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Background
Did you know
you could
delegate duties
even outside your
organisation? Enzo
Krypton and Company
is a management
consulting practice -
here to help you solve
difficult problems.
In other words, it is a
professional services
firm that specializes
in providing business
and financial advisory
services to corporates
and business leaders.
SPECIAL FEATURE
THE BUSINESS BEDROCK
Enzo Krypton & Company
Financial advisory services is just as useful
We had a chat with
the partners - Deji
Kurunmi and Emmanuel Tarfa - and this
is what they had to say: “Currently, our
core practice areas covers Management
Consulting, where we assist business
leaders solve critical problems of sustainability
and growth; Financial Advisory,
where we have assisted several businesses
raise capital from VCs and Private Equity;
and also Human Capital where we provide
organisational development services,
outsourcing, recruitment and learning
interventions. Our learning interventions
are both for corporate organisations –
usually as an outcome of a skills audit
exercise and also critical employability
skills where we impact our highly sort
after domain knowledge. Interestingly, we
saw companies who had problems and
we sought to help solve them.”
Deji and Emmanuel started the business
believing that Africa has its part to play;
and a role in the global economy. “That resolve
remains strong and our mission is to
catalyze the growth of African businesses
for global competitiveness.”
Globalising But Staying Nigerian
You can’t possibly argue that Prophets
need to stay in their homelands to be
respected. “We are proudly Nigerian. We
don’t try to maintain our “Nigerianess”,
we belong to the class who represent the
best of what the country has to offer the
world: A truly Nigerian spirit of hard work,
intellectual acuity and integrity.
Brand Values And Philosophies
An important question indeed. Consumers
no longer focus solely on the product
or the service you are rendering, they also
need to understand what internal (and
external) values do they extrapolate?
To answer this, the founders say, “We
demonstrate a tremendous amount of
faith in our clients and bend our backs
over to produce excellent work that
demonstrates thought leadership and
competence. We believe disciplined
conduct and a heart of reverence for
the profession and client’s aspiration is
critical as we by default become custodians
of trust. All of these are governed by
a culture of freedom and responsibility.
Anyone who attended a public University
will understand what freedom means.
Responsibility is what will ensure you
don’t end up wasting your time there.
At Enzo Krypton & Company, we do not
have an official opening time – neither is
there a closing time. We don’t babysit nor
micromanage. Performance is based on
the quality of work produced as a result of
diligence and intellectual rigor undergirded
by discipline.”
Beating Competition
“To be frank, we do not focus on competition.
We focus on our mission. In the
normal course of work in our industry, you
get to see what other players are doing
but, in a developing clime like Nigeria,
there are vast opportunities to stimulate
change by thinking differently. Traditional
thinking is what keeps you locked in a red
ocean.”
Enzo Krypton And The Economy
“We would say this in one word – Human
Capital. By now, it should be clear to
Africa that our greatest resources are not
beneath the earth. That mentality is what
has created economic slavery. Prioritising
the development of African brains above
the mining of natural resources is what
will salvage us from underdevelopment.
Natural resources should simply have
given us a huge vantage position. How
we deploy economic resources is proof
of what we prioritise. At Enzo Krypton
& Company, we are solving the human
capital challenge by assisting businesses
with the injection of much needed intellectual
capital for sound decision making
and a dedicated desk for result-oriented
learning interventions. We just created
a solution called WQ which is designed
to ensure that investments in learning/
training has direct impact on organizational
performance. This has been a big
challenge in the industry.”
Leaving A Legacy
“We have done countless pro-bono work
that impact on improving living standards
in Nigeria. Our structured CSR currently is
a partnership with Siloan Medical Centre
through their foundation in providing free
medical care in selected indigent communities
and capacity building for medical
workers.”
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