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Recipe for future-proofing an online retail business

The online retail industry is experiencing an unprecedented boom, with indications that the sector was worth R30-billion in 2020, a full third higher than estimates just three years ago. This means retailers of all shapes and sizes need to ensure their systems and...

Business unusual for SMEs on the road to recovery

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit South Africa’s small business sector hard and there are grim statistics to bear this out. By Ameen Hassen, head: shari’ah banking at Standard Bank Group Those statistics will not be repeated here. After all, if you are a small business...

Train the hybrid mind

More than 50% of IT teams believe that employees have bad security habits. Habits they’ve developed since moving their offices into the home and that put their information, systems and employers at risk. The statistic comes from the Tessian Back to Work Security...

Five principles for collaborative leadership

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a bright spotlight on our leaders. With companies switching over to remote working in unprecedented numbers, a new form of leadership is needed. Although the uncertainty of the time puts pressure on both employees and management,...

Impact Sourcing has the power to transform business

With South Africa’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry voted the most favoured offshore CX delivery location in 2021 in the annual Ryan Strategic Advisory BPO Omnibus Survey, the burgeoning sector is well positioned to play a critical role in ‘Impact...

OT leaders continue to face security challenges

Operational technology (OT) is the cyber physical foundation that enables the world’s factories, energy production and transmission facilities, transportation networks, and utilities to function. By Rick Peters, CISO Operational Technology at Fortinet To boost...

The constant need to update workplace communication

One of the many impacts of COVID-19 is that organisations had to change the way they communicated and engaged with employees and clients. Corlia Boshoff from Bizmod Consulting says that the first quarter of 2021 has shown us that while things may not be as severe as...

The difference between lithium iron and lithium-ion

Lithium iron phosphate batteries are part of a group of batteries called lithium-ion batteries. Specifying that a battery is a lithium iron, or lithium iron phosphate, battery implies a host of characteristics which are important when choosing a battery type and...

Why some SME sectors are booming

The pandemic has inflicted deep pain and suffering on families and friends and dragged the economy through the toughest phase in living memory. Miguel Da Silva, MD of Retail Capital On 1 June, Statistics SA announced that the country’s unemployment rate was at an...

Why digital transformation is the backbone of economic recovery 

As global governments seek to lead the way in building back stronger, more resilient and interconnected economies, facilitating accelerated digitalisation for business will be mission critical. By Doug Woolley, MD of Dell Technologies South Africa The pace of...

SMEs turn to innovative tech platforms to save cash

More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and South Africa’s SMEs remain under enormous pressure and are increasingly looking to technology for ways to control costs and manage cash flow more effectively. “A seemingly easy decision every business must make is how to...

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