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How to stop your sales IP from walking out the door

For multiple South African businesses, sales representatives are the lifeblood of business growth – even business survival in a turbulent economy. As if business isn’t tough enough right now, especially in the manufacturing, wholesale and distribution sectors,...

Self-driving networks will change the reseller conversation

For years, many network conversations have started with hardware, coverage, speed or refresh cycles. By Warren Gordon, HPE business unit executive at Duxbury Networking Self-driving networks move that conversation into a more valuable space, where resellers can help...

Why SA needs its innovators now

By Seati Moloi – South Africa is currently engaged in an important national conversation about its future. Across government, industry, academia and civil society, leaders are gathering to debate how we stimulate economic growth, create jobs, accelerate...

Don’t talk to me until I’ve run my prompt

By Barry Buck – You know the mug. White, slightly chipped, lives on every second desk on Earth: “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee.” A small, socially-sanctioned warning that the human is not yet operational and should not be approached with anything...

The tools got faster – the business didn’t

When I led Tarsus through the late nineties and into the noughties, we didn’t have many tools to choose from, and a distributor’s margins didn’t leave much room to buy what there was. By Guy Whitcroft What we did do was work our ERP system hard,...

Channel Chunder: You learn a new thing every day …

With the “Esteemed One” having recently achieved and celebrated an extremely proud track record of 30 years of dedicated journalistic service to the IT channel in South Africa, it came as a major shock when he provided the brief for this issue’s cover story. Labelled...

The Ferrari/ Lewis Hamilton partnership: A branding success story

The 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix delivered one of the most emotional moments of the 2026 Formula One season as Lewis Hamilton claimed his first victory for Ferrari. By Graham Duxbury But Hamilton’s victory was significant for much more than just the win or his...

Negotiating supplier prices means little if the rand has the final say

Business owners spend weeks negotiating with overseas suppliers, planning inventory and calculating margins down to the last cent. But all that preparation counts for nothing if profitability ultimately depends on where the rand is trading the day the invoice falls...

Security challenge comes down to talent

Cybersecurity has become a vital enabler of business resilience, digital growth and customer trust. By Boland Lithebe, cybersecurity lead and Shiksha Benimadho, talent and organisation lead for Accenture, South Africa Yet many organisations are discovering that their...

Why is youth unemployment still so high?

South Africa graduated 220,758 students from its public universities last year, and more than a million are enrolled in higher education – more graduates than at any point in the country’s history. By Leon Smalberger, CEO of the Academic Institute of Excellence...

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