{"id":215400,"date":"2025-12-01T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-driving-growth-for-african-smes-through-data-insights-from-catherine-uduba\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:19:48","slug":"nigeria-driving-growth-for-african-smes-through-data-insights-from-catherine-uduba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-driving-growth-for-african-smes-through-data-insights-from-catherine-uduba\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Driving Growth for African SMEs Through Data &#8211; Insights From Catherine Uduba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In Africa&#8217;s rapidly evolving business landscape, small and medium-sized enterprises are beginning to recognize that data literacy and forecasting are essential tools for growth, stability and long-term success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Business strategist Catherine Uduba, whose work spans supply chain operations and demand forecasting, has seen how even modest data practices can transform daily operations and sharpen competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A graduate of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, she emphasizes that data is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512010291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Africa&#8217;s rapidly evolving business landscape, small and medium-sized enterprises are beginning to recognize that data literacy and forecasting are essential tools for growth, stability and long-term success. Business strategist Catherine Uduba, whose work spans supply chain operations and demand forecasting, has seen how even modest data practices can transform daily operations and sharpen competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4380,27808,9880,9694,6641,23384,257,4687,393,5997,254,52998],"class_list":["post-215400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-catherine","tag-data","tag-growth","tag-insights","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-smes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uduba"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}