Business Leadership

Making knowledge management part of how we work

It’s great when you tell people that you have expertise in knowledge management – it sounds impressive. But the reality is that everyone is an expert in knowledge management. It’s a matter of realising this, and creating conscious thought processes around knowledge management that make it sustainable. Our key focus today is on capturing success […]

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2016 Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg

Introduction 2016 Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg is based on two premises: first, that entrepreneurship has the potential to be a critical factor for economic growth, and second, that the voices of entrepreneurs need to be the guiding factor in establishing what is needed for entrepreneurship to grow. A lot of money is

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems are the answer

There are a lot of programmes out there to help entrepreneurs, and many of them offer excellent services. After interviewing 50 people, including 38 entrepreneurs in one-on-one discussions in Johannesburg over four months and writing our own entrepreneurship study, the 2016 Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, we came to the conclusion that

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems are the answer

Entrepreneurship is on everyone’s lips. Everyone wants to be one, everyone wants to help them. But do we really know what entrepreneurs need? In December 2016, the 2016 Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg. was independently published by Z.A.ZEN Consulting (Pty) Ltd. It was the first study made by entrepreneurs, listening to the voices of

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9 things we learned from doing the City of Johannesburg’s entrepreneurship ecosystems events

Good things can come out of frustration. Out of frustration, we created the 2016 Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, a self-funded multi-stakeholder research study of 50 entrepreneurs and partners in Johannesburg. I was unhappy with the status quo: many people who had never ever run their own businesses putting millions of rand into

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Are entrepreneurs more alike than they are different?

What is the difference between an entrepreneur in Alexandra who just opened a driving school, and an entrepreneur with a well-established logistics company based in the Johannesburg CBD? I’ve always thought they would be like night and day. As it turns out, that isn’t the case. Their desire to be successful and their ambition to

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