Ask a beneficiary business how it feels to be "in" a corporate's ESD programme, and you'll often hear the same thing: grateful for the support, but quietly aware it exists...
Not every company measures its ESD spend against the same rulebook. If your business operates in construction, financial services, ICT, tourism, property or a handful of other regulated industries, the...
Most companies choose an ESD implementation partner the way they choose a caterer — a good pitch deck, a friendly relationship manager, a price that fits the budget. Then eighteen...
Most companies default to writing a cheque when they think about Enterprise Development, because it's the fastest thing to document and the easiest to explain to a board. The B-BBEE...
Two companies can spend exactly the same rand value on ESD in the same year — and only one of them will survive a verification audit or convince a funder...
South African small businesses aren't just surviving — in the sectors where they can get a foothold, they're growing faster than the big players around them. The most recent official...
Spending the ESD budget and running an ESD programme that works are not the same thing — and the gap between them is bigger than most scorecards admit. The B-BBEE...
Most companies that lose ESD points at verification didn't spend the money badly — they just can't prove they spent it at all. A B-BBEE verification audit doesn't take your...
The practical difference between Enterprise Development and Supplier Development under B-BBEE's ESD element, and why misclassifying spend causes verification problems....
A four-filter framework for selecting Enterprise & Supplier Development beneficiaries who are still trading and reporting two years in....