SA businesses face a world of risk

SA businesses face a world of risk

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Risk Conference in Sandton – Businesses face a wide range of external risks and leaders must not only be aware of them, but ensure there are processes in place to mitigate them. That is the word from Kuseni Dlamini, chairman of...
Failure to innovate puts companies at risk

Failure to innovate puts companies at risk

Organisations around the world recognise the need to digitally transform their operations, but the rate at which they are doing so is still slow. In fact, only 40% of companies are using digital transformation, says Ian Jansen van Rensburg, evangelist and chief...
CEOs urged to exploit AI’s long-term potential

CEOs urged to exploit AI’s long-term potential

Most CEOs recognise that AI will be critical to their business, but few enterprises have actually undertaken AI initiatives. A recent Gartner CIO survey found only 4% of respondents had deployed AI in their organisations. In 2018, cars are commonplace, but it took 250...
UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

The world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine signals an innovative paradigm shift in waste recovery. The brick is the brainchild of University of Cape Town (UCT) master’s student in civil engineering Suzanne Lambert. Dr Dyllon Randall,...
In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

In digital transformation, business and IT are in conflict

Kathy Gibson is at IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Sandton – CIOs are facing new issues and challenges as cloud computing becomes more pervasive, and frequently comes into conflict with data centre operations. One of the main drivers for cloud is the...
NASA studies African smoke cloud

NASA studies African smoke cloud

Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2 000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke...