Tag: productivity
Are profit and sustainability mutually exclusive?
The world’s population is predicted to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050 and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that we will need to produce 60% more food to feed everyone, a huge increase that will undoubtedly take its toll on the planet.
Hybrid, but how? Confusion around the most asked office question this...
The hybrid worker of 2023 is recognised as very different from the pre-pandemic office worker - but how to manage the hybrid workspace is the number one question asked of. How to get the hybrid work model right is causing confusion in South African workplaces this year.
BOOK REVIEW | Meditation for Business
A full-colour, illustrated step-by-step guide to more than 60 techniques that can be used to release stress and anxiety, improve productivity and problem-solving, enhance listening skills and interpersonal relationships, and increase the quality of one’s work-life.
The key skills developed in a learnership
Daring to dream is the greatest skill that a learnership can teach. South Africa faces a unique dilemma – we have the highest youth unemployment in the world, yet there is a shortage of skilled people to fill positions in many sectors. Businesses want workers who can hit the ground running, yet matriculants don’t have the skills or the understanding of the work environment to make the required impact.
Procurement as a service
In 2021, the global procurement as a service market was valued at approximately US$ 6.3 billion. Given that the market has a projected compound annual growth rate of 7% for the next 10 years, experts forecast that the market is likely to reach a valuation of US$13.3 billion by the end of 2032.
I believe that South Africa will begin to turn the corner...
Later today I will go to the local bookshop where I will buy an unreasonably priced moleskin notebook and a gel-based pen. My wife will roll her eyes, thinking of the half-used ones I have back home, but she will not attempt to talk me out of doing it. Because this is a yearly ritual that assists me to focus, plan, introspect and execute.
Post Pandemic Chronicles – the transformative power of the epiphany
Amidst the disruptive changes brought on by industry 4.0, the past two years has seen the world being faced with the worst global pandemic in just over a century - plunging both individuals and organisations into a state of chaos, uncertainty and instability whilst radically reshaping life as we knew it.
Improving company culture in a post-COVID-19 work environment
The workplace as we used to know it, is no more. The outbreak of COVID-19 saw to that by forcing many companies to send employees home - often with a laptop, and a prayer that this too shall pass.
Recommendations to become a data-driven business using technology
Every organisation and industry is transforming. All are striving to move faster, become smarter with data and innovate more with technology. You’ve heard it everywhere, especially during the last few years: digital transformation is a must-have.
COP27 – Recognising the value of hybrid working to the planet’s...
As recently as September, scientists were highlighting the imminent risk that, even at the current 1˚C level of global warming, at least five environmental ‘tipping points’ are likely to be passed – from the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets to a massive die-off of tropical coral reefs.