Layoffs at Businessfront highlight challenges in scaling its niche media strategy; ANKA’s sale raises fresh questions about control in Africa’s fashion value chain.
Hey, great read as always, it’s really insightful how you connect the dots on these business moves. It makes you think, what if this wave of 'strategic focus' layoffs, even when limited, is a sign that companies are now much quicker to pivot and optimize resources, maybe even with more data-driven insights from AI influencing those decisions in the future?
Thanks for the kind words to the team. You’re likely right. The Businessfront decision was for sure about adaptation and re-strategising and optimising resources, as we covered in our analysis. But I don’t know that the decision is influenced by AI right now. That would be a stretch. Perhaps in the future as you’ve said.
Hey, great read as always, it’s really insightful how you connect the dots on these business moves. It makes you think, what if this wave of 'strategic focus' layoffs, even when limited, is a sign that companies are now much quicker to pivot and optimize resources, maybe even with more data-driven insights from AI influencing those decisions in the future?
Thanks for the kind words to the team. You’re likely right. The Businessfront decision was for sure about adaptation and re-strategising and optimising resources, as we covered in our analysis. But I don’t know that the decision is influenced by AI right now. That would be a stretch. Perhaps in the future as you’ve said.