Digital Insider Africa | Video on-demand

Developing Local and Open Innovation in Africa

Designing innovation that makes an impact on people’s life.

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45 Minutes

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About this Coffee Chat

Orange is present in 20 countries in Africa. Recently, Orange’s successful innovation outcome finds its source in solving the problem of low access to a bank account in Africa with Orange Money. Orange Money is an innovation movement that started from user and market observations, adopting a bottom-up approach, and attracted 50 million users. The end result was the transformation of peoples’ lives in 20 countries, progressing toward a cashless society.

You can regularly find our speaker, Nicolas, facilitating and articulating local and open innovation among a community of 20 innovation managers, with a focus on improving customer experience and transforming their daily lives.

In this Digital Insider coffee chat, Nicolas will share his experience innovating businesses on the African continent.

Key Takeaways:

How to successfully tailor an innovation process to the African context
How to stimulate innovation outputs that make an impact on users’ lives and improve brand perception
Understand how innovation can thrive in the context of limited culture of innovation, lack of time, and insufficient recognition

Speakers

Nicolas Bry

Innovation Booster Orange Africa

Nicolas is an International Innovation Executive, an expert in corporate innovation programs, and innovation labs. He currently helps the 20 innovation managers of Orange Africa to develop their projects locally. Previously he created several open innovation programs: innovation with employees (Orange Intrapreneurs Studio), innovation with consumers (Imagine with Orange), innovation with entrepreneurs (Orange African Toolbox). Consolidating this experience with the ones of 40 corporations, he wrote in 2019 The Intrapreneurs' Factory, a practical guide to leverage intrapreneurship for your company. Passionate speaker (TEDx), Masterclasses lecturer @Google Academy and Tech/Business Schools, ISPIM Prize laureate for innovation management in 2016, Nicolas is the writer of the innovation blog RapidInnovation.fr. Follow him at @nicobry.

Ndagi Job Goshi

General Manager at LIFERAY Africa

Job Goshi serves as GM for Liferay in Africa. He assists customers through the consultative provision of the robust customer-focused Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Having worked for Fortune 100 companies in both financial services and insurance, Job brings a balanced mix of sound technology and business know-how to the table.

About Orange Business & Liferay

About Orange Business

Creating positive impact

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 42.3 billion euros in 2020 and 140,000 employees worldwide at 31 March 2021, including 80,000 employees in France. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services. For more information on the internet and on your mobile: www.orange-business.com

About Liferay

One Platform. Endless Solutions.

Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices. Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business and technology. Thousands of organizations in financial services, healthcare, government, insurance, retail, manufacturing and multiple other industries use Liferay. Visit us at www.liferay.com.

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