Across Nigeria's bustling commercial landscape, a quiet but consequential argument is being made: that the same entrepreneurial fire which births a business can also consume it, if structure never replaces instinct. Kehinde Ogundare, who stewards Zoho Corporation's West African presence, published a diagnosis in August 2026 identifying five operational shifts Nigerian businesses must make — from memory to systems, from gut to data, from personal relationships to institutional intelligence — if they are to endure beyond their founders. The warning carries weight because the opportunity is real: