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...

AI set to take on cancer diagnostics

The global AI in cancer diagnostics market size is expected to reach $996,1-million by 2030, growing at 26,3% CAGR from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The increasing need for lowering healthcare costs, the rising importance of big data...

Big data, cloud computing, AI take centre stage

More than 75% of businesses are expected to embrace big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within the next five years. StockApps' financial analyst Edith Reads comments: "These emerging technologies have become essential elements in...

Culture and its role in the future enterprise

By 2024, leaders in 50% of organisations on the Forbes' Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies will have mastered "future of culture" traits such as empathy, empowerment, innovation, and customer and data centricity to achieve leadership at scale....

Hardcopy peripherals up almost 1%

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market saw its overall shipment value grow 0,9% year over year to approximately $11,9-billion in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19). Unit shipments during the quarter declined 5,4% to 25,3-million, according to the International...

Will the Budget herald new tax hikes?

If Finance Minister Tito Mboweni announces significant changes to individual taxes during his Budget speech on February 26 it could have wide-ranging implications for South Africa's heavily burdened tax base. By Errol Meyer, legal specialist: advisory propositions at...

Adapt IT announces increased revenue

Adapt IT has reported a revenue increase of 10% to R721-million for the six months ended 31 December 2019. Organic revenue declined by 1% and acquisitive growth was 11%. Annuity revenue remains healthy and an improvement on the previous reporting period to 60%, from...

DevOps set to gain wider recognition

International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced the release of IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2020 Predictions -- China Implications (January 2020). The new IDC paper puts forward ten developer and DevOps market predictions for 2020 with a specific...

Budget 2020: navigating a challenging path

The challenges facing the South African  economy are well documented, and perhaps larger than any faced in the post-democratic history of the country. Over the last five years SA has experienced one of the weakest average growth rates in per capita gross domestic...

Drones enlisted to help fight China’s Covid-19 outbreak

Since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, the new COVID-19 coronavirus has spread around the world. As of yesterday (20 February), the death toll in mainland China was 2 121, with 74 675 confirmed cases. As the outbreak grew, so did public...

Outdated ideas that harm your digital business

UK grocery chain Tesco generates $150-million in supply chain efficiencies via analytics. Oil and gas giant BP saves $7-billion a year with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. Hershey saves $500 000 per batch of candy with machine learning and IoT. These examples of...

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IT Infrastructure Manager at Parvana Recruitment

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