Talking to Garmin SA, a World Leader in Satellite Navigation and GPS
“Garmin has become a leader in a lot of fitness wearables, in the cycling market, in aviation and marine.”
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“Garmin has become a leader in a lot of fitness wearables, in the cycling market, in aviation and marine.”
“We are expecting the first product, the balloon, to be ready for the first world in early 2017. Our first valves will be ready second half of 2017.”
“We have more opportunity than we can address at the moment and that is another reason to look for funding. We are growing 100 to 150% year on year in dollar terms, so it is interesting times.”
“I think we’ve been given a phenomenal opportunity to take a company that in two years will be 50 years old and reengineer and reposition it.”
“Digiterra is a services organisation; focusing on the business to IT continuum, with about 60% of our business generated from business consultancy and 40% from an IT base.”
“I don’t think our vision is to replicate the original Silicone Valley. You could never do that. The key drive is to build the ecosystem.”
“What we are looking at now in the short term is the LNG-to-power opportunity.”
“We have done a lot of work in repositioning their business models and specifically with business model innovation. It is not about what product or service that you are selling, it is about how you position it and how you create the business model around it that gets it to market.”
“If you look at South Africa, many South African companies are sitting on piles of cash and they aren’t investing it. The question is why? You have to unlock their confidence in the country to invest that money.”