CS Social Innovations

Innovating Change with Purpose

Empowering Change
through People-centred
Innovation
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Welcome

empowering communities and organizations through people-centred strategy

CS Business Innovations is 100% black-owned, socio-economic and management consultancy and impact investment implementing company. Our mission is to help our clients and communities shape and implement high-value socio-economic projects, enterprise development and transformation goals through research and development, leadership / team-effectiveness, and community education training.

We use a people-centred and entrepreneurial approach to address social, organizational and community challenges. By using an asset-based methodology in all strategy design and project implementation, our innovative methods ensure quantifiable and transformative outcomes for our clients and communities we serve.

our approach

01/ Engaging

We are guided by the pursuit of human dignity and see community participation at the core of reducing social and investment risk. This engagement approach prioritises collaboration that engenders trust and mutual respect.

02/ Enterprising

We unlock community assets and strategic partnerships that sustain impact to ensure social return of our clients’ investment beyond numbers. We do so in an innovative way that stimulates an entrepreneurial orientation rather than a beneficiary mind-set.

03/Evolving

We dare to believe that corporates and local communities can collaborate to co-create value beyond score-card compliance.

What We Offer

CS Group Service Offerings

The CS Group provide Socio-Economic Development consulting services to maximise your SED spend and ensure high value return from your investments beyond B-BBEE compliance.

Our services ranges from conducting feasibility / project preparation and scoping exercises to project design and consultation with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and adoption of initiatives.

Entrepreneurship Training, Community Education and and Enterprise Support

Through our investment in Avo Vision (Pty) Ltd based in Johannesburg we are a leading grassroots enterprise development incubator and training organisation impacting over 50 000 annually through our training programmes and enterprise support interventions. We design and implement tailored Training and Enterprise Development interventions that unlocks real value with and through our community participants.

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Are your development initiatives creating real impact
or adding risk?

As a business committed to socio-economic transformation, your investment in local development matters. But research shows that 80% of corporate social initiatives fail—often due to poor community engagement and ineffective strategy design. At CS Business Innovations, we help you put communities at the heart of your development efforts, converting your investment into measurable, long-term social and economic returns. Let’s work together to build partnerships that reduce risk, create shared value, and drive real transformation.

testimonials

What Our Clients Say

Cs innovations conceptualised and project led two of our flagship initiatives – the north star scenarios (nss) and the helenvale recycling initiative (heri). These projects were highly experimental and held great risk, but its innovative design and dynamic leadership allowed our communities to be participants in achieving outstanding social impact of catalytic value to napdi’s civic education and leadership campaigns.
Isaac Metembo
Chairperson Napdi
The innovative social dialogue programme strengthened our social engagement approach and provided us the opportunity to offset significant social risks. We made use of the platform to proactively engage our stakeholders, service providers and communities in an open and transparent process with the aim to increase trust and catalyse communities in their own development. The platform also offered our communities a vital and trusted space for engaging their needs and strengthening network support to transform these needs into self-driven local actions.
Rojie Kisten
Former Chairperson Cookhouse Windfarm Community Development Trust
The use of local resources and assets by the community was a standout feature of this programme. Through the giz/nike partnership, the miks foundation, implemented the design to move project targeting primary schools and the promotion of the physical movement agenda in pe. We subcontracted the implementation of design to move to cs business innovations which did an outstanding job in impacting the pilot schools to adopt and maintain high levels of excellence in physical movement activities. The high quality of the programme management allowed giz/nike to achieve their goals under their violence prevention programme through sports
Achmat Mohamed
Chairman MIKS Foundation
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THINGS
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