Message from The Director

The pressure to be competitive can only get worse whether we are looking at the individual fi rm, regional or national levels. To deal with this ever increasing pressure for Kenya and indeed throughout the East African region, The Strathmore Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (SISC) is positioning itself as one of the region’s leading research centres’ and the premier source for private and public sector strategy and policy information and research on competitiveness. Established in 2007, the Centre is based at the Strathmore Business School a member of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS).

The Institute seeks to infl uence the regional development agendas by engaging in and creating an environment that inspires and enables innovative research and scholarship, as well as collaboration with all stakeholders. The Institute has now embarked upon an ambitious research plan aimed at generating the data and information required to support the national and regional competitiveness agenda.

The institute is now pursuing an aggressive plan to forge ahead with collaborative approaches to engage in avenues that enable effective knowledge transfer, as well as appropriate use of the resulting intellectual property and encouraging applications for the research fi ndings. The institute is also continuing to build upon its fl agship training programme, the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC), which is run in collaboration with Harvard Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness under Professor Michael Porter.

In addition, we are looking at developing other tailor made competitiveness offerings. The institute is also working to strengthen programme fees and research funding to support its research strategy. To this end the institute is now seeking to partner with other organisations and sponsors as we begin on this great journey and I welcome you all to join me on this noble cause.

Dr. Mulengani Katwalo,

(BA, DPIM, MBA, PGCE, PhD)