Why Kenya’s Leather Industry Lags—and How Rethinking Value Chains Could Transform It

In Narok, a cow is slaughtered. Its hide, once stripped and salted, is sold for a few hundred shillings. Several months later, that same hide resurfaces in a high-end shopping mall in Nairobi—now part of a refined leather handbag priced at 16,000 Kenyan Shillings, sometimes branded with an Italian name stitched into the lining. This […]

How the Very Experience and Passion That Drive Us… Can Also Get in the Way of Innovation

A few days ago, I was co-writing an article about the difference between supply chains and value chains. What started as a relatively clear topic drawn from years of experience, suddenly became something more complex when we realized how uniform the concepts had become in everyday language. Everyone thinks they know what a value chain […]