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Lessons to take from working in 2020

Mar 5, 2021

This time a year ago no-one was prepared for what would become our working lives. Working from home, continuous Zoom meetings from, constant mask wearing and sanitising – and many businesses being forced to close their doors, some permanently. So what have we...

The SME’s simple guide to POPIA

Mar 5, 2021

From 1 July this year, South African companies must be fully compliant with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). This is the realisation of a process that began in 2013 with the government looking to introduce certain conditions for...

Motivational tips for aspiring entrepreneurs

Mar 5, 2021

Throughout history, times of crisis have been instrumental in development of new products and services. Where there is a need, an opportunity exists, and eventually an entrepreneur will recognise it. Lyndy van den Barselaar, Managing Director of ManpowerGroup SA...

How to keep the lights on in 2021

Feb 22, 2021

Eskom announced this year that load shedding is expected to continue as power demand exceeds supply and more downtime is needed for overdue maintenance of the system. By Mathew Hall, product director at Rectron According to the latest data published by the state-owned...

Factors that will aid small business recovery

Feb 22, 2021

Small and medium enterprises tend to take the hardest knocks in an economic downturn. Nothing illustrates this better than the unravelling impact of Covid-19, which left many SMEs teetering on the edge of collapse. Colin Timmis, general country manager and...

Get back to basics to protect people and data out of office

Feb 22, 2021

The workplace has been redefined by the pandemic, with fewer people in formal offices and more people working remotely. And, it’s unlikely to change. Two international surveys show that at least 16% of workers will remain at-home workers long after the Covid-19 crisis...

Global leaders can create sustainability with meaningful transparency

Feb 22, 2021

The global community is facing many crises, including an ongoing pandemic, the tragic consequences of centuries of racial inequality, and a climate emergency. By Suzanne DiBianca, chief impact officer and executive vice-president: corporate relations at Salesforce But...

Building sustainable businesses in the next normal

Feb 22, 2021

Before Covid-19 came along, I was used to travelling more than 42 weeks a year. In the last six months, I haven’t travelled further than my local grocery store. Yet, at the same time, I have had a ringside seat to a global crisis that is altering the course of...

Lessons learned from a pandemic

Feb 10, 2021

The year 2020 will no doubt go down in infamy when the history of the 21st century is eventually written. Just like 1918 did in the previous century with the outbreak of Spanish Flu which killed an estimated 50-million in two years, and 1347 when The Black Death, or...

The importance of entrepreneurship-driven innovation

Feb 10, 2021

The 2020 edition of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Innovation Forum highlighted the critical role of entrepreneurship-driven innovation in the context of a global pandemic. “Supporting entrepreneurship-driven innovation has never...

Manufacturing, distributors gear up for digital transformation

Feb 10, 2021

Business leaders within global manufacturing and distribution sectors have shown urgency in embracing digital transformation to overcome the disruption caused by the pandemic, according to new research from Syspro. In order to understand the impact of the pandemic on...

What does Covid-19 teach us about OT cybersecurity?

Feb 10, 2021

Today, almost no discussion about any subject goes on for long without the current pandemic being brought up in some way. It dominates all of our lives in many ways. Joe Robertson, EMEA CISO, Fortinet Of course, life must go on, business does continue. But not in the...

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