We encounter numerous problems daily and some of these problems have been with us for years. In the beginning of every New Year, we feel energized and think that our problems would be solved after listening to a few motivational speeches and attending a powerful anointing service. However, soon...
“Each year technology makes the world more complex for people to understand. So, easy to use services for consumers are in particularly great demand.”
----- Alex Kreger, Founder of UXDA
The COVID-19 pandemic takes every sphere of human activity into the next level. Financial institutions are forced to move quickly to...
The crème de la crème of Ghana’s insurance chieftains gathered together last year at the corporate head office of the country’s largest insurance broking firm, KEK Group to witness the launch of a refresh corporate logo of the group.
Present at this August launch included Chief Executives, Officers and Directors...
“The earth is wide but it is God who is supreme.” – Akan proverb
The greater majority of the nation’s populace claim a belief in God. Interestingly, the attitudes we display on a daily basis are so depressing they have led to significant increases in agnosticism and atheism. While is...
Uncertainty remains about the timeline for a global economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic. Companies continue to fashion out ways to deal with its negative impacts on their operations, sales/revenue, costs and profits. This is having mixed impacts on companies following unplanned emergency investments into their operations, new technologies,...
Vodafone Ghana Foundation has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Accra Regional Hospital as part of efforts to protect frontline health workers in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The items, which were donated during the festive period, include sets of face shields, boxes of N95 facemasks, surgical gloves,...
Global supply chains severely disrupted by COVID-19
Multinationals turn to China +1 and nearshoring
Worldwide increase in regionalization and localization
Major regional trade deals signed or accelerated
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted global trade in 2020. However, it has also caused new paradigms to emerge, some of which point to...
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”…Winston Churchill
Happy new year to all readers. I am grateful for your support and feedback on my social media. You challenge and spur me on to continue my journey of sharing issues on operational risks in the financial services sector. Please keep...
— But only if it looks beyond the obvious options
For decades, many of Africa’s oil- and gas-producing states followed a predictable pattern. They treated their oil and gas primarily as raw materials that could be sold abroad for a quick profit, rather than as a means of supporting efforts...
Financial Science expert, Professor Forster Kum-Ankama Sarpong, has called on organisations to recognize what he calls ‘latent’ talents in employees and help develop them to surmount the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to him, despite the pandemic whisking many talents away in the form of loss of life,...