Andre Venter A Different Take on Influence: How Trust and Agency Shape Sustainable Success Introduction: The Influence Playbook Is Not Enough For decades, business schools have taught us that influence is a science, one that can be systematized, optimized, and applied like a formula. Robert... Apr 16, 2025
Andre Venter The Golden Thread: Designing Systems That Bring People and Process Together Introduction, When Structure Feels Like Support, Not Constraint In many businesses, systems design tends to be viewed through a narrow lens, something technical, something handled by IT. It’s often as... Apr 10, 2025
Andre Venter The Wholesale DSL Playbook: How We Created a Market to Own It A Market Engineered for Stagnation By 2012, broadband access in South Africa was constrained by legacy infrastructure, outdated business models, and institutional inertia. Although the country had ent... Apr 7, 2025
Andre Venter The Development of a Medical Emergency Alert Product, and Why We Chose to Develop a Smartwatch Building the Value of Reassurance Designing a watch that quietly connected lives, care, and systems It started, as many ideas do, with a simple question: What’s the value of knowing someone you care f... Apr 4, 2025
Andre Venter How Blockchain, IoT, BIM and a Software Platform was Ready to Optimise the Construction Industry Understanding the Challenge “That’s not quite how it happened.” It’s a phrase you hear on construction projects when two versions of the same event don’t quite match, a delivery that was recorded but ... Apr 2, 2025
Andre Venter We Called It Email Security, It Turned Out We Built a Cloud Platform Setting the Scene In the period between 2003 and 2004 South Africa’s tech ecosystem looked very different. The cloud, as we know it today, simply didn’t exist. “Cloud computing” wasn’t a buzzword, it ... Apr 1, 2025
Andre Venter The role and value of Product Development Consulting Every product available in the market today is the result of collaborative efforts from a dedicated team. At the forefront of these teams are product managers or product management consultants, who gu... Mar 23, 2025
Andre Venter Five strategies you can employ to inspire and motivate your cross functional teams Motivation, in its most effective form, operates on two levels: extrinsic (external) and intrinsic (internal). Extrinsic motivators include compensation packages, bonuses, recognition programs, and, a... Mar 23, 2025
Andre Venter Enhancing Your Negotiation Skills: 12 Strategic Adjustments for Greater Impact Negotiation is often misunderstood as a formal, infrequent activity — something reserved for high-stakes contract discussions, legal negotiations, or boardroom deals. In reality, negotiation permeates... Mar 23, 2025
Andre Venter Driving innovation as a strategic imperative, using psychological safety as a lever. Psychological Safety: The Strategic Imperative for Innovative, Resilient Businesses In a fast paced and highly competitive business environment innovation often dominates the strategic agenda. It’s se... Mar 23, 2025
Andre Venter Lessons from years of staying in the top Twenty of the Fortune 500 Landing with Both Feet running: What Product Readiness Really Means Spending ten years inside a company that remained in the top twenty of the Fortune 500 taught me a great deal, not just about scale,... Mar 23, 2025
Andre Venter How Odoo & IoT Transformed a Livestock Tracking Product Development Project From smart collars to automated sales, this is how Odoo became the backbone of a game-changing livestock tracking system product development project, saving farmers thousands of pounds by optimizing o... Mar 10, 2025
