Tag: innovation
Engineering sector held back by lack of entrepreneurial skills
South Africa’s engineering sector is being held back by universities’ inability to teach entrepreneurial skills and breed a new generation of innovators and business...
Rise of the Machines!
How is AI changing the world as we know it? Imagine a world ruled by robots, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to wield commercial influence and drive our daily decisions. Imagine if your every move was predictable, your behaviours easily anticipated, your world reduced to a set of probabilities.
Your trusted handshake!
Combatting identity theft, hacking, intellectual property theft, counterfeiting, fraud, espionage and harassment is critical in todays times.
The Digital Age has shrunk our world, bringing...
Innovation lessons from an aspiring Martian?
Dr Adriana Marais | Head of Innovation | SAP Africa | mail me |
For theoretical physicist and aspiring Martian, Dr Adriana Marais, a chance meeting...
IT Strategy is now C-Suit
Ask a CIO where IT Strategy sits within an organisation, and you’ll likely receive the answer “in IT”. Yet, this may no longer be...
The Disrupting Digital PA?
Bruce von Maltitz | Co-founder and Joint CEO | 1Stream | bruce@1Stream.co.za | www.1stream.co.za |
Where do humans fit in a world of digital personal assistants?
The fourth...
FEATURE – THE INNOVATOR
THE INNOVATOR is a person or organisation that drives innovation and can be defined simply as a new idea, process or product. INNOVATION can be viewed as the application of improved solutions through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models. ENTREPRENEURS & SMEs drive innovation by their use of inventive ideas, processes and products. Innovation is their catalyst for business growth.
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.
