Month: November 2019
To survive the next decade, companies need to learn from the Xerox example
The past century may have brought us unprecedented technological advancement, but it’s also a metaphorical graveyard of dozens of businesses that failed to innovate, or failed to see opportunities, an...
Alibaba’s Robot-operated Hotel
Digital transformation is tricky. Everybody wants to be on board with it, and every company aims to transform itself as a technology company and a disruptor, but few get it right. The reason is that t...
IBM’s 5-in-5 predictions (Part 2)
Did you know . . . Each year, across the world, unsafe food causes 600 million cases of food-borne diseases and 420 000 deaths? Did you know that 30% of food-borne disease deaths occur among children ...
IBM’s 5-in-5 predictions (Part 1)
In this Podcast Bilal and Maseeh discuss the five technologies that are going to fundamentally reshape business and society in the next five years. Some of IBM’s leading researchers shared their thoug...
Time to focus on entrepreneurship
According to scientists, half of all current jobs will become obsolete between 2020 and 2030. That is half the world’s workforce that will need to find other occupations. On the flip side of that coin...
Job vs Career vs Calling
In this week’s Webinar Wednesday, we discussed Job vs Career vs Calling and how to find fulfillment above happiness and contentment. Most people think that these words have the same or similar m...
We ask the incorrect questions about 4IR
Last week I was invited to speak at the GovTech 2019 conference in Durban on the topic of the future of education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). GovTech is an annual conference organised b...
The End of the Cellphone
In this episode, we talk about some of the gadgets that a couple years ago could have been found in every home but have today become completely obsolete. We talk about the likeliness that this could a...