Mar 12, 2013
About 500 businesses have submitted comment to the DTI’s proposed revised BEE codes released in October 2012. Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE, a BEE advisory firm, says the radical ideas in the proposed codes and lack of communication from the DTI left businesses...
Feb 22, 2013
The advent of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Bill, which is set to be enacted this year, will change the way companies have to approach data handling strategies, processes and procedures. As computers have increasingly become part of users’...
Feb 8, 2013
There are 10 basic, yet important steps to building a business case for data governance.Within each step are a number of best practices that define the level of programme success, failure or mediocrity. These steps involve strategy development, value identification,...
Jan 24, 2013
Data governance may be the most talked about yet elusive prize in the data management space. It is highly coveted by people who work with data because practitioners know the mission-critical role governance plays in achieving desired data outcomes, says Jim Orr,...
Jan 24, 2013
A majority of businesses have or are considering using Facebook pages to promote their companies. Many of them resort to tactics such as bribery, encouraging users to ‘like their page” in order to enter a competition or win a prize. The aim is to either...
