by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Africa faces many challenges on its path to becoming a global economic competitor. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa’s development can either be a massive barrier to advancement – or, the spark that lights the fire of innovation and investment across the...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Technology has permeated all facets of business. Today, it has become less about the bits and bytes and more about unlocking the efficiency of processes, improving the customer experience, and better understanding data to deliver on the company strategy. By Muggie van...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Cloud computing has revolutionised the way in which many businesses develop their service offerings and make them available to customers. By Gavin Loveland, product manager at Seacom It has enabled organisations to remove the infrastructure restrictions that once...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Although published in 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow’s paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, remains immensely popular, especially in the business world. By Michelle Moss, director of Assessments at Signium Africa It describes human needs as a pyramid consisting of...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Features
It is estimated that within five years, the number of connections between people and other people, people and things and things to other things will number more than 100-billion. Add to this the increasing uptake of 5G networks, as well as new services including...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Features
Despite how the pandemic has exacerbated an already dire problem with South Africa’s unemployment rate pushing it past the 35% mark by December 2020, and how the education system is falling short, very few businesses know that there is something hugely significant...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Features
Much like a human being, a website has its own unique identity. But this identity can be cloned by cybercriminals if not properly secured. While working remotely has become the norm as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the chances of a business experiencing data...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
A new survey by the South African SME Finance Association (SASFA) shows that despite the help offered by government and the private sector, only a fraction of businesses had any support. Only 47% of business owners applied for relief from government or financial...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The impact of the Covid-19 has been hard felt by businesses in the service industry. Local movements, like Million Seats on the Streets and #LightSARed, have been used to demonstrate the effect the nationwide lockdown has had on the restaurant, live entertainment,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
If small and medium businesses had little appetite for cyber risk management before the coronavirus pandemic, they may have developed one now. Mobilising remote workforces, provisioning the right set of tools, managing the flow of data, keeping it secure and...
