True Business Resilience Demands Fresh Perspectives And Putting Best Practice Top Of Mind

摘要

It has been said over and over by a multitude of businesssystems experts. One of the greatest barriers to digitaltransformation is not technological. It is human resistanceto change. Within an enterprise, a wholesale culture shiftis needed for digitalisation to take hold and be used to itsfull efficiency-boosting potential.Of course, enterprises are now operating in a contextof forced, unprecedented change beyond the scenarioscovered in most business continuity plans. Who projectedthat we would one day be in a situation where essentiallyeverything would close at the same time, cripplingsupply chains? Or that a company’s workforce would bemandated to stay home, with no access to on-premisesystems? How unpredictable are things? In March, theUnited Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)(https://bit.ly/3gJ0XcN) forecast that the continent’s GDPwould decline 1.4% in 2020 from an originally projected3.2%, to 1.8%.