There is a massive latent opportunity in Nigeria, which helps medium and small companies (SMEs) develop an AI roadmap and adopt the appropriate AI solution. In the oceans of AI solutions, someone must have the capacity to provide advice.
If you have basic commercial skills and you have a technical friend, you can both look deep in the world of AI offers and come together via a partnership, to help these companies develop and save money. Go to the Lagos firm and tell the president of the company that you have something that will help him better understand his business. Many SMEs waste money reconciling their transactions and their bank statements. Today AI systems can avoid days of problems!
Whenever new technologies arrive, there are still possibilities to provide services and earn money. Many years ago, I would listen to know when Radio Nigeria would announce that the teachers were paid by the federal government a lump sum advantage. The next day, I would be in Unijos to meet teachers, to help them get their first office computers. I sold dozens of computers and bought my first car! I was able to explain how this first computer would make them better teachers instead of waiting when their offices would have one for them!
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You just have to clearly indicate how value could happen. In this AI era, communication of this value is easier because you can help this business save money. For example, narrow the unit of 12 people to 3 and deploy anchored solutions of the cheap open source AI to do the work! Remember that the accent should not be technology. Yes, you must focus on the value that technology will provide to allow the company to achieve its strategic objective. Most of the time, this objective for these players is more “benefits”, which occurs when they save money or work very thin.
Visit Onisha, Kano, Lagos, Osogbo, Calabar, etc. And show these owners of small businesses how associated technology can offer them value. Return a page document that explains what you can offer. Reconciliation of accounts in a few minutes and not days? Bring visibility to their supply chains? Provide information on real -time cash flows by connecting bank accounts and requests forecasts? Are you planning production with raw materials?
And you don’t even need to be a technology designer because you do not continue a way based on venture capital where the scale becomes the currency in play. In other words, do not waste your time creating an AI product. There are incredible open source solutions that your technological partner can reuse in order to maintain low costs. You can ask: Would they listen to me? Yes, they will do it if you come with something that differentiates you. These days as a member of the NYSC, I added photocopies of my Waec and Futo results to create marginal differentiation to give to the public. Maximize this little “victory” in your file and capture the moment.
My summary: If you are a new graduate in Nigeria, there is an opportunity to reuse most of the emerging AI solutions, to create value for SMEs and fatten your pocket!
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