As you transition from being a student in school into a student in your career you start to come across opportunities on the journey. Most of the time, you're like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole. Life is happening to you and not the other way around. I was not brought up with [...]
One way to have a competitive advantage - no other business can copy - is to hire culture over skill. I recently attended the ECOM AFRICA 2022 summit last month and one of the questions I was asked was about the leadership approach I believe is required for any company to be successful and progressive [...]
E-commerce growth is becoming increasingly important in markets today and this includes e-commerce in the automotive industry. What is the definition of e-commerce within the automotive world? Buying a car online has happened in very small pockets around the world which is not a market norm. Just as AutoTrader produced a magazine and went through [...]
Take a second and think about your car dealership brand, more specifically whether you've built your brand effectively over time. Think about whether you have kept your car dealership brand at the top of the car-buying consumer’s mind and how things have changed during the last couple of years. The basics of car dealership brand-building [...]
The recent increase in electricity prices as well as petrol prices begs the question. How much does it cost to charge electric cars compared to fueling petrol cars? These increases consisted of electricity tariffs going up by 9.61% and an increase in petrol price of 28 cents per litre in April 2022. I'm going to [...]
The revolution of electric cars in South Africa is starting will contribute not only to our GDP through the automotive sector. But also to our education sector as more and more demand rises for these electric cars. The automotive industry has enjoyed strong growth in vehicle manufacture and sales over the last decade, but all [...]
I'm not the kind of person who cares much about the loud tail-pipe noises that petrol-heads love, I always remind people that at one point in our history, we rode horses, especially when talking about the future of electric cars in South Africa. However, horses have not disappeared, they have been replaced by Internal Combustion [...]
We had the opportunity to find out from the CEO of Naamsa, Mike Mabasa what the purpose of the Green Paper on SA’s new energy vehicles is all about. The new energy vehicle Green Paper policy document recently published was produced to help in defining Africa's position on new energy vehicles. Let's first define what [...]
Culture is the success and absolute failure of any business. Because It takes so long to show up in the results, businesses don't recognize that business culture is the key to their success or failure. I have found that business culture is the SOLE sustainable competitive advantage of any business. Business culture as a key [...]
Mike Mabasa and I had the opportunity to discuss the development of hybrid vs full battery electric vehicles in the market today. SA’s first hybrid vehicles Two specific OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) like Toyota and Mercedes, have manufactured some of the very first hybrid vehicles at scale in South Africa. Question is, with Toyota manufacturing [...]
