Innovators and growth champions, our equation for this week is: Innovation = Invention + Commercialization. Yes, let us move beyond just ideas and make things which customers will pay for. Remember, prosperity belongs to innovation societies and companies; inventive societies or companies with no mechanism to release the great forces –  products and services which overcome the frictions in customers’ lives – into markets are like the old man in the sea, who sees water everywhere but yet cannot find a drop for the throat.

Until you release the great forces of products & services, the frictions in markets cannot be fixed. Build great products and services and be rewarded with great companies. Yes, the benefit of fixing frictions is Revenue and that is possible through commercialization. 

Innovators fix market frictions and get rewarded with Revenue. You must transition from being an inventor into an innovator! Simply, Innovate and advance.

Tekedia Institute welcomes from the land of Black Stars, Margins Group, a leader in securely connecting Identities and solutions in a materialized and de-materialized World, to Tekedia Mini-MBA. The Group runs one of the largest ISO 9001-2015 certified secure documents and card manufacturing facilities in Africa. It has capacity to produce over 200 million secure documents and cards per year. For three decades, Margin Group has served Ghana and Africa. At the Institute, we are honoured for the opportunity to co-learn with this African tech conglomerate. Welcome to the best school https://school.tekedia.com/

Good People, join me to welcome Odigital ( https://odigital.ng/ ) to Tekedia Mini-MBA. Led by  Dr. John Hunpatin, Odigital  is a digital marketing academy & agency, and a digital tech solutions incubator & accelerator. We are honoured to welcome new team members from Odigital. We will run with you to unlock online growth potentials – keep fixing digital market frictions. Welcome to Tekedia Institute.

Tekedia Mini-MBA edition 4: Week 2 videos and courseware are now posted in the Board.

“You can never build a great company until you have built a Great Product. Show me a great company, and I will show you its great products. Your CALL as a project champion in an existing company or a founder in a startup, is to run this equation, using the 4 Phases in the Grand Playbook of Business”. – Ndubuisi Ekekwe

The full Week 2 courseware:

• – The Grand Playbook of Business – Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe
• – Project Planning, Process Improvement, Operations Management – Rasheed Adebayo T. Adebayo, Operations Manager, Schlumberger UK
• – Quality and Asset Management – Michael Odigie PhD, Vice President Technical Services, Delek Logistics USA
• – Effective Pricing Strategy and Systems – Alli Adetunji, Head of Finance, Securepack Nigeria

I just shared our Week 1 well-received delivery for the just started Tekedia Mini-MBA. Now find below what we have for Week 2 – Business Systems & Processes. At 12 noon WAT tomorrow (Monday), in the Board, you will see everything. I will begin with The Grand Playbook of Business, and other faculty members will take it home.

The Challenge Assignments for this week come from one of our Finance Faculty, Alli Adetunji. He is a tough teacher with Excel supporting data which looks like a PhD work (size: 45MB). Also, link for the Zoom class included in the Board.

• – The Grand Playbook of Business – Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe
• – Project Planning, Process Improvement, Operations Management – Rasheed Adebayo T. Adebayo, Operations Manager, Schlumberger UK
• – Quality and Asset Management – Michael Odigie PhD, Vice President Technical Services, Delek Logistics USA
• – Effective Pricing Strategy and Systems – Alli Adetunji, Head of Finance, Securepack Nigeria

Welcome to the best school!