About The Trove

Customer-centricity is vital for business model innovation in the disruptive era. Hence, business leaders need to leverage astute leadership capability to create an innovative business model and differentiation that solves customers’ core pain points leveraging design thinking, digital networks, and strategic partnership. This implies that business leaders need to be digitally compliant and must strive relentlessly to infuse strategic DNA into the company’s culture. Every business built to thrive in the disruptive era must prioritize Digital Technology Investment (DTI), Technology convergence, Cost leadership, Brand leadership, Strategic Marketing initiatives, product and Process excellence. To build a unicorn business in this explosive era, business leaders need to strive to build their digital strategy around great customer engagement, digitized solutions, operational backbone and digital service backbone. This means that business leaders take to heart astute leadership capability, agility, business model innovation, digital investments and technology convergence.

About the Author

Yusuf Abass is the founder of iConnect Global Tech. He also Co-founded Farmfeat, a Digital Agro Marketplace Company.

Prior, he was instrumental in the success of Interswitch Project 2.0, a digital transformation project championed by the CTO. After setting a trailblazing record, he moved to Supreme Systems where he consulted for banks in Nigeria.

While with Huawei, he contributed remarkably to the 5G Mobile Network Digitalization of Orange Botswana, RAIN South Africa, MTN France, and London. He is popularly known as “the digital disruptive extraordinaire”. His website is iconnectglobaltech.com.

Keywords

1. Disrupting the incumbents

2. Disrupting the traditional business

3. Transitioning from traditional to a disruptive business

4. Shielding a business from disruption

5. Business Model Innovation

6. Business innovation in the digital disruptive era

7. Digital business innovation for leaders and entrepreneurs

8. Innovation strategies in the digital disruptive era

9. Strategic design thinking in the digital disruptive era

10. Digital transformation for disruptive business innovation

11. Technology investment for business innovation

12. Customer experience essential for disruptive business innovation

13. Reimaging a business is important for disruptive innovation

14. Customer centricity needed for business innovation

15.Change management for business growth and innovation

16.Strategic thinking for high performing leaders

17.Effect of technology convergence for disruption

18. Strategic marketing for business innovation

19. Digital Disruption

20. Disruptive Innovation

21. Business model Innovation

22. Digitalization

23. Digitization