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...

The cost of supply chain resilience

Resilience in supply chains remains vital but may prove too expensive for many firms. In the new report, S&P Global Market Intelligence's supply chain analysts highlighted the continuing need to build supply chain resilience in 2024 is clashing with reduced...

More collaboration, specialisation from cybercriminals

New findings from Trellix's CyberThreat Report: November 2023 from its Advanced Research Centre indicates that collaboration is taking place between ransomware groups and nation-state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. They are believed to be adopting and...

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...

What does the future hold for hearables?

The first electric hearing aid was created in 1898 and was arguably among the earliest examples of wearable tech. So it is fitting that more than a century later, on- and in-ear technology is once again leading the way - this time as hearables, a sector now poised for...

Search is on for Earthshot winners

Over 100 nominating partners worldwide will begin searching for the first winners of The Earthshot Prize, as nominations open today (1st November) Five, one million-pound prizes will be awarded each year for the next 10 years, providing at least 50 solutions to the...

Employee misconduct influenced by career moments

A 2020 Gartner survey of 1 000 employees in March revealed that they are facing a greatly increased frequency of "career moments", resulting in increased incidences of employee misconduct and more negative perceptions of corporate integrity. "A 'career moment' is a...

Large, deep Antarctic ozone hole persisting into November

Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today. The annual Antarctic ozone hole...

AI-driven virtual agents drive customer satisfaction and savings

As many organisations across the world look to digital tools to help address surges in customer inquiries due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new IBM study reveals that 99% of respondents report an increase in customer satisfaction as a result of using AI-driven virtual...

Huawei void leaves opportunity for rivals in China

The smartphone market in mainland China declined 8% sequentially, and 15% annually, to 83-million units in the third quarter of 2020. Huawei, while still the leader, saw its volume decline in China for the first time, shipping only 34,2-million units during the...

Intel boosts AI portfolio with SigOpt acquisition

Intel has announced it is to acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimisation of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt's AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across...

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