Our Mission is to empower African small businesses for global competitiveness by strengthening their enterprise systems and enhancing their access to quality information Through our specialized services, we help businesses leverage on accurate, credible and thorough research towards making decisions that widen the profit margin and enhance customer satisfaction.

To this end, we partner with relevant strong institutions to provide:

• Market research services and market surveys
• Business Plans and Feasibility Reports
• Industry Research

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Our approach to enterprise automation is purely functional. We recognize that small businesses have even more serious resource constraints than large companies, so we help you identify your highest priority needs and distinguish between nice-to-have “toys” and must-have business tools. We guide you away from penny wise, pound foolish purchase decisions.

We also help manage the acquisition, deployment and commissioning process, guiding you through relationship with vendors, reviewing after-sales maintenance agreements and programming staff training for effective integration.

In partnership with some reputable service providers we offer robust, but affordable business continuity and disaster recovery solutions suitable for small businesses.

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A logical extension of our technology services is the e-commerce module, by which we prepare your business for internet presence by helping you answer such questions as:

1. Is the internet relevant to my business?
2. Which elements of my business need to go online?
3. How do I migrate online?
4. How do I integrate my offline and online operations to achieve seamlessness?
5. How do I replicate my brand online to achieve a consistent customer experience?
6. What are the costs? What are the benefits?

We offer training courses for aspiring entrepreneurs who wish to start their own businesses. We also run function-specific courses targeted at staff of SMEs and Microfinance Institutions. Please contact us for further information and our 2008 course schedule.