Technology Decisions, With a Plan Behind Them.
We look at what you run, what the business needs and what it costs, then turn it into a roadmap your team can deliver, with the reasons for each decision written down.
Consulting and Advisory, service by service.
- IT strategyWhat technology should do for the business over the next one to three years.
- Enterprise architectureHow your systems, data and integrations fit together, now and later.
- Technology roadmapsInitiatives in order, with owners, budgets and measures.
- Digital transformationChanging how work is done, not only which software does it.
- Solution architectureA design for one system or project that meets a stated need.
- IT governanceWho decides, how changes are approved and how risk is tracked.
- Vendor selectionRequirements, shortlists and a fair comparison before you sign.
- Technology assessmentsAn independent review of systems, costs and risks.
Where this usually starts.
- Spending without a planTools bought one at a time, overlapping licences and costs that are hard to justify.
- No senior technology leadDecisions fall to whoever is available, without the experience to weigh them.
- Systems that do not connectData typed twice, reports built by hand, and no single view of the business.
- A big decision aheadA new platform, a vendor contract or an acquisition that needs an independent view.
Deliverables, written down.
- A review of current systems, costs and risks
- A roadmap with budget, owners and measures
- Target architecture and the decisions behind it
- Vendor shortlists and evaluation criteria
- A governance model your team can run
- DiscoverGoals, current systems, constraints and who decides.
- AssessGaps, risks and options, ranked by impact and cost.
- PlanA written scope, timeline and budget, agreed before work starts.
- DeliverThe agreed work, tested, with changes approved by you.
- Hand overDocumentation, access and training for the people who run it.
Choose the arrangement.
- Consulting or assessmentAdvice, a review or a plan before you commit.Ask about this
- Project deliveryA defined piece of work delivered, tested and handed over.Ask about this
- Managed IT supportOngoing support, maintenance and monitoring under one agreement.Ask about this
How this usually looks.
Illustrative scenarios that show how an engagement is shaped. They are examples, not completed client projects.
Cloud Migration Planning
- Business challenge
- A company running ageing servers wants to move to the cloud without a jump in cost or a weekend of downtime.
- Proposed solution
- An inventory of workloads, decisions on what moves and what retires, a secure target architecture and a cost estimate.
- Delivery approach
- Assess, design and plan a staged cutover with tested backups and a rollback step for every wave.
- Intended outcome
- A migration the business can approve, with costs and risks known before anything moves.
Technology Infrastructure Modernisation
- Business challenge
- An organisation’s servers, network and storage are near the end of support, and replacing everything at once is not affordable.
- Proposed solution
- A phased plan that replaces the highest-risk equipment first and moves suitable workloads to the cloud.
- Delivery approach
- Inventory and risk-rank the estate, agree an order and budget, then deliver in phases with testing and documentation.
- Intended outcome
- Risk reduced year by year, spending planned in advance and nothing left unsupported.
What people ask first.
What does an IT consultant for an African business do?
Plans the office or site technology (internet links, power protection, network, devices and accounts), secures it, chooses and checks local vendors, and documents everything for handover. For a company new to the market, it also means checking the technology of a local partner before signing.
What is part-time IT leadership?
A senior IT lead who works a set amount of time each month and owns the roadmap, the budget, vendor choices and incident planning, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Can you work with our current IT team or provider?
Yes. We can review, plan and hand over to the people who already run your systems.
Do you work remotely?
Assessment, cloud and AI work can be done remotely. Office and site setup in Guinea and Sierra Leone is coordinated on the ground with checked local partners.
Often used together.
Tell us what you need.
Describe the work in a few lines. We reply with questions or a proposed next step, and nothing is agreed until you have a written scope.