How to Build a 90-Day Business Improvement Plan (With Template) According to Harvard Business School's Robert Kaplan, co-creator of the Balanced Scorecard, roughly 90% of organisations fail to execute their strategies...
Building an SME That Doesn't Depend on the Founder: A Delegation Roadmap Between 70% and 80% of South African SMMEs collapse within five years, and University of the Western Cape research...
Business Improvement vs Business Coaching: Which Does Your SME Actually Need? The global coaching industry has grown roughly 60% since 2019, and "business coach" and "business consultant" get used almost interchangeably...
Operational Bottlenecks: How to Find and Fix the 3 That Are Actually Slowing You Down SMEs typically run at around half the productivity of large firms — not because they work...
YVR's Leadership Reading List: 10 Ideas Every SA Manager Should Steal South African SMEs invest roughly 30% less in formal training than their global counterparts, yet organisations that keep investing in...
Pricing for Profit: How SA SMEs Can Price Without Racing to the Bottom When times get tight, the instinct for most South African business owners is the same: drop the price,...
Cash Flow Forecasting for South African SMEs: A Practical Template Approach Late payments are quietly becoming one of the biggest threats to small business survival in South Africa. By Q2 of...
The SME Growth Diagnostic: 7 Signals You're Ready to Scale in 2026 Scaling a business is often more a function of structure than profitability. A profitable business built around the founder's...
How ESD Programmes Can Support Broad-Based Ownership Beyond Scorecard Compliance South African companies spend heavily on B-BBEE compliance — an estimated R26 billion a year on enterprise and supplier development alone,...
Enterprise Development Beneficiary Graduation: What Happens After the Programme Ends? Most conversations about Enterprise and Supplier Development focus on getting SMEs into a programme — selection, onboarding, the first funding tranche....