Website Focus and Benefits
This website is one of the first steps taken to address the information gap that plagues the Enterprise and Supplier Development space in South Africa. Most will agree that a lot is happening in ESD but few will have had the luxury of time and resources required to truly investigate what really is available. Entrepreneurs generally focus on driving sales and cannot undertake the months of research required in order to get a sense of the support that is available to them. Practitioners (and I can remember feeling dreadful about this) are often unable to spend time getting a programme level sense of what is going on in their space - particularly because doing it before this website would require so much time. Chasing performance targets, shaping and implementing ESD programmes and managing people typically takes up all the time available to you as an ESD practitioner. As such, really good programmes that do not or cannot spend a fortune on public relations do not reach their target markets - entrepreneurs and business owners lose out; opportunities for collaboration between programme owners are not leveraged; and synergies cannot be identified.
This website seeks to create an online platform that will close this gap and enable greater integration, collaboration and coordination amongst the various players across the Enterprise and Supplier Development Landscape in South Africa. What are the key benefits for users? Entrepreneurs will be able to identify programmes applicable to them based on the stage that their business is in and the challenges and context that they are facing. They will then be able to take immediate action by either following the outlined application process or contacting the programme's contact persons. This will save entrepreneurs valuable time and money, whilst improving the chances of obtaining the support needed to ensure the growth and sustainability of their businesses. It will also provide entrepreneurs and business owners with guidance for navigating some of the challenges that they may be facing or could be faced with at each stage of the business life cycle. Practitioners and policy makers will be able to identify programme gaps that have not yet been effectively filled across the various life cycle stages; identify potential synergies and collaboration opportunities and assess their programmes against others available in the market place. This website will save practitioners both the time and resources that would need to be spent, to get the information presented in this book in their hands, as an input into their strategy development and programme improvement activities. Months will be saved in the benchmarking process because of the foundation that this book effectively provides. This platform is owned and driven by INNO Yolo. Dedicated to joyful innovation that improves lives. Use the contact form to get in touch with us. |
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