In all the editions we have run in Tekedia, there has been one huge missing link: translation of business frictions into components, and through Design Thinking fix them, practically. Our members come with business challenges and want to graduate with a clear methodology on how to fix them. To deal with that missing link, we are introducing a new course, right from Week 1 called Design Thinking and Innovation Lessons. 

Mr. Aderinola Oloruntoye (we call him Dean) will lead that course. In SAP, the global technology giant, he was the digital transformation & innovation lead in West Africa. Besides the course which is already ready, there would be five Tekedia Live sessions to help members through the processes. Those five sessions will deal with a methodology he has postulated on designs and innovations, within a contextual framework of Africa and emerging regions. His course on innovation remains a special moment for many.

It is a very great course and I look forward to the knowledge excursion with him guiding us. Click here to visualize our curriculum.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe receives the Focus Africa Award  for “immense contribution and services to your community, your country and Africa at large”. It is another one for the trophy box: my grandmother built a special one many years ago. Thank you Focus Africa for recognizing this village boy who through grace and favour is living the dream.  We will build this continent to greatness.

Prepare for 2021 and build on business models which can capture value. Even if you operate at the center of the curve, find ways to create a Double Play on your One Oasis to create leverages, and capture extra value. The category-kings are members of the edges. Yes, where you operate is even more strategic than the quality of your execution. Watch the video as Tekedia Institute flips 2020, and opens for 2021, our year of Accelerated Growth for members.

In Wall Street, many companies continue to capture value despite the global economic paralysis. Of course, I do expect them to take care of their workers.

Big business has flourished in America, despite the pandemic, and often at the expense of its workers. Between April and September, 45 of the 50 most valuable public companies in the U.S. made a profit, according to a Washington Post analysis. And 27 of those 50 laid off over 100,000 workers, collectively. Many CEOs touted efforts to focus less on shareholders and more on “the well-being of their employees,” but often, that did not occur. The top 50 firms distributed more than $240 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends between April and September, per WP data.

Watch our 2021 Outlook video below.

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She holds the gold standard and the most prestigious certification in the world of finance: the CFA. A graduate of the amazing Queen’s College Lagos, and the nearby University of Lagos (Accounting), she is the Vice President of Global Markets at PARTHIAN PARTNERS LIMITED a leading Inter-dealer broker operating in Sub-Saharan Africa with a mission to deliver excellent execution to its clients.

Ola Oladele, CFA will teach a course titled “Understanding Global Capital Markets – Lagos, London and New York” at Tekedia Institute Mini-MBA.  We have introduced this course to deepen the global perspectives of our members. Young bankers, insurers, founders and broad professionals, this course is about how the world works!

Accelerate your career ascent, learn from the best; study at Tekedia Institute.

A press release from Michael Palandro, President and CEO of KROZU. I took a position in KROZU a few weeks ago. I invite you to trial KROZU by opening a free account.

KROZU, Inc. (Florida, USA) – A USA based corporation, today announced the selected market release of KROZU, a permission-based, hierarchical workflow and project management tool, representing the only horizontal and vertically structured business tool that provides management of workflows and projects in the manner that business actually functions.

The dynamic capability of KROZU will present businesses a level of propriety for conducted activities, with an emphasis on productivity, that other similar business tools are unable to achieve. Including a chain of command hierarchy, through an organizational chart structure, that allows task and communication activities to be appropriately defined and conducted, represented by team based trees of activity which identify required planning and processing to complete a project successfully.  The level of visual and reporting documentation provided by KROZU presents a business with an accurate system of record on a real time basis for all activity.

“KROZU will represent a game changing business tool through its easy to use unique features and functionalities, using a horizontal and vertically hierarchical structured format, in a permission-based environment. KROZU will undoubtedly set a new standard of excellence for project management tools.” Stated Michael Palandro, President and CEO of KROZU.