Transform Your Business with AI, Not Just Run with AI

Welcome to an amazing new week. Many companies implement artificial intelligence (AI) merely to automate tasks or enhance operational efficiency. While this improves processes, it often limits AI to a supporting role. At Tekedia Institute, the call is to think bigger. Yes, AI should not just help you run your business; it should TRANSFORM it. That means reimagining how value is created, how services are delivered, and how customers are engaged. AI should power innovation, not just automation.

Transformative use of AI involves embedding intelligence into products, creating new business models, and enabling adaptive, data-driven decision-making. If AI is not changing your business model, you are possibly running with AI and yet to be transformed by AI. A business model is the logic of a firm which determines how it captures value in the market. A transformed company is a business with improved business model.

This means you are transitioning from just building chatbots and dashboards, to inventing ways to redefine industries and customer expectations. At Tekedia Institute, we advocate for a bold approach where AI becomes central to strategy and execution within a symphonic innovation system. Businesses that embrace this shift can unlock exponential growth, gain competitive advantage, and reshape the future.

Simply put, AI should not just make your business better, it should make it different. Why? In our analysis, more than 80% of SaaS companies in Africa which are not transformed by AI will be gone by 2028: “More than 80% of digital startups in Africa could become stale or obsolete by 2028, due to AI, if they’re not rebuilt and retooled.”

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