INNOVATION & VALUE CREATION

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RAPELANG RABANA

UCT 2005B.Business Science

(Computer Science) Graduate

…LESS THAN 8 YEARS LATER…

MOBILE VOIPTECHNOLOGY

1ST GENERATION APPS SIMILAR TO VIBER, WHATSAPP CALLS

YEIGO FOUNDERS

LEARNINGTECHNOLOGY

“…striking innovation…”

McKinsey Lions Go Digital 2013

PRIMARILY USED AS PART OF FOUNDATION LANGUAGE PROGRAMME AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

BUILDING ENGLISH PROFICIENCY FOR TERTIARY AND WORK

6 000 LEARNERS – 2016

BITE-SIZED CHUNKS

CLOSE GAPS

Sub-Saharan Africa Focus

Private Equity & Advisory firm

Various Sectors

Raising first Private Equity fund of R2 billion

NISELA CAPITAL

KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE

QUESTIONING THE WORLD AROUND YOU

THE BEGINNING…

CHOICE

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it…”

STEVE JOBS

THE POWER OF AWARENESS # 1

INNOVATION

SEE NEW ANGLES

PAUL GRAHAM

The verb you want to be using with respect to coming up with ideas, is not ‘think up’, but ‘notice’.”

“Whoever you are… you have a total of life experiences that

have prepared you to see notice opportunities around

you.”

PAUL GRAHAM

HOW DO YOU SEE THE WORLD?

THE POWER OF AWARENESS #2

MAKING BOLD DECISIONS

NEGOTIABLES AND NON-NEGOTIABLES

“When are you clear on your non-negotiables, everything else becomes negotiable and gives you enormous flexibility and capacity for risk-taking…”

CHRIS LOWNEY Author HEROIC LEADERSHIP

WHAT ARE YOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES?

VALUE EQUATIONYOUR UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION + HARD WORK = VALUE

THE POWER OF AWARENESS #3

“…I realized that embracing the unusual parts of my background would be the key to making it through. It would be

those things that would give me unique perspectives and approaches to the

business…”

BEN HOROWITZ The Hard Thing, about Hard Things

VALUE IS CREATED

…given

…taken

CHOICE

RAPELANG

RABANA

www.rapelang.com

INNOVATION & VALUE CREATION