Big data to transform African development

Jul 16, 2015

IBM’s Africa research lab has partnered with RTI International to deploy big data analytics and cognitive technologies to help transform development approaches in Africa and around the world. In one of the first projects, IBM and RTI are developing and testing...

What CIOs must know about Agile development

Jul 6, 2015

CIOs are under pressure to support fast-evolving digital business scenarios but are finding traditional project and development methods unsuitable, according to Gartner. Enterprises are increasingly turning to Agile development to speed up projects and illustrate their value. Nathan Wilson, research director at Gartner, says that executed well, use of agile methods has the capability to transform IT-business relationships and have a major positive impact on IT value delivery.

Broadband development crucial for SA

Jun 10, 2015

It is widely accepted that knowledge, innovation and technological advancement have replaced physical resources and labour capacity as the key drivers of economic growth across the world. However, for any economy to fully achieve, and benefit from this shift to...

Learning, development beats training, HR

May 15, 2015

By virtue of the fact that learning and development (L&D) functions in the education, training and development (ETD) sector, many believe that its role purely relates to training facilitators and human resource departments, says Mark Orpen, CEO of The Institute of...

SA’s data centres are in development

Mar 16, 2015

Data centres have for years been known to be excessive consumers of power, consuming up to 3% of all global electricity production, and roughly ten times more per square metre than the average office. Previously, energy efficiency wouldn’t necessarily be at the top of...