Tag: strategy
IT Strategy is now C-Suit
Ask a CIO where IT Strategy sits within an organisation, and you’ll likely receive the answer “in IT”. Yet, this may no longer be...
Policy & Politics of Junk Status
Lullu Krugel, Chief Economist at KPMG in South Africa, shares insight on how South Africa will get out of recession and to turn around the non-investment grade position, the country must embrace transparency and change in leadership and direction.
Latest global trends in fraud and corruption
Badibanga Promesse | Regional Vice President – Africa | CIMA | Badibanga.Promesse@cimaglobal.com| http://www.cimaglobal.com/|
Is your business a step ahead of the perpetrators?
Fraud and corrupt practices...
Performance Management Reboot
Performance management systems have become too time-consuming and cumbersome - the time is right for a reboot.
This guide will show you how to revisit...
FEATURE – THE INNOVATOR
THE INNOVATOR is a person or organisation that drives innovation and can be defined simply as a new idea, process or product. INNOVATION can be viewed as the application of improved solutions through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models. ENTREPRENEURS & SMEs drive innovation by their use of inventive ideas, processes and products. Innovation is their catalyst for business growth.
Technology-led or soon-to-be-dead?
The future of business is in the cloud.
That is the message from global analysts as the latest IT sales figures show a marked shift away from hardware. The shift to cloud services and other Digital Business solutions has slashed Gartner's global IT spending growth forecasts by half: a cut of $67bn for this year alone, with data centre growth predicted at a modest 0.3% in 2017.
What are the issues regarding branding “AFRICAN” products?
People are often heard describing products and services coming out of Africa as African. For those who have been lucky enough to have travelled the continent you’d understand the problems that come with blanket branding or making the secondary branding your primary branding.
Africa is made up of 54 countries. So when someone says that something is uniquely African, isn’t that labelling a bit too loose? And shouldn’t the African theme be secondary or better yet a tertiary reference from a nomenclature perspective?
THE CRITICAL CORE
From his 30 years as a top strategy consultant, Tony Manning has distilled a set of must-do strategy practices that apply to every company everywhere. These are the critical core.
INVEST IN INNOVATION
That innovation is important and necessary for survival goes without saying. While there is no universal solution for organisations looking to improve their ability...
COST OF IGNORING THE ENVIRONMENT!
The business cost of failure to consider environmental impact management extends beyond reputational damage and could entail jail time and multi-million-rand fines for law-breakers....































