{"id":5472,"date":"2019-09-19T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"technology-will-transform-face-of-enterprise-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/19\/technology-will-transform-face-of-enterprise-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Will Transform Face Of Enterprise In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Mbugua Njihia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often\nthe pursuit of an economic activity has one agenda in mind, which is getting a return,\nhopefully, one that exceeds the costs of production or creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those\nwho figure out this path to profitability at scale are often celebrated as\ncaptains of industry, delivering value to their shareholders and in some cases\nback to the community through well-positioned corporate social investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one\nfaults this status quo, but with the unit economics and strategies for\nrealisation of profit in place, I find it refreshing that a growing number of\nentrepreneurs with technology-inclined businesses are thinking about greater\nimpact in their societies, even casting those visions further afield to cover\nthe larger continent, a step up from dynasty-driven entrepreneurs gone before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No\nsector is immune to the fresh charge of ideas powered by technology, disrupting\nbusiness models, supply chains, distribution, and even production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nis different, perhaps from the disposition of the many of the founding teams\nwho have grown in the age of the fledgling internet in Africa with access to\ninformation, is a sense of the larger opportunity and attendant responsibility\nthat comes with building a business\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/tech\/face-of-enterprise-in-Africa\/4258474-5278456-mic1n0z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mbugua Njihia Often the pursuit of an economic activity has one agenda in mind, which is getting a return, hopefully, one that exceeds the costs of production or creation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}