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Marketing & Media trends
Tech democratisation will set the tone for 2021
Andrew Smit and Johan Walters
Agriculture trends
Automotive trends
Construction & Engineering trends
CSI & Sustainability trends
5 sustainability trends that will shape business in 2021
Christelle Marais
4 trends set to continue or be re-interpreted in the NGO sector
Innocent Masayira
Strengthening NPO skills and processes
Nazeema Mohamed, Feryal Domingo and Soraya Joonas
Sustainability is key for social investment in 2021
Keri-Leigh Paschal
Education trends
4 trends in employee skills development and training you need to know for 2021
Siphelele Kubheka and Desikan Naidoo
Energy & Mining trends
Digital solutions need small steps to succeed
Xanthe Adams
Mining looks ahead to more Covid risk
Ralf Hennecke
Mining's year ahead will demand deep innovation
Frederick Cawood
Entrepreneurship trends
Finance trends
The 4 themes for the new year
Andrew Duvenage,
3 wealth management trends to watch in 2021
Maarten Ackerman
4 strategies to rethink investing in SMEs
Kuhle Mnisi
Microinsurance ready to reach new heights
Marius Botha
Finding alpha in the age of Covid-19
Nema Ramkhelawan-Bhana
Purpose or profit. It's not a choice
Mike Middleton
Shifting towards a digital - but still human - approach
Henry van Deventer
Healthcare trends
Healthcare innovation in 2021 and beyond
Reynhardt Uys
Are day hospitals the new trend?
Lee Callakoppen
3 emerging medical scheme membership patterns
Nerine Brink
Healthcare innovations to look out for
Moshe Lichtenstein
HR & Management trends
ICT trends
Legal trends
3 wide-ranging issues demanding legal attention this year
Jonathan Veeran, Nozipho Mngomezulu and Burton Phillips
Lifestyle trends
Wine in the wake of corona
Kristen Duff and Gosia Young
7 prospects and necessary shifts for the arts
Rucera Seethal
Logistics & Transport trends
Property trends
Auction industry survival depends on going virtual
Joff van Reenen
Covid-19 drives new trends in local property market
Marcél du Toit
Retail trends
A challenging year anticipated for SA retailers
Tasmika Ramlakan
A bold year for beverages
Alex Glenday
The rise of D2C
Michael Smollan
Acceleration of digital payments
Jonathan Smit
Safety vs sustainability - the packaging industry's key conundrum
Nthabiseng Motsoeneng
The evolving e-tail landscape
Vilo Trska
The path forward for retail in 2021
Matthew Leighton
#BizTrends2021: The rise of D2C
The direct-to-consumer model allows deeper brand relationships and an omnichannel approach to deriving value...
Michael Smollan 14 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: How do brands get noticed amidst the online clutter?
No prediction piece would be complete without first acknowledging that Covid-19 has changed our world forever. Remote working across industries and an exponential uptake of e-commerce and digital marketing has changed the face of brands...
Tracy Jones 13 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: EXCLUSIVE: In conversation with Dion Chang
In advance to Bizcommunity's forthcoming BizTrends2021 event, Jessica Tennant, Bizcommunity's senior editor for Marketing & Media, finds out more about the elusive Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends and one of South Africa's most respected trend analysts...
Jessica Tennant 11 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: Search share of voice; an emerging trend
Social share of voice has become an extremely popular measure of how much potential market share a brand has. Based on brand mentions, it gives you an accurate view of how many conversations people are having about a brand. It's simple and it's accurate. It delivers precisely what it promises...
Craig Hannabus 11 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: B2B CMO's need to be a little bit braver, bolder in 2021
In light of what went on in 2020, it's no surprise that so many B2B marketers have been making safe choices. There's been plenty of consolidation, a fair amount of contraction and a lot of maintaining the status quo....
Warren Moss 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: The revolution will be digitised and automated
Due to the cumulative economic effects of the last few years, our clients' businesses are facing significant economic pressure, which, as we all know, has been drastically accelerated and compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Joey Khuvutlu 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: Empowering digital marketing teams to meet 2021's challenges
The digital acceleration of the last two years, but most especially during 2020, has placed a growing focus on digital marketing delivery...
Niamh NicLiam 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: The changing faces of marketing
It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of children who started school in 2016 will go on to have jobs that don't exist yet. How do we prepare this new generation for the business of the future, while at the same time retrain hundreds of millions of people whose work is evolving?
Glen Meier 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: Tech democratisation will set the tone for 2021
If Covid-19 was the villain of 2020, then digital was the hero. As in-store transactions plummeted, e-commerce rushed in to pick up the slack. Rapid digitalisation saw smaller companies suddenly able to compete directly with our large enterprises...
Andrew Smit and Johan Walters 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: Communication refocuses on people-centricity
Communicating with all stakeholders has become more important than ever and this will have a significant impact on the trends influencing these engagements in 2021 and beyond...
Karyn Strybos 6 Jan 2021
#BizTrends2021: Will Covid accelerate the declining trend in marketing effectiveness?
Long-term marketing effectiveness has been in decline since the global financial crisis, even though the modern media landscape provides the potential for increased effectiveness...
Stuart Sims 6 Jan 2021
Google South Africa reveals trending searches for 2020
Google has revealed the results of its 2020 Year in Search, sharing what the world and South Africans searched for, asked about, looked for, ate and dreamt of exploring in 2020...
Agency Scope Insights: Trends on the path to new world agility
As preparations get underway for the fourth Agency Scope study to begin in May 2021, Johanna McDowell, Scopen partner and director for the UK and South Africa notes that some of the trends seen in the global research will be a barometer for the pressures, proficiencies and pandemic recovery in South Africa...
Johanna McDowell 26 Nov 2020
Scopen launches Trend Score as marketers look to recover
On 23 October 2020 Scopen, together with the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS), conducted a virtual launch of Trend Score, a first for South Africa...
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