Strategic cover for start-ups

Strategic cover for start-ups

Research shows that the most successful businesses are built in the most challenging economic and market conditions. Businesses forged and successfully grown in volatile and unpredictable environments, generally go on to thrive when market conditions improve. With...
Get to grips with small business financing

Get to grips with small business financing

Whether you need money to buy stock or equipment, require working capital to employ more staff or to fund a contract, or are simply looking for assistance to bridge your cash flow gaps while you are building your business, if you can’t secure the finance you need, it...

Build a solid transformation plan

Companies need to stop being short-sighted when it comes to Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). By Roxanne Da Mata Gonçalves., transformation specialist at Strata-G Labour Solutions Here are five short, medium and long-term strategies to a successful...

Unused accounts pose a real threat

It’s very likely that you’ve been using the internet for many years now and already forgotten how many different accounts you’ve created. However, old accounts pose a real threat as there’s a big chance they store a lot of sensitive data. If one of your old accounts...

Innovation needed in the counterfeiting war

When it comes to fraud, the impact of the production and sale of counterfeit goods is just as detrimental to the economy as cyber crime and identity theft. This issue came under the spotlight in 2019 when there was an outright war that was waged by the South African...

Medium businesses: don’t stagnate

Medium-size businesses do not have to stand back and watch the transformation of large organisations. The floodgates of technology have opened for everyone. Medium businesses, in particular, can take huge advantage of fantastic breakthroughs available at very...

Balancing act needed in the new decade

The global information technology (IT) industry heads into 2020 balancing its drive to produce new products and services while addressing issues that are often byproducts of innovation. This is according to the “IT Industry Outlook 2020” report from CompTIA. Moving...

The story behind Azure security

Security has to be baked into any cloud solution. When organisations trust their systems to the cloud, they expect security to be a given. Azure goes a step further: its proactive approach to security, compliance, and privacy is unique, with Microsoft leading the...