IT World • Created January 20, 2014 04:00

Be innovative to grow your business, IT expert urges entrepreneurs

Okere said intuition is basically “what you cannot explain when you are at the right place at the right time. Innovation is also important because everything works for a while, and thereafter, things could change. Before now, everywhere in Lagos was full of cyber cafés, but today they are not there anymore because they did […]

Be innovative to grow your business, IT expert urges entrepreneurs
Be innovative to grow your business, IT expert urges entrepreneurs

Okere said intuition is basically “what you cannot explain when you are at the right place at the right time. Innovation is also important because everything works for a while, and thereafter, things could change. Before now, everywhere in Lagos was full of cyber cafés, but today they are not there anymore because they did not see the need for innovation.”
He noted that there was a time when there were travel agencies everywhere now people can make flight booking directly online.
Okere explained that due to that trend, the travel agencies need to innovate to remain in business.
He said: “At CWG, innovation is our passion, and it has, among other strategies, kept us in business. That was why we came up with CWG 2.0 platform. CWG started as a Dell PC supplier and supporter but today, everybody can buy Dell PCs and maintain them. So, we now went into what we call ‘Enterprise System’, which is big data for banks. Even today, everybody can do that as well. The next step we took as a company was to go into managed services, where, as I talk to you, we have over 100 people that resume and close at MTN work places as if they are MTN staff, but they are employees of CWG, handling Managed Services for MTN. They supervise all our clients’ Information Technology (IT) facilities. They are the ones that enable all the calls we make as telecoms subscribers to work. They work in the data centres and today, we are taking some steps forward by discussing cloud computing, putting software as enterprise solution to use. That becomes the purpose but the issue is in helping to reduce IT expenditure for businesses, in order to better the lots of entrepreneurs.

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