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A harmonised future for retail

Feb 10, 2021

For many industries, predicting the future during a pandemic would be difficult – if not impossible. By Oliver Guy, senior director: industry solutions at Software AG Retail is different. Why? Because Covid-19 has acted as an accelerant for digital transformation...

Don’t confuse e-commerce with omnichannel retailing 

Don’t confuse e-commerce with omnichannel retailing 

Feb 10, 2021

The age of the mall is waning. That’s the phrase that sends property fund managers into a cold sweat. But it’s not just the lower foot traffic as a result of Covid that is to blame for the pressure on brick-and-mortar stores. Businesses which have refused to...

B-BBEE Commission clamps down on fronting

B-BBEE Commission clamps down on fronting

Feb 10, 2021

Soria Hay, head of corporate finance at investment banking firm Bravura, highlights the intention of the B-BBEE Commission to intensify its activities in bringing about true transformation to corporate South Africa, and considers the heightened efforts to clamp down...

Nothing new under the (rising) sun: Honda quits – again

Feb 10, 2021

Honda’s planned Formula One exit at the end of 2021 comes as no surprise. It has entered and exited F1 four times since the 1960s. By Graham Duxbury Honda’s objective has always been to present its engineers with a challenge. When this goal is realised, its presence...

20:20 vision – Lessons learnt from last year

Feb 10, 2021

2020 is certainly going to go down in history as the year when the world took a giant leap into the future. Back in early 2013, I wrote a few articles about the changing nature of work and the likely impacts of technology advancement on offices and management, on...

Build business continuity in an uncertain world

Jan 6, 2021

The role of procurement is about ensuring that business operations continue like clockwork no matter how disrupted the business environment is. By Paulo de Matos This involves understanding the current environment as well as foreseeing the potential future...

Disruptive technologies: risk or opportunity?

Jan 6, 2021

The words “disruptive technology” invoke thoughts of uncontrolled chaos and uncertainty with many organisations viewing it explicitly from a negative impact to themselves and their related industry. By Pavana Ranjith This view is supported by a recently released study...

What’s next for automation and IoT in the supply chain?

Jan 6, 2021

With discussions around automation having moved up the global business agenda in recent years, supply chain companies have been looking at how this technology can help to revolutionise their sector. By Ronald Ravel A recent study found the industry’s adoption rate for...

Remote working and the threat to SAP systems

Nov 30, 2020

Stephen McBride, Forbes Magazine contributor and editor of RiskHedge Report, predicts that the largest cyberattack in history is likely to occur in the next six months, with the coronavirus laying the groundwork. By Dudley Cartwright McBride explains that the more...

Rethink your security posture in the age of the ’rona

Nov 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a cataclysmic shift in the way that many organisations do business. By Jared Naude With mandatory nationwide lockdowns, organisations have had no choice but to allow workers to work from home. These drastic changes in ways of...

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