Tag: data analytics

Brands taking communications entirely in-house may see short-term financial benefits, but long-term drawbacks are significant. The communications agency I have led for almost eight years is unusual in retaining clients for extended periods. Occasionally, we lose an account.

As essential services continue to digitise at an increasing rate, digital identity will remain central for businesses and governments. In many cases, digital identity is recognised as the first line of defense in protecting funds and data. As a result, business attitudes toward digital identity are evolving fast.

As technology accelerates and sustainability gains global attention, supply chain management is becoming a crucial driver of business success. In South Africa, unique challenges such as rising costs and resource constraints are inspiring innovation through digitisation and sustainability.

As more people move to urban areas, cities must become more efficient, sustainable, and liveable. Smart city initiatives lead this shift by leveraging advanced technologies to transform urban life.

While the property industry globally has traditionally been a laggard when it comes to the use of technology, focusing more attention on assets such as physical buildings rather than technology, this has rapidly changed. A growing number of businesses are now introducing technology platforms and solutions to enhance the client-tenant experience and to ensure more informed investment and property management decisions are made.

Global disruptions, economic uncertainty, and supply chain challenges have placed resilience at the forefront of boardroom agendas. One of the most effective ways for organisations to bolster resilience and enhance financial performance is by leveraging advanced data analytics.

Local government in South Africa faces challenges such as bureaucratic inefficiencies, lack of resources, and widespread corruption. These issues often hinder local government's ability to effectively meet the dire needs of the community.

Designing sales incentive programs for the motor retail industry - whether for your own sales force or a channel partner - presents several unique challenges due to the complexity and variability of the market. It’s a task requiring specialised skills and expertise in incentive and technology design that few businesses have in-house for either the development or ongoing management thereof.

With remote work firmly entrenched in our reality, employee self-service systems have become a game-changer, digitising and automating critical tasks to ease the administrative load on payroll and HR teams. These web or mobile-based platforms offer employees direct access to their personal HR information, enabling them to manage various aspects of their employment independently.

We are acutely aware of the challenges posed by recent minimum wage increases mandated by the South African government. While the intention behind these increases is to improve the livelihoods of minimum wage earners, the reality is that they often create a complex web of consequences, particularly in industries like contract cleaning.