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Slower economy is the top regional threat

Feb 18, 2022

In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic cut a deadly swathe across the world, only 27 countries in the world experienced economic growth. Global economic growth dropped from an annual rate of –3,4% to –7,6%. Concerns for a stalled economic recovery are reflected in...

The Great Resignation reshapes employee relations

Feb 8, 2022

The world is buzzing with anecdotal evidence of what has been called The Great Resignation – the Covid-19 lockdown-driven reassessment by individuals of the meaning of work in their lives. 2022 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning where employees and organisations...

The skills conundrum 2022

Feb 8, 2022

The skills challenge in Africa remains an obstacle to growth. In South Africa, the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) was established in 2010 as a way of connecting people to skills development and to try and ‘address the bottlenecks’. This issue has also been...

Continuous skills development vital for supply chain success

Feb 8, 2022

Supply chain management has never been more critical than it is today, in an increasingly global, challenging, complex and dynamic business environment. “Global supply chains have faced unprecedented challenges amid the COVID-19 crisis, and the effects will be felt...

2022: the year that tech gets human

Feb 8, 2022

Until recently, digital transformation was mistakenly assumed to be a matter of tagging the word ‘tech’ to the end of practically any industry, throwing some technology at it, and sitting back and waiting for disruption to happen. By Marius Botha, group CEO of aYo...

Mobile trends we’re watching in 2022

Feb 8, 2022

Looking ahead, the technological advances we can expect to see in 2022 will be a logical continuation of everything that has happened in 2021, but the impact of the pandemic will undoubtedly remain. By Nick Durrant, CEO of Bluegrass Digital When you look around right...

2022 could be a watershed year for logistics in Africa

Feb 8, 2022

Over the last two years, the logistics and supply chain industry has been subjected to the Covid-19 ‘stress test’. By Amadou Diallo, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Middle East & Africa Grappling with the worst pandemic in modern history, border closures, and...

Small business owners can make tax year-end easier

Feb 8, 2022

Many small business owners have their hands full with tax paperwork. If you’re one of them, the admin probably ranks low on the list of your favourite things to do. By Viresh Harduth, vice-president: small business at Sage Africa & Middle East However, filing...

NaaS emerges as key digitalisation driver

Jan 27, 2022

With the network playing a key role in the success of digital transformation, technology leaders are looking to network as a service (NaaS). This is the finding from a new study from Aruba, which looks at the interest in NaaS as organisations recover from the Covid-19...

Supply chain technology supports visibility, sustainability

Jan 27, 2022

The pandemic will continue to impact global and regional supply chains through 2022 due to factory shutdowns, transportation constraints, demand fluctuations, and supply constraints. These challenges place pressure on manufacturing, inventory availability, and...

How the pandemic changed how consumers shop

Jan 27, 2022

Multiple factors have affected the retail environment, and largely changed the way that consumers shop. This is according to a new global consumer retail study from Intel and IHL Group that speaks to the changing retail experience while highlighting technologies that...

Security trends from 2021

Jan 27, 2022

During 2021, organisations experienced 50% more weekly cyber-attacks than in 2020, according to the 2022 Security Report from Check Point Research (CPR). The Education/Research sector’s 1 605 weekly attacks took the lead (75% increase), followed by Government/Military...

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