Tag: digital
The Forensic Defence
No one should get away with fraud. Information that is carefully hidden or deleted can be identified and disclosed!
From intentionally erased emails to deleted...
Retail Beacons Merge Mobile to Store
You know what shoppers are doing online – but do you know what they are doing in-store?
Consumers are increasingly using digital technology to assist...
Technology-led or soon-to-be-dead?
The future of business is in the cloud.
That is the message from global analysts as the latest IT sales figures show a marked shift away from hardware. The shift to cloud services and other Digital Business solutions has slashed Gartner's global IT spending growth forecasts by half: a cut of $67bn for this year alone, with data centre growth predicted at a modest 0.3% in 2017.
ROBOTS – our partners or our overlords?
This week (25 May 2017) at BotCon in Cape Town, South African developers and enterprises will showcase some of the ways they’re putting the newest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to work.
Some of the latest developments are a little scary, especially for those who have grown up with rogue AI and robots in science fiction or have read the headlines about how we will lose millions of jobs worldwide to automation by 2020.
Market mobile for Africa!
Mobile is outpacing traditional marketing channels. It is happening now! Should marketers adopt this medium?
Given the mobile phone’s central role in people’s lives, it’s worth asking whether brands and agencies in Africa are investing enough in mobile advertising and marketing.
THE DIGITAL AGE – Does the law require amendment?
Technology is advancing much more quickly than most people anticipated even a decade ago.
This begs the question as to whether or not our social, economic and political institutions and structures are equipped, or have developed sufficiently, to deal with the ethical and legal challenges that these advancements have brought and are ever more rapidly bringing.
How to safeguard business in the cybercrime era?
As the world has become more connected, so too it has become more vulnerable.
As more data is regularly exchanged between employees, clients, and suppliers as well as families and friends - using technologies that were designed to share information, not to protect it - we must realise that there is a greater need for more human involvement and understanding when it comes to the use of technology.
HARNESSING DIGITAL INNOVATION TO ENABLE SMART SUPPLY CHAINS
Across every sphere of business and manufacturing, new digital tools, systems and platforms are upending traditional strategies and approaches.
Fuelled by powerful software systems and smart apps, the digital era is forcing business leaders to adapt and embrace more agile ways of operating. Within global supply chains, digitisation is already disrupting businesses.
IoT AND SMART CITIES: CRITICAL NECESSITY WITH PROFOUND BENEFITS
Along with the rest of the world, South Africa is in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, in which the smart use of information and technology is reshaping societies.
One of the most apparent ways in which this is happening can be seen is in the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), where smart, connected devices are being deployed in cities and industries globally, to gather data and glean contextual insights which are used to achieve higher levels of efficiency, productivity and utilization of scarce and natural resources.
African Fears for the Rise of the Machine
Many African businesses are grappling with the challenges posed by digitalisation as fears mount of the "rise of the machine” and its consequent impact on jobs and growth.
However, this myopic view of the future comes with a significant risk as it overlooks the real economic value that digitally driven industry initiatives will bring to growth, development, jobs and society at large.