Uncertainty remains about the timeline for a global economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic. Companies continue to fashion out ways to deal with its negative impacts on their operations, sales/revenue, costs and profits. This is having mixed impacts on companies following unplanned emergency investments into their operations, new technologies,...
Vodafone Ghana Foundation has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Accra Regional Hospital as part of efforts to protect frontline health workers in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The items, which were donated during the festive period, include sets of face shields, boxes of N95 facemasks, surgical gloves,...
Global supply chains severely disrupted by COVID-19
Multinationals turn to China +1 and nearshoring
Worldwide increase in regionalization and localization
Major regional trade deals signed or accelerated
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted global trade in 2020. However, it has also caused new paradigms to emerge, some of which point to...
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”…Winston Churchill
Happy new year to all readers. I am grateful for your support and feedback on my social media. You challenge and spur me on to continue my journey of sharing issues on operational risks in the financial services sector. Please keep...
— But only if it looks beyond the obvious options
For decades, many of Africa’s oil- and gas-producing states followed a predictable pattern. They treated their oil and gas primarily as raw materials that could be sold abroad for a quick profit, rather than as a means of supporting efforts...
Financial Science expert, Professor Forster Kum-Ankama Sarpong, has called on organisations to recognize what he calls ‘latent’ talents in employees and help develop them to surmount the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to him, despite the pandemic whisking many talents away in the form of loss of life,...
According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary the term decision-making is “the process of deciding about something important, especially in a group of people or in an organization.”
Another definition of decision-making indicates that the “decision making process is a continuous and indispensable component of managing any organization or business...
