[kictanet] Mocality closing down?

[Sam Aguyo]

We need more of James Mwangi  and SK Macharia in the local field.  These people are game changers in their own rights.  Mwangi took banking to the unbankable at the time when multinationals were closing down their branches including the ones they operated ever since i was young.  SK a trailblazer showed others that people can make money from media.  All these are local success stories.  We expect multinationals to bring more money and more jobs, we are wrong unfortunately.  We have our own ecosystem which we understand better than anybody else.  We have the latitude of starting small learn the ropes and escalate 
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It not unusual when a company fails. Indeed start-up mortality rate in Silicon Valley is highest. The questions we must ask are why did it happen? Could they do things differently? What do we learn from this? 

Any innovation like life will die. Death in enterprise is a certainty unless you understand Shumpeter's theory.  In his thinking, he defined an entrepreneur differently and very close to what can be referred to a serial innovator. If you take IBM for example it has changed its core business several times in its 100 year history. When the US discovered a VCR, they did not think it can be a hot product since people liked to watch movies on a big screen. The Japanese had a different idea and one that changed how we watch movies.

I have tried to understand why IMOBI closed its business yet their services are in great demand. Some of the answers I am getting include the fact that Africa's returns to investment were below that of developed countries and they wanted to focus where their bread and butter came from. Here again we have the opportunities to look at this from a different angle as Japanese did and succeed.  

Unfortunately, we may not look into doing a small paper on such failures and seek for new areas.  We tend to agree with decisions of close down simply because we do not have the confidence to challenge them and do things differently. I am certain that if we do a bit of research on Mocality, we shall come with a new sustainable enterprise.

We must begin to regenerate our enterprises otherwise we shall keep on finding ourselves in the dustbin all the time.  We can be a technology leader if we always to try to understand our ecosystem and do things the way we understand them.  The Western world dominates the rest of us simply because they investigate every happening even within our environment.  

Instead of condemning recent failures, let us understand why and what we can learn from that.  This is what is referred to as a knowledge society.


Ndemo.


 
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