How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Turkey, Thailand, Argentina tops for crypto ownership rates

Cryptocurrency adoption continues growing on a global scale. In 2024, around 160-million people are expected to flock to crypto, causing the total number of users in the market to jump over 830-million. And, while most crypto users come from some of the biggest crypto...

Software, information services will lead European ICT spending

According to the Worldwide ICT Spending Guide Enterprise and SMB by Industry published by International Data Corporation (IDC), ICT spending in Europe will total $1,1-trillion in 2024 and will reach more than $1,3-trillion by 2027, recording a five-year (2022-2027)...

Global M&A activity increased by 48% in Q1

A total 8,823 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in Q1 2021, with a combined transaction value of $878-billion, according to GlobalData. This is a jump of 48% in deal value compared to Q1 2020. M&A activity recovered in the second half of 2020...

Young entrepreneurs take up the challenge

The Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge has come to an end after five weeks of gameplay which saw 7 535 Grade 8 - 12 learners across all nine provinces challenging their entrepreneurial skills. To set the scene, players were given a choice to pick an industry by...

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...

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