Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
AKF Partners has helped guide companies through digital transformations for over 10 years. We’ve helped traditional brick and mortar service, product, banking…
For many years after the introduction of the automobile, most industries benefited from somewhat static and predictable secular forces. Nascent technology…
Results = Results
The Crippling Cost of Distractions Perhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what we…
Our typical assessment goes something like this: We spend 1.75 days with an energized product team comprised of engineers and product managers. We feel the…
During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we…
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker
Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world,…
“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident…
Security culture is one of the hardest aspects of security to get right. Unfortunately, it is also the most important thing for security that needs to be done…
Most companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, dealmakers simply miss or underestimate the…
AKF often finds itself required to act as a marriage counselor trying to improve the relationship between technology and business ‘spouses’. In fact, we rarely…
