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Case study · Africa Business School · Executive Education

How Africa Business School wired its executive programmes into its client’s HR system.

Africa Business School trains the managers of Groupe OCP. Every session ended with the same work: typing into the client’s HR system what the school already knew. GEERD built Elevate, the platform for ABS’s executive programmes, and connected it to Workday and Edusign.

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Where it started

The same information, kept twice, on both sides of the boundary.

  • Typed in twice

    What the school already knew, who had enrolled, who had attended, who had passed, was keyed in again by hand in the client’s HR system.

  • Attendance on paper

    Signed in the room, scanned, typed up. Between a session ending and the proof that it happened, there were days and several pairs of hands.

  • No catalogue on the client’s side

    An employee could not see the school’s programmes from their own HR portal. Requests went through emails and a contact at the school.

  • Two versions of the truth

    The school and the client each kept their own list of who was enrolled, who attended and who passed. The lists drifted apart, and the gap was settled at the end of the programme, when settling it costs the most.

The circuit

What replaces the re-keying: a closed circuit.

Elevate is the only place anything is entered. Everything else travels. The catalogue goes out to the client, the employee books from their own HR portal, the enrolments come back, the signed attendance comes up from Edusign, the results go out.

One entry, in Elevate. The catalogue goes out to the client’s HR system, the employee books from their own portal, the enrolments come back, the signed attendance comes up from Edusign, the results go out. Nothing leaves the circuit to be typed in again somewhere else.

What we did

Four layers, in the order they were built.

  1. 01

    Mapping what crosses

    What actually crosses the boundary between the school and its client: who enters, who checks, who chases, and exactly where the same information gets typed a second time.

  2. 02

    Elevate, on our own base

    GEERD did not start from nothing: Elevate is built on the technical base of our platforms, then shaped around the school’s executive programmes. The bespoke work went where the need was genuinely specific.

  3. 03

    The Workday connector

    A dedicated service speaks Workday’s protocol. Courses, sessions and their capacity go out to the client’s catalogue; the employees and their enrolments come back into Elevate, attached to the right programme.

  4. 04

    Edusign on the session

    Attendance capture is created with the programme, and the signature given in the room comes up into Elevate attached to the right session. No scan, no re-keying, no delay.

What changed

Four things the team no longer does twice.

  • Entered once

    The programme is created once, in Elevate. The client’s catalogue fills itself from there.

  • The employee stays in their own tool

    They find the programme and book it from their own HR portal, like any internal training.

  • Attendance is no longer paper

    Signed in the room, it comes back attached to the session, with no scan and no re-keying.

  • One list

    The school and the client read the same enrolments, the same attendance, the same results.

  • “GEERD has also played a key role in strengthening our digital ecosystem through thoughtful integrations.”

    Fatimzahra Chakir

    Head of Digital Learning Strategy at the time, Africa Business School

  • “Their capacity to bridge technology and learning strategy has enabled us to move beyond a traditional LMS toward a dynamic and socially connected digital learning platform.”

    Fatimzahra Chakir

    Head of Digital Learning Strategy at the time, Africa Business School

  • “We value GEERD not only as a technology partner, but as a strategic collaborator committed to innovation, continuous improvement, and meaningful learning impact.”

    Fatimzahra Chakir

    Head of Digital Learning Strategy at the time, Africa Business School

What comes next

The same circuit, for the next client.

What was built once for one industrial group can be re-wired to the next client’s HR system. It is the integration work that repeats, not the platform.

What this case study shows

Is your client asking for attendance and results inside their own system?

That is integration work before it is platform work. Tell us what crosses the boundary between you and your client today, and through whose hands.

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