NMG and college to help small businesses learn from each other

PHOTO | FILE The Nation Media Group and the Kenya Institute of Management will offer small and medium enterprises an opportunity to share their business models while learning from each other on the best practices.  NATION MEDIA GROUP

By NATION CORRESPONDENT

The Nation Media Group and the Kenya Institute of Management will offer small and medium enterprises an opportunity to share their business models while learning from each other on the best practices.

The two are hosting a business conference on competitiveness of African enterprises, which started on Monday. The conference is meant to prepare the entries for the 2013 Company of the Year Awards (Coya)

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Small and medium enterprises will, through the conference, learn on the theoretical and practical aspects of organisation performance index, criteria that was introduced in 2010 to rank companies participating in the Coya awards.

Speaking when the announcement was made, NMG chief executive Linus Gitahi said organisation performance index will help participants to improve and compete with other companies globally.

“It is a tool that will help organisations, especially small and medium enterprises to develop their effectiveness,” he said.

The tool had helped the NMG improve its various departments, the CEO added.

“We believe that it will also help other companies to grow and that explains why we will continue supporting the exercise in the coming year,” Mr Gitahi said.
Corporate identity

NMG is financing the conference with Sh700,000 and will be supported by Crown Paints (Sh250,000) and corporate identity marketer Design One, which has put in Sh150,000.

Organisation performance index measures businesses leadership and management, human resource and welfare of employees, customer orientation and marketing, financial management, innovation and use of technology and corporate social responsibility.