By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve 2020 will go down in history for notorious reasons, most of which we’re very familiar with by now. But as I look across my blogs for the year, I can make the case that it’s also been a positive year in several aspects. The […]
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Dec
Dec
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager, thryve As I take a look at my blogs for 2020, I’m struck with where I started. My first blog for the year looked at the opportunity in crisis, and yet it doesn’t contain the words’ COVID’ or ‘pandemic’ (Why crisis also means opportunity). That was just […]
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Nov
Nov
We celebrate analytics in November throughout our blogs and our monthly blog recommendations: how to go about investing in analytics, and what data-driven scenario planning can mean for your company. Cybersecurity is also on the agenda since NIST released a guide on Cyber Security Risk Management. And we find out how Deloitte, in an […]
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Nov
Nov
By Sean Pyott, MD of thryve All good companies use data to make decisions. But it’s becoming apparent that a data-first organisation is a different animal. This realisation goes a long way to explain why many analytics ambitions fall flat. There are crucial differences between how we used to handle data to inform […]
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Nov
Nov
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Customer behaviours are in flux, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to its effects on our daily behaviour, the overwhelming number of consumers have changed the products and services they think are important. Three-quarters of people who are first-time users of digital channels […]
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Nov
Nov
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager, thryve Knowledge is power, and today the leading way to derive knowledge is through data analytics. Now, you may say: but we’ve been getting along just fine without data analytics of this sort, so why start now? That’s true, yet think of it in another way. Companies also […]
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Sep
Sep
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve It’s already feeling redundant to look at how the pandemic has impacted everything around us. And everyone agrees that technology and digitization are being propelled forward by those same needs. Yet the rate of change organizations now have to manage, and the role that […]
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Aug
Aug
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Data can be a messy business. Bad data leads to bad results, which only amplifies when you try to use machine learning or other forms of artificial intelligence. Data should be organized in a way that fits the business outcomes you are trying to […]
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Aug
Aug
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve I have a confession to make. Until the pandemic arrived, some of the claims around digital technology remained vague. We could clearly see the results from successful transformations, but there was also still enough scepticism and unanswered questions to cause some doubt around digital transformation. After all, […]
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Aug
Aug
There are many known and unknown unknowns emerging from the pandemic, pushing for a more pragmatic look at how we respond to the changing situation. Companies are more focused than ever on getting their data working for them and using that information to predict future trends, such as cash-flow. Ports are much more interested and […]