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The pharmaceutical industry in the developing countries is struggling with a number of challenges including; restrictive regulatory frameworks that make the delivery of drugs expensive, a poor distribution channel, few local manufacturers as more than 70% of the drugs we consume are imported

More than 70% percent of the population in Kenya and Africa at large depend on agriculture for their livelihood. They consist of small scale subsistence farmers who lack real time data to markets due to the highly decentralized agricultural markets that are controlled by a network of middlemen.

Kenya and Africa in general is endowed with abundant and diverse resources but we still remain highly underdeveloped. The traditional development plans that we deploy have failed to account for the diverse resources we have leading to poor development

Currently we are experiencing the 4th industrial revolution which unlike the previous revolutions is a fusion of technologies characterized with unprecedented scope, velocity and systems impact.

Every year billions of money are spent on public investment projects and programs many of which fail. This is partially due to the fact that little or no due diligence is done to look into the suitability of these projects and programs to the society as far as their priorities and needs are concerned

Governments come up with development agendas and projects to achieve certain set goals like The Millennium Development Goals, Structural Development Goals, Vision 2030 among others. For the achievement of these goals, the agendas and projects need to be broken into milestone that have to be achieved

We live in a world where loads of information is being generated from the people around us, devices we are using, the business processes we are conducting and many other factors occurring around us.

Waste is a huge problem facing any organisation and management is always on the lookout for new strategies to curb it. From staff spending a lot of time doing time consuming processes like report generation which can be automated to staff having a lot of idle time and downtime,

One of the main problems experienced in the pharmaceutical industry in kenya is affordability of drugs. This has been manifested by the large number of people who lack access to quality meds and the others who are left languishing in poverty after paying for them

For a long time, decision-making structures in organisations have been based on retrospect data that has percolated its way up through layers of filtering and consolidation. However, this system is only effective in a fairly stable environment yet, we live in an era of an hyper connected consumer hence everything is transforming at a very fast rate and companies have to keep up.