Providing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) the tools and skills to organize their businesses, open up market opportunities, reduce legal and regulatory exposure, increase speed to market, minimize cost and build succession platforms.
Arete is an ancient Greek concept that refers to excellence and the act of living up to one’s full potential.
Building Sustainable Businesses that will Transform Africa
A consulting firm that supports you, the founder/owner; to develop and implement systems that will consistently and faithfully manifest your vision. We enable your business to deliver on time, every time, and to ultimately operate without you.
The Challenge:
6 in 10 businesses have no succession plans
The Challenge:
6 in 10 businesses have no succession plans
Many entrepreneurs spend all their time, emotion and money on the business. Even after it is seemingly mature, they have to always be on, do everything themselves and never take a day off, making many mistakes due to lack of expertise to support them, and getting physically and emotionally drained by the rigors of setting up and growing a business.
SMEs in Africa today start out with very good products or services, which address a real need in the market, but many are not able to deliver consistently on the product or service. Their customers cannot count on the desired product or service getting to them at the same quality and speed every time they require it.
A good number of small and medium companies just never grow up and die within five to seven years of their establishment as the founders struggle to build a replicable business model and set standards that can be repeated, whether in size or location, in order to expand the business from the initial set up, to new markets or additional locations.
While it is relatively simple to set up and grow a small business, the challenges of compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements attendant to such enterprise dog many SMEs. These include filing requirements from regulatory and tax authorities as well as monthly filing required of employers for social security and other payments.
Solutions offered
We equip founders for prosperity and posterity, providing tools and skills to embed good governance practices in their businesses with simple systems that do not break their backs or the bank.
Documentation
We help founders focus on the systems for doing things and setting out step by step blueprints for every task in the organization.
Resource Allocation
We work with founders to help them get clarity about their systems and document them so their teams can do production their way, consistently.
Governance
We work with founders to implement systems in the company, in order to create a machine that can operate independently of them, and they can easily plug and play the machine as they scale.
Accountability
We offer SMEs simple tools and solutions to enable them meet their regulatory compliance challenges including simple compliance checklists, based on the needs of their specific industry.
