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Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

Turning a crisis into an opportunity

Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO - the day when water reserves are at zero - is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a ...

Hans Stoisser
27. February 2018

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

Africa, the next factory of the world

The African industrialization through Chinese entrepreneurs, that is the theses put forward by Irene Yuan Sun. Her new book "The next factory of the world - How Chinese Investment is reshaping Africa" ....

Hans Stoisser
20. November 2017

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership, Newsletter

Kenya is worth the trip

Did you notice that elections in Kenya disappeared from media coverage in Austria/Germany before the exact outcome was resolved? Learn what determines African societies and economies. Watch out for opportunities to cooperate.

Hans Stoisser
25. August 2017

Development Cooperation

Insulting and Foolish – Paul Collier on Refugees and Aid

A highly interesting interview with Paul Collier, the British development economist, by Andreas Sator from DerStandard. Currently Paul Collier is supporting the German government in changing their approach towards Africa.

Hans Stoisser
24. June 2017

Emerging Africa, Global Society

Why a stimulus from Africa can help Europe to overcome its own crises

Why European companies have to be present in Africa, part 4: Being present in African countries helps to see again that an increasing division of labour, more free trade and more and more networked systems not only reduce poverty in Africa, but are also the foundation of our own prosperity.

Hans Stoisser
5. May 2017

Emerging Africa, Global Society

Europe’s Handling of African Migration

Paper from Hans Stoisser, published in Europäische Briefe of the European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi on December 15th, 2016 Europe’s Handling of African Migration If we develop a clear picture of the situation, a strategy will almost become self evident From a European perspective, Africa is a continent…

Hans Stoisser
14. April 2017

Digitzation, Emerging Africa, Global Society

Disruptive Innovations start on the lower end of the market

disruptive innovations start the lower end of the market

Why European companies have to be present in Africa, part 3: Market-creating innovations always start at the lower end of the market, we learn from Clayton Christensen, the father of the theory of disruptive innovations ...

Hans Stoisser
30. March 2017
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Digitzation, Emerging Africa, Global Society

Digital Transformation – Why learning from Africa

The African innovation culture has always been creative and good at doing. But lacked knowledge and technologies. Globalization has changed that fundamentally. Today, the ubiquity of digital technologies and the access to knowledge provide the missing link.

Hans Stoisser
20. March 2017

Digitzation, Emerging Africa

The Digital Revolution and the real needs of people

Mobile money is standard in African countries. Much less vested interests and much less old technologies have allowed to cater much more directly for the needs of the people. And this goes on. In African countries it seems to be…

Hans Stoisser
9. March 2017

Emerging Africa, Global Society

Huge demand meets new field of networks and digital technology

Demand means needs plus purchasing power. In the next couple of years the new emerging middle class in African countries stands for a huge demand. Which encounters a newly networked field of people and organizations. Find a new blog post…

Hans Stoisser
1. March 2017
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