Next Generation

Business growth – 150 pieces of other people’s wisdom and how to grow your business General Ideas: Never let a day pass without engaging in at least one marketing activity. Determine a percentage of gross income to spend annually on marketing. Set specific marketing goals every year, review monthly, and adjust quarterly. Maintain a file [...]

It is the beginning of 2006 and organisations are looking at new ways to grow. However, the real power lies in doing so profitably – and that takes serious work. When you are constantly scrambling to make your margins, you have to strain to think about top line growth. After a decade of downsizing and [...]

Most CEO’s recognise that their companies are not achieving their full growth potential, but many are unsure how – and where – to tap into it. The fact is growth opportunities are everywhere. At its best, a company can be viewed as a growth machine. Organic sustainable business growth can be achieved by removing operational [...]

Growth is the hallmark of success for any business – and the desire to grow should be embedded in the mindset of every person starting a new business venture, says Reana Rossouw of Next Generation Consulting, who focuses on helping small businesses consolidate and grow. But entrepreneurs also need to be aware that the process [...]

Growth is the hallmark of success for any business. Growth is critical to entrepreneurial success and distinguishes the entrepreneurial venture from the small business. Growth and the desire to grow should be embedded in the mindset of every person starting or creating a new business venture. An entrepreneurial mindset constantly seeks growth and innovation and [...]

• Does your strategy buck the conventional wisdom? • Are you as committed to creating new leaders as you are to launching new products? • Is your organisation built for speed? Here are 10 make-or-break questions to evaluate your company’s performance – and some South African companies that according to our opinion have passed the [...]

Much has been said and written about black economic empowerment and its vital role to the sustained development of the new South Africa. The successes and most notably the failures, of the prominent large companies and high-profiled black businessmen behind the deals have received a significant amount of press. However, South Africa is arguably a [...]

“By this time we all know how to draw up a 50-page company strategy. But we haven’t the faintest idea how to implement it and make it work. We don’t know how to deal with the emotional, political and psychological barriers that people consciously or unconsciously put up to resist change. At the same time, [...]