Ever wondered how you find peace in a stressed-out, digitally dependent world? Well, it may just be a matter of thinking differently … Mindfulness … Google the word and you will find articles about it everywhere. Time magazine even had a cover about it last year and companies like Google and other Fortune 500 organisations…
All around you staff, colleagues and business partners are considering a ‘sabbatical’. But what is a sabbatical and when do you need to consider taking yours, if at all? In recent times, ‘sabbatical’ has come to mean an extended absence from your workplace in order to achieve something. Corporates offer paid and unpaid sabbaticals. In…
TIDY UP THE MESS The cloud offers significant benefits when it comes to security and business continuity, writes Steven Cohen Cloud backup provider IronTree estimates that one in five South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) experience some form of data loss once a year, most commonly as a result of accidents and natural disasters,…
The board of an organisation is required to understand the strategic importance of IT, assume responsibility for the governance of IT, and place IT governance on the board agenda. By Marius van den Berg This first principle in Chapter 5 of the King III code is central to the governance of Information Technology (IT), yet…