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There are two types of startups which any African entrepreneur could pursue in the digital ecosystem:  advertisement-supported consumer and Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. While the latter focuses largely on enterprise clients, the former is usually structured for consumer markets. In this piece, I explain how these businesses work and how entrepreneurs can structure […]

As a CIO or CEO, these four emerging technologies would help your business enormously. Each trend represents the convergence of several previously trending technologies to enable new advances that are greater than the sum of their parts. Assessing these transformative technologies with an eye to their ability to drive business outcomes reveals their unprecedented opportunities for […]

The University of Pretoria, South Africa makes a grant to Fasmicro Group, to help prototype a new Leadership System I have worked over the last two years. In my Advisory subsidiary, we invented the Wellbeing Economy Leadership Practice (WELP). The fund makes its way to Lagos. The German Government (part-funder) and University of Pretoria (P.I. Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti […]

Innovation is the engine that refreshes the world of commerce, industry and governance. It underpins the whole system of evolution and revolution in business processes, enabling organizational mutation and adaptation where necessary. Innovation provides new basis of competition in markets, disrupting empires and traditional economic orders. In this piece, I take an excursion to understand […]

In U.S., I have a largely limited use of WhatsApp but while in Africa, it has become indispensable. I mean messaging chat portals like WhatsApp and WeChat would have dominant roles in the future of financial services. Nigeria’s Kudi is playing a role there by making it possible for people to do payments through chat. […]