Small and Medium Sized Business

Our Economy

In any economy small and medium sized businesses form an integral part as we employ approximately 68 % of people in our country and this includes the informal sector.

It will shock you to know that approximately 400 000 small businesses shut down every five years.

This is a gigantic problem in that these factors create unemployment, reduce living conditions, put heavy burdens on government and indirectly also affects the crime rate.

It is time we, as business people start demanding survival and start believing what an integral part of the economy we are.

Government talks about making it easier but every so often one realises that it is just talk. The proposed "Lisencing of Business Bill" is just another in a slew of red-tape schemes that block businesses from becoming successful.

The endless administrative requirements make our businesses very top-heavy and therefore Knightshade, as an organsition and as the champion for the little business has come up with a strategy.

We are on your side. We will tell you which schemes work and which don't. We will fix small and medium businesses one step at a time as long as you support us.

What is Strategy?

All strategies are plans but not all plans are strategies. As an example, one might consider nuclear war plans to be a necessity! If the weapons and the plan did not exist, your enemy would perceive you to be weak… Thus their mere existence has a coercive effect, but, in actuality the use of nuclear weapons would mean only one thing: Their owner could think of no other reason for them but to blow something up!

Strategy is probable but challenging, Strategic effect is felt and has consequences, in stages, and across levels of conflict, and the transitions from one level to another are not reliably predictable. Strategic effect and its achievement, operationally and deliberately must be a product whose weight is determined by active and especially exceptional circumstances. The strategic meaning of premeditated and effective success or failure can be anticipated, predicted logically but by no means can it be anticipated with certainty.

Strategic effect is felt and has consequences, in stages, and across levels of conflict, and the transitions from one level to another are not reliably predictable. Strategic effect and its achievement, operationally and deliberately must be a product whose weight is determined by active and especially exceptional circumstances. The strategic meaning of premeditated and effective success or failure can be anticipated, predicted logically but by no means can it be anticipated with certainty.
A strategy exists strictly as a model for victory, a plan devised to resolve actual or anticipated problems in business. The purpose of strategy is to improve an organisations competitive performance and the quality of that performance should be influenced, to an advantage, by the choice of strategy. Staff must be directed, by management who want to achieve a change in course, and if management have enough influence, a synergy will be created and the different personalities will function in congruence.

Strategy thus yields the enactment of the chosen strategic plan in order to create a more certain future as well as a future that is preferred. Although there is no magic wand to right an overturned ship, strategy is most certainly the only other option.

A strategy exists strictly as a model for victory, a plan devised to resolve actual or anticipated problems in business. The purpose of strategy is to improve an organisations competitive performance and the quality of that performance should be influenced, to an advantage, by the choice of strategy. Staff must be directed, by management who want to achieve a change in course, and if management have enough influence, a synergy will be created and the different personalities will function in congruence.
Strategy thus yields the enactment of the chosen strategic plan in order to create a more certain future as well as a future that is preferred. Although there is no magic wand to right an overturned ship, strategy is most certainly the only other option.

Strategy is not magic; the strategist’s role needs to be well supported by practicality in procedure and by those that accept it as a necessity. It is important to remember that there is no need to have the best strategy but rather that the best strategic effect be attained!