Breathing Space

A very large parastatal organisation has spent hundreds of millions over the last five years developing so-called Business Intelligence (BI) systems to measure KPIs or key performance indicators.
Each division spent years employing an army of consultants to develop KPI measurement systems. Then corporate management decided that the process should be standardised across the entire organisation. […]

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When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the words to “Get off of my Cloud” computers were far from being a part of everyday life. The computers of the day were huge monstrosities that belonged to big companies.
In those days, computers were large centralized mainframes. Users sat at dumb terminals that could work […]

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Blogging is fun. There is no doubt that the explosion of blogging around the world is not motivated by the lure of making money, but by the fun of seeing your writing published for all to see. A tiny minority of bloggers make money from blogging. For the rest, it is the fun of blogging […]

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The roots of the organic food industry were sewn in the late 1960s with the dawn of a new wave of environmental awareness.
The industry has since shown astonishing growth that has surprised its critics. According to the Organic Food: Global Industry Guide published in February 2009, the industry has a global value of […]

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The ever increasing cost of energy is placing every greater stains on the household budgets.
The South African national electricity supplier (Eskom) has proposed tariff increases of 45% for each of the next three years. The effect will mean that clients will have to pay triple the current rate in three years time. […]

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