by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
In recent months, many organisations have invested in fake cloud solutions only to find out that the benefits they thought they were going to realise by embarking on a cloud-first strategy have not materialised. This is because washed cloud, otherwise known as ‘fake...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
Bitcoin’s price is set to “surge before the end of 2020” with investors keen not to “sleepwalk” through a 2017-style mini-boom. This prediction from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of the deVere Group, which has $12bn under advisement, comes as bitcoin – already one of...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
Until recently, traditional insurance models have remained remarkably resilient in the onslaught of digital transformation and tech innovation that has disrupted entire industry sectors and upended competitive landscapes. By Cornel Schoeman, chief operating officer of...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
With the range of digital communication channels now available, the question of whether or not e-mail will become obsolete is relevant – but ICT and digital professionals believe that email will always continue to serve as a fast, simple, efficient and accurate means...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
LG Electronics (LG) announced that six-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton has been signed to be the global ambassador for its LG SIGNATURE brand. Hamilton will initially star in a new campaign to communicate the brand’s philosophy, “Art Inspires...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
While a great deal of focus has been placed on the negative economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there can be unexpected positive long-term benefits – if corporate South Africa is prepared to change its mindset. This is the word from Richard Firth, CEO of MIP...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Entrepreneurs need more than the measures outlines in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. While the plan offers little new information to save our economy from complete destruction, according to Osidon CEO and small business...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Djembe Consultants has launched its latest Insights Report in partnership with AfriLabs. The report assesses the impact of Covid-19 on the continent’s young innovators and entrepreneurs and provides perspectives from industry experts as to how African decisionmakers...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Government and private sector efforts to build digital skills capacity among South Africa’s youth over the past five years are bearing fruit. According to Andy Searle, CEO of Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA), a non-profit organisation responsible for...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The best thing that can be said about 2020 is that it has been quite a year. A year that has brought volcanic eruptions, floods, fiery blazes across Australia and the United States, race riots, increased violence against women and children and, of course, a global...
