Who We Are
We are a focused team and network of African-based Corporate Entrepreneurship and Organisational Innovation Strategists, Advisors and Management Consulting professionals. Our intellectual depth in these fields range from Corporate Entrepreneurship, Organisational Entrepreneurship Strategy, Applied Entrepreneurship Researchers and Innovation Solution Architects. We are a rising team of passionate problem solvers addressing today problems of tomorrow in 21st Century true entrepreneurial revolution. We are highly geared towards the emerging markets and transitional economies.
The FTT@580 team share a set of values anchored in observations that progressive and responsive businesses and democratic governments across the world are adopting the entrepreneurial approach to private, social and public services management and administration.
FTT@580 Team Leader
FTT@580 is led by the Executive Managing Partner, Dr McEdward Murimbika, a prolific business and policy researcher and advisor to corporates and public organisations alike. He holds a Ph.D. (Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg); Masters in Management (Wits Business School) and an M.Phil. (Univ. of Bergen, Norway). He also holds junior degrees and graduate qualifications from the Universities of Zimbabwe and Brussels respectively. He is a business change engineer with a mind steeped in the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and business innovation. He is leading FTT@580 on principles of the new global economic reality – Entrepreneurial Intellectual capital - [brain power, know-how and human imagination].
Dr. Murimbika’s applied research interest focus on how Intellectual Capital has supplanted Financial Capital as the critical success factor for corporations and public and social organisations in this highly globalized economy. He is a champion for entrepreneurial strategic approach for corporations and organisations with an eye for the future as means to secure sustainable competitive advantage be it in private, social or in public sectors.
Outside the management consultancy and corporate and organisational entrepreneurship world, Dr. Murimbika is also an active mentor to a number of South African social entrepreneurs and is an accomplished professional archaeologist.