Infographic: The New Startup Capitals of Africa
The geographical focus on innovation and entrepreneurship is shifting globally and the past decade has witnessed a dramatic growth of startup ecosystems all across the world.
This is particularly true for Africa, where startups have emerged in cities across the continent including Johannesburg, Cairo, Cape Town, and Lagos.
According to reports, the number of tech hubs across Africa has grown by...
Using A Tab @ Workplace? Here Are 3 Do’s & Don’ts of iPad Form Design
Using the iPad for data collection offers enterprises many advantages. In addition to enabling enhanced accuracy and real-time submissions, the tablet provides more processing power than smartphones.
iPad data collection on the field is also preferable due to better data and battery consumption. Enterprises, however, may not get all the benefits iPad forms have to offer if they’re not well-designed.
To...
Why It’s Super Important For Digital Freelancers To Have T&Cs In Place
By Hari Julka
Starting a web design firm service or simply a transcription service? Just make sure you have terms and conditions in place, before you attempt to perform the work or service. Get the T&C (Terms and Conditions) agreement signed before attempting to write even a single line of code.
Ask the customer, to deposit 10-15% in advance, so that...
How 5G Technology Will Impact These Five Key Sectors
By Preetham Uthaiah
The ongoing situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased focus on automation to drive business continuity and revive the Indian economy.
Furthermore, fueled by the ban on Chinese products and apps, this has acted as a catalyst for India to look towards developing a high-tech ecosystem indigenously.
Keeping technology at the center of all operations, 5G,...
Infographic: Here Are 9 Female Startups Changing The World In 2020
Remember in Beyonce’s ‘Run The World (Girls)’, she sings, “Boy, you know you love it how we’re smart enough to make these millions, strong enough to bear the children, then get back to business”?
It’s one of those iconic lyrics that takes on more meaning every time you hear the song and especially when you read it -- there’s just...
Stationery Startup Launches India-wide Operations During Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Amid ongoing pandemic COVID19, an eCommerce start-up Inchpaper in stationery items space has launched its operation of delivering stationery items at the doorsteps in over 50 cities and towns across India.
Inchpaper aims to provide a full range of stationery items starting from eraser to various teaching-learning material for school, colleges, students, and parents, along with catering to the...
Why Investing & Money Management Should Be Taught At School
Clothing e-commerce store Matalan has released a new study showing which skills and subjects Brits wish they had been taught in school.
With talks of a limited curriculum on the table for pupils in September, Matalan wanted to know what core subjects and skills people already feel they missed out in school so they surveyed Brits to find out.
The findings of the study show there...
The 4 Stages In A Startup’s Digital Transformation Journey
By Rohit Shenoy
The new normal has brought about a need for digital transformation (DX) in Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and has made it one of the top investment priorities for them. Digitalization – a mere good-to-have process for Indian SMEs – has now become the most critical requirement.
The introduction of smart phones, and smart devices has created...
Resolve Conflicts between Gen Z & Millennials To Win More Customers
By Hari Julka
Clashes are inevitable when millennials work with boomers or GenX and Gen Z workers at a workplace.
And with Gen Z employees more adept with new tech trends, born with a mobile and internet in hand, conflicts on who knows more - are bound to happen.
Often millennials feel that Gen Z is highly eruptive, careless and selfish whereas...
Surviving Pandemic: DRM Toolkit For Dummies 101 – The Basics
By Dougie Beck
A business disruption response management toolkit comes with embedded Covid Crisis Specific action plans. It is to be used to manage the necessary adaptations and changes required to successfully respond to the uncertainty and chaotic dynamics in the economy and market. Lets come to the basics first of a DRM tool kit:
What is a DRM toolkit for?
it is...
Infographic: How The Pandemic Will Boost Worldwide VoIP Market
With remote working becoming mainstream due to the impact of the pandemic worldwide, the global VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) market is expected to grow manyfold in the coming years.
Although the impact of VoIP services in the business world is evident through advanced communications, its global market size also helps show its effect.
In 2020 alone, the VoIP market was $82.5 billion and...
Learnings From Pandemic: The Benefits of Disruption Response Management
By Dougie Beck
If the Covid crisis has taught us anything it is that many organisations were not ready to cope with the disruptions caused. Some had Business Continuity plans, but most did not and had to react and respond in real time. Whack a mole. Whether successful or not this was stressful, chaotic and inefficient use of time and...
How To Turn Alarm Clock Into A Positive Trigger For Your Brain
By Benjamin Hardy
You can wake up first thing in the morning with excitement. You can hear that alarm, get up, and your mind is already sharp. But in order to do so, you need to do a few things first. This article will show you how:
Put Your Alarm Across The Room
This is environment design. You need to set up...
5 Challenges Small Businesses Face In Digital Transformation Journey
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are a very important ingredient of a country and its business ecosystem. They contribute to the economy, employment and complement the larger companies and conglomerates to operate seamlessly.
For any country, it is critical for its SMEs to perform optimally. The governments, in countries such as India, have taken a keen interest in encouraging entrepreneurship...
Workplace Tips: No-Meeting Days Are Critical to Prevent Employee Burnout
By Gaurang Sinha
Love them or not, meetings do take up a large piece of what we call work time. It’s how we discuss our plan of action, chalk out ideas, share updates, brainstorm on projects, and get things done. Yet many business leaders consider meetings as a necessary evil and it’s easy to understand why—we meet too often.
Well, overcoming...
Sales Messaging: Why It Matters, What To Avoid & How To Get It Right
By Alex McNaughtan
As a founder or sales professional, it isn’t easy to create strong and succinct sales messaging that describes what it is you do or sell.
Having a really powerful story is imperative whether you are raising money, selling to customers or even trying to attract the best talent - people won’t give your company the time of day...
