Keen to discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is set to shake up the retail space, IBM surveyed 1 900 retail and consumer product representatives across 23 countries. What they found was that the adoption of intelligent automation technologies within the retail industry is only set to increase. The focus of the IBM study was toRead more
In 2017, a roundtable hosted by local industry experts highlighted various concerns around the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in South Africa. Everything from data quality, data privacy, workforce readiness and re-skilling, as well as potential job losses was discussed. With these pitfalls in mind, what steps can developing nations, like SA, take to prepare forRead more
Ikigai is a Japanese term that means “a reason for being”. The concept is all about finding your source of value or the things that make your life worthwhile. When reading up about Ikigai, the concept made me think a lot about how to incorporate your values and purpose into your approach to leadership. ForRead more
Forbes equate the hype around cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to the launch of the internet some thirty years ago. Describing the rise of the internet as the greatest technology revolution since the industrial revolution, they describe the combination of cloud, IoT and AI as “driving opportunity and threatRead more
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the answer to the question: how are start-ups able to build products so much faster these days? Typically, the financial sector is sceptical about new technology. But various market changes – from growing customer expectations and digital disruption to the rise of new competitors – are putting more and more pressureRead more
Want to be a better leader? The first person you need to lead is yourself. Taking the time to look inward and really reflect on where you could make improvements isn’t easy. In fact, I wrote about a similar topic just last month when I spoke about our fear of feedback. You can read it,Read more
The next evolution in high performance business We’ve been talking about High Performance business for quite some time. In 2016, we outlined the four steps every business should take to create a high performance telecoms environment. In 2017, our second high performance white paper, High Performance 2.0, we introduced the new world of business andRead more
For developing countries, Industry 4.0 is about creating appropriate levels of automation and digitisation in order to achieve flexibility and productivity. But also taking into accounting the socio-economic context and the local traditions and skills of the people living in that region. It is also known as the ‘fourth industrial revolution’. But it is notRead more
The world has changed. And the reality is that digital has changed it. To contextualise the rate of change, consider that the human race took over 8 000 years to move from the agricultural revolution to the first industrial revolution. And it has taken a mere 50 years for us to move from the thirdRead more
Back in May 2017, Microsoft first announced that it planned to build two Azure cloud data centres in South Africa. One in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town, these facilities were expected to open their doors at some point during 2018. But December 31 came and went. MS missed their self-imposed deadline and the localRead more
