Hidden Facts You Should Know About Ndubuisi’s mini-MBA Programme for Entrepreneurs and Professionals

In our previous post, we reported the emergence of the mini-MBA from the Tekedia Institute, one of the platforms of Nigerian US-based Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe. In the report, citing the Institute, we noted that existing entrepreneurs and Nigerian professionals would be walked through the innovation, growth and digital execution techniques from February to June, 2020.  

The current piece offers insights that establish the programme has a number of features and benefits capable of disrupting traditional MBA programmes in the Nigerian Universities and Business Schools. Apart from that Ndubuisi’s mini-MBA is synonymous with Josh Kaufman’s personalMBA inaugurated several years ago.

Throughout the world, the traditional MBA programme is designed to introduce students to the varied areas of business, most importantly administration. On the other hand, mini-MBA programme is devised to offer alternative and focused areas of business within a short period. The short time to do mini-MBA remains one of the factors that has been used to describe it as more friendly than a conventional MBA programme. Information has it that doing the traditional MBA programme could disrupt work, life and family when it is not handled properly.

Tekedia’s mini-MBA evolved when busy professionals and incoming entrepreneurs are yearning for less stressful and low-cost programme with the best and real time insights towards informed business decisions making, especially in the volatile industries and sectors in Nigeria.  The programme as stated earlier has been designed with the intent of equipping participants with the right skills and knowledge for understanding growth, innovation, digital execution in relation with the existing mechanisms of market and digital systems.

Beyond being a low-cost programme, Infoprations has discovered the programme is in tandem with Josh Kaufman’s personalMBA in many aspects. In his notes to the Personal MBA, Kaufman says: “If you want to master the art of business, you don’t need to go to business school. You do need to learn the fundamentals of modern business practice.” This statement could be easily pinpointed from various posts and comments on Professor Ndubuisi’s LinkedIn page in the last few years.

Our analyst observes that the real time insights on his page must have been utilised by a number of people, who are likely to be part of the mini-MBA programme. In our forthcoming project on the Abia born Professor, preliminary analysis has shown that his activities on the LinkedIn during the years covered established the right directions to uplifting social, economic and political life in Africa, especially in Nigeria.