Services
Data-driven action plans
Customized Research & Consultancy Services
Tailored research projects and consultancy services based on specific needs of clients, such as feasibility studies, market entry strategies, and sectoral analyses.
The consultancy services are powered by OSE in Africa’s unique combination of big data, ecological network analysis, and predictive tools. This allows for highly customized research that addresses the specific challenges and opportunities within African entrepreneurial ecosystems, offering solutions that are both innovative and deeply contextualized.
Customized research reports and consultancy deliverables as per client requirements.
- Service Description: Comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in a specific region or country
- Mapping the ecosystem’s strengths, weaknesses opportunities, and threats
- Comparing it against other similar regions
- Uniqueness: OSE in Africa’s observatory collects and analyzes data specific to African entrepreneurial ecosystems value chain
- Granular investigations on specific Entrepreneurial Ecosystem attribute
- Benchmark against other African regions
- Culturally and contextually relevant insights that are specific to the continent’s diverse economic and organizational landscapes
- Deliverables: A detailed report highlighting key metrics, within only 2 months
- Heavy trends analysis, Structural and Configurational analysis
- Opportunities and Threats, Strengths and Weaknesses on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem organization as a whole
- Include a comparison against regional and global benchmarks and recommendations
- Service Description: Scenario planning workshops and reports that explore future trends in entrepreneurship and their potential impact on the ecosystem
- Help stakeholders prepare for various possible futures
- Co-construction of strategic scenarii and action plans with your team
- Uniqueness: The use of deep learning algorithms on the observatory’s data allows for sophisticated scenario planning that accounts for complex, interconnected factors unique to African contexts
- This service stands out by offering scenario building that are deeply rooted in the specific socio-economic realities of African countries, unlike more generic global models, based on a unique and unmatched database
- Deliverables: Collective co-construction workshops, within 2 months
- Co-constructed scenarii, Risk assessment analysis, Decision making model
- Mentored decision making, Strategic recommendations report
- Service Description: Analysis of past crisis and policies determining their impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem and entrepreneurial dynamics.
- Help policymakers understand the potential outcomes of their decisions
- Collectively review longitudinal analysis of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
- Make data-driven adjustments with your team
- Uniqueness: Leveraging our longitudinal data on how different policies and crisis have historically impacted ecosystems in various African contexts.
- Predict the outcomes of proposed policies with a high degree of accuracy
- The observatory’s ability to analyze longitudinal data and forecast outcomes
- Policy recommendations are deeply informed by the specific economic and social conditions of African countries
- Deliverables: Crisis and Policy impact analysis report, within 1 months
- Including scenario analysis
- Recommendations for policy adjustments.
- Service Description: Development of interactive dashboards
- Insights into key metrics related to the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Include data on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem value chain, efficiency and performance metrics
- Uniqueness: OSE in Africa’s dashboards are fed by proprietary data focused specifically on African entrepreneurial ecosystems value chain
- This data includes niche metrics such as ecological network analysis
- Unique insights into the interconnectedness of various ecosystem players
- Dynamic and comprehensive view on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem structure and configuration
- Deliverables: Access to OSE’s digital, secured, and dynamic dashboard, within 1 month
- Longitudinal data, and regular updates
- Customized analytics based on user needs, online tutorials
- Service Description: Collaboratively creating customized roadmaps to support entrepreneurship (for Institutions, NGOs, and private organizations)
- Includes priority actions, sectors and programs
- Suggesting policy adjustments and changes
- Strategic focus required to nurture a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- Uniqueness: The observatory’s longitudinal data and predictive analytics enable the creation of roadmaps that anticipate future trends.
- This service uses real-time data from the observatory to recommend tailored, forward-looking strategies
- Ensuring that the roadmap is actionable and relevant over time, thru collective Simulation Games
- Deliverables: A strategic roadmap report, within 2 months
- Collective workshops and Simulation Games
- 3 to 5 years Actionable steps, Roadmap, Timelines
- KPIs to foster entrepreneurship
- Service Description: PMA to thrive strategic partnerships within your Ecosystem
- Creation and deployment of network stimulating programs between Local entrepreneurs, investors, academia, and government bodies
- Foster collaborations that strengthen the ecosystem
- Uniqueness: Following the elaboration of the Roadmap, and thank’s to OSE in Africa deep data on the value chains
- The observatory’s network method ensures that partnerships are not only beneficial but also synergistic
- Fostering connections and resource distribution that truly enhance ecosystem resilience and growth.
- Deliverables: Network stimulation program and deployment programs
- Co-construction program elaboration (labels, fundings, etc.)
- Matchmaking events, conferences and other events organisation
- Support for program deployment
- Service Description: PMA to build an investment framework to foster entrepreneurship
- Policy support for development finance institutions, venture capitalists, angel investors
- Investment policy dashboard co-construction
- Uniqueness: Coherency to Roadmap investment framework
- Providing investors with targeted, data-driven policies
- Focus on high-potential sectors within the continent, informed by the observatory’s unique datasets
- Unique Insights through broader global analyses
- Deliverables: Investment policy and framework reports, within 2 months
- Including sector analysis
- Includes specific action plan and events
- Service Description: Workshops, training sessions, and capacity-building programs for ecosystem actors and builders, policymakers, and investors
- Gamification based programs, using cases and stories (successes and failures)
- Focus on best practices and innovative strategies
- Training on tools and methods to strengthen the ecosystem
- Uniqueness: Training programs are tailored using data on the most critical gaps in African entrepreneurial ecosystems.
- Trainings addresses specific challenges faced by ecosystem actors in Africa
- Making it more impactful than generic global training programs
- Deliverables: Tailored and Customized training modules
- Certification programs
- Capacity-building workshops
- Service Description: Ongoing monitoring of the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Periodic reporting on key indicators.
- Help stakeholders stay informed about trends
- Emerging trends, opportunities, and potential threats
- Uniqueness: The observatory’s continuous data collection provides up-to-date and context-specific insights into the health of African ecosystems
- This ongoing monitoring, combined with real-time updates, offers a level of specificity that is crucial for stakeholders who need to make timely decisions in rapidly changing environments
- Deliverables: Quarterly, or annual reports on ecosystem health
- Including predictive analytics
- Early warning signals
