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Business Growth Strategy IV – Process and Profit
We conclude this series this week with a look at two areas of business that are often ignored by entrepreneurs: the processes and the profits. Most small businesses are started by one person or a [...]
The South African Breweries (SAB)
The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa’s top brewer and leading distributor of beer. For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral [...]
The Strategy of People and Products: YES or NO?
On Monday we opened up a can of worms by looking at what growth strategies need to be implemented in a business for the people and products you manage. This has created some debate with [...]
Service Industry Performance Measurement
We continue discussing performance measurement and this week we look at service industry performance measurement. It is quite difficult to measure performance management for service industries for several reasons: · Production and consumption of the service [...]
Angela Ahrendts – Former CEO of Burberry
Angela Jean Ahrendts, DBE is an American businesswoman and the Senior Vice President of Retail at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. Ahrendts left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. [...]
Strategy of People and Products
The third leg of our series on Strategy is on People and Products. This follows last week’s lesson on Purpose. What strategy is required in order to leverage your Human assets within a business? It [...]
The Strategy of Purpose
What is the purpose of your business? You should at some stage compose a set of purpose statements, that when reading together, define the business’s purpose. These are some ideas to start with: 1. What [...]
Perfomance Measurement: Product & Service Quality
We continue this week with our discussion on Performance Measurement. Last week we explored some practical examples on how businesses in different sectors can measure their performance using NFPIs. This week we conclude the topic by looking [...]