Blue Ocean Strategy: The Undisputable Fortune Generator of the 21st Century
Professor Okanga Boniface and Jennifer Davis-Adesegha Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Abstract Even if it does not render irrelevant the usually costly competition in the existing red markets, edifying effects of blue ocean investments are often still latent in a firm’s improved profitability, growth and returns on shareholders’ value. Usage of blue ocean strategy instigates the […]
Caribbean Sargassum’s Global Supply Chain Management Model
By Raymond SargeantBarbados, 6 January 2025 Abstract Given the challenges of getting different Sargassum products from the Caribbean market to the rest of the global markets, this research seeks to develop a global supply chain management system for improving the Caribbean Sargassum seaweed products’ distribution across the global markets. The study is motivated by the […]
Brazil’s Porto Alegre PB Model: Contrasted with South Africa’s PB Approach
By Dr Nomcebo Serrah Mhlanga and Professor Okanga Boniface Pretoria, South Africa, January, 2025 INTRODUCTION Participatory-budgeting (PB) edifies effective municipal financial management. Participatory-budgeting is a deliberative and participatory democracy process through which local communities are engaged to participate in the deliberations and making decisions on how a portion of the municipal budget must be allocated […]
Digital Twin: The New AI and Machine Learning Era’s Leverager of New Product Development
By Professor Okanga Boniface London, England, 6 January, 2025 As the fourth industrial revolution becomes a reality to reflect more advancement in AI, robotics and machine learning technologies, the advancement of digital twin technology will also turn into the next big thing in the fourth industrial revolution era. Digital twin scans and translates physical objects […]
HR Analytics: 41R Era’s Driver of Superior Business Performance
By Kazeem Twagobe University of Liverpool, January 2025 INTRODUCTION As most of the contemporary businesses are increasingly transitioning into data-driven worlds, it is not only business analytics in areas like process analytics or marketing analytics which are increasingly also becoming important for leveraging a firm’s competitiveness, but also advanced HR analytics (Kailash & Prathyusha, 2020). […]
Frugal Innovation: The Forgotten Disruptive 21st Century’s Strategic Value Creating Resource
By Professor Okanga Boniface London, England, 6 January, 2025 In line with Microsoft IoT’s (2024) Video below, digital driven frugal innovation may also entail taking advantage of digital twin reflecting the advancement in artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning technologies to introduce new products and operational processes that not only lower costs and improve affordability […]
Social Impact Assessment: A Critical Antecedent For Successful Public Projects’ Implementation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6NsT4gNYM Professor Okanga Boniface Edinburgh Napier University-Scotland Abstract Using systematic review, this study evaluates how social impact assessment leverages the successful implementation of public projects. Despite the growing importance of social impact assessment, the study was motivated by the fact that most project implementation processes still continue to prioritize environmental impact assessment at the expense […]
Learning and Imitation as Catalyzing Innovation Strategies for Thriving During Aggressive Innovation Wars
By Boniface Okanga London-England, 2 September, 2024 Invention of original product ideas is essential for creating unique products that bolster a firm’s overall competitiveness. But as competition heightens to generate more aggressive innovation wars, it often becomes difficult for the business to easily come up with a series of new ideas that can be quickly […]
Recombinant Innovation as a Disruptive Innovation Strategy
By Boniface Okanga London-England, 2 September, 2024 Recombinant innovation is the iterative process of imagining and evaluating how a combination of the required technologies can be extracted from the existing technologies and seamlessly combined to create a new product or service. When developing a new product/service, recombinant innovation process does not focus just on researching […]
Self-Disruption as a Game-Changing Strategy in the Age of Discontinuities
By Jennifer Davis-Adesegha, Nekeisha Danvers & Boniface Okanga Toronto, Canada, 9 July, 2024. Self-disruption is essential for leveraging a business’ self-regeneration. Self-regeneration enables a business acquire and develop new capabilities that enable it to perform more effectively in the midst of the constantly changing global market forces. It enables the business evaluate its state of […]