What is your long-term game? How do you create capabilities for sustainable and business profitable operations to win both in the medium and long-term? Already, margins in businesses are shrinking at a faster rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic and generally poor morale and so much misery. Now is the time to explore how to redefine your business or enterprise to emerge better positioned in the target market and resilient. What is your value creation proposition (strategy) and how to monetize it (business model) today and in the future to win and sustain your market advantages? Given the relentlessness of…
Envision the future one year from now
2020 is finally coming to an end. One of the top entrepreneurs in the world, Jack Ma, is quoted to have said that “your biggest profit this year is completing the year 2020 alive.” He is spot on. So many people have died during the first half of December 2020. Rule number one is to stay alive. With life, you can dare to dream. It does not matter how much money you may have in the bank account, if life is leaving you or you are too weak to mind about it anymore, the bank balance is useless. This year…
The best of WhatsApp – Health Talk
Health Talk: Today Topic is Take Care of Yourself: Please you have one life to live 1. The STOMACH is injured when you do not have breakfast in the morning. 2. The KIDNEYS are injured when you do not even drink 10 glasses of water in 24 hours. 3. The GALLBLADDER is injured when you do not even sleep until 11 o’clock and do not wake up to the sunrise. 4. The SMALL INTESTINE is injured when you eat cold and stale food. 5. The LARGE INTESTINES are injured when you eat more fried and spicy food. 6. The LUNGS…
Here is how to be safe online
There are so many challenges you could easily forget about cybersecurity. However, with most children now studying online, they are inevitably exposed to cyber risks ranging from online predators to cyber bullying and impersonation. We are now in a time that has posed a concern for cybersecurity more than ever before. The top six cyber threats are children, parents, and homes exposed to doing virtual learning. 1. Phishing email messages are designed to try to get learners to share their personal information without realizing it. In many cases, the scammer will use the student’s identity to access their information and…
A tribute to Amos Bagumire, AB, (1968– 2020), a great board trainer
If you wanted to be calmed down and uplifted, you went to Amos Bagumire, or AB, as we fondly referred to him at EY by the initials of his name. To me, Amos was Mr. Calmer. He always calmed us especially when deadlines where upon us! The family of the late, Fellow mourners, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, We have lost a friend, mentor, colleague, and a very professional man. I first met Amos at the Sheraton hotel, where he was one of the speakers at a conference. His presentation was the highlight of the day. As he walked out of…
ICPAU celebrates the life of Amos Bagumire, a great team player
The Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPAU) lost one of its gallant members, Amos Bagumire, who suddenly succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of his passing, Amos was the Managing Partner at ABS Consulting Group Ltd a company he co-founded 8 years ago specializing in Governance, Risk Advisory, Human Resources, Forensic Audit, and Executive Development. Before starting his own company, Amos was a Director at Ernst & Young in charge of Business Risk Services and Human Resource Advisory Services in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. He had over 20 years’ experience in Governance, Audit, Risk Advisory, and…
