Aug 27, 2020
Organisations using personal data in artificial intelligence applications need to manage it carefully to ensure they remain compliant with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). By Leanne Mostert, a partner, and Wendy Tembedza, a senior associate at...
Aug 21, 2020
While South Africa navigates its way through lockdown measures and confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases now head towards 600 000, this is a time to take stock and act. By Hamilton Ratshefola, country GM at IBM South Africa Many industries can use this time to realign...
Aug 19, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen businesses in every industry rushing to send their employees home to work remotely. In fact, the common maxim today is that staying online as a result of the pandemic will likely become a permanent feature of corporate culture in the...
Aug 18, 2020
With the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus forcing industry leaders to rethink traditional human capital deployment and the use of manual labour, emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and automation are coming into sharper focus. By...
Aug 17, 2020
Many companies mistakenly believe that deploying cloud-enabled solutions or digitalising documents and feeding them into revamped workflows ticks the digital transformation box. They couldn’t be more wrong. By Gerrit Olivier, founder and CEO of About IT Digital...
Aug 11, 2020
The ‘new normal’ has supplanted digital transformation as the phrase of choice in business today. Of course, this is not without its merits, considering that the Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the operating environment. Relying on the network...