By Emma Elebeke

In its bid to advance the course of local content advancement through technology transfer in Nigeria, indigenous secure prints solutions provider, Superflux Nigeria limited has hosted a team of four Masters in Business Administration (MBA) students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, USA.

The team was on a three week in-country Global Entrepreneurship Lab tutelage with Superflux International Nigeria Limited.

The in-country Global Entrepreneurship Lab is the flagship emerging market internship course at the MIT Sloan School of Management and provides high impact IT driven consulting services to over 200 start-up and growing companies in the world in the last 10 , working on the contemporary challenges confronting the host companies.

Each G-Lab team is composed of four second-year MIT MBA students with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise, spanning management consulting and financial services to manufacturing and service operations with technology.

The team while at Superflux dissected the processes and procedures in the company with the aim of exploring ways of improving its operational efficiency and order turnaround time with the overall aim of achieving high quality standards in its operations with the aid of technology.

They also made a presentation to the management team on ways of moving their host company forward.
Meanwhile, the team however, explained that the choice of Superflux among the few companies in the world was based on the new state of the art equipment and rating of the company in the printing technology recognised globally.

It will be recalled that early last year the company installed a $5 million state of the art printing equipment in a bid to meet the challenges of the global printing needs and was commissioned by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Responding, CEO/President of Superflux International, Mr. Talabi thanked the team for recognising a Nigerian owned company and expressed satisfaction with the team’s presentation saying that their visit would leave a lasting impression in Superflux as a company with a hgh-impact tool for the company to really play significant role in the nation’s security print sector.

“The presentation has really refocused the management team and we want to capitalize on it as this would enable us to increase the utilization of the company’s capital equipment and lower our cost structure which in turn has the tendency to increase operational efficiency,” said Talabi.

The MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship team consists of Adam Peck, Ilya Zvenigorodskiy, Natalia Sutin and Vikram Anreddy.