Overview of the mini-budget

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni presented his third Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on October 28. Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC economist, unpacks Mboweni’s third budget speech for the lockdown-hit year following the regular February address and a...
What the post-Covid future looks like for enterprises, IT

What the post-Covid future looks like for enterprises, IT

This year’s predictions are shaped by the disruptive forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will dramatically alter the global business ecosystem for the next 12-24 months and beyond. The impacts from Covid-19 on are ubiquitous and affect the many external...

Banking set for once-in-a-generation change

The primary role of a traditional bank providing financing and capital is set to be challenged further in a post Covid-19 world by non-banks. This is according to PwC’s report, “Securing your tomorrow, today – the future of financial services”,...

Looking to the future of distributed work

Kathy Gibson reports – If the Covid-19 lockdown has proved anything to the busines world, it is that the distributed working model can and does work. Kristine Dahl Steidel, vice-president: EUC EMEA at VMware, says the new way of working has expressed a desire...

Data set to drive the digital transformation

Kathy Gibson reports from NetApp Insight 2020 – The IT industry has spoken about a changing world for years – but no-one could have predicted how quickly and radically it would change in 2020. George Kurian, CEO of NetApp, acknowledges that the past months...

Nadella offers leadership advice

Kathy Gibson reports from NetApp Insight 2020 – As a partner-led organisation, NetApp works with an ecosystem of vendors and customers to deliver solutions. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, points out that the two companies have worked together on co-innovation...