. The interest and use of robotic process automation (RPA) has rapidly increased to support repetitive, labour-intensive and transactional business processes. For many enterprises, RPA has emerged as a best-fit alternative to making huge IT investments in order to make business processes more efficient. Recent studies have found that the service delivery automation (SDA) software […]
Manufacturing, job losses and the shortage of skills in all sectors of the economy are debated more and more at industry conferences but, if we break it down, the one thing impacting South Africa’s economy most is deindustrialisation. In the 1980s, manufacturing’s contribution to GDP was around 27%. By 2015, this had fallen to below […]
We invited a number of industry experts to join our virtual panel discussion and share their views. While there was general agreement on the importance of the manufacturing industry playing an important role in South Africa’s economy, opinions differed on some of the questions raised. Mining and agriculture have always been considered the main […]
Realising that there is a need to improve marketing of the surveying profession, SAGI Northern Provinces branch held a Business Management Workshop on 20 October 2010 at Pumulani Lodge outside Pretoria. Targeted at the survey profession, the workshop consisted of formal presentations and interactive sessions dealing with marketing, intellectual property, labour relations, the Occupational Health […]
