This piece’s title was coined after witnessing how organisations like Huawei are tilling the ground for their sustained profitability and impact in an era driven by digital technology and entangled with uncertainties. If we need […]
Author: Derrydean Dadzie

A Compelling Vision and Open Technology Stack are Critical to the Development of Ghana’s Technology Transformation and Innovation Blueprint (3)
Technology is only relevant if it significantly simplifies and adds value to people’s lives. Technology is only relevant if it is people-driven. Technology only works if it mimics social orthodoxies in a way that does not make people feel inhibited in pursuit of their goals and needs when they use it.
Couching Ghana’s technology transformation and innovation blueprint (2)
The-scale-the-champion-theory There are many theories postulated for ensuring a technologically transformed and innovative economy. One of such theories is, find winners and invest in them. With this theory, the government would have to find that […]

Laying the Blueprint for Building Digital-Ready Nations in an Era of Digital Orthodoxy (Part 1)
Innovation is fast becoming an entrepreneurial catch-all term. From the polished studios of DAVOS to modest lecture halls, the innovation conversation echoes across different spaces hosting the development fireside. One question often asked is, what […]

Manufacturing? We need more than that.
DeamOval Limited chief executive officer, Derrydean Dadzie reckons manufacturing alone cannot be the panacea to Ghana’s current economic woes. The dynamics of getting a manufacturing system together in Ghana make it quite difficult for the […]
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

Let the the solution to corruption have an ethical foundation
We can’t remove corruption from our country if we can’t right engineer the ethos of our society. We complain everyday about corruption here, corruption there, but I daresay that, there is no amount of procedure […]

Unlearning Our Old Politics and Making Way for New and Relevant Political Models
I have engaged in different discourses on this platform on how best to run our country over the past week. I am summarizing some of my postings on different posts here: One commentator was questioning […]

It’s time Governments show commitment to the business of government through their appointments
This post is a re-posting of an update on Facebook by Bright Simons one of the very few and limited personalities I respect and pay attention to. I found it relevant to re-post this because I share the sentiments he expresses […]

2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2012. […]