Tag: Terrance Booysen
Accountability in governance – a pillar of competitive advantage
Good governance helps an organisation thrive in a competitive environment. It ensures transparency, efficiency, and ethical integrity in organisational operations. Corporate governance also enables executive management to execute strategic decisions effectively. However, failing to adopt a robust digitised governance framework weakens the board’s oversight capabilities.
Digital governance frameworks needed for effective oversight
Digital governance frameworks are needed to address disjointed oversight and enhance decision-making in today’s complex corporate environments. Despite public outcries about corruption and demands for accountability, the importance of good corporate governance continues to be trivialised.
Governance leadership of company secretaries
While the position of Company Secretary has always been important within an organisation, especially from an administrative perspective, the Company Secretary’s role and scope of responsibility has grown over the years from an ‘efficient administrator’ to a ‘governance leader’.
Using the Corporate Governance Framework® in times of great uncertainty
Whilst most corporations across the world have had to make drastic changes to their business operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders believe that the disruptions caused by the pandemic have inadvertently introduced more advantages than disadvantages.
Is Alternative Dispute Resolution all it’s made out to be?
In today’s fast-paced business environment, where time is of the essence, any manner in which processes can be streamlined, made more efficient, and concluded within a shorter time frame than previously possible, is generally met with positivity and appreciation.
ETHICS | Have we lost hope?
Being able to speak the truth, without the fear of being intimidated or being politically incorrect is a liberty that sets a person free, both physically and psychologically. However, this attribute is increasingly more difficult to find in the leadership and structures of the ‘new’ democratic South Africa.
BusinessBrief August/September 2018 edition is now available!
Read our exclusive cover story entitled ETHICS | HAVE WE LOST HOPE? by Terrance Booysen, Chief Executive Officer, CGF Research Institute, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the August/September 2018 edition of BusinessBrief.
Company Secretary – from administrator to governance leader
The role of a company secretary is broad and onerous to say the least and, if this post is not occupied by a competent person who has the appropriate knowledge and skills; the consequences can be the cause of significant organisational friction.
Why should organisations publish a meaningful integrated report?
Most modern, well-governed organisations are acutely aware of the need for their businesses to be run in an ethical and socially-conscious manner and for this ethos to be communicated to their stakeholders.
FICA amended – Needs implementation
With South Africa already on precarious ground as a result of its alleged ‘state capture’, not least also the effects of South Africa being...
