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What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote-Work Plan?

9 March 2020
Categories: Business Management, COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Lockdown, General

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash This week, the coronavirus (or Covid-19) took a more serious turn in the U.S. with warnings that it could very well impact how, when, and where we work: “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, cautioned at a news conference Tuesday. “Schools could be closed, mass public gatherings suspended, and businesses forced to have employees work remotely.” The global spread of the virus may be a moment that reveals whether employers are ready to respond rapidly to unexpected workplace changes. Business travel could decrease or…

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Valentine’s Day at Milpark SSC

2 March 2020
Categories: Gallery
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash This week, the coronavirus (or Covid-19) took a more serious turn in the U.S. with warnings that it could very well impact how, when, and where we work: “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, cautioned at a [...]
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IMM Fridays – Sinenhlanhla Mkhize

2 March 2020
Categories: Gallery, IMM Fridays
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash This week, the coronavirus (or Covid-19) took a more serious turn in the U.S. with warnings that it could very well impact how, when, and where we work: “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, cautioned at a [...]
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The Gig Economy Is the Future – Here’s how You Can Become Part of It

26 February 2020
Categories: General

Estimated Reading time – 7 Minutes If the term ‘Gig Economy’ makes you scratch your head in confusion, it really shouldn’t. The slang term “gig” has been used for over 100 years to refer to once-off entertainment performances, but its meaning has taken a different direction over time. After reading this blog post, you’ll know exactly what the gig economy is, how it works, where to find gigs, and what you’ll need to thrive in the industry. What It Is and How It Works Let’s start by discussing what the term means today. You’ve heard someone refer to a…

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From pollution to personalisation: Marketing Trends 2020

25 February 2020
Categories: Newsletters

The start of a new calendar era, like the one we are entering now, presents any hack with a hunger for an audience with an irresistible temptation to predict what the future will bring. HERMAN POTGIETER, Senior Lecturer, IMM Graduate School, gives his perspective on what marketers should take note of in 2020. Marketers everywhere live and breathe a fairly unique air; trends are their lifeblood as they try and shape these but, mostly, try and understand and predict them. Apart from their more obvious roles, marketers are important translators and interpreters of the social and cultural evolution societies…

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Bustin’ 10 myths about online learning

25 February 2020
Categories: Newsletters

Learning is often about challenging assumptions. This can equally apply to online learning, which, despite its growing popularity across the globe, is subject to certain myths and misconceptions. Dr. CECELIA ROSA gives the facts. The requirements of the knowledge economy and the changing needs of business, as the Fourth Industrial Revolution continues its relentless rollout, means traditional learning can’t necessarily give those ‘students’ what they need in terms of time and flexibility. As the Centre for Education and Innovation has written, “In the knowledge economy, memorisation of facts and procedures is not enough for success. Educated workers need…

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Creative leadership and the leadership of creativity

25 February 2020
Categories: Newsletters

Besides being an economic development opportunity, creative thinking can solve human challenges and problems at significant scale. This is what the world needs. This is what our country needs, writes LAUREN WOOLF It’s hard to believe that a mere two to three decades ago, creativity was barely explored or taught explicitly in main-stream or business education, let alone in design-related fields. Instead, tasks, such as ‘explorations of colours’ or coming up with ‘different ways of communicating a brand message’, were used to help students build a creative mindset. Times have certainly changed. Today, creativity has transcended the boundaries of…

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Sunday Ted Talk – The human skills we need in an unpredictable world

23 February 2020
Categories: General

Writer and entrepreneur, Margaret Heffernan says that the more reliant on technology we become, the less prepared we’ll be when faced with unexpected problems that may cross our paths. Heffernan says that we determine our own future and explains why mankind needs to become less dependent on technology to solve our problems and focus on improving our ‘human skills’ instead. Watch this thought-provoking TED Talk here:…

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2020 – It’s the Year Of The Remote Worker

19 February 2020
Categories: General

Estimated Reading Time – 4 Minutes We’ve always believed that robots will take over our jobs one day. That might still become a reality, but something else is happening in the meantime. Increased amounts of employees are distancing themselves from their typical 9 to 5 jobs in favour of working remotely. There appears to be this idea that working from home is all sunshine and roses – a luxury reserved for company executives and freelancers. You wake up whenever you like, finish the household tasks, then sit down with a cup of coffee for a few hours to do…

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