Consulting & strategy
Knowing what to digitalise, in what order, and why
Many projects fail not for lack of technology, but because a process was automated when it should first have been simplified. We start by understanding your business.
The problems we address
What brings you here
Decisions rest on figures pieced together by hand
Every department keeps its own file. Consolidating takes three days and the result is already out of date.
Tools were bought that do not talk to each other
Three applications, four databases, and teams re-entering the same information from one system into the next.
Nobody knows where to start
The list of needs runs to four pages. Without prioritisation by impact and cost, the project bogs down before the first delivery.
A project has already failed
Budget spent, product unusable, teams wary. Restarting means first dealing with what actually blocked it.
Deliverables
What you receive
- Audit of business processes and mapping of information flows
- Inventory of the existing information system and its dependencies
- Target architecture for the information system
- Technology roadmap sequenced into batches
- Budget estimate and expected-value analysis for each batch
- Analysis of technical, organisational and vendor-lock-in risks
- Support for change management
Benefits
What it concretely changes
An order of priority you can defend
Each workstream is ranked by estimated gain, cost and dependency. You can make the call and justify it.
Fewer pointless purchases
We check what your current tools already do before proposing that you buy another one.
A coherent technical target
Later projects build on the same architecture instead of adding another layer of exception each time.
Features
What we can do in this area
- Framing workshops with the operational teams
- Modelling of processes as they are and as they should be
- Analysis of existing data and its quality
- Opportunity study and information-system planning
- Reasoned, vendor-neutral technology choices
- Migration and data-recovery plan
- Definition of management indicators
Our approach
How we go about it
Immersion
We spend time with the teams who do the work, not only with management.
Diagnosis
Volumes, time spent, breaking points, duplicate entry, data lost between two tools.
Target
Application and data architecture, including the alternatives set aside and why.
Trajectory
A split into deliverable batches, each bringing value that is usable independently of the next.
Handover
Presentation to the teams, documentation, and support on the first batch if you want it.
Architecture
How it is built
A target architecture is not a decorative diagram: it settles where the reference data lives, who is allowed to write it, and how the systems stay in step.
Reference data
Identification of master data (customers, items, sites, employees) and of the system that is authoritative for each.
Business applications
The functional scope of each application and explicit boundaries between them.
Integration
The exchange method chosen per flow: synchronous API, event, or deferred import depending on how critical it is.
Reporting
The chain that feeds the indicators, from operational data through to the dashboard.
Technical foundation
Hosting, authentication, backup, monitoring and environment management.
Technologies
Relevant technologies
- BPMN
- Archimate
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- OpenAPI
- Metabase
- Figma
- SQL
Industries covered
The industries where we apply it
Related solutions
Existing bases to move faster
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
Consulting and digital transformation
How long does an audit take?
Do you always recommend building custom software?
Can we start small?
What happens if we do not continue with you?
Africa Tech Services
A project around “Consulting & strategy”?
A first thirty-minute conversation, with no commitment. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right partner — and if not, we will point you elsewhere.