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The internal audit process overview
A typical internal audit project has six phases – planning, inception meeting, fieldwork or data collection, exit meeting, reporting, and...
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summitBI Internal Audit Analytics software – transform your Internal Audit function
Do you want to accomplish more in a short time while focusing on the strategic high-risk areas? Do you want to attain the annual internal...
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The value of information and street smarts
I have been procrastinating about taking the family car for repair specifically to change the brake pads, as they had started making that...
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CEO Succession -why is the plan always absent
All chief executive officers will eventually leave. But why do boards fail to adequately plan for the CEO succession? We have seen it in...
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Nepotism is Dangerous to any society
What is nepotism? Nepotism is biased favouritism to relatives and friends for the sake of edging off others unfairly. This happens when...
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Leveraging technology is NOT a strategy
One of the commonly misused words in strategy is “leveraging technology” to win. Many leaders use it to refer to technology use across the...
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Fainting or Slumping in the Bathroom
? What is the cause? ☝ We always hear of people who have a stroke after a fall in the bath. ? Why have we not heard of falling elsewhere? ?...
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Creative thinking: Managing your business during hard times, part 3
“To achieve efficiency, this year, the idea of ‘tweaking your budget’ need not happen”. “Re-write it”! We advised. The intention was to...
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Creative thinking: Managing your business during hard times, part 2
What about the number of years the business has been in existence? No. Not at all. Historical pre-existence does not necessarily provide...
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Winning in the COVID-19 era of scientific living
Scientific this, scientific that, ‘scientific’ is now in vogue. COVID-19 has created the need to keep a social distance. It is a punch in...
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Cybersecurity: Considerations for remote working and virtual meetings
If there is anything that COVID-19 has left us with, it is the leapfrog into the world of technology early adopters in our professional...
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Creative thinking: Managing your business during hard times, part 1
The world is experiencing yet another crisis, that is more aggressive and pervasive. Unlike the financial-economic crisis of 2008, the...
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Train your board on Public Relations, Social Media, Digital and Personal cybersecurity
For any dynamic financial institution, the management of Public Relations is a key priority for its Board, and your organization is no...
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Be innovative to learn on the job and win
Once in a while, you meet folks with the right attitude, skills, and self-drive. These are people any executive dreams of. People with the...
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Uganda’s banking sector highlights
While Uganda’s financial sector grew in size with assets growing by more than 14.3%, the sector performance declined significantly with...
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After all, technology has limits
If you are one of the folks who love great management insights, you open the pages of the Harvard Business Review magazine – old and new...
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Double Your Money – Reflections on the Life of a Ugandan Agro Businessman
Aga Sekalala Snr’s brilliance for business and risk-taking shines in this compelling easy to read 175 pages book. In the first quarter of...
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CERUDEB’s jaws ratio – an ongoing battle
Figure 1: CERUDEB’s jaws ratio year-on-year If you follow the developments in the banking sector, you could have noticed published...
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Feed the brain, to feed the stomach…
I have fond memories of my early life because I was brought up by a woman, my mother, who never tolerated laziness. Her favourite advice...
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Don’t wait to be 100% ready to start…
Preparation is important. However, starting is the secret to winning. Never wait to be 100% to start. I have seen people with ambitions to...
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How do you solve 18 x 5? Apply the approach to your life and win
Amazon analytics recommended to me a book titled “Mathematical mindsets. Unleashing the students’ potential through creative math”, based...
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Towards teamwork amid physical distancing
Times have changed. We now live in pandemic times. It started as Coronavirus, evolved into a pandemic, and now a keep a mask on your face...
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Are you innovative or creative? Which is which?
A story is told that at the height of the space program, both Soviet and American Astronauts faced a big challenge. How to take notes when...
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Think away from the box. Not outside the box.
When you think ‘outside the box’ your view is limited by the box (A). Move away from the box. You will gain a better perspective. Your...
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