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INNOVATION & VALUE CREATION
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RAPELANG RABANA
UCT 2005B.Business Science
(Computer Science) Graduate
…LESS THAN 8 YEARS LATER…
MOBILE VOIPTECHNOLOGY
1ST GENERATION APPS SIMILAR TO VIBER, WHATSAPP CALLS
YEIGO FOUNDERS
LEARNINGTECHNOLOGY
“…striking innovation…”
McKinsey Lions Go Digital 2013
PRIMARILY USED AS PART OF FOUNDATION LANGUAGE PROGRAMME AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
BUILDING ENGLISH PROFICIENCY FOR TERTIARY AND WORK
6 000 LEARNERS – 2016
BITE-SIZED CHUNKS
CLOSE GAPS
Sub-Saharan Africa Focus
Private Equity & Advisory firm
Various Sectors
Raising first Private Equity fund of R2 billion
NISELA CAPITAL
KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE
QUESTIONING THE WORLD AROUND YOU
THE BEGINNING…
CHOICE
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it…”
STEVE JOBS
THE POWER OF AWARENESS # 1
INNOVATION
SEE NEW ANGLES
PAUL GRAHAM
The verb you want to be using with respect to coming up with ideas, is not ‘think up’, but ‘notice’.”
“Whoever you are… you have a total of life experiences that
have prepared you to see notice opportunities around
you.”
PAUL GRAHAM
HOW DO YOU SEE THE WORLD?
THE POWER OF AWARENESS #2
MAKING BOLD DECISIONS
NEGOTIABLES AND NON-NEGOTIABLES
“When are you clear on your non-negotiables, everything else becomes negotiable and gives you enormous flexibility and capacity for risk-taking…”
CHRIS LOWNEY Author HEROIC LEADERSHIP
WHAT ARE YOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES?
VALUE EQUATIONYOUR UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION + HARD WORK = VALUE
THE POWER OF AWARENESS #3
“…I realized that embracing the unusual parts of my background would be the key to making it through. It would be
those things that would give me unique perspectives and approaches to the
business…”
BEN HOROWITZ The Hard Thing, about Hard Things
VALUE IS CREATED
…given
…taken
CHOICE
RAPELANG
RABANA
www.rapelang.com
INNOVATION & VALUE CREATION