Tag: Oracle South Africa

You cannot pour for others unless your own jug is full - is a simple metaphor I use to describe my attitude toward mental health in the workplace after I went for therapy to help me manage stress which is something that would have been seen as taboo a couple of decades ago.

Business resilience remains one of the most important and relevant ways for organisations to bypass legacy challenges and to explore new opportunities. The recent months have likely been the biggest challenge for all organisations across the continent.

As 2020 fast approaches, we reflect on having survived a year where HR has been flooded with information on how their jobs and those of employees will change. Technology continues to take a foot hold in our everyday work lives; the new way of work has become the way we work.

Digital innovation is accelerating in South Africa - from call centres using chatbots and automatic transcription to improve customer service, to financial advisors harnessing machine learning and data analytics, rapidly matching client and solution, and emerging use cases of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and AR/VR training in the mining and manufacturing sectors.  

When Tim Berners-Lee declared data to be the “new raw material of the 21st century” back in 2011, he was perfectly describing the direction many economies were heading in - from industry to insights and intelligence. But in the six years since, data has defied the economic principles that many commodities adhere to: unlike other raw materials, the more plentiful the data the more valuable it becomes. It is coveted like precious metals and valued accordingly for its power to drive the insights that help transform businesses.