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...

Themes to watch at COP28

Just days away from this year's United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 28 meeting, what's clear is that that global energy systems will need to achieve historic and unprecedented levels of innovation to redress climate change and meet the world's energy needs....

Webb reveals new features in the heart of the Milky Way

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300...

Covid-19 plays havoc with gig economy

The pandemic has had a potentially-devastating effect on workers in the gig economy. This is according to "The Digital Hustle: Gig Worker Financial Lives Under pressure", a report from fintech investor Flourish that shwos the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the...

Covid-19 threatens women’s workplace gains

Decades of work and hard-won gains into achieving gender equality in the labour market in South Africa could be derailed by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a research paper by the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit...

Digitalisation brings new compliance risks

There are major risks associated with digitalisation, with 41% of respondents in a new survey admitting their organisation has already experienced enforcement investigations by regulators because of technology that was poorly on-boarded and/or implemented. According...

Robotic process automation demystified

Robotic process automation (RPA) is expected to be one of the hot trends in 2021, as organisations across the globe look to gain competitive advantage. Automation has the potential to streamline business processes, freeing up time, money and talent, while ensuring...

AR/VR spend on growth trajectory

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to accelerate out of the pandemic, growing from just over $12.-billion this year to $72,8-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Augmented and...

SA’s bargain hunters will hit the Black Friday sales

A massive 70% of South African adults will be shopping Black Friday and other festive sales days this year. A Finder.com survey of 1 524 South African adults reveals that 70%, which equates to around 27-million people, are planning to shop the festive sales this year...

Building skills top 2021 priority for HR

Building critical skills and competencies is the number one priority for HR leaders in 2021. Gartner's HR Priorities Survey, conducted from June through August 2020, found the other top HR priorities for 2021 are: organisational design and change management (46%);...

Xeon powers new Ruby supercomputer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will leverage Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Ruby, its latest high performance computing cluster. The Ruby system will be used for unclassified programmatic work in support of the National Nuclear Security...

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