Jeff Prince is Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He's also the Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management and Co-Director of the Institute for Business Analytics at Kelley. He recently served as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission. His primary research focus is on technology markets and telecommunications, having published works on dynamic demand for computers, internet adoption and usage, the inception of online-offline product competition, and much, much more.

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THIS EPISODE FEATURES:

-Interview with Anders Sorman-Nilsson, Futurist and Innovation Strategist, Author of Digilogue
-The digital revolution
-The importance of data
-The removal of intermediary processes and people
-Transpharmation Motivational Quote of the Week
-My Top 5 discoveries & learnings from CeBIT 2015

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#63 How to leverage both analog and digital worlds to win your pharmacy customers hearts and minds

Andile Masuku and Brian Lupiya spent three days last week at DISCOP Johannesburg— Africa’s biggest multi-screen, multi-platform marketplace, assessing trends within the continent’s digital content scene.

They spent most of our time collecting insights at the fringe of Digital Lab Africa (DLA)— a DISCOP partner initiative that aims to be a springboard for African multimedia talent looking to launch worthy projects and business ideas within digital music, web creation, virtual reality and video game development.

So this week, in place of the bringing you the week’s highlights in terms of digital, tech and innovation news from across Africa, Brian joins Andile on the show to help present cool snippets from four of the many great conversations they taped both at DLA and in DISCOP’s main exhibition area. The aim is to give you a sense of the vibe, as well as point to where the future of digital content production and platforms on the continent might be headed.

Look out for audio featuring Harlem Mufoncol, one of the co-founders of Baziks Pulse— a music streaming platform from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean hip-hop artist-turned-entrepreneur, Nonkululeko Kasongo Vundla a.k.a Black Bird, Ivorian video game developer and co-founder of POINTS by Work’d— Kaba Diakité Amadou, and the inimitable Jason Njoku of Nigeria, who is founder and CEO of the internet and entertainment group, iROKO.

Music Credits:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution

African Tech Round-up

Highlights From DISCOP Johannesburg and Digital Lab Africa (featuring Jason Njoku of iROKO)

Forrester Vice President and Research Director Pascal Matzke examines the rise of industrial digital platforms and how they are changing businesses and creating new and powerful products and markets.

The rise of the industrial digital platform

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What Trust & Safety Means in an Online World

Africa-focused technology, digital and innovation ecosystem insight and commentary.

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A little about the podcast

The Transpharmation podcast show was launched in February 2014 to help pharmacy owners build better, smarter, more profitable 21st century businesses by embracing technology. During each episode we cover one or more of the following:

-Listener Q&A (via social media, email, iTunes review, blog comments)
-Current issues & events in technology and pharmacy
-App of the Week
-A bite sized DIY transpharmation: This covers a specific technology piece (eg. e-Faxing, Password Management, News Feeds etc.) and how this can benefit the pharmacy owner and their business (time, money, and confidence).
-Interviews with successful pharmacy owners, who have partnered their business with technology
-Interviews with technology partners who can help pharmacy owners build their 21st century pharmacy.

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