#Top5 🚩 your consultancy is clueless…
1) First, check their Africa department/ group/council’s leadership. If it has not one person with a global south origin (Germany, France, British) , they don’t have a clue.
👉🏽People born between the continents, have intercultural skills that are essential.
✍🏼if you can’t be bothered talking international within your team…chances are you are not good at it cross border.
2) If the consultancy is based in Germany, a country with a Turkish Diaspora of around 4 Million and do not understand the maths that a bridge community represent….a la poubelle‼️Don’t bother.
🟡A consultancy should be able to offer you different strategies and one is joint ventures through countries such as Hungary or Turkey.
3) Francophone Africa is informal.
The formal, impersonal German approach does not work at all.
If your consultancy only knows how to do formal, paper based, e-mail….in the bin❗️
4) Do they have a lobbyist on the ground? They don’t?…trash it.
⚠️Networking is the oxygen for business in Francophone Africa. Flying in once in a while, e-mails and zoom calls are not working. Next!
5) Due diligence is the biggest red flag. Any one offering you due diligence, being a consultant…is gaslighting you.
Due diligence Francophone Africa is a whole job in itself.
Asset tracing, risk matrix, a solid network of people, including service provider, knowledge of markets, detailed and informal insights are some of the requirements to do a due diligence in francophone Africa.
Anything else is empty PR and run!
#africa #afrika #duediligence
Preventive Diplomacy Practitioner
1moThis is very encouraging 👏🏼 keep up with the good work and the inspiration.