by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The Covid-19 pandemic, one of the world’s most significant events, has resulted in cessation of economic activities that will lead to a significant decline in GDP, an unprecedented social disruption, and the loss of millions of jobs. By Professor Banji...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The surge of remote workers and the increase in the public’s demand for online entertainment placed immense pressure on the entire network infrastructure. In turn, this calls the capability of hosting providers to offer quality service into question into question, as...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The coronavirus will lead to business failures, market consolidation and entrench incumbents with strong balance sheets. Should policymakers react? During South Africa’s state of national disaster, have curtailed the free market and blurred the lines between business,...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has warned that the country should prepare for a deep recession – but offered hope of a return to economic growth in 2021. According to Ettiene Retief, Ccairman of the national tax and SARS committee at the South African Institute...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Features
The economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic on global businesses has sparked universal uncertainty and panic. Some industries are more accustomed to rapidly-changing conditions than others, which find themselves at sea, particularly when it comes to relying more heavily...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Features
While much of the public discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) focusses on dire predictions about robots stealing jobs, a growing number of future-minded business leaders are embracing an altogether more optimistic and empowering narrative. “Visionary...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 19, 2020 | Features
Growing competition and rising customer expectations are pushing banking and fintech markets towards introducing interdisciplinary functionalities and focusing on fast and efficient internal operations, leading them to become more digitized in the overall process....
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 17, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Adopting a suitable and robust online learning strategy is key to maintaining academic continuity for institutions of higher learning. By Robert Speed, vice-president for Middle East and Africa at Blackboard The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound and...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 17, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Christopher Bergey, vice-president: embedded solutions at Western Digital, spoke at IoT World on “IoT Context vs. Content: Strategies for Extracting Insights from a Data-Centric World”. Here are some highlights from his presentation on how to get the most out of IoT...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 17, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Things will never be the same again. The way we used to live, work and interact with one another pre-Covid-19 is over – but there are exciting times ahead, as the new way of doing things is pushing us to be innovative and will act as a catalyst for new technologies....
