Articles How our modern, city lifestyles are killing us and how Central Africa may hold the key to the solution Our modern, urban landscape and obsession with sterile surfaces and homogenous diets is killing the rich, diverse microbiome that we so desperately need to operate a well-functioning immune system.
Seminars Will your startup culture get you to the next crucial stage of your business development? It was Peter Drucker that said: 'Culture eats strategy for breakfast' - and in my experience as a business strategist and futurist, this is one of the most profound management statements ever made.
Articles The Selfie Factory helps Instagrammers lift their selfie game The queues outside of The Selfie Factory at London's O2 are apparently something to behold.
Articles The benefit of building a startup in Africa Let's start off by stating the obvious - Cape Town, South Africa is not Palo Alto, California.
Articles Nude Foods - Cape Town's plastic free grocery store Plastic-free grocery shopping is most certainly increasing in popularity with consumers; what we're delighted to try is a plastic-free grocery store called Nude Foods.
Articles Africa increasingly attractive to venture capitalists In an ultra low yield global investment environment, the African startup and entrepreneurial landscape is looking increasingly attracting to global investment capital that is not afraid of a little risk.
Articles A threat to the future of supermarkets is coming from an unlikely disruptor Four out of every five shoppers in the UK have eaten a meal that wasn’t prepared at home in the last month.
Articles How innovation has radically changed financial markets When I was growing up there seemed to be no better job in the world than being a stock market trader
Case studies Big tech just showed how to weather a PR disaster Techlash is a term used to describe the growing unease regarding the unregulated, exponential power of big tech companies.
Articles The South African wine industry has some exciting future opportunities One of South Africa's biggest exports is wine, but even though South Africa produces a good product the industry only accounts for 4% of global wine sales.
Case studies Heads up - here comes OKJA oat m*lk We're excited to see that well-known, Capetonian brand-builder, Rui Esteves [from Brewers & Union] fame, has come out with OKJA Oat M*lk
Articles A big shift in how consumers see brands is happening right now In the past two years there has been a massive shift in how consumers see waste and garbage.
Articles What South Africa can learn from Norway Norway is a fascinating country and culture to visit as a South African.
Articles There are some very interesting themes emerging if you carefully watch this year's Super Bowl ads Brands that advertise during the Super Bowl are gambling.
Articles Wine sales in the US are waning For 25 years wine sales in the US have shown steady growth, but lately that trend has seen a reverse.
Articles 'Sustainable fashion' might not be as good for the environment as brands would have you believe Consumers are demanding that brands transition towards being more environmentally sustainable.
Articles There are only two areas of your business your should be focusing on in 2020 If you can make this your mantra in 2020 and focus all of you leadership efforts into realising this - you've got a great base on which to build for the future.
Articles Our Top 3 ads of 2019 2019 has been the year that big advertisers started to realise that it's near impossible to build a decent brand on PPC alone.
Articles What character traits do great leaders have? The days of simply hiring somebody with an MBA to administer the company's profit and loss statement and slapping the title of CEO on them...are over.
Podcasts South African business ideas for 2020 In this week's podcast we chat about some of the opportunities that exist at the moment for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in the South African marketplace.
Articles 7 innovation focus-areas that offer significant potential to South African business in 2020 There are a number of interesting business segments that offer the South African entrepreneur / intrapreneur / innovator lots of exciting growth opportunities if we are to cast our minds forward into the future.
Case studies Does the quality of your future depend on how long you spend thinking about it? Businesses that commit to the futures process tend to hit the stretch targets that they set for themselves.
Case studies Companies that have adopted a 4-day workweek record much better levels of productivity The length of time anything takes to finish is completely dependant on how much time you give it. In fact, if you offer too much time you will most likely get nothing done at all.
