by Dianne Bayley | Jun 15, 2021 | Innovation
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will never happen in South Africa unless literally millions of the country’s people can cross the digital divide before it becomes impossibly wide. This is the view of Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, founder of mobiLearn, who believes that...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 14, 2021 | Workplace 2020
There has been a heightened interest in attracting Millennials to manufacturing. Besides the need to attract young, digitally-savvy talent to the industry, baby boomers are starting to retire in masses, writes Terence Moolman, Chief Human Resources Officer at SYSPRO....
by Dianne Bayley | May 26, 2021 | Workplace 2020
The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is not an event, it is an evolution in efficiency, writes Insaaf Daniels, Human Capital Business Partner at redPanda Software. Much like the first, second and third industrial revolutions, it already has – and will continue to –...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 23, 2021 | Workplace 2020
According to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA), small businesses have been growing steadily from generating 16% of total turnover in the formal business sector in 2013 to 22% in 2019. At the same time, the contribution of large business waned, from 75% to 68%. Says...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 7, 2021 | Innovation
Glenn Gillis, CEO of Sea Monster, says the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is gearing up to be the largest, fastest and most difficult vaccination programme in history. No issue in our time has ever been as politicised as the COVID-19 crisis, and many experts...