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CREATING MEANINGFUL IMPACT

We work with corporates to create bespoke ESD, SLP and CSI solutions, offer entrepreneurial-culture building to enhance business agility, and more . . .

Enterprise & supplier development (ESD)

Our experience allows us craft ESD strategies that deliver not only the required B-BBEE points but also strategic value. Our programmes create real – and more importantly – sustainable impact on the entrepreneurs who are supported and scaled through corporate ESD budgets.

Enterprise development

Raizcorp assists corporates to strategically and effectively deploy ED funds in a way that creates real, sustainable impact while at the same time serving the corporate’s long-term strategy. We are renowned globally for our ability to expeditiously develop and implement tailored ED programmes. We can design programmes that:

	Support local communities
	Support specific groups such as women and youth
	Link ED to supplier-development objectives to ensure a healthy pipeline into supplier-development programmes

Our range of programmes is designed for the different stages of the entrepreneur’s lifecycle, including: introducing entrepreneurs to the concept of business, and helping them develop their ideas into executable businesses; helping entrepreneurs take their business ideas to the first level of commercialisation; assisting entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground and start generating revenue; getting entrepreneurs to the next level of business, especially those who have the potential to create more jobs.

Supplier development

Raizcorp assists corporates to create SD programmes that speak directly to their business needs. Many corporates experience difficulty in effectively linking their SD budgets to a substantial and sustainable preferential-procurement impact on their B-BBEE scorecards. Raizcorp assists corporates to devise long-term strategies that create meaningful transformation in their supply chains allowing them to:

Identify candidate businesses with the potential to be included in supply chains, and groom them for supply chain partnerships

Address the need and benefit from the B-BBEE focus on SD allowing corporates to increase the number and quality of existing and potential new black-owned companies in their supply chains

Distinguish between non-performing or under-performing black suppliers currently on supplier databases, and identify performing black suppliers who have specific growth needs

Move black suppliers from non-strategic and non-capital-intensive elements of a supply chain (low barrier to entry) to the strategic and capital-intensive element of a supply chain (high barrier to entry)

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Why Raizcorp?

We source new black-owned suppliers

Sourcing quality suppliers for your corporate supply chain is an intensive process. You must ensure that your suppliers can supply quality products and services at the right price, at the right time, every time. We specialise in sourcing black-owned suppliers across a broad range of industries which can be incubated and included in your supply chain.

We develop your supply chain

Whether your strategy focuses on improving your entire supply chain or on specific individual suppliers within your supply chain, we can assist you by building a supplier-development programme tailored to your business requirements.

We integrate your strategies

Driving an effective and successful enterprise and supplier development (ESD) strategy depends on how well it integrates with your overall business strategy. To prevent potential misalignments – which could result in you not meeting your ESD objectives – we help to make sure that you achieve complete integration with your company’s existing business strategy for maximum results!

We guarantee our results

We are the only ESD provider that contractually guarantees our results. The proof is in the pudding and our case studies detail how we’ve done this for other corporate sponsors. We can do the same for you!

We provide comprehensive measurement and reporting (M&E)

Without proper measurements, you cannot gauge the impact of your ESD activities. Each of our ESD programmes is uniquely developed for our corporate sponsors, and each programme is rigorously measured and reported so you can continually monitor the high impact that your investment in entrepreneurial development is making on the ground.

We’ve been doing this for two decades

We have over two decades of experience behind our name when it comes to accelerating success. We started out in 2000 as a business incubator, and have since firmly differentiated ourselves as Africa’s only sustainable business Prosperator™. Drawing on the best practices of business-incubator models worldwide, we have pioneered Prosperation™ – our own unique, world-renowned model of business incubation.

We guarantee your B-BBEE points

Currently, the industry has many “fly-by-night” and “two-man-band” operations that promise the world, but don’t deliver results. We have almost two decades of experience and place strong emphasis on ensuring that all the requisite paperwork, proof and compliance documents are in place to ensure that your ESD budget does indeed achieve your B-BBEE points. All of our ESD programmes are designed to meet the requirements of the new B-BBEE codes.

We’re internationally recognised

According to The Economist, Raizcorp is the only genuine incubator in Africa. Our adherence to the highest levels of quality (we are the only incubator on the African continent to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the UK-government-affiliated Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs or IOEE), our learning programmes and the learnings we have gleaned from rolling out and operating eight Prosperators™ have made us the gold standard in business incubation globally. We’ve been invited to present our high-touch Prosperator™ model at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, at Oxford University’s Säid Business School, and to the World Bank. The Wits Business School uses our Prosperator™ model as a case study for its MBA students.

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