From Steam Engine to AI: Inexplicable Secrets of Legendary Historical Businesses’ Transfiguration and Evolution into the Modern Business World

By Boniface Okanga & Jennifer Davis-Adesegha London, England, June 2025 Abstract What legendary historical businesses do to stay perpetually alive, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, disruptive and revolutionary despite passing through some of the most deadly disruptions in the world’s history, is only the legendary businesses themselves that understand. It is such curiosity that drives this study […]

Using AI And Machine Learning to Edify HRM’s Operational Efficiency: Insights from London-based Fintech Companies

By Denese Fay-Ann John and Jennifer Davis-Adesegha, London, England, February 2025 Abstract Thriving in the fintech world where usage of more advanced Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies is increasingly becoming the norm requires Fintech Companies to explore all the best possible ways of attaining superior competitive advantage. As part of such quest, this study used […]

Foreign Aid and Africa’s Economic Independence: The Lingering Economic Paradox for African Leaders

Boniface Okanga London, England, March 2025 Abstract Improving Africa’s economic independence, freedom and self-sustainability is essential for addressing some of the ecosystem variables that often affect the meaningful contribution of private sector businesses to Africa’s economic growth, development, independence and freedom. Unfortunately, the tendency of even wealthier African nations to over-rely on foreign aid, even […]

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 […]