Modern Management

Maged is a former electrical engineer at Intel and one of the founders of the Egyptian innovation hub a centre for student entrepreneurship training support which provides training, funding relations and other services. He joins us today to understand more the Egyptian ecosystem development and draw lessons from successful programs and successful startups Discussed in the episode : the role of government, the stages of development of the ecosystem, success factors and swvl's lessons.

David is the director of practice development at the award winning Cranfield school of management. He shares his insights on how to make corporate training more efficient from the corporate perspective but also from the training organism perspective. These include: adapting to feedback, growing engagement, zoning in on the training required by the organism and much more.

In this episode High tech industry consultant Ray Milhem shares his insights on the different responsibilities of stakeholders in building the high-tech ecosystem from universities to the governments and from accelerators and incubators and startups to big companies. This episode is split into three parts with this first part discussing the role of governments and universities

In this episode Magnus a product management consultant and researcher, explains to us common mistakes product teams make, how a good product manager think and many other insights.

The episode discusses fintech blockers, regulation and possible solutions to the slow development of financial based innovation in developing countries. Examples of countries that are advancing such as Salvador, Tunisia and others.

On this episode, Baobab Network's venture partner in Kenya Christine helps us understand the venture capital scene in Africa, success factors and trends she is observing from her experience dealing with startups for over 10 years.

For this episode I meet with the brilliant Lina Yasin to talk about difficulties in adaptating Agile mindset and framework to specefic contexts. Lina is an agile expert who is also Dr in Neuroscience, with in depth insights on the process with which we learn.