Tag: senior management

In 2020, the National Treasury published for public comment a draft Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill, as an update of its draft two years earlier. This 2020 draft bill aims, ambitiously, at revising the separate laws which regulate the conduct of financial institutions of all kinds, be they banks, insurers, pension funds or medical schemes; and which regulate the conduct of providers of financial advisory, administration or payment services.

On 1 February 2024, new Draft Regulations were released, containing new Draft Sectoral Targets, and unpacking what businesses need to consider when setting goals. The public now has 90 days from release to comment on the draft.

Since the dawn of the computational age, human beings have pursued the creation of machine intelligence. In fact, the question of what that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would look like and how it would impact our lives and the world around us has even been explored in our entertainment media – from the idyllic futuristic world of technological marvels in Star Trek on one end of the spectrum to the more pessimistic apocalyptic future of The Terminator on the other.

The Department of Employment and Labour has officially launched the 23rd Annual Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) Report and the Public Register. This year's report, released on June 23, reveals a continued pattern of slow progress in achieving employment equity goals over the past two decades.

In the healthcare landscape, innovation reigns supreme. However, despite the joint efforts of vendors and partners to deliver exceptional service and solutions, the industry continues to grapple with resource shortages. In 2022, we commissioned a survey to assess the significance of innovation among healthcare players.

Since President Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill into law on 12 April 2023, there has been significant commentary - from positive to strongly negative - of the impact the amendments may have. Much of it has referred to Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) changes when there have in fact not been any amendments in terms of B-BBEE.

There are various reasons why a company might want to comply with ISO 27001, with some looking to provide assurances to customers and partners that they are aligned with international best practices. Others want to show that they promote organisational improvement for regulatory reasons.

Equal female representation in senior management and executive positions has been a longstanding area of focus within the corporate sector. We have long maintained that the first and most important step towards resolving the gender pay gap is equal gender representation within senior positions.

It can be a challenge to get your technology infrastructure transformation on the agenda in the boardroom. Often there are other, higher profile transformations or issues that demand focus, for example adapting to new ways of working. So how can you compete for attention?

One year after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, CEOs are voicing record levels of optimism in the global economic recovery, with 76% of global business leaders predicting that economic growth will improve in 2021. Coming off of a global recession (3.5% decline in world GDP) and a GDP contraction of 7% in SA, a record share of CEOs are optimistic about global economic growth this year.