Insights

Written for the people who sign off the investment.

Practical thinking on transformation, automation, applied AI and technology investment — argued from delivery experience rather than assembled from industry commentary.

Publication in progress

The essays below are commissioned and in preparation. We are listing them openly rather than filling this page with generic articles or padding the archive with syndicated content. Each will be published in full at the URL shown when it is written — with an editorial calendar behind it covering roughly forty planned pieces.

In Preparation

What we are writing.

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Automation

Where automation actually pays in an African operation

The four processes that reliably return their investment first, the ones that look automatable but are not, and how to measure the difference before you commit.

In preparation

Buying Technology

Build, buy or integrate: a decision framework

A practical test for when custom software is the right call, when configuration wins, and when the real problem is an undecided process.

In preparation

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Transformation

Why digital transformation programmes stall

Five failure modes we see repeatedly — and the governance that prevents each one.

In preparation

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Applied AI

AI without the hype: what it is actually good at in a business

The categories of work where applied AI produces reliable value today, and the review structures that keep it accountable.

In preparation

Operations

The hidden cost of running a business on WhatsApp

What message-based operations really cost in rework, disputes and lost institutional memory — and the migration path off them.

In preparation

Web

Your website is a sales asset. Here is how to measure it.

The four numbers that tell you whether a website is earning its place, and how to instrument them properly.

In preparation

Mobile

Designing for the mid-range Android

Why apps that test well in the office fail in the market, and the architecture decisions that prevent it.

In preparation

Data

One version of the truth: getting reporting your finance team accepts

Definitions, ownership and quality rules — the unglamorous work that decides whether dashboards get used.

In preparation

Market Entry

Systems for companies entering West Africa

Payment, identity, addressing, connectivity and staffing assumptions that do not transfer — and what to do instead.

In preparation

Editorial Standard

What we will and will not publish.

No invented case studies

Client examples appear only with the client’s approval and only with measured figures. Illustrative patterns are labelled as illustrative.

No vendor-driven commentary

We are not a reseller for any platform, and nothing here is written to support a licence sale.

Argument, not summary

Every piece takes a position derived from delivery experience and states what would change our mind.

Written by the practitioners

Pieces are authored by the people doing the work, and attributed by name once team profiles are published.

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