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Globalisation is a continuing reality, but certain of its effects are increasingly coming under widespread attack and scrutiny. Just this year, Britain voted to leave the EU, the right-leaning US President Trump threatened to...

Only a small percentage of South African businesses have reached their potential level of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) compliancy, making the rest increasingly vulnerable to blacklisting by parastatals and the corporate sector, says...

SA’s top executives are confident that they will be fairly compensated – in terms of 2016 year-end bonuses and salary increases in 2017 - despite the current political and economic rollercoaster in which South Africa finds itself.

Sales and marketing have been playing broken telephone. Traditionally, marketing campaigns ended with delivering leads to client – and that’s where the action stopped. Little was known about the status of the leads –...

The DTI’s announcement on Friday last week to temporarily extend the automatic recognition period for the controversial "Empowering Supplier” status requirement is a welcome relief to many large organisations, which have been battling to...

by Douglas Kruger ‘Thinking like a poor person will keep you poor. Thinking like a wealthy person will make you wealthy. I would like to show you exactly what the differences between the two ways...

Aimed at promoting the highest standards of corporate governance in South Africa, the King Report on Corporate Governance (King I) was published by the King Committee on Corporate Governance in 1994. Integrating a Code...

With the increase of Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) in organisations, effective strategies should be put in place to ensure that employees understand mobile device management policies and the organisation benefits from mobilising the...

Every Small & Medium Business should be aiming to have some savings in the bank as a buffer for difficult months when sales are slow or debtors miss payments. If your business has some...

Managing your organisation’s reputation, regardless of industry, is a key component of effective corporate governance and – if poorly handled – can adversely affect your bottom line.