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Fake it till you make it

Businesses can now ensure a higher probability of developing products and services that are market-fit – much faster and more cheaply than ever before. This is made possible by creating ‘facades’ to test on customers before investing into product development,...

Prepare your business of the next wave of Covid-10

We are now almost a full year into the worst pandemic of the century, and with cases in South Africa continually on the rise, it is fair to say that Covid-19 is far from over. By Lyndy van den Barselaar, MD of ManpowerGroup SA Many businesses have reopened in some...

We need to encourage girl learners to embrace STEM subjects

It’s evident by the significant investments into skills development and educational programmes that Microsoft believes in upskilling our youth to have the right skills to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. By Wanjira Kamwere, business development manager of...

Should we still be talking about digital transformation in 2021? 

By now we all know that digital transformation involves using digital technologies to make changes to various aspects of a business. By Kevin South, head of digital and CX at Seacom But many companies are already doing this, which is why some think that it’s time to...

Prepare your business for future lifestyles

Modern societies are at a turning point where powerful lifestyle shifts are reshaping the ways in which we move, consume, work, learn, socialise and protect ourselves. By Willie Schoeman, MD of Accenture Technology in Africa In the next version of society, new...

A harmonised future for retail

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 

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

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

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

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...

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