Ishmael Yamson & Associates
   2ND Floor J B PLAZA,
   ACHIMOTA-GIMPA RD. (KISSEMAN JUNCTION)
   P.O. Box 3260
   Accra, Ghana
Programme 2

Fuelling Future Growth:



Anticipating & Creating The Future Of Growth And Prosperity.

SUMMARY

For most businesses driving sustainable growth and profitability has become a major challenge in the face of increasing competition and uncertainties in the operating environment. Even more so consumers now have access to limitless choices. Assuring stakeholders of sustainable value creation has become a huge challenge.
Businesses need to look continuously for the growth which will enable them to sustain outstanding performance and continued strong profitability.
Fuelling future Growth is designed to help you evaluate your current strategies that drive revenue and their potential for continued growth. It will help you understand emerging industry trends, trends in the wider business environment, shifts in consumer/customer behaviours and how these can be translated into growth opportunities. It will also help you create new sources of revenue through building new capabilities that change your industry architecture.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This programme will focus on:
1. Validating the company’s current strategies;
2. Understanding the factors that are changing industry architecture;
3. Evaluating the possible impact of environmental changes on growth and organisational performance;
4. Shaping the corporate strategic plan to respond to the changes.

METHODOLOGY

There will be practical approach to environmental analyses and will cover a broad spectrum of topics.

FORMAT

The programme can be designed for specific companies or groups for managers from different businesses.

TARGET

Managers and officers who have been in their jobs for 3 years or more and are currently in middle and senior management positions. They should be key to strategy formulation and execution.

DURATION : 2 days

DATE: June 2008

COST: GHC 400.00. Cost includes hiring of venue, programme materials, meals and snacks.
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Speeches

The Chairman of Unilever, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has identified poor governance as the leading contributory factor for Africa's retrogression. He said poor performance by African governments in accountability, transparency, predictability and participation was the bane of the continent's development and progress.

Mr Yamson, therefore, proposed major changes to reverse the trend and the adoption of strategic approaches to Africa’s development by its political leaders.

He was presenting a paper on the topic, "Consolidating Political Stability in Africa for Accelerated Growth":

Possible Initiatives/Role of the Business Sector in Consolidating Political Stability", in the first ever Daily Graphic Accra Governance Dialogue in Accra yesterday.

Mr Yamson challenged governments in Africa to grow out of the tendency of becoming preoccupied with short-term problems and short-term strategies and stressed the need for them to think in the long term and act with the strategic objectives of their countries in view in order to realise the benefits of good governance.

Linking good governance to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated regional and continental integration, he admitted the difficulty in getting good governments on the continent.

That, according to him, was because adherence to the principles of good governance was not robust.

Addressing the factors which drove good governance, Mr Yamson listed nine inclusive principles as important for Africa’s efforts at building and sustaining political stability.

"African leadership with integrity and trust, the capacity and ability to design, own and deliver sound and transformational economic policies, credibility, democracy and culture, as well as integrity, are drivers of good governance," he said.
 
     Ishmael Yamson, Snr.