MAKING STRATEGY
HAPPEN
Strategy has always been the domain of big business and corporate. But now it is in your grasp too ...
Small to medium business owners generally battle with the concept, the development of strategy and the management of execution. Research shows that only 30% of companies can develop strategy, and a tiny fraction of them are actually able to achieve it. In this exclusive workshop, Allon Raiz takes you through the framework on how to not only understand strategy but more importantly how to ensure your business can execute on it.
Workshop Overview
- Why scaling businesses fail, and how to avoid it
- The importance of a vision, and how to construct one
- Why we construct bad strategy
- How to construct great strategy
- How to manage the execution of strategy
Who is the workshop for?
- Business owners who are ready to create and implement a strategy into their business
- Business owners who are constantly “putting out fires” in their business
- Business owners who are dealing with unaligned staff
- Business owner battling to break through to the next level of scale
Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Time: 08:00 to 17:00
Cost: R2 999.00 (incl. catering)
Venue: Durban
Small to medium business owners generally battle with the concept, the development of strategy and the management of execution. Research shows that only 30% of companies can develop strategy, and a tiny fraction of them are actually able to achieve it. In this exclusive workshop, Allon Raiz takes you through the framework on how to not only understand strategy but more importantly how to ensure your business can execute on it.
Workshop Overview
- Why scaling businesses fail, and how to avoid it
- The importance of a vision, and how to construct one
- Why we construct bad strategy
- How to construct great strategy
- How to manage the execution of strategy
Who is the workshop for?
- Business owners who are ready to create and implement a strategy into their business
- Business owners who are constantly “putting out fires” in their business
- Business owners who are dealing with unaligned staff
- Business owner battling to break through to the next level of scale
Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Time: 08:00 to 17:00
Cost: R2 999.00 (incl. catering)
Venue: Durban
Meet Your Facilitator For The Day – Allon Raiz
Allon Raiz is regarded both locally and globally as a pioneer and maverick in the business-incubation industry. He is the founder and CEO of Raizcorp which, according to The Economist, is the only genuine incubator in Africa and which currently supports over 500 businesses.
A two-times PhD dropout, Allon is the best-selling author of three entrepreneurial books. He hosted the first national radio show on entrepreneurship in South Africa in 2004; wrote and hosted the first South African prime-time entrepreneurship reality television show; and created and published an entrepreneurial cartoon strip. Allon is currently hosting his tenth season of the popular The Big Small Business
Show on Business Day TV, is a contributor to Daily Maverick and has a weekly radio slot on Power FM. Allon is a co-founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation South Africa and Rural Roots, and is on the advisory and judging boards of numerous local and international NGOs and entrepreneurial awards.
His passion for and focus on the development of entrepreneurs attracted the attention of the World Economic Forum (WEF) which, in 2008, recognised Allon as a Young Global Leader.
As an accomplished international speaker, Allon was invited to speak at the 2011 WEF Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland. In 2011, he became a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Fostering Entrepreneurship, making him one of 15 recognised global experts in the field. More recently, he became a member of the WEF’s Global Future Council.
In 2013, Allon received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Oliver Transformation and Empowerment Awards. The following year, he became the country winner, regional winner and continental winner of the Titan Award for Building Nations.
Between 2014 and 2016, Allon guest lectured at Oxford University where he was recognised as the Oxford University Saïd Business School’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
In 2015, Allon received an invitation from the White House, on behalf of President Barack Obama, to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Kenya.
Meet Your Facilitator For The Day – Allon Raiz
Allon Raiz is regarded both locally and globally as a pioneer and maverick in the business-incubation industry. He is the founder and CEO of Raizcorp which, according to The Economist, is the only genuine incubator in Africa and which currently supports over 500 businesses.
A two-times PhD dropout, Allon is the best-selling author of three entrepreneurial books. He hosted the first national radio show on entrepreneurship in South Africa in 2004; wrote and hosted the first South African prime-time entrepreneurship reality television show; and created and published an entrepreneurial cartoon strip. Allon is currently hosting his tenth season of the popular The Big Small Business
Show on Business Day TV, is a contributor to Daily Maverick and has a weekly radio slot on Power FM.
Allon is a co-founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation South Africa and Rural Roots, and is on the advisory and judging boards of numerous local and international NGOs and entrepreneurial awards.
His passion for and focus on the development of entrepreneurs attracted the attention of the World Economic Forum (WEF) which, in 2008, recognised Allon as a Young Global Leader. As an accomplished international speaker, Allon was invited to speak at the 2011 WEF Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland. In 2011, he became a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Fostering Entrepreneurship, making him one of 15 recognised global experts in the field. More recently, he became a member of the WEF’s Global Future Council. In 2013, Allon received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Oliver Transformation and Empowerment Awards. The following year, he became the country winner, regional winner and continental winner of the Titan Award for Building Nations. Between 2014 and 2016, Allon guest lectured at Oxford University where he was recognised as the Oxford University Saïd Business School’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence. In 2015, Allon received an invitation from the White House, on behalf of President Barack Obama, to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Kenya.
My journey to conquering strategy – Introducing Flowcode
By Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp
Between 2008 and 2012, Raizcorp grew by more than 300% on average per year. This extreme growth started to create massive strain on the business – and Allon as CEO of the business. Between 2012 and 2014, our profits began to nosedive and its growth stalled completely. If things had carried on the way they were going, I wouldn’t have had a business within one year. Something had to change.
I spent the next six months setting up meetings with every single entrepreneur I know who had scaled a business, and I obsessively read every book and watched every YouTube expert on the subject of scaling a business and business strategy.
I filled two and a half Moleskin notebooks with notes, and attempted to distil all the wisdom and lessons I was exposed to into a framework and approach that would not only allow Raizcorp to start growing again but also ensure that it would not experience this again.
You see, this was the second time in our 14-year history, at the time, that this had happened. I had also seen the same scenario play out in Raizcorp investee companies that were scaling and failing.
Flowcode was designed to provide the scaffolding needed for businesses to scale without falling into the all-too-common traps that business growth presents.
Raizcorp was the pilot for Flowcode, and since 2015, Raizcorp has more than tripled in size with relative ease and our investee companies have, on average, quadrupled in size without failing.