A proposal to President Masisi: Game-changing economic policy reforms - a five-point plan

Masisi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Masisi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

In 2013 during a press conference to announce Nokia being acquired by Microsoft, the CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop ended his speech by saying “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. Such an ending is devastation considering Nokia used to own a large portion of the smart phone market share before the iPhone came out in 2007.

In a LinkedIn blog, Ziyad Jawabra notes that although technically Nokia did nothing wrong, it was their refusal to change and learn new things that led to their demise.

One lesson we can learn from Nokia’s story is the importance of sustained competitiveness and strategic adaptation. Just like a company, a country needs to have systems to enable continued global competitiveness and adapting to change.  This involves the constant review of its economic policy to ensure resilience, development and drive job creation. Our country has the people, the skills and the goodwill to address the challenges of low economic growth and unemployment. In this article, I present a five-point plan, which will hopefully trigger valuable public discourse that will lead to the formulation of an economic policy package that would guarantee job creating economic growth.

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