by Dianne Bayley | May 11, 2020 | Innovation
Businesses across South Africa are showing tenacity, innovation and real time digital disruption in the face of lockdown and its tiered, vague levels of protocol. Many are pivoting their business models to adapt to the current operating constraints. During this time...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 22, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Business continuity plans have become even more valuable as COVID-19 sweeps across the globe forcing us into social distancing and then a lockdown. Many companies have been, and are still, scrambling to find their feet to face this pandemic with no crisis...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 7, 2020 | Security and Legal
In business, handwritten signatures are required on nearly every document but in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak it has become almost impossible to obtain multiple original handwritten signatures on the same document. But the need to keep the economy going means...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 6, 2020 | Innovation
In these challenging times, it can be hard to think ahead, writes Helge Hess, Senior Vice President at Software AG. When companies operate in a state of emergency, they are affected in three sensitive areas: health and availability of employees, a decline in demand,...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 18, 2020 | Sustainability
Following the far-reaching address of 15 March 2020 by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the reality of dealing with COVID-19 has finally hit home to South Africans. With the country going into a shutdown as travel bans are imposed, schools closed and large...