Browsing: Richard Firth

Regulation and government policies have hampered the growth of coverage across South Africa. This needs to change.

After two decades of stagnant growth and rising levels of inequality, it is time to revise how we approach broad-based empowerment.

AI fails to deliver the one thing a CV is supposed to produce: a unique insight into the person behind the CV.

The biggest lesson here is this: you can’t simply outsource everything and assume it will run perfectly, writes Richard Firth.

Organisations are learning that paying attention to the adage “garbage in, garbage out” has never been more important.

Many companies have moved to the cloud, but have they effectively replaced one set of challenges with another?

Home affairs has published amendments to legislation regarding critical skills, with plans to issue digital nomad visas.

Namibia has become the latest of four African countries to offer digital nomad visas to remote workers.

Corporate South Africa needs to take a look not only at its hiring policies, but at the entire approach to the skills problem.

Being able to iterate, learn, measure and react quickly to users’ needs is critical to success. Too few are getting it right.