Sector Priorities And Commitment

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Committed Team

Our firm operates as one – a single continent-wide partnership united by strong set of values, and a deep commitment to diversity. AI-Group Inc. takes a consistent approach to recruiting and skills development regardless of where our people are located so that we can quickly deliver the right team, with the right experience and expertise, to every client, anywhere in the world; we raise, we shape, and we disrupt to enthrone measurable industrial solutions on the continent. Our consultants include medical doctors, engineers, designers, data scientists, business managers, analyst, economists, entrepreneurs, and research scientists, etc. They joined the AI-Group for the opportunity to apply their talents to complex, yet important challenges that seeks to digitally transform Africa.

Living Our Values

Our value proposition and principles define who we are as a firm and who we aspire to be. These values provide the guiding principles that shape our actions and are essential in the fulfillment of our two-part mission to: help our clients make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance; and to build an outstanding excellence for our firm that attracts, develops, excites and retains exceptional people. We expect our colleagues, wherever they are operating from, to live our values every day.

When faced with a difficult situation we expect everyone within our team to challenge themselves, and to consult with colleagues, to determine what course of action would be most consistent with our values. While our values guide our behavior and help us to make the right choices, we also have firm policies. These policies established our obligations as members of AI-Group Inc and define the rules of conduct in a range of very specific, often complex, situations. The values’ rules and conducts apply to all our colleagues in our existing offices globally, and we expect our colleagues to comply fully with these policies. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and behavior, and consequently, our policies often go well beyond what is required by law.

Code of Professional Conduct

We are a values-driven organization and aspire to meet the highest professional, legal, and ethical standards. Our code of professional conduct defines a set of expectations for the behavior of all firm members. It serves as a guide to help colleagues understand the core elements of our policies and how those policies are anchored in our values. We expect all colleagues to comply with this code of professional conduct and we expect others working on our behalf, such as contractors, advisors, and other suppliers, to act in a manner that is consistent with our code. AI-Group Inc. is committed to positive social impact through our work with our clients and in the way we run our firm.

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Our work is founded on a rigorous understanding of every client’s institutional context, sector dynamics, and macroeconomic environment. Our Research and Development Network is intended to stretch annually, investing at least more than $1 million USD of our firm’s resources annually in knowledge development, learning and capability building. Our focus is to concentrate on market studies, trends, and emerging best practices, in every industry and region and on the continent. Our investment in knowledge will help advance the practice of industrial management, finance and investment and infrastructure, market and service businesses. We shall regularly publish our findings extensively quarterly, and will thus engage with leading thinkers on the most pressing issues facing our clients and society.

Working Responsibly

Our values guide everything we do as an organization and the choices we make. They inform both our long-term strategy as a firm and the way we serve our clients on a daily basis. We are committed to building a stronger institution that has long-term sustainability and enduring value in Africa and our partners. We are continually innovating our practices to ensure we meet and exceed these expectations.

Present and Future of AI-Group Inc.

  • AI-Group Inc. is ambitious. The AI-Group Inc. is a big challenge (which has to be periodically catalyzed to address the continent’s gaps in meeting with the expectations of prevailing fourth industrial revolution needs). But we also feel that it is now or never, where Africans are in the front seat driving the vehicle of the continent’s destiny. We are convinced that to achieve innovative impact and collaboration, we have to think bold, act swift and achieve result.
  • AI-Group Inc. possesses a pan-African approach and it want to help create synergies between African economies through contemporary industry sector value chains, and to that effect, each Africa’s private sector stakeholder finds a purpose and play their unique role in a continent-wide industrial sustainability and growth hub, serving as a gateway for international investment, intra-Africa trade collaboration and industrial center of excellence.
  • AI-Group Inc. wants to enable transmission between older and younger generations of entrepreneurs and industrialists, in order for the leaders of today to inspire the emerging leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow.
  • AI-Group Inc. is outcome-driven. What matters is our progress towards the ultimate goal of a united Africa, benefiting from a shared vision and prosperity of a coordinated development, recognized as a land of opportunity and as a stimulus for Africa’s economic growth.

Philosophies, Principles and Values of AI-Group

AI-Group Inc. has always leaned upon its principles to guide and gauge corporate attitude, prioritizing Africa Industrial revolution. As clients can attest so far, these principles resonate deeply and help us in steering transformative initiatives for our clients. As we continue to move forward in the 21st century, our principles keep us tethered to traditional business and industry-based values.

In preparing our uniformed and integrated pan-African Industrial Strategy, our firm strives for excellence and integrity in accomplishing its ambition. It is guided by the high values and principles stipulated in pursuit of sustainable development on Africa.  These values and principles include:

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  • Promote a sense of community that aspires for capacity and technology exchange;
  • Establish and maintain a framework that encourages investors identify key priority needs, and be in the forefront of retooling the accelerated growth of Africa’s industries;
  • Encourage adherence to the principle of subsidiarity, which means that we operates at a level in the society where we can jointly achieve maximum impact;
  • Subscribe to the principle of variable geometry, that recognizes industrialization and commercial value chains as key priority at different levels of development, while we commit to move at different speed and constellations depending on investment and vision priorities;
  • Commit to empower African businesses through equity in the design and implementation of industrial transformation policies, programmes and actions, partnering with critical stakeholders, public/private sectors and non-state institutions; and
  • Promote open, transparent and joint aid modalities with development and investment partners.

 

Strategic Partnerships and Alliances

Our Strategy would require the support of stakeholders. In particular, successful implementation of our strategy will not be possible without the concerted effort of its potential partners, especially Africans in diaspora, who often avail the continent necessary institutional, legal and financial resources to facilitate our corporate strategy. With the support of principal partners and stakeholders, AI-Group Inc. will be positioned as a strong industry sector firm to mobilize a critical mass of pan-African industry sector investors and stakeholders, and to render the required financial and technical partnerships. 

Key Priorities

  1. The AI-Group will encourage, engage and share existing strategies to enable stakeholders prioritize the design and financing of products targeted at the strategic Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector. Such products will be expected to boost the continents capacity in employment and wealth creation, deliver meaningful incomes for the populace and advance Africa’s Industrialization Agenda;
  2. Interact with African Private Sector institutions and players to mainstream Financial Inclusion through mechanisms, other than traditional banking services; such as, crypto currency, block chain, disruptive technologies etc.;
  3. To catalyze the strengthening of academic programme that integrates entrepreneurship skilling through our AfIDI and other relevant flagship projects;
  4. Develop realistic strategies that work with member state governments and the Private Sector to ensure the timeous implementation of AfCFTA and relevant operational instruments to boost industrial transformation agenda;
  5. Mobilize private sector collaboration to pursue actively agenda setting to harmonize mechanism to invest resources pool by Africans in Diaspora, with a target to drive and upscale industrialization, broaden value chain and market.