by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Recent headlines around cryptocurrencies have steered away from its mesmerising mystery and shed light on the inevitable risks surrounding an unregulated financial asset. By Wiehann Olivier, CA (South Africa) and partner at Mazars South Africa From Ponzi schemes to...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
With a shift away from physical commerce, consumers are increasingly taking their daily activities online. This shift has resulted in new opportunities for emerging digital entrepreneurs to reap the dividends from digital and grow in the digital economy. By Tonny...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Over the past six months, the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the way many organisations operate and how they manage their workforces. By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner & compliance manager at Sage Africa & Middle East Many businesses were not...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The initial economic impacts of the global pandemic are emerging and the production, direct-to-garment (DTG), and large and wide format sectors are among the many that have taken a hiding. By By Chris de Beer, Africa regional manager at Infosource Some of the major...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Features
At the beginning of the year, no one would have predicted that online meetings would become the norm by April. By Biase De Gregorio, IQbusiness executive partner Yet, as we enter month six of remote working, we realise the vital role the ability to adapt to change...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The world is changing — but how it changes is largely up to all of us. By Chris Buchanan, Client Solutions Director Dell Technologies South Africa Here’s what we know for sure: the global population is set to grow to a total 8.5 billion by 2030. By that time, 3...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
World Hunger Day sees many Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives take flight. Teams of employees pack boxes full of non-perishable goods for hungry communities and share their good work on social media. This is an open letter to business from the Institute...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 16, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The current pandemic has helped organisations confirm the criticality of further digitising their business value chains, fuelled by the need to operate remotely and to provide greater access to the workforce to better enable the performance of their tasks. By Mark...
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...
