{"id":43924,"date":"2025-10-27T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/?p=43924"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:20:37","slug":"emerging-markets-innovation-and-scaling-for-exponential-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/featured\/emerging-markets-innovation-and-scaling-for-exponential-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging markets: Innovation and scaling for exponential growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">T<\/span>he South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) is thrilled to announce the launch of our partnership with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) to deliver the <strong>Emerging Markets: Innovation and Scaling for Exponential Growth Program<\/strong>, an exclusive executive development initiative designed to empower African leaders with global insights and transformative tools for growth.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 October 2025, CKGSB, in partnership with SACCI, hosted an exclusive event to mark the official launch of this groundbreaking collaboration at the Premier Hotel in Sandton. The event brought together business leaders, policymakers and executives from across sectors to explore how innovation, digital transformation and strategic scaling can unlock exponential growth in emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2002, CKGSB is China\u2019s first private business school, with more than 23 500 alumni, including Jack Ma and the founders of 151 unicorns such as Tencent, ByteDance, DiDi and Temu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Through this programme, entrepreneurs, executives and decision-makers will gain the tools and connections to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn from CKGSB\u2019s world-class faculty and leading South African professors.<\/li>\n<li>Unlock China\u2019s disruptive growth playbook and adapt it to Africa\u2019s rapidly growing markets.<\/li>\n<li>Harness disruption models to drive profitability and resilience.<\/li>\n<li>Build an AI-driven digital ecosystem to future-proof their organisations.<\/li>\n<li>Forge cross-border networks with entrepreneurs, policymakers and corporate leaders from Africa, China and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43931\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu.jpg 653w, https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu-608x420.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sacci_pres._Adv_Mtho_Xulu-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SACCI President Advocate Mtho Xulu welcomed the new partnership.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This programme is tailored for founders, CEOs, investors, SOE executives and corporate leaders who are ready to scale their businesses and thrive amid global disruption.<\/p>\n<p>We were especially honoured to welcome <strong>Dr Xiang Bing<\/strong>, the Founding Dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, as the guest speaker. CKGSB is often referred to as the \u201cChinese Harvard Business School\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A visionary academic and globally sought-after thought leader, Dr Bing has taught more than 25 000 Chinese executives, including some of the world\u2019s most influential business figures \u2013 from Jack Ma (Alibaba) and Pony Ma (Tencent) to the founders of TikTok, Temu and the Chairman of SINOPEC. He has addressed audiences at prestigious international platforms such as the Rome Round Table with Pope Francis, Morgan Stanley\u2019s Asia Pacific Summit and the Harvard China Forum. He also serves on the boards of several leading companies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership and the successful event mark a major step forward in strengthening Africa-Asia collaboration and fostering a new generation of business leaders equipped to drive innovation, scalability and sustainable growth across emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more and join the programme:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/english.ckgsb.edu.cn\/program\/emerging-markets-innovation-scaling-and-disruptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.ckgsb.edu.cn\/program\/emerging-markets-innovation-scaling-and-disruptions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/webkiosk.globalafricanetwork.com\/opportunity-issue-115\/70833522\/14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More news from SACCI<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive development initiative offers African leaders a chance to gain global insights and to adopt transformative tools for growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1964,3,34,2,1797,116,38],"tags":[295,296,301,191,126,536,471,1541,1976],"class_list":{"0":"post-43924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"category-company-news","9":"category-education-training-research","10":"category-featured","11":"category-published-in-print","12":"category-sadc","13":"category-south-africa","14":"tag-ai","15":"tag-artificial-intelligence","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-entrepreneurs","18":"tag-entrepreneurship","19":"tag-executive-education","20":"tag-leadership","21":"tag-leadership-development","22":"tag-sacci"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43924"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43934,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924\/revisions\/43934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalafricanetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}