Tag Archives: business
UCT MBA Course Up Six Places To Rank 54 in 2012 Global MBAs
The full-time MBA programme at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has been rated the best value-for-money MBA in the world, and has moved up six places to be ranked 54th in the latest Financial Times (FT) of London’s Global MBA Top 100, released today.
The UCT GSB remains the [...]
Holiday Marketing Tip: Show Gratitude
Show your gratitude to your customers during the festive season. As much as it’s been a rough year for a number of businesses, the best way to put positive energy out there is be grateful for the customers that have supported you.
Make up a small hamper, and send it on to your best/most [...]
Holiday Finance Tip: Protecting Your Valuables
This one’s more of a holiday checklist, but still super-important to ensure you don’t end up wasting your hard-earned money if something goes south this holiday season.
First-off, if you’re leaving home on holiday, make sure that you don’t make it an absolute giveaway that you’re not there – holiday time is peak season for [...]
How HR Is Influencing Business Success In A Changing Environment
Human resource management (HRM) has been a misunderstood and under utilised business resource for many years – but modern organisations are waking up to the potential and competitive advantage that a strong HR team can offer.
HR staff used to be seen as the administrative enforcers of the business’ management team – executive-centric and reactive, [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: Cheryl Nesbitt, Founder Of Africa’s Biggest Cooking School
For those of you who don’t know who Cheryl Nesbitt is, this interview should make illuminating reading. I have fond memories of sitting in Cheryl’s Cape Town living room back in the first days of Capsicum Cooking School, brainstorming her marketing strategy. Even back then it was apparent that Cheryl’s drive, determination and attention to [...]
Are Business Plans Like Battle Plans?
So you’ve downloaded a business plan template and you’ve sharpened your pencils and got out your calculator. If you go ahead and fill in all the boxes, will this plan be the foundation of a great business? I want to focus on what really goes into a good business plan, or a “business think” as [...]
Looking For Startup Venture Capital? 10 Things You Need To Know
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, I was fortunate to attend the Tech City UK Entrepreneurship Festival in London along with over 300 other startups and Venture Capitalists (VC’s) from around the globe. Apart from sharing insights about the kind of companies VC’s fund, they also let us in on what they look for.
Looking past the [...]
PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin’s Top 25 Lessons I Learned As A Young Entrepreneur
Max Levchin is the co-founder of the world’s biggest online payment system, PayPal (those of you who are FNB customers may have signed up for it) and founder of media-sharing service Slide, recently sold to Google for close to $200m. Levchin is a highly respected computer scientist, but is most widely known as a brilliant [...]
Inspiring Social Good Through Social Media
There is no denying that social networking is no longer “the next big thing,” it’s “THE thing” – with sites like Facebook now home to over 800 million active users and Twitter well over 200 million registrants. The numbers alone mean that it would be a huge mistake to overlook social networks as a viable [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: Thomas Kolster on ‘Goodvertising’
Today we’re talking to Thomas Kolster, who recently popped into South Africa from Copenhagen, Denmark. Thomas is a Danish advertising consultant and author of the upcoming book ‘The Bible of Goodvertising’. He talks about how to move from commitments to powerful, engaging communication that changes the world for the better.
Thomas explain the concept of [...]
