by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Features
2020 was a challenging year for anyone in sales, especially so for the sales function within large ICT vendors across the continent. We will see this hardship continue into 2021, how we respond to the new demands will be critical for the sector. Louise Robinson, sales...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in infamy when the history of the 21st century is eventually written. Just like 1918 did in the previous century with the outbreak of Spanish Flu which killed an estimated 50-million in two years, and 1347 when The Black Death, or...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The 2020 edition of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Innovation Forum highlighted the critical role of entrepreneurship-driven innovation in the context of a global pandemic. “Supporting entrepreneurship-driven innovation has never...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Business leaders within global manufacturing and distribution sectors have shown urgency in embracing digital transformation to overcome the disruption caused by the pandemic, according to new research from Syspro. In order to understand the impact of the pandemic on...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Today, almost no discussion about any subject goes on for long without the current pandemic being brought up in some way. It dominates all of our lives in many ways. Joe Robertson, EMEA CISO, Fortinet Of course, life must go on, business does continue. But not in the...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The essential nature of connectivity, the measures taken in the face of the pandemic, and the unprecedented opportunities for the ICT sector in recovery from global crisis were the key areas highlighted by global ministers, regulators and industry leaders during...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The PC, tablet, smartphone and small domestic appliance sectors are the bright spots in a South African technical consumer goods market that saw revenues drop 7% for the period January to August 2020. That’s according to point-of-sale tracking data from GfK South...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Features
For an organisation like Absa, threats come from every direction, every day. Group chief security officer Sandro Bucchianeri is responsible for ensuring the bank doesn’t succumb to any of the myriad attacks. Kathy Gibson spoke to him about his passion for security....
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Features
Companies across the globe are under pressure to create new working models and are increasingly looking to robotic process automation (RPA) to help them gain business value quickly and cost-effectively. Australian-based IT project delivery specialist Avec was looking...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 10, 2021 | Thought Leadership
For many industries, predicting the future during a pandemic would be difficult – if not impossible. By Oliver Guy, senior director: industry solutions at Software AG Retail is different. Why? Because Covid-19 has acted as an accelerant for digital transformation...
