Conversations with business leaders from a number of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries revealed that recruiting and retaining talent is one of the most important challenges they face – if not the most important. The 2017 African business outlook survey confirmed that this experience is generalized. How do companies cope with this challenge? Recruiting talent: digital […]
Reforms that make doing business easier
These days I’m teaching a course on Managing Corporate Growth in IESE’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program. One of the issues we’ve discussed is international expansion. We touched upon the difficulties of getting data in the African context. We discussed the shortcomings of official statistics — if you follow this blog regularly, you may know that […]
Partnerships for Growth
Last week, we welcomed at IESE a group of top executives from Kenya. They are participants in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Strathmore Business School. A one-week module at IESE is part of this program. I had the opportunity to share with them two sessions about alliances and acquisitions as external growth options for a […]