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By Aasiyah Adams, founder of Abaguquli4IR Exacerbated by work-from-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic and notwithstanding the return-to-office push of a few companies, the penetration of remote and hybrid work across the majority of blue-collar businesses has created a new way of working. Coupled with rapid innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), […]
...By Amritesh Anand, Practise Lead for Unified Communication at In2IT Technologies Manufacturing is the fourth-largest industry in South Africa, contributing 14% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to Stats SA. With the rise of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), however, manufacturing needs to focus on creating and implementing IT-based solutions if it is to […]
...Adri Führi, Group CFO at Fintech specialist e4, says 4IR and the rate of technological change presents a unique challenge for CFOs who have the complex task of ensuring alignment between finance and the entire organisation on the road to digital transformation. There has been much talk about the role 4IR will play in digital transformation. In […]
...With few exceptions, almost every company will be a tech business in The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The adoption of technology – and the change required to support modern working – is one of the biggest challenges organisations currently face. Marilyn Moodley, Country Leader for South Africa and WECA (West, East, Central Africa) at SoftwareONE, says […]
...By Mimi Kalinda “Technology is neither good nor bad – it’s what you do with it that makes the difference” – Marc Benioff. We are in the midst of The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – aptly named a “revolution”, for by its nature, it brings about radical change and forcibly establishes a new way of […]
...By Vusa Nyathi, Business and Technology strategist There is little doubt that there is now a mass understanding, or at the very least, mass awareness, of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Paradoxically, that is thanks to the global Covid-19 pandemic. However, there are some serious 4IR policy considerations that do not seem to be getting […]
...There is thinking and then there is blue-sky thinking. The latter is defined by how industry and individual can look at a situation through the eyes of what could be, or what might be achieved. The former should be defined by innovation and opportunity. When it comes to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), it is […]
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