Most businesses that fail on innovation did not fail because the idea was bad. They failed because the idea entered a system that was not ready to receive it. I have seen this across industries in Kigali, Lagos, Nairobi, and Abidjan. A startup finds traction, starts...
In the first article in this series, I named a specific behavioral trap: innovation anxiety, the fear of missing an opportunity that pushes African business leaders to introduce new ideas faster than their organizations can absorb them. If you have not read it, start...
Across Africa, particularly in agribusiness, most SMEs believe they are operating with a strategy. What they actually have is a plan. And that confusion is not just semantic. It is expensive. I have sat across from founders in Kigali, Nairobi, Abidjan, and Lagos....
In business environments obsessed with structure, compliance, and process, creativity is often misunderstood. We tend to think of creativity as something mysterious or artistic an unpredictable spark reserved for designers or advertising agencies. But in marketing,...
Our businesses are becoming more structured, more measured, more process-driven yet many are becoming less bold. We are building dashboards faster than we are building differentiated brands. In emerging markets, that is a dangerous imbalance. Africa does not reward...
In business, what we call “strategy” is often retrospective storytelling. We design frameworks. We build dashboards. We track KPIs to the decimal point. All of it gives us a comforting illusion of control. But the uncomfortable truth is this: many breakthroughs in...
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