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30Mar

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Business

Tips On How To Manage Your Time Effectively

Set SMART goals which stand forSpecific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. For this reason, a SMART goal will include these criteria to assist you in focusing your efforts, while increasing the likelihood of achieving a goal. Prioritize your goals. Your goals should be defined according to urgency and importance. Timebox your tasks. Each task should have a starting time and an ending time. This can ensure that you have planned any breaks accordingly. See here an excellent time management tool. Take regular breaks. You should take a break for at least 10 minutes for each hour of consistent and efficient work. Remove any unnecessary tasks. Any task that is not relevant shouldn't be on your task list. Practice the 4 Ds of time management. All your tasks will fall under o...

Carry1st drives growth in Africa’s gaming industry, supported by AppsFlyer

24Mar

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Business, South Africa News

Carry1st drives growth in Africa’s gaming industry, supported by AppsFlyer

Carry1st, one of Africa’s leading gaming publishers, has released new insights from its market data that highlight successes that have shaped its growth in the gaming sector. Since the launch of SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off in October 2021, the game has managed to acquire more than 2 million users, ranking in the Top 5 most downloaded games across Africa. This has been possible by enlisting the support of technology developed by AppsFlyer to drive market growth. Carry1st faced a number of challenges in growing Krusty Cook-Off’s user base at scale while still maintaining a healthy ROI. The African gaming market is complex, and many of the tried and tested user acquisition and monetization strategies that are prevalent in most regions aren’t as effective in Africa. Moreover, ad networks are...

21Nov

By Quentyn TaylorNo Comments

Business, South Africa News, Tech

Navigating a hybrid work environment – how can businesses remain secure?

By Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security at Canon for Europe, Middle East and Africa A central office has typically been most business’s default working location, but the role of the office has significantly changed over the last year. Today, over 90% of organisations say they’ll allow employees to work remotely, at least part of the time, going forward. Changes that were brought about in haste to deal with the pandemic are crystallising into permanent fixtures. The expectation is that employees will have the freedom to move between multiple working environments and connect to a company’s network from each one. But this shift to a hybrid working model poses potential security risks for your organisation and employees. Your business’s network perimeter has evolved to not only...

3Nov

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Lesotho News

Lesotho Business Forum at Expo 2020 Dubai Wrapped Up Successfully

The Lesotho Business Forum, themed “Lesotho Rising to Prosperity”, addressed major topics influencing business and investment opportunities within the country, and brought together stakeholders to discuss policies and ideas, in order to bring in FDI towards Lesotho. Dubai (03/11/21) – The Lesotho Business Forum was held on the 28th of October 2021 at the Business Connect Centre, Expo 2020 Dubai. It was themed “Lesotho Rising to Prosperity”. The Lesotho Business Forum welcomed up to a hundred participants including top speakers at the Expo 2020, with the agenda to promote and address the investment friendly business environment of Lesotho. The Lesotho Business Forum brought together ministers, government officials, public and private sector organizations, investors, policy experts &...

1Nov

By Ben GossageNo Comments

Business, South Africa News

It’s About The Business, Not The Box — Tips For How To Sell More Effectively To Graphic Arts Customers

Ben Gossage, is the Sales and Marketing Director, Canon Central and North Africa. For every business in every industry, the future is uncertain. At times like this it’s tempting to do nothing and wait for circumstances to become clearer. Tempting, but dangerous, because you need to explore new revenue opportunities, to widen your customer base and spread the risk. If you’re a reseller considering how to grow, small- to medium-sized print service providers (PSPs) are worth a serious look if you have the right digital print technology portfolio to meet their expectations. That means fast production speeds, flexible media handling and superior quality output, because this sector is dealing with dynamic, challenging market conditions. But if the professional ‘graphic arts’ sector is new to ...

1Nov

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

Half of enterprises cannot trust their CRM data for a single source of truth on customers

Independent research shows firms are lacking basic data management capabilities; CRM data is of limited use Half of large enterprises worldwide (47%) feel they cannot rely on their CRM data to provide a single source of truth regarding customer data, according to the State of Enterprise CRM Data Management: 2021 study released in October. Commissioned by Odaseva, the #1 enterprise data platform for Salesforce, the study reveals that high expectations for actionable insights from CRM data are rarely being met. Although over eight out of 10 organizations (85%) say they are prioritizing data insights for business decision-making, roughly half that number (44%) are unable to perform advanced customer analytics with CRM data. A similar number (40%) are unable to use CRM data to drive improve...

22Oct

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

The future of work

With new technology such as AI support and smart cameras, the workplace of the future can be anywhere In what felt like the blink of an eye, the work landscape was transformed as the pandemic spread across the world in 2020. Entire workforces went mobile, seemingly overnight, while organisations bolstered existing remote working processes. And when the world emerges on the other side of this life-altering event, it won’t revert to the way things were before. By some estimates, 70 percent of the workforce will work remotely at least five days a month by 2025. Even in South Africa, where face-to-face meetings, office models and in-person communication has long been the standard, a hybrid model – a combination of remote and on-site working – will likely be the answer in the future, s...

17Sep

By Virusha SubbanNo Comments

Main

China’s trade with the continent grows to record highs

By Virusha Subban, Partner and Head of Indirect Tax at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, trade between China and Africa increased by 40.5 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2021, and was valued at a record high of USD 139.1 billion. The Ministry noted that African products were increasingly being recognised in the Chinese market, and that imports from Africa into China increased by 46.3% between January and July 2021. Further, the import of agricultural products, such as rubber, cotton and coffee from Africa into China doubled when compared to the first seven months of 2020. Data from the Ministry further revealed that over the last 20 years, China's trade with Africa has risen 20-fold, showing that China is Africa's biggest bilater...

4Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Main

Connecting in a time of Covid: Redefining the human experience

Three YPO leaders share their learnings from a time of no-contact - and what other organisations need to know about retaining human connection It can be argued that the success of any organisation is based on the strength of its connection to its stakeholders, and the extent to which it can sustain that connection. Yet even before the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers were becoming increasingly jaded, with research from PwC revealing that almost 60% of global respondents felt that organisations had lost touch with the human element in its relationships with its customers. And while the digital transformation, accelerated by Covid, has brought with it many benefits in the form of increasing access to a multitude of services - from education (e-learning) to healthcare (telemedicine) - the fli...

9Aug

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

African News, Main

Will the office make a comeback post-Covid-19?

JLL Survey results from Tétris glimpse into the future of the workplace The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns worldwide have challenged conventional ideas on how we work and what a workplace should look like. Will the traditional 9-5 workday and five-day work week at the office come to an end as new, more flexible work patterns emerge? International research conducted by JLL and released by Tétris Design & Build (owned by JLL, a Fortune 500 company) titled Worker Preferences Barometer reveals that this may be the case, although offices will still play a leading role in the way we do business. The study, which surveyed 3,300 office workers across ten countries, showed that 79 percent of the workforce aspire to be back in the office at least once a week, up from 74 percent ...