Oct 11, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at the NEC XON Summit in Sun City – Industry 4.0 is a concept that is bandied around all the time – but what does it really mean? Walter Lee, evangelist and government relations leader at NEC, describes it as the era where Internet of...
Oct 11, 2018
An error in World Bank data which has now been rectified has seen South Africa slip to 110th out of 162 countries in the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) 2018 index. It had been reported that SA’s ranking was 94. However, following an error in World Bank data...
Oct 11, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at the NEC XON Summit in Sun City – The fourth industrial revolution is set to cost society thousands of jobs. But this is nothing new, says Carel Coetzee, CEO of NEC XON. “Innovations have always taken jobs away, but they also create a...
Oct 11, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at the NEC Xon Summit in Sun City – There is strong correlation between social stability and economic growth. This is the word from Hironobu Kurosaki, president and CEO of NEC Europe, who points out that studies show that GDP grows when...
Oct 11, 2018
South African SMEs are estimated to represent 90% of formal businesses, provide employment to about 60% of the labour force, and contribute approximately 34% of the country’s GDP. In an effort to further grow this sector and boost a struggling economy, J.P....
Oct 11, 2018
Internet of Things (IoT) technology has reached early mainstream, with business and IT leaders expecting tangible results in three years or less – signaling that the days of simply experimenting with IoT projects are now consigned to the past. Fujitsu...
