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CE3 brings renewable to KZN district

Jul 21, 2016

The CE3 programme serves as a catalyst for local economic development in these rural communities, strengthening existing businesses, creating employment, and building new businesses.

Firms alarmingly unprepared for hacks

Jul 12, 2016

As cyber criminals move away from the ‘spray and pray approach’ to more focused and targeted attacks, visibility and scrubbed traffic become essential components of a security strategy for protecting businesses.

Executive pay must be linked to value creation

Jul 6, 2016

Getting the link between executive pay and performance right is extremely difficult. The Institute of Directors in Southern Africa’s Remuneration Committee Forum shares some insights . . .

Brexit: Gartner suggests CIO strategy

Jul 6, 2016

Planning, not knee-jerking: CIOs should create a small task force or 'Office of the Brexit' to examine key capabilities and plan for eventual changes and impacts in various areas throughout their companies.

Allianz aims for digital transformation

Jul 4, 2016

In traditional insurance models, companies sold products. Today,customers can compare products and pick what they want; and not be forced to buy what they don’t want.

African fintech is disruptive, unstoppable

Jun 29, 2016

"Financial services are very market specific. It is vital for up-and-coming fintech businesses to understand the system they are looking to disrupt." ~ Dominique Collett, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings

Business analyst: Storyteller and statistician

Jun 27, 2016

"Business analysts are often ‘translators'; taking the business problem, analysing and understanding it, and then translating that into a very clear software development project." ~ Neil Truman, redPanda Software

White-collar crimes alive and well

Jun 27, 2016

Panama Papers: As more details emerge, there is a clear and significant take-out from this scandal – that white collar crimes are alive and well. So, how do you manage them?

Algorithmic analysis promotes innovation

Jun 23, 2016

"The interesting thing about business intelligence and using self-correcting analytics algorithms is that you don’t know what you don’t know." ~ Jayne Landry, global vice-president & GM at SAP Business Intelligence.

Social drives greater need for analytics

Jun 14, 2016

What will happen to businesses that fail to evolve their customer experience into a proactive and social one? By the time they realise they’ve made a mistake, it will already be too late.

How can IT deliver on business needs?

Jun 9, 2016

Kathy Gibson reported from IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Rosebank – Whether CIOs acknowledge it or not, the proliferation of smartphones is having a fundamental impact on their IT planning, and they are having to rethink how they deliver applications. Today,...

Framework for balanced cyber risk decisions

Jun 9, 2016

Cyber risk is a critical issue in today’s organisations, touching aspects of business risk, regulation and technology says David Walter, GM: global GRC at RSA. Here's why . . .

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