Introducing PBNI to the Kadoma Business Community at an all stakeholders meeting in Kadoma

1. PREMIUM BUSINESS NETWORK
PRESENTATION
At
Kadoma city council
Business stakeholders meeting
+263 772592232 | 732 592232 | 718 592232
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By
Kudzanai Vere CPA(Z)
Managing Consultant
Kudfort Advisory Services

2. 01. What is Premium Business Network?
Your network determines your net-worth – Porter Gale
• It is an organization found to stimulate economic
development from the grassroots level up to national and
international level.
• Its mandate is to provide a platform for transformational
dialogue through positive engagement towards full
utilization of capacity, endowments and opportunities for
the betterment of families, communities, cities, towns,
nation and the world at large.

3. • Networking is a socio
economic business activity by
which businesspeople and
entrepreneurs meet to form
business relationships and to
recognize, create, or act
upon business opportunities,
share information and seek
potential partners or
ventures
02. Networking Defined

4. 02. Networking

5. a) Form business relationships – generation of business – referrals
b) Recognize business opportunities – needs a shift of the mind-set,
having a completely different worldview
c) Create business opportunities – enabling policies and environment
d) Act upon business opportunities – this is where we are all getting it
wrong.
e) Share information - advise - coming up with an information center
– training - “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou
f) Seek potential partners or ventures – mutually beneficial & smart
partnerships
03. Benefits of Networking

6. We have to use the EAR – EYE strategy
For Networking for Social Economic Transformation
Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
04. How does this work? - Modus Operandi

7. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
a) Engage
• Engaging all the stakeholders as they are key to the socio economic
transformation of their community, town, city or country
• Come up with specific sector clusters for efficiency and effectiveness
• Come up with developmental steering committees in each cluster
04. How does this work? - Modus Operandi

8. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
b) Analyze
• Take stock of our current position on the economic development life –
cycle
• The sectorial clusters have to analyze the present state of their sector
benchmarking it against the prevailing trends and identify the gaps
• How much of the endowments per sector do we have underutilized
or lying idle in the community, town, city or country.
• Come up with possible causes of the current paralysis – be honest, do
not play the blame game.
03. How does this work – Modus Operandi? Cont.

9. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
c) Re-discover
• This is a process of going back to the drawing board, unlearning most
if not all the ways and philosophies that led to where we are right
now, as a company, as a business person, as a town, city or country.
• Start afresh with accumulation through inquiry and observation
• The process of information search equips us with new perspectives
relevant under the circumstances
03. How does this work – Modus Operandi? Cont.

10. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
d) Embrace
• This is a process of accepting that indeed as times go by, systems, routines and
paradigms have to change with the changing times - The secret of health for both mind and
body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and
earnestly,” – Buddha
• Realizing that we cannot continue to live as an individuals, business person,
company, country in isolation and register meaningful progression.
• Unlearn the old and embrace the new ways of connecting, doing business,
interaction.
• Be part of the global business movement, stop seeing geographical boundaries.
03. How does this work – Modus Operandi? Cont

11. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
d) Yield
• This is the productive process, a process that culminate into results
that are visible from within and without.
• One should not hunt/ search for results of positive progression, they
should ordinarily be visible.
• Results doesn’t need explanation – they are self explanatory –
Zimplats
• Making use of our natural endowments for the benefit of our cities
and towns
03. How does this work – Modus Operandi? Cont.

12. Engage | Analyze | Re-discover | Embrace | Yield | Export
e) Export
• Stop importing bread, roller meal, cooking oil, peanut
butter, basic machines from other towns whose raw
materials we produce unless otherwise there are
some comparative advantages.
• Export your expertise to other towns and cities and
generate revenue for our town.
03. How does this work – Modus Operandi? Cont

13. You are good but you can be better
through networking – Kudzanai
THANK YOU
4. Closing Quote