The proposed transition to digital receipts in South Africa highlights a significant opportunity to modernize record-keeping, streamline merchant tax compliance, and reduce the environmental impact estimated at 31.8 billion printed receipts annually. Integrating...
If you are an old chicken like me, ‘free range’ to be precise, you will appreciate this piece on AI development over the years. Most people have not given consideration to the fact that AI is not some new - new, innovation series, it is decades of accumulated data...
Generative AI has emerged as a powerful tool in fashion design, supporting activities such as ideation, sketching, and creativity enhancement. Fashion design requires creativity, pattern making; the technical components, materials selection and sewing skills, it is a...
As every manager, senior executive and founder engages with how they will add value in this new era of AI, it is important to note that the point of departure for most this year is the same. Will we outpace artificial intelligence? From the perspective of pace, the...
Dear sales manager, we are in the third quarter and your team is not making target. What now! The first thing that comes to mind is, are all the team members not making target? or are some members so far behind that the good work of a few cannot cover the gap....
pair your thinking against a knowledgeable source Business is tough on the best day for shareholders, founders and especially entrepreneurs. I find that it is essential to acknowledge those that have been consistent in my 25yrs on the job. ISO standards are a cliché...
Customer relationship management systems were not created to run your client relationships; they are a support engine. When business development specialists forget this, clients inevitably start feeling like a number. For example, the system says call Mrs Jones every...
One of the most challenging things to do as a business owner is to change direction, review your own decisions and amend. It is in our innate nature to defend the decisions we have made. Time and time again people get stuck defending decisions made, at a point in time with very specific variables.
As small businesses, it is challenging to keep one’s head when the ‘black Friday’ push is on. Be vigilant, do not set yourself up for a loss leading busy month. It is very easy to discount stock on the shelf without consideration for the real cash invested. Use a...