Business benefits of the gig economy

Business benefits of the gig economy

The digital age has seen smaller businesses compete effectively with their bigger counterparts thanks to business agility. This buzzword refers to the ability to adapt and respond to the rapid rate of change in today’s business environment. Smaller businesses have the...
Disruptive technology appeals to millennials

Disruptive technology appeals to millennials

Business, as we have known it, has been disrupted by technology. According to property magnate and co-founder of an online trading portal Quoin Online, Wayne van der Vent, “It’s the future consumer we need to think about.” It took around two years to get the portal...
8 tips for entrepreneurs to conquer the world

8 tips for entrepreneurs to conquer the world

By Ivan Epstein, President for Sage International (Africa, Australia, Middle East and Asia) and Chairman of Sage Foundation. I recently had the honour of speaking to Executive MBA students from the University of Columbia when they visited Cape Town, South Africa for a...
Telcos shift focus to customer experience

Telcos shift focus to customer experience

It’s no longer enough for telecommunications companies to focus only on their networks. To compete effectively in the new world, they are going to have to pay a lot more attention to the full customer experience. Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei MEA Service...
B2B key to MTN growth in Africa

B2B key to MTN growth in Africa

MTN has been in the news a lot lately – not always for reasons the company might like – but among the less-reported news is the fact that MTN Business, which looks after the company’s high-value enterprise customers, has been quietly changing and growing to tackle a...