Entrepreneurship

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

The buzzword in today’s world is innovation. Everyone wants to be innovative, wants to get their staff to think outside the box, find new solutions, create the next Facebook. Here is some thinking about how to be innovative in today’s ever-changing world: Look for innovation in small increments. Sometimes the best solutions are not earth-changing;

A friend once said, “I haven’t got an entrepreneurial bone in my body”. After being an entrepreneur for 15 years, one of the key things I’ve learned is that everyone is an entrepreneur – but not everyone can make money from their own business. This friend took an innovative approach, combining legal skills with transfer

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

What entrepreneurs do: making something out of nothing Making something out of nothing is an art. People all over the world do it every day, and often a lack of something is the critical factor in creating new ways of doing things. I worked in Japan for four years – the Japanese are the most

Five years ago the buzzword in the business world was “innovation”; these days, it’s “disruption”. Every year the world tilts and we all scramble to keep up. For several years I’ve been working the in knowledge management and innovation arenas. In studying both, I’ve determined that the next real step in innovation – in evolution

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

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

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

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