PRIME Dennis Mutua’s journey farming for high-end fruit market Dennis Mutua's journey to success in the often exploitative horticultural sector.
Urban farming: Seedlings venture in high-end Muthaiga Patricks' one-acre farm in Muthaiga, Nairobi, now has over 150,000 different varieties of seedlings.
Diverge thinking: Is there a better way to win in business? Knowledge has become just about free. Everyone will tell you they have the magic secret sauce to business success.
How a hostile legal environment has been killing Kenyans startups Entrepreneurship has many benefits to society including job creation and reducing unemployment.
Data protection: Five tips on safeguarding data at the workplace Data privacy is an emerging risk that organisations now find themselves exposed to.
PRIME White Rose Dry Cleaners’ secret to 72 years in business Abdullah says that the firm’s strategy has been the same since 1952, and adds that as an entrepreneur, once you know what your brand stands for, stick with it and you will never go wrong as long...
Game of business: Why unconventional strategies always win Playing the game of business, applying only logic and rationality, is like playing golf with only one club.
City hotels hit by cancellations over anti-government protests Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers CEO said it is the violence during the protests that worries visitors, leading to cancellations.
Startup’s lactation pods keep working mothers on jobsite During the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, Mutua stumbled upon some information that he was determined to leverage to our advantage.
Decision-making: Three ways to enhance good governance as a sole proprietor One of the biggest risks he or she faces is the lack of good governance structures that promote transparency and accountability due to the business being owned and managed by the same person.
Myth of rationality: Does regret impair your decision making ability? One can’t be considered rational if you change your order, just because you found they also have ham.
PRIME How we broke into the global markets And while access to finance is a big barrier, the major issues that women-led SMEs face are non-financial.
Decision making: The absurdity of being too certain as business leader When you make a management decision do you trust your intuition, or do you rely on the data, the equivalent of empirical observations?
Why counties should use this tool to end perennial revenue shortfall woes In Kenya, counties often face a shortfall in self-generated income, exposing them to uncertainty when they are forced to depend on the national government for allocation of revenue.
PRIME Ex-Naivas boss seeks to disrupt retail with low-budget stores The retail sector guru says that Jaza’s strategy revolves around three key pillars; keeping margins as low as possible with less focus on short term profits.
PRIME Biology graduate finds success in cricket farming In the three years Eco-Dudu has been in business, they have harvested approximately 100,000 crickets.
PRIME How TikTok lifted off our small businesses When TikTok was launched in Kenya, not many knew that it would one day be a gold mine for entrepreneurs.
The intricate link between trade secrets, data protection and client satisfaction I watched an interesting movie where one of the characters had their business sabotaged by their assistant.
PRIME Pavraj takes a bite of meat business with meatless startup At the Kenya Meat Expo and Conference held last week, the sweet aroma of roasted meat whetted the appetite of many.
Enter the Matrix: Take the red pill to see business reality At the risk of over-dramatising, perhaps managers at times are living in a dream world.
AI unfair competition: Why Kenya needs to adopt protectionist policy As Kenya encourages liberalisation of trade to spur on fair competition, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) to cause unfair competition.
PRIME How Tropical Heat has stayed ‘spicy’ for more than 50 years Tropical Heat Group has been about hitting the right numbers.
The value of thinking about business hype thinking Few people think more than two or three times a year.
What Kenya can learn from Europe on how to make well-balanced artificial intelligence laws Human rights experts and researchers felt that allowing unfettered AI would be detrimental to human rights and welfare in the long run.