It is Friday evening. You are happy that a very hectic week is finally coming to an end. Your body needs rest. Your family needs good time with you. The weekly routine is demanding. You wake up at 5am daily to prepare and drop the kids. By 4pm you are at school to pick them. The office work is always demanding of late. Add to this the political anxieties. You have been moving up and down, trying to eke a living. Your partner works upcountry and comes every Friday evening. You always look up to the weekly reunion. You want…
Stop and reflect.
If you have ever traveled a long journey whether by road, air or sea, you have experienced a burnout on the journey. You reach a time when you have to take a nap. Of course if you are the driver and take a nap, the result could be catastrophic. That is why it is advised that once you feel like wanting to sleep, stop, pack and take a quick nap. And so is life. It does not matter how busy you are or what must be accomplished. You must stop working and go to bed. The reasons are for your…
Life. It’s a gift
It is Friday evening. You are in the middle of one of the largest junctions in Kampala – the New Taxi Park. There are many taxi conductors shouting various destinations. The park is full of people moving about, all in a hurry. It is only you who seems lost. You are looking for a taxi heading to your destination. You seem not to find any taxi to your destination. What is your destination? If you don’t know where you are going, no road is a good road. Get a piece of paper and write the most pressing issue in your…
Believe and be responsible. Change to discover new things
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 During the 19th Century, scientists conducted an experiment on a frog. The researchers put a live frog in a saucepan of boiling water. The frog just quickly jumped out. This was expected of any living thing to react quickly to a hostile environment. The Scientist then put a live frog in a saucepan full of cold water and slowly started heating the water…
1st Annual Cyber Security and Risk Management Conference
Institute of Forensics and ICT Security in partnership with Summit Consulting Ltd is organizing the 1st Annual Cyber Security and Risk Management Conference.What has so far changed in the cyber security landscape? We are organizing the 1st Annual Cyber Security and Risk Management (CSRM) conference because a lot has changed in the cyber space. We need a conversation with leaders across board on how to proactively anticipate and manage risk which is attendant to automation. We are dealing in an era of artificial intelligence, bigdata and advanced analytics. So if you are not able to go deep into that area as a…
Without a responsive strategy, it is easy to fall flat
The website, https://www.toysrus.com/, might still be on, but Toys R Us filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on 26th September 2017 in the US. In this brief, I explore how poor strategy led to the collapse of this once giant pacesetter in the retail space. When you are big, it is easy to get pre-occupied with the routine at the expense of strategic thinking which has a deadly end. Toys R Us was one of the leading companies in the toy market. The company that started 69 years ago, expanded steadily to over 1,600 stores globally, with annual revenues at US $13…
