Platform Power: AI and Digital Transformation
Across Africa, platforms have changed how people pay, shop, move and get paid. Mobile money, marketplaces and super-apps grew by connecting people and learning from their data. Established organisations now face a choice: compete with platforms, partner with them, or become one.
Platform Power is GAA's programme on AI and digital transformation. Over five modules you learn how platforms and AI create and capture value, how they scale and defend their position, when an established organisation should move to a platform or AI-first model, how to lead the change, and how to work with big platforms and regulators. A new GAA case on an African marketplace startup runs through the first two modules, and Aquarius Trust Bank shows an established bank going through the change.
The programme is self-paced and fully online, built around short video lessons, African cases and practical tasks on your own organisation. You finish with a 12-month transformation roadmap with the first 90 days spelled out.
What you'll learn
- Explain how digital platforms and AI create and capture value through network and data effects
- Plan how a platform can scale, build trust and defend its position
- Judge when an established organisation should move to a platform or AI-first model
- Assess your organisation's readiness and lead the change
- Work with big platforms and regulators, and set up sound AI governance
- Build a 12-month transformation roadmap with the first 90 days spelled out
What's Included
- 5 modules, about 28 hours in total, with short video lessons
- Original African cases, including Aquarius Trust Bank
- Five practical tasks on your own organisation
- An optional monthly live clinic with a GAA facilitator
- Six months of self-paced access on any device, plus a GAA Certificate of Completion