Remote work also referred to as telecommuting (work from anywhere or teleworking) has been with us since the 1970s. Over the past, two to three decades’ efforts have been made to institutionalize and further formalize the future of work. In 1995 a phrase was coined to put in perspective...
Access to finance continues to be a major hinderance to the growth of small businesses. This challenge has been attributed to small businesses inability to provide collateral to secure funding, inability to demonstrate adequate traction, inadequate knowledge and experience as well as lack of adequate information on the operations...
While an earlier article talked about value chain financing (VCF), the key question of relevance is what can be done in a practical sense to re-engineer financing of agriculture through VCF, especially in the Covid-19 era?
For this, financial inclusion of agriculture through VCF should not be merely viewed as...
The Media as a Social Force for Change
The media plays a critical role in shaping and directing society toward a national conscience of developmental goals, based on how it selects and cuts through a nation’s developmental agenda by making some issues more salient than others. Through the media’s selection...
‘The 100 Club’ – a content initiative of Cable News Network (CNN) takes a look at global and iconic brands that have survived and thrived for more than 100 years in business. So far, the production has covered some companies/brands that have survived the 100-year mark since their formation...
The word itself is derived from an old Latin word, caput which means “Head”. CAPUT gave birth to the Old French word, capitalis an adjective meaning "of or relating to the head." Eventually, the word capital emerged in Middle English meaning ‘relating to the head or top’, ‘standing at...
Project Syndicate: Last March, you noted that a crisis on the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could trigger at least two direct economic shocks: to production and to demand. In the case of the United States, the health and economic crises have now been compounded by a political one,...
Maxwell: Good evening Otema. I’m looking forward to a pleasant conversation with you. You’ve had all these leadership roles in big corporations, like IBM, Vodafone, being the first-ever female country manager in Microsoft's Africa operations, what advice would you share with young woman entering such a male...
The responsibility of staying one step ahead and leading when change takes places is one of the toughest duties of a leader. In our current economic, social and political climate, burdened with an ongoing pandemic, many leaders are struggling to keep their people and organisations floating above water. But...