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...

More shakeups for VMware partners

Broadcom’s shakeup of VMware’s partners continues: after giving partners notice that the existing partner programme will terminate in February, the company has now also put VMware Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) on notice. CSPs have received communications telling them...

Supply chain organisations plan to go big on GenAI

Half of supply chain leaders plan to implement generative AI (GenAI) in the next 12 months, with an additional 14% already in the implementation stage, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey data also showed that chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) are...

What does SA’s eroding income tax base mean for SARS?

Over the course of lockdown, pundits have shared some harrowing statistics regarding the increase in unemployment in South Africa. By Jean du Toit, head of tax technical at Tax Consulting SA In general, our unemployment rates are moving in the wrong direction and the...

Chief data officers key to companies’ success

By 2023, Gartner predicts that 50% of chief digital officers without a chief data officer (CDO) peer will need to become the de facto CDO to succeed. The 2021 Gartner board of directors survey found that 69% of boards of directors have accelerated their digital...

Wear flip flops for CHOC

Childhood cancer is a frightening diagnosis that no parent should ever have to deal with. But, unfortunately, it is a reality that many families across South Africa have to come to terms with on a daily basis. These families are facing the toughest battle they will...

2021 innovation will set the tone for the 21st century

As the Covid-19 crisis redefines how economies and society as a whole function, human ingenuity has sparked a wave of innovation set to be the blueprint for the decades to come. Accenture's Fjord Trends 202, the fourteenth in a series of annual reports from Accenture...

What are the risks facing SA and the world?

A trio of Covid-19 related risks heads up the 10th Allianz Risk Barometer 2021, reflecting potential disruption and loss scenarios companies are facing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Business interruption (number one, with 41% responses) and pandemic...

SA’s SMEs embrace digitalisation

In just a matter of months, the Covid-19 pandemic struck the world at the speed of light. Most businesses weren't prepared and were forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges in order to continue with business operations -while battling to stay afloat. In South...

How the pandemic affects staff working from home

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected many companies, but small businesses have suffered more than others. According to numerous research findings, in some countries, up to 90% of small companies have experienced a negative impact from the pandemic, such as drops in...

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