How to Use Core Values to Drive Decision-Making By Martin Dippenaar (CEO) Some time ago, a friend told me about an executive meeting he attended with the C-suite and some board members of a large global company. As the conversation turned to the official company core values, there was general…
Her Story: Lorén Rose, Global Kinetic COO by Lorén Rose In honour of women’s month and in celebration of the strength demonstrated by the women of South Africa in 1956, we decided to put the spotlight on some of the women of Global Kinetic and asked them to share their…
A QA Odyssey:- The Global Kinetic team’s digital and cultural transformation – Final Episode Episode 4: What we have learnt, Tips and Recommendations In the previous episodes, we discussed why we decided to radically alter our QA processes and how we work. We discussed the importance of having the right…
When it comes to a project for creating custom software, there are many options. We commonly get asked: “we just need a couple of software developers to help us with this new custom software development project – can you help?”. We also get some other variations such as we “we…
Episode 3: Rebuilding In the previous episodes, we discussed why we decided to radically alter our QA processes and how we work. We discussed the importance of having the right leadership approach. If you have missed these, click here to go to the first episode. Changing culture is hard. In…
How Modernism inspired Global Kinetic’s Core Values By Martin Dippenaar (CEO) My favourite period of Architecture is the Modern movement spanning 1920 to the 1960s. The fathers of the Modern movement; Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson with buildings like Falling Water, The Barcelona…
With the current global situation, now more than ever, companies are needing to digitally transform their businesses in order to survive and remain competitive against a changing and unpredictable landscape.
Our customers often ask us whether they should develop their mobile apps natively, or whether they should rather be using cross-platform technology. This article explains the pros and cons of each and should help you in your decision-making process. WHAT IS A NATIVE APP? A native app is an application…
A word from our Head of Technology This is the second episode in our series on our QA journey. To go to the first episode, click here. I wasn’t always Global Kinetic’s Head of Technology. This story starts when I was still a developer in one of the development teams….
Day 1: Status Quo It’s wonderful how magical moments can happen in the workplace. In our case, our journey from a “conventional” QA testing team, to one of the most advanced and effective Automated QA teams in the country has been fascinating and work-life changing! Like most engineering teams, we…
