whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

... businesses depend on Eskom for electricity. Eskom is largely state-owned and their pricing and investment strategy are controlled by the government. Plenty has already been discussed in the press r...

2. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
(Analysis/Analysis)

...al status quo in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF is clearly shaken by his challenge. This is shown by their main campaign strategy which is to decampaign Makoni. Of late, Zanu PF has resorted to discrediting Mako...

3. The spectre of loyalty over ability
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tely not alone. What reward do talented employees receive for identifying problems in their employer's strategy, or producing radical new innovations that contradict the prevailing way of doing t...

4. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...impressed by what they see they will want to invest. Who knows, despite the obvious failures of government strategy on AIDS and Zimbabwe, they may be right. Foreign tourists arriving in South Africa...

5. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

.... Gavin: Which means that there is clearly a competitive advantage in dropping those walls. Basic business strategy has always said that the easier one makes it to arrive or leave, then the lower the...

6. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hecks or grant them. We do not live or work with any form of the non-objective." It is a simple enough strategy. Whenever others demand of me that I make available the products of my mind and rec...

7. South Africa's two tiers
(Analysis/Analysis)

... informal sector growth. So much so that this has been used to plug holes in government's job creation strategy. From Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, a...

8. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e of the company, the processes by which they operate, and the people who perform." He summarises his strategy so: "The right strategy, the right resources, and keep out of jail." As...

9. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...and so they are driven by the ethos of price only. Other countries are better constituted to adopt a price strategy; they have long flat vineyards that allow machine harvesting. South Africa has ste...

10. Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
(Analysis/Analysis)

Small business development is a crucial part of government's strategy to reduce unemployment and increase black economic empowerment. Whythawk has recently completed rating individual small busine

11. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ps have ensured that countries impose rules they can't afford and perpetuate the cycle of poverty. The strategy for development is this: accept your circumstances; do not artificially restrain t...

12. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...simply like gravity. It is a way that people interact through trade. Socialism is a particular capitalist strategy. So is communism. Capitalism can assist those people who know the ideology and ru...

13. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t may be of interest to understand how they stack up against each other. Cell phone companies have a clear strategy as far as their contract tariffs are concerned: sew confusion as widely as is human...

14. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
(Analysis/Analysis)

...to get a 5 – 10% cost reduction,” says Prahalad, “but you have to completely rethink your strategy to get a 50x reduction in price.” It is essential to build new strategic cap...

15. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

...electricity provider in South Africa, the state-protected Eskom. With no real competition to focus business strategy, most daily attention is aimed at internal politics, scheming to increase profits w...

16. Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
(Analysis/Analysis)

South Africa should be one of the most sophisticated centres for innovations aimed at developing products for the world’s poorest nations; the so called “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyram

17. AIDS and the cost of doing nothing
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s also achieving little by way of awareness and responsibility. South Africa launched a five-year HIV/AIDS strategy in late 2006, vowing to cut new infections and deliver treatment and support to at ...

18. Rating to create a market; questions and answers
(Analysis/Analysis)

... and collected endeavour.  Sprinters are timed over the same course to see whose ideas of training and strategy are best; computers are measured against each other running benchmark software to s...

19. May I have the bill, please? A lesson in wilful ignorance ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nts are considered a component of business development and improvement then they become part of the overall strategy. People change their preferences on a daily basis.  The changes are subtle, b...

20. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

Globalisation and the global flow of capital are frequently blamed for inequality and poverty. "Surely," the argument goes, "you must be getting rich at the expense of all these poor, s

21. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
(Static Content)

...pared to turn dreams into reality, to lead change, is an entrepreneur. The art of leading change requires strategy. The Beyond Awakening series of ebooks is dedicated to enhancing and shaping that ...

22. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...ompanies on understanding the informal economy, developing their "Bottom of the Pyramid" business strategy, and rating the local partners necessary to work in such unstructured environments...

23. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
(Static Content)

...pared to turn dreams into reality, to lead change, is an entrepreneur. The art of leading change requires strategy. The Beyond Awakening series of ebooks is dedicated to enhancing and shaping that ...

24. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...ompanies on understanding the informal economy, developing their "Bottom of the Pyramid" business strategy, and rating the local partners necessary to work in such unstructured environments...