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March 24 - TCI Apparel and UNO Sewing
After four generations, as agile as ever
Taiwanese family built thriving business on sewing machines, write Penny Haw and Samuel MungadzeIf you can’t find proper mechanics, train them
Manufacturers have a common challenge across the board — finding mechanics with the appropriate skills and retaining them
Opinion
PAVLO’S PERSPECTIVE: Broad evaluation of suppliers can provide a competitive edge
Pavlo Phitidis
In a competitive industry, the selection and performance of suppliers is crucial to sustained growth, writes Pavlo Phitidis
VIDEO: The Growth Engines: A well-oiled manufacturing partnership
Through a remarkable partnership in the industrial sector, two companies are keeping local manufacturing alive, while at the same time creating jobs and imparting skills
March 17 - The Bespoke Amenities and Legacy Hotel Group
Relationship with hotel group opens new frontiers
The relationship with Legacy Hotel Group has opened new frontiers for entrepreneur Bruce Turner, writes Samuel MungadzeBespoke answer to management of luxury needs
Large hotel group uses small supplier to maintain personalised service model, writes Samuel Mungadze
Opinion
PAVLO’S PERSPECTIVE: Innovating and delivering on the customer experience
Pavlo Phitidis
Pavlo Phitidis: Veteran hotelier Paddy Brearley believes the single most important thing in the hospitality industry is the guest experience
VIDEO: The Growth Engines: Locally made quality the foundation of a unique business relationship
The products Bruce Turner's company supplies to the Legacy Hotel form an intimate bond between guest and hotel and therefore require the highest standards of manufacture
March 10 - Akacia Medical and Kushesh Express
Akacia finds just the medicine
Partnering with a small courier in Kushesh was a risk that has paid off well, writes Samuel MungadzeKushesh: understand the customer’s customer
Kushesh understands what a big leap of faith it takes to entrust a courier with medical deliveries. ‘We don’t take that trust lightly’, writes Samuel Mungadze
Opinion
PAVLO’S PERSPECTIVE: Courier Kushesh maximises niche capability for Akacia
Pavlo Phitidis
It’s hard to be good at everything irrespective of your resources, writes Pavlo Phitidis
March 3 - Crunchyard and Poynting Antennas
Poynting the way to business symbiosis
It’s so much about service — in engineering, service becomes the key thing, writes Samuel MungadzeGot a technical problem? Hire a supercomputer — by the hour
CrunchYard offers high-performance computing that extends an engineering simulation service over the internet on a pay-per-use basis, writes Samuel Mungadze
Opinion
PAVLO’S PERSPECTIVE: Know your customer inside out
Pavlo Phitidis
Design options, speed of production and quality are the watchwords that win, writes Pavlo Phitidis
VIDEO: The Growth Engines: Innovation increases response times, wins global business for SA entrepreneurs
Find out how, in tough times, businesses like CrunchYard have become agile enough to respond quickly to the opportunities that large companies provide
About Growth Engines
Opinion
Bright sparks that drive the heavyweights
Songezo Zibi
It is the apparently small innovations that help create new products, a basis for new manufacturing lines, labour requirements, writes Songezo Zibi
Your presenter and host: Pavlo Phitidis
Pavlo Phitidis is CEO of Aurik Business Accelerator
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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