Strategic digital transformation in Africa in the time of COVID-19
Friday, September 11, 2020
What is clear, is that in terms of digital innovation and progress, we have had to compress several years of evolution into a very short space of time as everyone has been forced to adapt to managing businesses remotely and the deployment of new low contact transactional capabilities.
Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter, coined the phrase ‘creative destruction’, which speaks to the need to constantly destroy what you have created to build a new order – exactly what we are experiencing now.
The Ministry of Agriculture, local producers, retailers, and industry associations must work together to overcome the obstacles hindering vegetable production and distribution.This collaborative approach is essential to improve the availability, quality, and affordability of vegetables in the market.Firstly, the Ministry of Agriculture should provide support and guidance to local farmers to enhance their productivity and efficiency. This could...