AI, research, strategy and innovation for the institutions that build economies.
ERP failures across Africa share one pattern: a system built for an organisation the buyer is not. A review of the evidence, and seven tests that should stand between any organisation and a purchase.
AI, agents, delegates and mandates are not interchangeable. Boards that use them precisely make better decisions about what to automate.
Vendors, consultants and internal teams all bring AI claims to the executive table. Five questions from research practice separate the claims worth funding from the ones worth a polite no.
Development finance has funded hundreds of AI pilots and few lasting capabilities. The fix is to fund AI the way good investors fund anything uncertain: as a managed portfolio with stage gates, shared foundations and clear exits.
Speed is not the risk in leaving the core. Moving everything at once is.
Kenya's branches handle a sliver of transactions and half of the value. One chart on where a bank's accuracy really matters.
Most boards treat AI as an IT project or a future compliance matter. The real exposure is already inside their institutions: in the decisions AI quietly shapes, and in systems nobody has inventoried.