Global disasters leave multinational insurance customers exposed

Global disasters leave multinational insurance customers exposed

With the myriad of crises and challenges taking place around the world, from natural disasters to wars and conflicts abroad, multinationals may not be playing it safe enough when it comes to insuring against international risk. This is according to Mark Sanders,...

Circular economy can combat the world’s plastic problem

By 2050, global cities could produce 3,88-billion tonnes of waste every single year – and plastic is a significant contributor to this number. Having observed World Earth Day yesterday (22 April 2024), Alison Groves, director: discipline lead built ecology at...

Here’s where we need to see the sustainability conversation going

The theme for this year’s Earth Day 2024 (yesterday, 22 April) is planet versus plastics, emphasising the importance of businesses across the world continuing to play their part in protecting the earth from harm through sustainable business practices. Measures...

SMBs can contribute to a more sustainable world

2024 marks our 54th World Earth Day (yesterday, 22 April) and, while we can say a lot about the progress we’ve made as a society, or not, what I’m left thinking about is the principle that Earth.org, the creators of World Earth Day, run on –...

How to improve employee productivity

Ask any company head or business leader how important employee productivity is to them, and they will tell you that it is right up there with a strong bottom line and a good coffee machine. But productivity, in itself, shouldn’t be the starting point; rather, it...

SAS expands hosted managed services to AWS

SAS has expanded its SAS-hosted managed services to Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving customers more options for how they choose to deploy and manage their SAS Viya cloud portal platform. “We designed SAS Managed Services to provide our customers with the best...