Innovation

South Africa ranked at #61 in the Global Innovation Index 2025

This year's GII report is really just a snapshot of wasted potential. If you want to make your blood boil - read it.

The New World of Business

Revolut plans to shake up South African banking

The 'Big Banks' aren't going anywhere in a hurry, but if offerings like Revolut come to South Africa...a lot of commercially-desired retail banking customers will no doubt be going their way.

Articles

Looking at things in the distance

What's right in front of you is not all that it's cracked up to be.

Business strategy

A view of the future of your competitive landscape

Outperformance requires strategic foresight as to what the future competitive landscape may look like.

Business strategy

The point of it all...is winning

Excellence isn't sparked by settling to just 'make up the numbers'.

An official approach to the future

The value of a company is made up not just of its current financial performance, but also its plausible projected future state. This projected future state - if it is going to be more than simply an inflated extrapolation of the present (also known as 'a thumb suck'

Thinking

Paying less attention to news

For those wanting to develop their strategic thinking capabilities - news is truly toxic.

The Future of Work

And then there's people

Business is all about people.

Business strategy

Heading for burnout

In a strategy void, the risk is that projects are randomly handed over to operational teams who then have no logically constructed argument to justify why not executing the ideas is ultimately more beneficial for the desired future state of the organisation.

Marketing strategy

What does successful marketing look like?

A lot of time and frustration can be spent speaking different languages, while using the same words.

Innovation

De-risking innovation

Mapping out some of the key elements of a successful innovation program.

The Future of Work

Space to breathe

Business needs a new foundational anchor to replace its reverence to the hustle.

Experience

In marvel of mess

Without remarkable episodes of mess, how else will we ever know how far we've come?

Business strategy

Trading problems

Strategy is a creative problem solving / problem resolving / problem dissolving process.

Business strategy

Carpe diem

This psychological phenomenon has a critical influence on our decision-making.

The New World of Business

Is SWOT worth the effort?

We've all been in a session where this thing has been suggested and have all done the same eyeball roll in response.

Futures thinking

Something that is fast becoming a necessity for everyone, rather than a nice to have.

Business strategy

Nothing changes, if nothing changes

Mapping out the will be, could be and should be future states you currently face...is priceless.

Business strategy

When to do planning vs. when to do strategy

Good strategy work offers an approach that is appropriate in the face of uncertainty, within which informed choices can be made to position an organisation for success.

The Future of Work

You too are 'an influencer'

Getting better at influencing futures is an important life skill to master.

Business strategy

Dragging old agendas into new futures

Strategy work that drags old agendas into new futures will just end up creating more of the same.

Articles

Questioning questions

Should you be questioning questions?

Business strategy

Choose wisely

It's just this...and certainly not all of that.

Leadership

Mad ideas

What questions are not being asked?

The Future of Work

O Captain! My Captain!

Hoping and praying and wishing for a saviour to rescue you is pointless.