarter of 2021 has shown us that while things may not be as severe as...