Starting an SME: Two things I wish I had known

Starting an SME: Two things I wish I had known

By Steven Cohen, Head of Sage One International (Africa, Australia, Middle East and Asia) One of the questions other entrepreneurs most often ask me is what I wish I had known when we first started the Pastel business in 1990. Looking back over the past 26 years, I...
Give employees reasons to stay

Give employees reasons to stay

By Ronnie Toerien, Oracle ECEMEA spokesperson for human capital management Winning over and retaining the best talent has never been easy, but employers are now finding it harder than ever to find people with the right skills to fill key vacancies. If businesses are...
Data availability key to attracting talent

Data availability key to attracting talent

By Gregg Petersen Technological innovation and the emergence of the millennial generation are closely entwined. Few superlatives can accurately sum up the sheer extent to which technology has fundamentally altered the way we live and work, both as consumers and...
Happiness as your company culture

Happiness as your company culture

Richard Branson once said; “There is no magic formula for a great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated”. Something so simple, yet so complex when it comes to staff interaction in this day and age. Liane McGowan, Founder...