In this issue

Our Cover for the July Issue, WHEN TURNAROUND CEO TURNS AROUND, The story of Jonathan Ciano and the Uchumi Supermarket looks critically into the management issues that returned Kenya's oldest retail chain to near receivership hardly ten years after its fanciful return to profit strategies. In the last two years, Uchumi Supermarket gobbled Sh2 billion in bank loans, profits and a rights issue, and under the celebrated CEO, asked for a bailout of Sh400 million to stay a float leading to an unamused board firing the Mr Ciano and a host of his top managers.

In Company and Industry, Dr Kellen Kiambati looks at the painful journey to a seasoned leadership. This a critical look at what it takes for a successful leadership. We also look at how insurance agencies are staring at their inevitable death thanks to bancassurance, the new kid on the block.

In Politics, Business & Law, we hail a court decision that has entrenched the High Court as a court of last resort in arbitration. This ruling, we argue, insulates the arbitration process from shenanigans that soiled the arbitration process while in Markets, we unravel what is affecting the shilling.

In Tech & Innovation, Use and Beautiful's Lynette Hundermark explores simple phone strategies that will move your company to the next level. "Your mobile phone strategy should integrate into your overall digital strategy which in turn needs to compliment your business and customer goals," she writes.

Our seasoned tech columnist, Peter Wanyonyi explains why enterprise architecture for e-government is the solution to the jinxed e-programmes of the central government including the much hyped laptops project.

In the Society and Culture, we take you into intrigues of the intensive care unit with a keen look at the ages old question of euthanasia. Caroline Wambui, the new graduated nurse working in a specialised neurological ICU in a private hospital in Germany shares her notes.

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NAIROBI BUSINESS MONTHLY

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