In 2014, the average social media user spent 2 hours and 25 minutes per day using social networks (1). Social media continues to grow at a fast pace with active user accounts equating to around 30% of the world population at the end of 2014. In 2014, active social…
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Supplier Relationships – Resetting the Corporate Mindset
The relationship between large organisations and their suppliers, particularly in the retail sector, has become headline news in the UK media in recent months. At Board level, supplier relationships are moving up the agenda as procurement becomes intertwined with reputation management. The relationship between large corporates and their…
The Next Generation of High-Rise
Demographic change means that companies today are facing a previously unknown challenge: the battle over the best employees. Only companies that are able to keep good employees are able to increase productivity, grow and survive amid the competition. But the very employees they are in search of, the young “Generation…
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Marijuana
With recreational marijuana use permitted in a number of US states, cannabis is moving from the margins to the mainstream of society. It’s rapidly shedding its image as the drug of choice for disillusioned, disenfranchised stoners, and coming to be seen as a sophisticated inebriant for the open-minded…
SA Business moves to backup plans as power crisis drags on
South African enterprises are moving toward multi-faceted power plans as the power crisis shows no sign of coming to an end in the foreseeable future, say power sector experts on the POWER-GEN Africa Advisory Board. Bertha Dlamini, Managing Director of EON Consulting and a member of the POWER-GEN…
Elite Capital & Co. The New Giant in the Troubled World of Finance
The world of finance has witnessed in the last five years an remarkable change in the form of finance market, banking and the concept of finance itself, due to the problems faced by the global economy, created by international policies and brought about by the devastating wars that have destroyed…