Expand your candidate pool by being curious about people: embrace career agility!
By: Candice Solomons, Business Executive at iOCO Digital Talent Forget the days of linear career paths and one-dimensional skills. The modern world demands agility, and the job market reflects that. This article isn't about the latest buzzword, but about a powerful approach to talent acquisition: embracing career agility. From a company perspective, we’re all competing... Continue reading→
Navigating New Digital Seas: CNOI’s Voyage Towards Excellence with Infor Cloudsuite Industrial Enterprise
The Chantier Naval de l’Océan Indien (CNOI), a leading shipyard located in Mauritius, specialises in shipbuilding, repair, and maritime engineering projects. With a reputation for quality and innovation, CNOI has been at the forefront of integrating advanced technologies to enhance its operational efficiencies and services since its inception in 2001. Challenges Prior to 2023, CNOI... Continue reading→
Embarking on a Zero Trust journey
If feeling overwhelmed at the scope of the Zero Trust architecture, get the basics out of the way first. Here’s how. You’ve heard it all before − the IT landscape is spreading, with hybrid infrastructure combined with SaaS applications, hosted plus on-premises environments and remote workers − all adding to the sprawl and all with... Continue reading→
Change is coming: The Data Advantage
As the sands of the market shift beneath our feet, businesses are seeking stable ground to support their strategic planning and forecasting needs. This means there is a massive demand for enterprise performance management solutions that can dismantle data silos, simplify intricate processes, accelerate decision-making, and ensure the utmost accuracy in data. Issues such as... Continue reading→
How’s your data health?
How's your data health? Pretty bad, if you’re honest. Here’s why and how it needs to be fixed to realise the benefits of the data revolution. All businesses have long recognised that the more data about their customers they are able to gather, the better they can understand and then service them. Customer data has... Continue reading→
Squaring the software security circle
Veracode is using artificial intelligence to make applications more secure – at the speed of business. Two hacks over the last 12 months in South Africa – at the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa (CIPC) and a famous retailer – illustrate yet again how urgent is the need for a multi-layered approach to security,... Continue reading→
Fighting AI with AI
By Callan Abrahams, Principal AI Consultant, iOCO It’s every business leader’s worst nightmare: You wake up on a Friday morning to discover that you supposedly approved a R35 million payment, and the money has been removed from your company’s bank account. Your staff swears they spoke to you, but you never authorised any transactions. The... Continue reading→
Talent Acquisition 2.0: rethinking strategies to attract the future of digital
By: Candice Solomons, Business Executive at iOCO Digital Talent Driven by disruption and innovation, the digital landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. As exhilarating as this era of transformation can be, the uncertainty of the future is equally nerve-wracking. More businesses are waking up to the realisation that achieving their digital ambitions does not depend... Continue reading→
Weak AI vs strong AI
From chatbots to predictive analytics, and from recognition systems to autonomous vehicles, AI is penetrating most industries. Despite the fact that the technology is in its infancy, relatively speaking, AI is developing exponentially, and while we haven’t yet made a machine intelligent enough that it can handle any general cognitive task in any setting, we... Continue reading→
Substituting Chaos for Control: An Excel Solution
In today’s fast-paced business world, where data dictates key decisions, Microsoft Excel has been a faithful ally for decades. Its utility spans from straightforward budget sheets to complex financial modeling. Yet, as businesses grow and data complexities mount, Excel’s limits come sharply into focus—slowing down processes, causing crashes, and even risking data loss. Such setbacks... Continue reading→