Strategic Analysis & Consulting
The full strategy consultant’s toolbox: PESTEL, Porter, McKinsey, Ansoff, Abell, CANVAS, financial projections — applied on real engagements.
About
Behind NINI, a trajectory.
Not a consultant who came to explain Africa. A professional shaped by it.
Denis Marc Wendinboude DIANDA grew up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. That is where it all started — a curiosity for complex systems, a drive to understand how things work, and a deep conviction that the continent’s development depends on people able to connect vision and execution.
What followed: an MSc in Networks and Telecommunications at the University of Lille, 4G rollouts across West Africa with Orange Burkina Faso, years in the field at Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile in France, and an Executive MBA at IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne — completed with distinction in March 2026, RNCP level 7 (300 ECTS).
This atypical path — from radio engineering to strategic consulting, from African ground to large French corporates — is no accident. It is the deliberate construction of a rare hybrid profile, able to do what few do: connect strategic vision to field reality, with rigour and humanity.
NINI Strategies & Operations is that conviction made real: African organisations deserve consulting worthy of their ambitions, anchored in their realities, delivered by professionals who know them from the inside.
Denis Marc W. DIANDAFounder · Strategy & operations consultant
BasesOuagadougou · Paris
EducationExecutive MBA IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne · MSc Networks & Telecoms, University of Lille
Contactcontact@ninistrat.com
Career path
The road, travelled both ways
2026
Executive MBA — IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne × IFG
Completed with distinction in March 2026. RNCP level 7, 300 ECTS. Professional thesis: growth strategy for a consulting firm towards 2030.
2024–2026
Strategic consulting engagement — Organisational consulting firm
Diagnostic, strategic scenarios and implementation plan. 120+ page deliverable, 63 analytical exhibits.
2019–2024
Free Mobile · Bouygues Telecom — France
Network programme management, technical and strategic coordination, Power BI dashboards and performance management systems.
2017–2019
MSc Networks & Telecommunications — University of Lille
Engineering degree, specialised in mobile networks and telecom architectures.
Earlier
Orange Burkina Faso — West Africa
4G network rollout in the field. A concrete understanding of African constraints: infrastructure, energy, skills, data.
Method
We work with you, not for you
The best strategies are the ones your teams understand and own. We co-build at every step, and we leave behind an organisation able to carry on without us.
Expertise
Areas of mastery
Digital Transformation
From maturity assessment to change management, including roadmap definition and digital tool integration.
Project Management & PMO
Steering complex multi-stakeholder projects, technical and strategic coordination, budget tracking, operational reporting.
Data & Performance Management
Data modelling, Power BI dashboards, strategic and operational KPIs, decision intelligence.
Change Management
Supporting organisational transformations, strategic communication, team training, governance rituals.
Operational Excellence
Process optimisation, support function structuring, corporate governance, Lean, Agile, ITIL.
Education
Global Executive MBAIAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne × IFG Executive Education — completed March 2026, RNCP 7, 300 ECTS
MSc Networks and TelecommunicationsUniversity of Lille — 2017–2019
Beliefs
What we believe
Successful transformation starts with an honest diagnostic, not a pre-packaged solution.
Data is only worth something if it feeds real decisions.
Change cannot be decreed — it is co-built, communicated and cultivated over time.
Africa is not an emerging market to be educated. It is a continent in motion, with its own logics and its own strengths — and an urgent need for consulting that looks like it.
Rather talk it through in person?
The best way to find out whether we can be useful to you is still to have the conversation.