As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

AR/VR headsets surged during the holiday season

As macroeconomic pressures eased and new products launched, the global market for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets grew 130,4% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23), according to new data from the International Data Corporation...

Digital signage market to rise to $45bn

The global digital signage market size is predicted to attain $45,94-billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market is expected to witness a CAGR of 8,1% over the forecast period owing to increasing demand from end-use industries, which...

Smaller companies fuel growth in wearables

The appetite for wearable devices remained strong in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) even as volumes retreated from record fourth quarter levels. According to new data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, companies shipped a total of 104,6-million...

Orchid sexually exploits male beetles – a world first from Africa

Dr Callan Cohen, a research associate of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, has discovered a world pollination first: an orchid that sexually exploits longhorn beetles. The near-extinct Disa forficaria, known from a...

Resellers cry foul as SITA confirms tender exclusions

By Kathy Gibson – A group of resellers is crying foul over the State IT Agency (SITA)’s handling of the ongoing RFB0740 tender controversy. Having won what appeared to be a commitment to address their grievances yesterday morning, events in the afternoon seem to have...

Balance risk management and productivity when using RPA

As robotic process automation (RPA) moves from the testing phase to full adoption in most finance departments, controllers must optimise their governance processes to balance risk management processes without stifling the productivity that the technology provides,...

Firms should shelve NPS as customer service measure

By 2025, more than 75% of organisations will have abandoned Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a measure of success for customer service and support, according to Gartner. Customer service and support leaders should move now to build the case to remove NPS from...

Africa urgently needs 20m vaccine doses

Africa needs at least 20-million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the eight to 12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A single dose of...

Discovering Africa’s top technology innovators

For the first time, future-shapers from all 55 African Union member states now have the chance to participate in the largest independent startup ecosystem-driven competition in the world with the opening of nominations for the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa. The...

Companies must reinvent their employee value proposition

To attract and retain talent, HR leaders must evolve their employee value proposition (EVP) to provide a more human deal that centres on the whole person, according to Gartner. Employers must redesign their EVP to deliver employees a life experience - not just an...

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