AfricaLead with Veronica Motloutsi

Africa is ready for the next wave of digital disruption By Veronica Motloutsi – in her personal capacity While in Kinshasa, a city determined to make a full recovery and heal the scars of years of conflict and civil war, I thought of one thing which is what will make this city leapfrog and readies itself to join other African countries as a fascinating destination.  What kind of innovation while propel this city to move forward.  This is not the challenge only for Kinshasa but for many African cities. What not to like about a city controlled by enormous robots, complete with arms, legs and smiling faces. Africa’s socio-economic challenges forces will soon forces the country to be the early adopter of technology.  In the era of digital disruption, Africa, has responded very well in terms of the adoption of new innovation breakthrough.  Our continent is embracing technological, most especially the digital.  This disruption will work in ...

I visited Israel in October this year, mainly Jerusalem, North and Tel Aviv district.  One thing you cannot ignore is that Israel is quickly becoming an innovation giant.  This country is known as a start-up nation, with most of their innovation coming from high technology industry. It’s amazing that this same nation that is forever under attack or attacking… Israel created an innovation ecosystem at national level that allows small and entrepreneurial business to prosper and flourish.  Like US, Israel leverages on the fact that it is a multicultural nation, allowing for diversity and different viewpoints. I believe that there could be that can be learned from Israel.   I asked myself, what if I take these lessons and apply to my organisation?  This should compel executives to create a digital ecosystem for their organisations, the fact of the matter is that digital is leading.   A strong digital innovation eco...

In Maputo Mozambique, admiring the beauty of this amazing city.  The fact that I am here on work, i have to think about...work.   It came to my mind that every decade we witness a major shift in technology.  Right now we are in the midst of an incredible revolution where the world is being shaped by convergence of mobile and social cloud computing.  Companies are looking for strategies to develop one-to-one relationship with customers.   I remember reading the word is flat by Friedman, inspired by the impact of globalisation, that the world is becoming more connected, right now technology allows us to connect everything together, and it is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.  Its a phenomenal time. Today, everything is changing again.  The devices, the networks, and even the computers we use to connect are all new.  Exciting new mobile and social clouds apps are delivered via powerful LTE wireless network to literally bill...