{"id":4057,"date":"2022-11-17T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubi.edu\/https-ubi-edu-ubis-mba-student-presents-at-the-urbanize-africa-summit\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:24:56","slug":"https-ubi-edu-ubis-mba-student-presents-at-the-urbanize-africa-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubi.edu\/ubis-mba-student-presents-at-the-urbanize-africa-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"UBI’s MBA Student presents at the Urbanize Africa Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jide Gerald Aluka<\/a> is a strong believer in lifelong learning and sharing the knowledge he acquires. He also looks to create shared value with whoever he meets. A law student friend with connections to the Urbanize Africa committee proposed they invite Gerald to speak at the next summit. Thus, Gerald was given the opportunity to share his knowledge and experience at the Urbanize Africa Summit 2022 which took place on 24 October, 2022.<\/p>\n

The annual Urbanize Africa Summit<\/a> was created to unite Africa through promoting sustainable ideas, attitudes, commerce, infrastructure, and activities. Held in Nigeria and open to the African continent, the Summit is streamed online but is mainly attended in person by regional participants. This year\u2019s theme was business intelligence, including data management and organizing business. The summit focused on helping African business leaders improve their strategy, visualise possibilities made possible through applications and artificial intelligence, and overcome cultural beliefs that hinder their success.<\/p>\n

Gerald\u2019s presentation was entitled Structured Thinking and included ideas he has recently been studying in UBI\u2019s MBA programme. He explained that structured thinking is the process\u00a0of creating a structured framework to solve an unstructured problem. He presented several structured thinking techniques and walked participants through how to use them. His objective was to help participants understand the importance of being structured in their decision making and how to set up a framework to make that possible.<\/p>\n

\"Jide<\/p>\n

\u201cI like connecting with people because you never know what opportunity your next connection might bring you.”<\/p>\n