by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Cyber criminals come in many different flavours, but the majority of them are in it for one thing: financial pay-off. They want the money that comes with offering their tools or services, selling stolen data, extortion like ransomware or plain fraud. And they all have...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Story, Features
The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission recently spoke out against fronting, stating that it is still a serious problem in South Africa. Rajan Naidoo, MD of EduPower Skills Academy, believes the B-BBEE Commission is correct in once again...
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...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
For every company, innovation is tremendously important, but in many cases, innovation is only associated with new products or technical renewals. By Soromfe Uzomah, Head: Strategic Partnerships, Microsoft 4Afrika However, business model innovations can be...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are part of a group of batteries called lithium-ion batteries. Specifying that a battery is a lithium iron, or lithium iron phosphate, battery implies a host of characteristics which are important when choosing a battery type and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – The South African financial market is a paradox in that a majority of people have bank accounts, but 80% of them don’t have access to financial services. Khulekani Mathe, head of financial inclusion at the Banking Association South Africa,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – A massive 1-million 5G subscriptions are going to be added every day this year, taking the total to 580-million users by the end of 2021. Todd Ashton, vice-president and head of Ericsson South and East Africa, points out that 5G growth is...
