Business Day launches growth campaign
Big business has to be agile to respond to the political, labour, technology and legislative changes locally and abroad. This requires a focus on only core activities to compete effectively in the marketplace.
This creates scope for small businesses to develop offerings to meet the changing needs of big business. Today, effective small business suppliers need to innovate beyond simply supplying products or services. They need to offer sustainable cost, value or strategic benefits.
The Growth Engines will profile big business customers who enjoy these benefits from small business suppliers and in doing so, demonstrating the benefits of a symbiotic relationship resulting from supply chain innovation.
The Growth Engines aims to:
- provide small business with insights on what big business wants;
- enable big business to call upon innovation in small business suppliers;
- enable big business to call upon innovation in SME suppliers;
- demonstrate the vibrancy that exists between big and small business; and
- inspire business-centred policy that will generate jobs and innovation that will kick-start the engines of growth to position SA as a leader in Africa once more.
The Growth Engines are anchored in a 30-minute weekly TV show on Business Day TV hosted by Pavlo Phitidis. It extends to a full page in Tuesday’s Business Day Newspaper, coverage on the BDlive website, Business Day’s FaceBook page, Financial Mail, SowetanLive and TimesLive reaching more than 3,8-million viewers and readers. The Growth Engines will culminate in a black-tie event.
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Pavlo Phitidis
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Pavlo Phitidis
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