The Nigerian Entrepreneurs' Handbook: Digital Technology by FATE Foundation and Verraki
The Nigerian Entrepreneurs' Handbook on Digital Technology by FATE Foundation in collaboration with Verraki was quite frankly, the book I was the most excited to read in the FATE collection. I was excited because it was a book on my field, and I couldn’t wait to see what technologies FATE was recommending for Entrepreneurs.
Would they be tools I was already using or knew about? (thus validating my own knowledge and expertise). Or would they be brand new tools that I knew nothing or very little about? (thus teaching me something new). Either way, I couldn’t wait to find out what FATE Foundation’s book on Digital Technology had in store for me.
The good (maybe great) news is that it turned out to be a mixture of both. Most of the technologies covered in the book were things I already knew about (or was using). Technologies such as Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. Email and other forms of Digital Marketing. Running a Data-Driven Culture... etc. But nearing the very end of the book I learnt about something new. RPA - Robotic Process Automation.
I knew about Automation and some tools that one could use to automate but this RPA thing seemed more advanced than what I was familiar with. More importantly, none of the tools I knew of and many tools I didn't know of, were given as examples. I checked out these new tools and concluded that yes, this was something different.
I haven't yet tried to implement RPA with any of our existing processes, but the knowledge is there - and when I meet an applicable use case, I can draw on it. So as it turns out:
- I'm pretty on top of my game since I knew most of what was in the book
- The book was not useless since it taught me something new
But then again, this book was published in 2020 so...
Ya. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.