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Unleashing Africa’s corporate innovation potential
The movement goes beyond the concept of technological leapfrogging, regularly vaunted in recent years. Africa is not a continent seeking to ‘catch up’ by activating the innovation lever. It is inventing its own model and generating innovative and pragmatic solutions to its own particular developmental and growth challenges by activating various drivers.
They are multiplying across Africa and for Africa. While they are not new in Nigeria, Ghana or South Africa, they have recently gained ground in other countries, creating pan-African momentum. In order to gain further insight into this trend, we decided to dive into a learning expedition around this topic.
The expedition took us to the African continent first, to discover local initiatives that connect the worlds of established companies and entrepreneurs/innovators, or that unleash the ‘intrapreneurial’ potential of employees, including:
At a time when some are putting up walls, others are building bridges between Africa and the rest of the world, to get the best out of both and leverage the continent’s potential for innovation. Our learning expedition therefore continued beyond the borders of Africa to show:
In addition to promoting these kinds of initiatives and innovation in Africa, our ambition is to inspire:
In the face of uberisation, companies that survive will be those that succeed in ‘self-disrupting’, by bringing the best of the start-up world into their organisation and turning internal resources into innovators who, in open cross-functional teams, will then create new offers, new products and services, new business units or new start-ups.
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