• Our core values
• Our core purpose
• BHAGs
• Strategic guidelines
• Envisoned future

Our core values

We believe that living by a set of core values helps define the true measure of a company - they guide the way we treat each other and how we make business decisions, no matter what the business climate is. We are commited to operate according to the following values:

• Community: We are committed to be of service to the community.
• Innovation: We are committed develop innovative new systems.
• Intent: We are committed to be participatory, friendly and constructive.
• Respect: We are committed to respect the dignity of each individual.
• Learning: We are committed to inspire discovery and education.
• Integrity: We are committed to integrity, reliability and flexibility.
• Quality: We are committed to quality, prompt and accurate service.
• Rewarding: We are committed to recognise and reward excellence.
• Social: We are committed to be a positive influence and support good works.
• Employees: We are committed to recruiting enthusiastic, motivated staff.
• Facilities: We are committed to clean, orderly and safe working conditions.
• Leadership: We are committed to providing visionary, ethical leadership.
• Conduct: We are committed to concern for productivity.

Our core purpose

Our core purpose describes why we exist as a business. We are committed to:

• Community: establish community to facilitate networking and education
• Unemployment: promote self-starting
• Collaboration: promote collaboration amongst members
• Eduction: transfer knowledge and skills to motivated learners
• Partnerships: to establish partnerships to help advance members
• Market leader: being non-competitive pioneers in creating new markets
• Infrastructure: provide infrastructure to support members

BHAGs

To be the pre-eminent community for self-starting in the IT industry we have to achieve the following goals:

• Brand: creating a em brand presence for our community
• Members: enlisting members for community building and teamwork
• Opportunities: create business opportunities for members
• Systems: creating efficient and affordable business systems
• Meetings: conducting effective meetings, resulting in immediate action
• Partnerships: establish mutually rewarding partnerships
• Education: contribute to the availability of learning opportunities
• Facilities: reasonably price facilities for members

Strategic guidelines

We look at achieving our goals as a framework for our strategies and actions. Here are some questions we periodically ask to define our strategic objectives:

• Unemployment: How will we combat unemployment?
• Participants: Who are the various participants?
• Markets: How will we affect the job market?
• Economy: How is self-starting relevant to the economy?
• Self-starting: What does the self-starter workplace look like?
• Efficiency: How does our service improve business efficiency?
• Research: How will we assist members in identifying opportunities?
• Teamwork: How do we manage collaborations of members into teams?
• Facilities: How will we manage systems development efforts?
• Education: How do we assist in skill and knowledge transfer?
• Best practices: How do we develop best practices?
• Support: How do we enlist support from government, education and IT?
• Community: How do we enhance the appeal of the community?
• Branding: How does our brand communicate value?
• Promotion: How do we promote members' services?
• Marketing: How do we present a compelling case?
• Advocacy: How can we maximise our advocacy efforts?
• Memberships: How do recruitment members?
• Partnerships: How do we attract partnerships?
• Retention: How do we retain members?

Envisioned future

Our envisioned future conveys a concrete description of what our present and future success will look like. We are committed to achieve our desired future.

• Our facilities: We operate from work-share premices specially designed to provide flexibility in accomodating diverse team set-ups. em services-orientated support available for members at small fee. Our members are recognized as essential partners in the ongoing development of the IT Emporium facilities they utilise.
• Member advancement: Members and those who aspire to membership view us as the most important partner in being self-employed and for their career advancement. Sound co-operation would result in a more competitive economy and ultimately a better life for all South Africans.
• Member qualities: Our members are recognized as skillfull, flexible, dynamic, and progressive in their respective fields. They are regarded as resources in the success of projects of small and medium business in the IT industry.
• Excellent meetings: We conduct effecitve meetings and get the ball rolling every time! Keeping the ball rolling all the time.
• Mutual benefit: We contribute to our self-employed members earning a good living, and they contribute towards our systems and tools.
• View of society: We are profoundly changing the views of society through the development of new opportunities and possibilities in business.
• Information: We provice highly valued, objective, and credible information to our members and the public at large.
• Leadership: a leader in the development and utilisation of community productivity systems, building collaborative relationships, setting standards. We are a key player in self-starter communities. We are the authority and global leader in creating, expanding, and transferring knowledge and trends in the self-starter arena.
• Reputation: We are regarded as the first choice for professional development and networking. As a result of maintaining very high and measurable standards of service, our clients and members put their confidence in us.
• Perception: We are perceived as a flexible, dynamic, and progressive business by employees, members, clients, supplies and the public at large.
• Recognition: We are recognised as authorities on knowledge management, creation, collection, preservation, access, and the exchange of information. Self-employed professionals turn to the community as their primary source of income-generating leads and information.
• Continuation: Continuing to develop relationships and opportunities and commitment to excellent service.
• Service standards: Continuous study of most up-to-date standards and methodologies.
• Partnerships: Partners recognized the value of partnering with us to achieve common goals.
• We are a body of knowledge for the self-starter community.
• Financial success: We consistently delivering the superior financial results that ensure long-term success
• Research and development: Budgets of research and development are increased to advance changing, learning, teaching and research requirements of our members.