Exactly one year ago, markets were in a flurry as the rand reached and exceeded R11 to the US dollar. As usual, analysts rushed to predict where the trajectory was headed. In retrospect, we can say with confidence that those who predicted a downhill slope were the accurate ones. The rand...
A business owner who has started outsourcing financial management recently remarked: “Once I’ve spent an hour with my financial manager, it feels like I’ve spent an hour with a therapist!” Her comment got us thinking about just how far the analogy might carry. It led to this Huffington Post article, which...
Director of M-Pull, Daryn Smith joins the regular Cliff Central panel to discuss "The future of Social Media Marketing". M-Pull is a B2B marketing agency focused on attracting new qualified sales leads and converting them into customers for their clients that target companies in Africa. They provide the strategy, content,...
On CliffCentral radio’s Leadership Platform programme last week, we chatted to Steve Giddings, managing director of Frontier Corporation about the notion of competition. Giddings, who is also a global business consultant, said that many companies take an overly narrow view of what it means to compete. “A lot of entrepreneurs simply...
SMB Leadership on CliffCentral.com ‘The importance of planning and using productivity tools to add more hours to your working day.’ Adriaan Groenewald and Richard Angus chat with Anthony Soicher from Strategy Architects, who is both a lecturer and entrepreneur. Derrick Ndzavi, mentor and advisor, joins the panel and provides an inspirational...
The role of chief financial officer was once interpreted as fairly narrow. He was seen mainly as a controller: the guardian of the company coffers. Nowadays, that role has undergone an evolution. Instead of being the back-office person he was once was, he is now expected to partner with the...
It’s every financial director’s dream to walk into a company and change it from struggling to smooth-sailing. But the chief financial officer of Sony has managed to do just that. The revival of a slumping share price and the revitalisation of a flagging brand is thanks, according to some, to...
Adriaan Groenewald and Richard Angus speak with serial entrepreneur and CEO of Imperial Green Mobility, Jonathan Cohen.
What does it take to be seen as South Africa’s foremost chief financial officer? This year’s CFO of the year award (as presented by the association CFO South Africa) was bagged by Alexander Forbes’s Deon Viljoen. The chief financial officer of one of the country’s largest financial risk services companies,...
