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The Assumption Register: The Missing Layer Between Strategy and Budget
Strategy becomes real when assumptions are classified, owned, tested and monitored before they harden into the budget.
The Apprenticeship Bottleneck: AI, Article Clerks, and the First Rung of Work in South Africa
AI may not simply eliminate entry-level professional jobs in South Africa. The deeper risk is that it removes the apprenticeship work through which graduates become capable professionals.
Before the Digital Twin, Build the Decision Twin
A leadership team is presented with a beautiful dashboard. It features real-time performance metrics, revenue streams, resource utilisation, and predictive…
The Culture Scorecard
Most organisations measure what is easiest to count long before they measure what is most important to understand.
Digital Waste Is Now Digital Gold
Years ago, I asked a simple question: Who owns your digital waste? At the time, the question lived mainly in the old digital paradigm. The concern was…
South Africa’s Self-Reliant Future Demands a New Higher Education Strategy
4 March 2024 A New Era of Self-Reliance As global trends shift towards national self-reliance in a multi-polar context, South Africa stands at a crossroads…
The Evolving Relevance of Weak Ties in a Changing World
The concept of “weak ties,” introduced by Mark Granovetter in his seminal 1973 work, has long been a cornerstone in understanding social networks and their…
Bridging the Digital Skills Divide in Africa: A Q&A
(Introduction) Introduce the topic & agenda. Get a sense of who is in the audience to help best drive the conversation Panel introduce themselves, their…
Experience as Evidence, Not Time Served
The Profoundness of Experience By Dr Riaan Steenberg Experience is not the same as time served.
Vistas of Opportunity
Vistas to opportunity An open mind gives you a vista to a world of opportunity. A vista, being a narrow path through which you can see something that would…
The Alchemy of Management
Outline Introduction Entrepreneurship and managerialism are not parsimonious in the literature of either discipline.
Relentlessly Steer Applicability
Good ideas fail quietly when nobody forces them to become applicable. They sound intelligent in a workshop. They look impressive in a strategy deck. They…