Inachee(noun) [In-a-chee-]: Home Grown Energy in Motion.

D. E Wasake
In Uganda, companies do not seem to care about the importance of websites. The Top 100 firms for example, companies which have revenues of at least Shs. 360m (and maximum Shs. 25 bn) are doing quite well. Especially considering that 67% of Ugandans are vulnerable to poverty (hence on about Shs. 3,000 a day).

However when a Ugandan firm did research on how many of these top companies had a website, the results were shocking.

60% of them have no website!

Why is it shocking?

Well for sta...
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Google, the world’s largest search engine on an annual basis analyses worldwide trends of what the world searches for. It presents this analysis annually including the latest:  “Google Zeitgeist 2013”.

On a global level, the world was searching for People (like Nelson Mandela and Oscar Pistorius), Events (like the Boston Marathon, Typhoon Haiyan and the Chinese New Year), Movies (like Iron Man 3, Despicable me 2 and Django Unchained) as well as YouTube Videos (like Ylvis’ the Fox, ...

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High-Performance Research

The Center for High Performance (CfHP) believes that high performance starts with the work environment.

To determine the specific characteristics that are necessary in a high-performance work environment, CfHP conducted a study of more than 3,000 knowledge workers around the world. The study–the largest and most in-depth of its kind–identified a global standard for high performance based on 45 work-environment attributes. Workgroups that scored high on these ...

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There is a second revolution coming to Uganda. It is the Diaspora revolution.

Who are they? What do they want? But more importantly, how can a Ugandan business reposition itself to take advantage of this group of people who now contribute about $1bn or 25% of Uganda’s budget?

Who are the Diaspora?

In summary Diaspora is a term used to refer to persons with a similar heritage or homeland, but who are no longer living there. In Uganda, these persons are commonly referred to as “Ugandans...

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D E Wasake, Principal Inachee.com

"To be successful in business, you do not necessarily have to be an inventor with a completely original idea.  Some of the most successful companies in Uganda are “copy cats”. "

The companies listed here are based on a list from inc.com. I have analyzed some of them to give you a summary.

Why are these companies “crazy”? You ask?  Well, the inc.com article uses the word “audacious” which really means bold, fearless, courageous etc.

I use the wo...

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I'm pretty pissed off. A friend woke me up on Saturday morning seeking tax advice. But what he really wanted was advice to ensure he doesn't pay a cent in taxes!

This article provides a “tongue in cheek” look at the culture of tax non compliance in Uganda and provides a few options on how to deal with tax planning in ways which can save the business the “head ache” of having to deal with “Caesar the taxman”.

It also provides insights into changes in the global economy that might sh...
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Not everyone buys on price, period! If people really bought on price all the time then there would only be one model or kind of anything: the cheapest. Why then do price objections feature heavily when dealing with customers? This article provides tips on how to handle price objections.

The full article is here. 
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Every time something goes wrong, it has most likely been because the watchman was asleep or away.

Hollywood movies of course mostly portray the watch man or security guard to be too inexperienced for the super hero (or thief); this is an exaggeration of course. 

In real life, a company’s watchman: The owner/manager, the board of directors, the independent financial advisor or lawyer is usually well experienced and can significantly help a company in its corporate governance.

But firs...

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It is a well known fact that typically 80% of your business comes from your existing clients (80/20 rule).

Businesses that excel create what is called a “value proposition”. A set of unique benefits that they alone can provide to customers.

In the following two stories or examples, we clearly demonstrate two unlikely sectors whose owners created an excellent value proposition.  The first is a dentist and the second is a taxi driver (or a special hire in Uganda).

To read the article cli...

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