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...

Most South Africans struggle with workplace stress

A massive 85% of South Africans grapple with stress at their jobs - but that only 39% of employees find their wellbeing programmes "fairly effective". This is according to a new survey by insuretech YuLife and IPSOS, which shares that another 32% of respondents found...

Intel showcases scientific supercomputers

Intel has showcased AI-accelerated high performance computing (HPC) with leadership performance for HPC and AI workloads across Intel Data Centre GPU Max Series, Intel Gaudi2 AI accelerators and Intel Xeon processors. In partnership with Argonne National Laboratory,...

Standard Bank, Mastercard, Google help SMEs open digital doors

As SMEs accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to the pandemic, today Standard Bank, Mastercard and Google announced a collaboration to help them move their businesses online, accept digital payments and attract more customers. Through the...

Cloud opportunities to drive $1trn market

The Covid-19 pandemic has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and extension and will continue to drive a faster conversion to cloud-centric IT. According to a new whole cloud forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), total worldwide...

Second wave of Covid is top emerging risk

Senior executives continued to focus intensely on a second wave of coronavirus infections around the globe and the implications for managing work as a result. In its Emerging Risks Monitor Report, Gartner surveyed 119 senior executives across most industries and...

Ransomware attacks cause lasting damage

Organisations are never the same after being hit by ransomware. In particular, the confidence of IT managers and their approach to battling cyberattacks differ significantly depending on whether or not their organisation has been attacked by ransomware. For instance,...

Most projects bomb out in development

According to new research commissioned by Kaspersky, 92% of heads of innovations in enterprises in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region admit that their projects often fail before they are launched. Many of these innovations don't even make it past development...

How HR can increase leadership diversity

Despite deliberate effort to increase diversity, organisations continue to struggle with achieving diverse leadership benches, according to Gartner. To increase diversity in leadership, HR must ensure greater diversity in the leadership pipeline and successor talent...

Nokia to build first ever cellular network on the Moon

Nokia has been named by NASA as a partner to advance "Tipping Point" technologies for the Moon, deploying the first LTE/4G communications system in space and helping pave the way towards sustainable human presence on the lunar surface. Nokia Bell Labs' systems will be...

Get Workload Agile at Dell Technologies Forum 2020

Overnight the pace of digital transformation accelerated, and business accomplished in a few short months what normally would have taken years. Organisations who fast tracked their transformation outperformed their peers and are better prepared for what’s next. By...

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