Good People, we are excited to announce that Vetifly will be going live in a few days. We are set to commence operations. With Vetifly, you’ll now be able to book a helicopter ride with the tap of a button. Flights will commence from the 27th of August. Go here, download Vetifly app (Android and iOS) and book your first flight – https://vetifly.com/download

Prices are lower if booking is done on charter and Lift routes well in advance. Given the demand, prices may increase closer to the day of the flight. So, take action. 

We are home and our office is in Ikoyi, Lagos. Book your first flight and arrive in style!

She received our internal scholarship to attend Tekedia Mini-MBA and promised to sponsor others if he gets a job later. Graciously, she was hired by a foreign startup in Lagos last month. Now, she wants to sponsor “five youth ladies”. Because we have no way of handling her requirements, we are asking Youth Up , a non-profit in Lagos, to select these five women and send them to my team for registration into Tekedia Mini-MBA edition 3.

This is a full scholarship. Faith Nwaobia leads Youth Up. With his team, they will do the selection. If interested, link up with Youth Up.

Tekedia Mini-MBA (Aug 10 – Dec 3, 2020)

Apple has captured a lot of values in markets to become a near-$2 trillion company. You need to capture value for your enterprise even as you create value for customers. IT improves productivity but sometimes the web not only improves efficiency in the utilization of factors of production but also helps to transfer or destroy value. So, there is the risk that you could be doing great things for your customers but the value created, you are not capturing. If you allow that redesign, your enterprise can collapse.

In this video, I challenge us to use the One Oasis Strategy and Double Play Strategy to build business models that will ensure that we capture enterprise value even as we create for customers. Skype creates great value for customers but it has struggled to capture most value; so, Skype remains a sojourner, constantly being passed around by buyers and sellers. Do not be like Skype.

Play at both edges of the smiling curve and leave the center.  Apple plays at both edges of the smiling curves while partners pick the center. In the financial services domain in Nigeria, companies like Interswitch (which controls Verve) and Flutterwave play at the edges while most banks are still wasting efforts at the center. The banks do the hard work but the fintechs capture the highest value. Do not be like some banks, still tethered at the center, move to the edges.

I am Ndubuisi Ekekwe. I am very happy to join the Twitter ecosystem. We would be sharing management processes and how we can drive growth in businesses through innovation. Connect, and let us go for an excursion on the mechanics of business systems. Here is my twitter handle @ndekekwe

It used to be “Let’s meet your bankers”. Today, we are seeing, “Which fintech partner are you working with?” Indeed, as fintech evolves to become the new growth operating system in intra-African trade, understanding how the players could help you go further could be catalytic. When you sell things that cost the equivalent of $20, fintech, not your bank, comes handily as you (digitally) scale across Africa. Build partnerships with these new growth drivers.