Business, IT face disconnect in SA

Each year, South African small and medium businesses lose significant amounts of money because most business leaders have little or no understanding of how IT contributes to their companies’ performance. Chris Welham, executive director of Space Age Technologies – an...

The case for project management software

A common problem within businesses is that, while there is an acute awareness of the need to implement project office software, it is not easy to provide the necessary justification for approval, says Guy Jelley, CEO, Project Portfolio Office (PPO). Even then, when...

SOA is a strategic enabler

Technology has evolved to a point where, for the first time it’s the business principles and the needs of an organisation that can drive the way in which technology can execute on those needs. It is through service-oriented architecture (SOA) that this relationship...

Choosing the right project management tools

Regardless of how organised your project team might be, identifying project management software for your business is important for the smooth-running of projects, specifically when they occur in parallel. Daniel Marcus, director of project management and CRM tool...

Reconsider outsourcing of software testing

The economic and business drivers that once convinced companies to outsource software testing to external service providers need to be reconsidered, says Ziaan Hattingh, MD of IndigoCube, a company that enables and improves the productivity of the application life...

Adaptability is key to better leadership

In a recent article for LinkedIn, best-selling author and CEO of Likable Local Dave Kerpen points out 11 simple concepts that every business leader can use to become a better leader. He emphasises that all of them are simple. “Yet, perhaps in the name of...