SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BLOG
About Our Blog
To ensure our strategic mission of developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses is effective, we in addition to our variety of services run this blog, the Small Business Development Blog. Our blog currently offers topical issues under these categories: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, People Management, Risk and Change, Corporate Governance, and finally Sustainability.
Strategy
Operating a business, regardless of its size, involves key decision making which has long term impact on both the business and those that run it. Therefore, under this Strategy category, we bring to you diverse critical issues that help to sharpen your strategic focus as you operate your micro, small and medium enterprise in Africa.
Entrepreneurship
No doubt, we cannot talk about business without reflecting on the Entrepreneur, four they are a key pillar among the factors of production. Consequently, this Entrepreneurship category serves to address your desire to know more about the entrepreneur, entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial learning.
People Management
Management globally is well known about their famous remark, which goes something like ‘People are our greatest asset in our business’. The golden question is: Does the different management and leadership styles prevalent in our African SMEs truly or objectively reflective about this statement? Therefore, this People Management category illuminates all these critical issues inclusive of the extent of decent work that we find in our African SMEs.
Risk & Change Management
Two inescapable challenges among many in operating a business are risk and change. As an entrepreneur and SME owner manager, we have no doubt that you already have lots of encounters dealing with risk and change. One thing for sure is you can never be certain in business. It is therefore, that this Risk and Change Management Category houses key topical issues about enterprise risk management and how in addressing change you can strive to plan for the best and also prepare for the worst.
Corporate Governance
Best practice in business entails adhering high standards of business ethics and corporate governance. Key benchmarks include issues of power, accountability, responsibility, integrity, discipline, equity, transparency and independence. Yet many African SMEs are not proficient in these benchamarks and quite understandbly, being very small such as a micro enterprise, is a major cause among many. Neverthelesss, numerous SMEs do not have this size liability, being for example well established small and medium enterprises but lack adequate knowledge about how to foster good corporate governance practices. Consequently, through this Corporate Governance category, our African SMEs readership can gain very useful insights.
Sustainability
No one can effectively succeed in business without systematic ways of assessing sustainable performance. The obvious understanding here is the economic rationale for being in business. However, even more important are ecological and social impacts. As such, the trio of economic, ecological and social impacts constitute the key drivers for sustainability entrepreneurship and how to strike this delicate balance is not easy to many SMEs globally. Therefore, our Sustainability category seeks to engage, excahnge, educate and empwoer our African SMEs with key matters relating to sustainability. It is our deep conviction here at Small Business Gateway Africa that if we all take our roles, we can pass on a better world to future generations.
This & That Guest Articles
Are you interested in guest authoring for our blog? We would like to hear from you. This section seeks to offer some very interesting readership across a wide spectra of business management.
Business Lifestories With Dr Charlie
Dr Charlie is keen to have a discussion face to face or virtually with any interested African entrepreneurs from all walks of life and in various sectors of the African economy. If you identify yourself as an African entrepreneur, take pride in being a distinct African entrepreneur and are passionate in recording African entrepreneurship, then please get in touch with Dr Charlie so you can have a chat. From this chat, SBGA shall publish your business lifestory for the benefit of other African entrepreneurs as well as to inspire thousands of African teenagers, school leavers, graduates and even mature and seasaoned African employees to consider getting into entrepreneurship: Start and grow their own new businesses and further advance our African economy. This invitation is not only open to businesses but also to those in social entrepreneurship and civic sector via start ups and opeartions of non-profit institutions.
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