Thought Leadership

Large organisations strive to achieve growth and success by expanding into new markets, developing new products and services, and participating in mergers and acquisitions. This has led to even larger and more complex organisations with highly interconnected business units, both internally and externally, having to think and operate in silos without sufficient collaboration. This is …

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How many times have you lent money to a friend who promised to pay it back on their payday? How many times have they actually paid you back on their next payday? I am willing to bet that this has happened to almost everyone at some stage of their lives. Wouldn’t it be great if …

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“Data more than ever, has become the strategic asset driving business transformation to uncover new insights to differentiate and compete. Traditionally, this asset has been collected and stored in an enterprise data warehouse where it is aimed to serve as the single version of the truth” says Johan Du Preez, Data & Analytics Architect at …

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Financial crimes of various sorts are a serious challenge to organisations operating in this sector. A risk-based approach to business is key to effectively combating such felonies. In recent years, financial crime has increasingly become of concern to both governments and financial institutions around the world, particularly crimes like money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, bribery …

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Change is constant. However, no one could have anticipated the impact that COVID-19 would have had on the speed and rate of change especially seen in the acceleration in innovation and technology advancement. The quantum of change may not be as great as we have seen during tumultuous events such as the world wars, but …

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses think about marketing, forcing them to adopt marketing channels that they may not have considered previously, particularly on digital platforms. Helesha Moodley, Marketing Lead at Ovations Group, says it all boils down to what works for your brand and how you want to engage with your customers. …

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Digitalisation has affected all aspects of our lives, the way we live, the way we work, and – essential to your business – the way we consume. It has altered the way customers want to interact with your business. Convenience is top of mind. Customers now have raised expectations, they want to keep track of …

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Now that South Africa has moved to level two of lockdown, more employees will be returning to the workplace. Employers are advised to handle this process with care, ensuring employee mental health and taking note of what returning to work will actually mean for the business and its employees. Leoni van Tonder, the Human Resources …

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In today’s highly competitive and rapidly evolving environment, businesses have to respond ever more quickly to market changes and customer requirements. This has led to the growing adoption of what’s known as the DevOps methodology, which is increasingly employed to improve the quality and speed of delivering software. It is an approach that encourages communications, …

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While process automation allows organisations to simultaneously achieve quality, efficiency and compliance goals, it must be continually monitored to ensure it does not entrench processes that work against the attainment of these goals. That’s the view of Rajeev Mishra, Enterprise Architect & Process Automation Lead at Ovations Group, who warns that automation is a double-edged …

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