by Dianne Bayley | Aug 19, 2020 | Sustainability
While key areas such as advancing and retaining female employees have shown some progress over the past few years, there is more work to be done in other areas such as equal access to leadership roles. This is according to Mercer’s When Women Thrive 2020, Sub-Saharan...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 4, 2020 | Security and Legal
In an exclusive interview with Finbold.com, Heimdal Security Chief Executive Officer Morten Kjaersgaard has stated that cybercrime is now a profession. He pointed out that in the next year, cybercrime will be a major trend in the online security sector. He noted that...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 1, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Over the past 20 years, the human attention span has rapidly decreased from 12 seconds to eight seconds, according to a Microsoft study. A short attention span has huge implications on how effectively an individual retains information. And it impacts an organisation’s...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 27, 2020 | Innovation
Africa has complex and unique business opportunities. Harvard Business School professors are launching a new online course to teach entrepreneurs how to build scalable businesses designed to solve core problems in Africa. Unlike other business courses, this one...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 21, 2020 | Innovation
One of the fastest-growing countries in the world when it comes to IT spend, South Africa is currently embracing a new, transformative reality: cloud computing, writes Byron Clatterbuck, SEACOM CEO. With many employees still working from home and more remote meetings...