Tag: Business

  • Nairobi – The New Home of the Multinationals?

    Kenya is on the Indian Ocean with Ethiopia separating it from the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It benefits from membership of the East Africa Community that includes Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The capital city Nairobi is in the interior heartland. It is the twelfth largest city on the continent and one…

  • The Transformative Impact of the London 2012 Olympics: A Legacy Beyond Sport

    In the summer of 2012, the world’s attention was fixed on London as the city played host to the grand spectacle of the Olympic Games. The London 2012 Olympics was not only a showcase of athletic prowess but also an opportunity for the city to leave a lasting legacy on its landscape, society, and economy.…

  • Unlocking the potential of mobility in Africa

    I believe that Africa represents the greatest Enterprise Mobility opportunity for any network operator anywhere in the world today, it is one the last great opportunities, all MNCs are waking up to Africa, they are economically challenged in their traditional markets and are now looking for ways to sustain and grow their own organisations. All…

  • Mobile money – A cash replacement?

    In the 1920s, fuel stations, hotel chains and restaurants began offering their customers charge cards so that they would not have to carry cash with them at all times. With this action the breezy remark, “charge it” was born. By the 1960s, Diners Club, American Express and Bank of America had built empires on the…

  • Mobile Working – New idea or one past it’s day?

    With all the current comment by some companies such as Yahoo and their move back to office based working I thought that we should take a closer look at the subject. In 2007, Cisco commissioned a report that identified five categories of mobile workers. All were still strongly tied to head offices and included On-Site…

  • Why Your Sales Pipeline Is Never the Truth

    (And Why the Same Problem Exists Everywhere Else) Ask any sales leader a simple question:“What does your pipeline look like right now?” You will get an answer.You will almost certainly not get the truth. Not because anyone is lying, but because the organisation has quietly stopped agreeing on what “truth” means. Most companies start with…

  • Mobility and The Enterprise – A Challenge to the status quo?

    The world is crossing over to a new era in which office premises have become portable. Computers that used to sit on desktops have been replaced by fleet-footed hand-held devices. The shackles of “present-teeism” the industrial revolution forged have been replaced by bonds of mutual self-respect between collaborators. The real challenge is getting people to…

  • African Talent and The Multinationals – Who is Chasing Who?

    Africa is in the process of resolving a scarcity of talent and restricted data portability. As far back as November 2010 Mobility Magazine predicted that market expansion would combine with skill shortages to stimulate data mobility across the continent. It expected that the main driver would be indigenous talent returning home, with sophisticated expectations for…

  • Ghana and the Multinationals

    I was in Ghana yesterday. At first sight it struck me how well Accra was emerging from the past, and taking its rightful place on the bight of Africa where it borders Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and the Atlantic Ocean. No wonder the multinationals are keen to get a foot in. Mobile is the…