Tag: strategy
OUTSIGHTS FROM INSIGHTS LACK TRUST
A recent survey examines how businesses use data and analytics to manage risk, cost and growth - and where confidence is lacking.
Gaps in capabilities...
Technology’s changing face
Finance professionals have always exploited emerging technologies to help them to complete their tasks more accurately, quickly or simply: from the incised clay tablets...
FAMILY BUSINESS SECTOR REPORTS GROWTH
Despite the current economic uncertainty and the accelerating pace of change, South Africa’s family business sector has high ambitions for quick and aggressive growth...
KING IV: SIMPLE BUT FEARLESS
Aimed at promoting the highest standards of corporate governance in South Africa, the King Report on Corporate Governance (King I) was published by the...
BUSINESSES SHOULD COMPETE WITH THEMSELVES
It may sound like an oxymoron, but Michiel Jonker, Director, Advisory Services at Grant Thornton believes that this kind of fearless innovation is most likely...
A FOX’S TALE: INSIGHTS FROM ONE OF AFRICA’S MOST CREATIVE STRATEGIC...
by Chantell Ilbury as told to Daryl Ilbury
Sit down with one of Africa’s most creative strategic minds, and really get to know her and...
HOW TO DEFY COMPANY DEATH
British Home Stores and Woolworths in the UK, Radio Shack and C&J Energy Services in the US, Japan’s Skymark Airlines and Brazil’s fourth largest...
Is Africa the land of business opportunity or pain?
With growth stagnating around much of the world, businesses often look to new markets to find opportunities.
BRIC countries were previously thought of as...
RECESSIONARY BRAND BUILDING?
Marketers are facing challenging decisions and trade-offs when it comes to building and sustaining their brands during these recessionary times.
South Africa is teetering on...
INVEST GLOBALLY
Globalization has changed the way we shop, eat, communicate, travel and generally live.
As economies and societies integrate, the world is shrinking and, in turn,...
