This series explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) across Africa, particularly manufacturing, by driving efficiency, innovation, and global competitiveness.
This article explores AI’s transformative potential, highlights African innovations, addresses challenges and ethical considerations, and proposes a roadmap for CI practitioners to drive AI-enhanced operational excellence across the continent.
The purpose of this article is to send a clarion call of creating a balance between the benefits and disadvantages of innovation we seek to master and introduce to our communities in pursuit of better, faster, cheaper and robust quality products and processes for the benefit of humankind.
The ever changing pace of change is visible around us and the cycle of change is also becoming shorter and shorter. The introduction of innovations such as robots, block chain, internet of things, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and many others have people and organisations wondering what the future of wor