Independent advisory · Digital, data and AI
Value from your data and AI.
Kagera works with executive teams to set the direction for digital, data and AI, then to deliver it. Strategy, transformation and the data work underneath. Available as advisory, fractional or interim leadership.
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What we do
Three kinds of work, usually in that order, though most engagements start where the organisation already is.
Strategy
A direction for digital, data and AI that the executive team believes in, with a business case behind it and a roadmap that says what happens first. Corporate and functional vision, stakeholder alignment, initiative definition and planning.
Transformation
Programme leadership, business architecture, delivery assurance and change. We put as much weight on adoption as on technology, because the benefits arrive when people change how they work, not when the system goes live.
Data, AI and analytics
Data governance, data quality and analytics strategy, through to prototyping data and AI products. Testing the value early is cheaper than assuming it, and it settles arguments that would otherwise run for a year.
Approach
We do with, not to.
The vision is built with the executive team rather than handed to them. That takes longer at the start and is the reason the work survives contact with the organisation.
From there we develop the roadmap across people, process and technology, using digital platforms to hold a data asset the business can actually exploit.
Then we stay close to adoption. Behaviour change is the part most programmes underfund, and it is where the benefits are won or lost.
Recent work
Digital, data and AI diagnostic and roadmap
A diagnostic of current digital, data and AI capability for a listed entity within the ADQ and L'IMAD group, followed by a roadmap for where to invest and in what order.
Who you work with
Tom Deacon
Kagera is led by Tom Deacon, and Tom does the work. He has held senior operational roles, including Global Head of Digital at Turner & Townsend in the UK and Group CIO at Etihad Rail. He has also led digital and data programmes with RTA in Dubai and QinetiQ in the UK.
Before that, IBM, BAE Systems and EY, with early work applying artificial intelligence techniques well before the current wave. That mix of consulting and line leadership is why the advice tends to account for what an organisation can absorb, not only what good looks like.
Measurable outcomes include: 35% Year-1 AI ROI (5 GenAI agents), 15% business performance uplift, £50m+ annual financial benefits, £100m transformation programme. LinkedIn
Tell us what you are trying to change.
A first conversation is usually half an hour and costs nothing. If Kagera is not the right fit we will say so.
tom@kagera.ltd