Gracie Davis and Company Limited

Management Consulting

Improving Mission and Business effectiveness through smart Management Consulting

Our strategic capabilities span the gamut of management consulting; our services include ‘Business Strategy and Change Management’, and ‘Organization and Operations Management and Improvement’.

In the last decade, numerous countries in Africa have witnessed the rapid growth of their respective economies. How else can one explain the fact that 7 of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world are currently in Africa? Furthermore 27 of Africa’s 30 largest economies have seen rapid expansion since 2000. To be sure, Africa’s economic pulse has quickened, infusing the continent with a new and much needed socio-economic and commercial vibrancy.

With a collective GDP, approaching $2.1 trillion, Africa is now far and away the fastest growing continent in the world, and much of this growth can be attributed to the following sectors – Commodities, Telecommunications, Finance, Agriculture, Construction, and Manufacturing. These sectors grew as a consequence of improved political and macro/micro-economic reforms, all within a context of aggressive privatization of state-owned industries across the entire continent; for example – Nigeria privatized more than 116 enterprises between 1999 and 2006 alone, revolutionizing Nigeria’s Telecommunications and Banking sectors in the process.

Taking the afore-mentioned into account, how do African business leaders keep pace with fast changing industries, rapidly evolving technologies, and evolving operational methods in their respective fast-developing economies while ensuring cost efficiency and overall effectiveness?

A firm with a rich heritage in management consulting, Gracie Davis works with our clients to support each of their strategic transformation agendas to help them stay ahead of the economic growth curve. We are well equipped to build/deliver solutions and programs in alignment with our client’s goals and mission. Our capacity to streamline business processes, reduce waste and fraud, and improve productivity, is incredibly essential to accomplishing the mission and business objectives of our clients on the African continent.

Business Strategy and Change Management – Business leaders understand that success and continued growth are all achieved through an intelligent, articulate and well-crafted business strategy. Gracie Davis Strategy and Change (S & C) consultants help our clients transform their enterprise to seize industry opportunities by formulating successful strategies at the intersection of business and technology. We are able to recognize and leverage core competencies to formulate innovative strategies, create new business models (or revamp existing ones with minimal drag on operations) and accelerate the implementation of said models through powerful change programs, which help to drive successful business transformation for sustainable growth and profitability. The three ‘Strategy and Change’ areas we focus on are:

Business Strategy – Gracie Davis consultants are well equipped to help our clients identify and respond to new business opportunities (especially the opportunities created by technological innovation) and challenges in rapidly changing business environments, such as what is now occurring in Africa. Always with the growth, profitability and stability of our client’s businesses in mind, Gracie Davis can design, develop and implement, rapid growth inducing business models driving business transformations in the process.

Operations Strategy – Seasoned process reengineering experience is integral to formulating (and/or revamping) successful operational models and strategies; these in turn drive operational efficiency, profitability, and excellence, for our clients. In fact most business strategies cannot be fully defined or optimized until a well-tested operations strategy has been put into place. Gracie Davis can design, develop and implement lean and effective operations models and strategies to support our clients bottom-line business goals.

Technology Strategy – In an ever increasing business and technology conscious Africa, most serious businesses are actively searching for ways to bridge the gap between first world operational models and third world operational models in terms of being able to harness maximum operational efficiency out of their operations model. At Gracie Davis, we help our clients align the appropriate IT tools with business priorities, and exploit advancements in technology to bridge the afore-mentioned operations efficiency gaps.

Organization & Operations Management and Improvement – Empirically, a majority of the businesses and organizations in Africa do not have the capacity to adapt to the rapid changes being brought about by the aggressive privatization and technology driven initiatives that are currently underway in their respective regions of Africa.

“In the modern business environment, organizations face rapid change like never before. Globalization and the constant innovation of technology result in a constantly evolving business environment. Phenomena such as social media and mobile adaptability have revolutionized business, and the effect of this is an ever-increasing need for change, and therefore change management” – Wikipedia

Gracie Davis Organization and Operations consultants help our clients adapt quickly to these rapid business environment changes in their industries by transforming their organization and service operations to levels above and beyond their expectations, all the while achieving bottom-line business goals and operating profitability. We help our clients formulate optimal operational models to drive operational excellence, and also apply lean management strategies to help deliver broad transformation across all pertinent areas of their business. The two ‘Organization & Operation’ areas we focus on are:

Organizational Development Change Strategy – Designing lean and efficient organization structures; accelerating the implementation of new business models by integrating cutting-edge technologies with the right functional people (in said organization structures) and processes in place; managing scalable change initiatives, and guiding the transition required for a successful business transformation. These are all Gracie Davis hallmarks.

Lean Management Strategy – We help transform service operations by working closely with our clients at all levels of their organization. Tuning an organizations structure for efficiency directly affects all departments of said organization from entry-level employee to senior management, from customer-care to sales and marketing. Our clients must learn how to accommodate changes to their organization, which is why we don’t just focus on process redesign, but rather on refining their systems and adjusting their employee mindsets and behaviors to ensure that said employees are able to adjust to the changes over the long-term.