We are a small but mighty collection of retail game changers.
Our story all began with an idea. We wanted to launch a business, turning our passion into something more.
If you know Kwa-Zulu Natal, and you love mountain biking, then no doubt you would have come across the famous Umko Valley drop in trail. It’s passion personified and so we though a fitting name for a business that is about going fast while managing risk, and sharing in the collective joy of doing something you love.
It’s not all downhill on the bike, and neither in business. The climb out is as important and requires experience. Through our 20 years in corporate, our directors have held executive roles at companies; Accenture, MTN, Massmart, SAB, Mondelez, and Vodacom. We bring this corporate ‘been there, climbed that’ experience to every project.
We are big proponents of fast paced incremental change to unlock value. We bring this methodology into our projects by utilising the Agile approach, deploying the platform and or product changes into a MVP subset of your business, enhancing, then rolling out to subsequent teams or divisions.
Digital transformation, frequently billed as a strategy to ease the overhead of manual processes in an organisation, can often result in compounding your challenges if the new solution is not effectively integrated into your existing systems and workflows. We only work with partners that have strong API’s that make this integration a low cost, low complexity effort
Please get in touch, we would love to chat (over a coffee / beer) on how Umko could help grow your average revenue per customer!
Meet the team
Jody Forrester
Managing Director
Managing Partner
