Shared Value Ecosystem strategy Archives

13 July 2026 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

People, purpose and the power to adapt: Building better businesses through shared purpose

We spend much of our lives asking ourselves one seemingly simple, yet often painfully complex question: What is my purpose? For some, the answer arrives with certainty and conviction from...

4 May 2026 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

Taking the phobia out of finance

Money is rarely just about the numbers. For most of us, it is attached to emotions: fear, guilt, pride, and – especially for entrepreneurs – anxiety. Money is tied to...

22 April 2026 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

Mental fortitude and SMME success

If there’s one thing that characterises the world we live in today, it’s uncertainty. In the past five or so years we’ve had to navigate supply-chain disruption and economic contraction...

9 April 2026 Featured Posts, General

Buildings designed to be taken apart

Ten years ago, circular economy principles and regenerative thinking were not mainstream. Conversations around embodied carbon, material transparency and lifecycle thinking were niche in many boardrooms. Today, they are common,...

7 April 2026 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

Brand-building: a challenge in an era of digital distrust

It was around 2004, with the emergence of what was called Web 2.0, that the marketing landscape irrevocably changed. In the first iteration of the interwebs, web pages were static...

25 September 2025 SMME Cluster

From startup to standout

Picture shows: MC and panel moderator Fred Roed of Heavy Chef speaks with Andrew Smith, one of the co-founders of Yuppiechef and, more recently Brave Hardy; and Arie Fabian of...

15 September 2025 SMME Cluster

What customers really want

Picture shows (l to r): Hannah Lavery of the Hannah Lavery brand; Erica Elk of CDI, Henry Mathys of the V&A; Elektra Georgiadis of Earth Age; Harmonie Mbunga of UDO...

7 August 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Putting the ‘oh’ into Zero Waste

Zero waste sounds daunting. What, for example, can you do with your olds sports kit when it wears thin? The shell after you’ve squeezed an orange? The cork from your...

7 July 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster

Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

In South Africa’s waters, says Dr Judy Mann of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, more than 2 000 species of marine fish can be found. Around 320 of these (16%)...

27 November 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Sustainable seafood: making things possible

There are, after all, not so many fish in the sea, says Michael Farquar, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium. We have hopelessly mismanaged the ocean and its resources. But...