Centre for Research & Development

 

The Research and Development division is responsible for conducting grounded research for both small and big corporates. We are convinced that modern day businesses are evolving customer expectations and emerging technologies with more nimble companies entering industries, businesses today are more at risk for disruption than ever before. The need to respond to global hyper-competition and the increasing clock speed of technological change cannot be over emphasized. Increasingly corporates are relying heavily on their R&D functions to accelerate innovation and creativity while maintaining tight budgets. Afrinet notes that organizational structures for R&D in large international companies as well as small companies are often sub-optimal and act as a major barrier to performance improvement. In order for these companies to successfully optimize R&D’s contribution to their business value, Afrinet is playing a key role in addressing the three key dimensions of their structures, governance and processes through its research and development epistemological and ontological business framework. Our Services are structured to address your company’s end-to-end business problems and opportunities. As part of our business model, we strive to keep your business competitive by providing insights into the processes, culture and systems and market and developing new services / products or improving existing ones accordingly. The future growth of your business sits in a large part with the R&D initiatives, and Afrinet will absorb this function, functionally in a more effective and efficient way, while you concentrate and focus on your key business mandate. Our research is practically grounded and is two thronged: Applied Research and Developmental Research. As a leading training institute, we are aware that your corporation is forced to operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business climate. In this context, it is important that if you are to invest in research, Development and training, the skills and learning acquired stimulate relevant productivity, so that your business maintains a competitive edge in this competitive global market. Our team of expert Business Researchers’ will present findings and recommendations to you and aid you in Implementing recommendations or solutions and ensure you receive the necessary assistance and support post research, to carry it all out.

 

Key R&D focus

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1.1 Production & Improving productivity

1.2 Advancing the Human Resource function

1.3 IT function

1.4 e-commerce

1.5 Leadership & Governance

1.6 Marketing & Sales

1.7 Procurement, Transport logistics & supply chain

1.8 Operations, systems and processes

1.9 Customer service excellence

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Afrinet assures you that in meeting its research mandate, it will strive for ensuring that whatever you do is linked to business strategy explicit, construct interfaces with other functions, establish a cross functional steering team of interested staff deconstruct the whole to manage complexity, pressure test using realistic situations and manage hearts and minds carefully