The challenges facing road-side ‘m-Preneurs’ in leap-frogging the constraints of ICTs in DCs: A Nigerian case study

Studies have shown that the number of mobile telecommunications operators in Nigeria has been on the increase since the first Global System of Mobile Telecommunications (GSM) licence was granted to MTN (Mobile Telecommunications Network) in 2001. With the increase in mobile telecommunications operators also has come an unprecedented increase in subscriptions. According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) data, between 2001 and 2006 for instance, mobile telephone subscribers in Nigeria jumped from 266, 461 to 32.3 million indicating an increase of 12, 030.18 %

Achieving Sustainable Growth through the Adoption of Integrated Business and Information Solutions: A Case Study of Nigerian Small & Medium Sized Enterprises

The economic growth of any country depends, to a certain degree, on the ability of the country’s business community to maximize their growth potential. One of the biggest contributors from the business community of any nation, to the nation’s economic development, is the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) sector. Studies have shown that SMEs and indeed, large and multi-national organizations can improve their productive capacity by using the benefits of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). In this paper, we explore how the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the developing economies such as Nigeria can achieve their own growth through the adoption of the concept of Integrated Business and Information Solutions (IBIS). The relationships between the levels of investment made in these technologies and their resultant impacts on the growth of the organizations are also explored and analyzed. A pilot study of 40 Nigerian SMEs from across 5 industry sectors confirmed the hypothesis that increased investment in IBIS results in increased growth. The paper concludes with a discussion of the issues, prospects and problems surrounding the adoption of this concept, as well as suggestions on the way forward