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The Tier Trap: Why Oversized ERP Fails Smaller Organisations
ERP failures across Africa share a pattern: a system built for an organisation the buyer is not. Fit, baseline and money for adoption matter more than the vendor's name.
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The bank of 2035: one gateway, four thin layers and one spine
- Customers and their AI delegates enter through an agent gateway that checks identity, mandate and limits.
- The bank's own autonomous agents decide and serve, within parameters staff set.
- Product engines and a real-time ledger do the maths and keep the books. What remains of core is accountability.
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Navigating Infrastructure Projects in the Age of Digital Disruption
Roads, ports and power plants are financed for forty years. The technology around them changes every five. Projects that plan for that gap will hold their value; projects that ignore it will be obsolete before they are paid for.
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Why East African Boards Misunderstand AI Risk Management
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.
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From Pilots to Portfolios: How Development Finance Institutions Should Fund AI
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.
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Evidence Before Enthusiasm: Five Questions Executives Should Ask of Any AI Claim
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.
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Sovereign AI on a Small Budget: Choices for Emerging-Market Governments
Building frontier AI models is out of reach for most governments. Controlling the data, standards, skills and procurement that determine how AI serves citizens is not.
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The Agent Gateway Is Banking's New Front Door
Before customers send AI agents to do their banking, every bank needs a control point that knows who is acting, under which mandate and within which limits.