References
Our engagements speak for us
A selection of our work, in France and Abidjan. For confidentiality, clients are referred to by sector (“Company X”). Each engagement: a context, an intervention, a result.
In France & Europe
Company X — Regulated international group (Europe)
Context: Group IS transformation in a regulated international environment.
Intervention: defining and deploying the target operating model, standardisation and performance steering group-wide.
Result: a standardised Group information system — more efficient and more resilient.
Société X — Environnement IT critique post-acquisition / M&A (Europe)
Context: post-acquisition integration of critical IT environments.
Intervention: programme direction — stabilising, modernising and securing the infrastructure.
Result: critical environments secured and made reliable after the deal.
Company X — Strategic IT programmes (banking, ERP, multi-country)
Context: complex programmes in regulated, multi-country environments.
Intervention: steering IT programmes — transformation, compliance and integration.
Result: critical programmes delivered under heavy compliance and deadline constraints.
Société X — Organisation en transformation & redressement (France)
Context: a transformation and turnaround context.
Intervention: support on structuring, performance and steering.
Result: an organisation back on a performance track.
In Abidjan & West Africa
Banking transformation programmes
Company X — International bank (Côte d'Ivoire)
Context: Core Banking migration to an integrated solution.
Intervention: support to overall programme steering, business-analysis support and framing of the Data scope, connecting technical and business stakes.
Result: a structured steering and business-analysis setup to secure a critical multi-batch programme.
Company X — Bank in a carve-out context (West Africa)
Context: exit from a major international banking group (carve-out) and rebuilding of the IT function.
Intervention: strategic and operational diagnostic of the IT department — organisation, governance, critical risks — despite the absence of any initial documentation.
Result: a prioritised transformation roadmap for the post-carve-out period.
Company X — Regional capital market (WAEMU)
Context: the ambition to become a benchmark international financial centre.
Intervention: steering the information-system transformation programme — roadmap, programme governance, end-to-end reporting and test strategy.
Result: a programme framed, governed and aligned with the strategic vision.
IT strategy & master plan
Société X — Institution & entreprises
Context: an endured IT estate and poorly controlled costs.
Intervention: building and costing an IT master plan (SDSI), target architecture and investment path.
Result: a validated optimisation path, −18 to −30% IT costs on comparable cases.
Company X — Pan-African insurance group
Context: the need for a structuring HR information system.
Intervention: requirements framing, drafting the HRIS specification and steering the tender.
Result: a solid tender package and an informed choice of solution.
SME restructuring & turnaround
Company X — Electronic security (Côte d'Ivoire)
Context: strong growth, no formalised processes, high turnover.
Intervention: 360° organisational audit, business continuity plan, role clarification and nine months of interim management.
Result: +22% productivity, −35% turnover, operational governance at 100%.
Company X — Materials trading & brickworks (Lakes region)
Context: a critical cash position, hyper-centralised governance, IT bypassed.
Intervention: seven-domain diagnostic, vision, four sequenced strategies, digitalisation (ERP) and action plans delivered with the team.
Result: from survival to a regional benchmark trajectory.
Company X — Precast concrete industry (Côte d'Ivoire)
Context: growth that needed structuring.
Intervention: target organisation, org chart and recruitment plan (head office and plant), ERP tooling.
Result: an organisational base ready to support scaling up.
Entity structuring & vehicles
Company X — Multi-activity family group
Context: securing the estate and structuring a fundraising project.
Intervention: setting up SPVs (special-purpose vehicles) — holdings, subsidiaries and agreements — with legal, tax and compliance analysis (KYC / PEP).
Result: a structuring architecture that is secure, compliant and governed.
Company X — Healthcare project (CFA 32.8bn)
Context: a profitable project with a fragile financing plan.
Intervention: reference financial model, equity / debt / quasi-equity structuring and targeting development finance institutions (DFIs).
Result: a project made bankable, with a package ready for lenders.
Digital transformation & solutions
Company X — Hotel group (Côte d'Ivoire)
Context: management fragmented across several sites.
Intervention: framing a digital transformation project and an integrated PMS / ERP information system.
Result: a clear roadmap to unify management and make data reliable.
Company X — Service businesses
Context: customer relationships and sales processes without tooling.
Intervention: framing and deploying CRM solutions and management tools suited to the context.
Result: structured, traceable sales processes.
Training & capacity building
Company X — Major bank (Côte d'Ivoire)
Context: supporting the bank’s SME clients towards greater maturity.
Intervention: designing and delivering a training programme — digital transformation, strategy, and from strategic vision to business plan.
Result: owners equipped to structure and finance their growth.
Company X — Sector study, Ivorian SMEs
Context: better understanding the management needs of the SME fabric.
Intervention: study of the management capacity-building needs of Ivorian SMEs (survey, analysis, recommendations).
Result: an evidence base for targeting support and training.