‘Covid-19, an option for innovation’

By Adeola Ogunlade

Irrespective of the horrors and economic woes experienced in all sectors and economies of the entire world due to Covid-19 pandemic, tutorial dons have expressed that it made options and inovations.

According to the Founder and President, Zurich Elite Business enterprise Faculty (ZEBS), Prof Adonis-Emmanouil Fragkakis, each and every disaster can be made use of as an prospect for improve, and improvements.

He pointed out that the use of new technologies and the strategic mindset to do matters in a different way than level of competition is the only way to triumph over present-day challenges.

“For me, COVID-19 in as considerably as it has fractured worldwide economies and affected numerous company leaders, it also furnished an opportunity for company leaders to contemplate more modern methods to sustain their organizations. The difficulties would be when organization leaders don’t study from the COVID-19 working experience and continue on like absolutely nothing occurred. At the ZEBS True Planet Expertise MBA, we hope to instill this ethic and lifestyle in our college students.

“Business Faculties all over the world have been predominantly focusing on expertise being transferred to the college students by means of theoretical principles. No direct interlink with true corporate lifestyle has existed, and appropriately, learners have been organized in a completely improper way about the challenges they would face later on on in the serious-environment as business owners. Africa has to learn from the failures of the atheistic societies and programs of the Western earth that were being pushed by shareholder price concepts and greed, focusing only on short-term financial goals and not taking moral and sustainable facets at all into account,” Fragkakis pressured.

Also speaking to The Nation, Dr Akanimo Odon, Africa Director Zurich Elite Small business University pointed out that it is critical to always dilemma your current enterprise products and under no circumstances sense secured about what could transpire tomorrow, saying that tomorrow could occur with large surprises.

In accordance to him, “The extra you educate your staff members to are living with a aggressive edge culture  and continual questioning of existing enterprise products, the much better you will be well prepared for potential difficulties and the fewer these, following-working day-surprises” will affect your company.

Odon said, “This is in which we see our contribution to African leadership and entrepreneurship. We do the job with this differentiation frame of mind, teach students working with sensible procedures, equip our students with condition-of-the-artwork simple genuine-world know-how about management and rising technologies, which will guide to new business products and make improvements in Nigeria and other African nations around the world. We have also made the exceptional ZEBS African Entrepreneurship Fellowship, a very first of its form startup training focused to our students and built to support Nigerian and African entrepreneurs to maximise their probabilities of achievement by mentor-ship, providing obtain to business experts and seed cash.

“We equip African professionals and business people with actual-globe abilities and we practice them with precisely the similar career-schooling business modules, we have been utilizing for nearly two decades to prepare professionals and consultants doing the job for significant corporations these types of as US Tech Giants, Swiss Monetary Establishments, German premium phase car suppliers, Swiss and German pharmaceutical brands, electrical power leaders and a lot of additional.”