Strategic consulting
Turn ambitious goals into a focused strategy, aligned priorities, and a roadmap your team can act on.
- Strategic planning
- Executive advisory
- Decision support
Purposeful ideas.
Powerful outcomes.
Lanakila Solutions Consulting helps organizations connect strategy, enterprise technology, and execution—transforming complexity into confident forward motion.
Why Lanakila
Clarity is more than a plan.
It’s the confidence to move.
“Lanakila” means victory—an outcome we believe begins with alignment, honest conversation, and the courage to take the next right step.
We bring structure without rigidity and fresh perspective without losing sight of what makes your organization unique. The result is work that feels clear, useful, and distinctly yours.
What we do
Support for the work
that matters most.
Flexible expertise for defining direction, improving how work gets done, and bringing people with you.
Innovative Technology / AI / Human Intelligence
Connect the right technology to the right business need—and make it useful for the people doing the work. We bridge the gap between Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence...
- Technology strategy
- Digital solutions
- Modernization
SAP and ERP Transformations
Move from fragmented systems and processes to a more connected, capable, and resilient organization.
- Process improvement
- Change enablement
- Program delivery
How we work
Thoughtful by design.
Practical by nature.
No two organizations need the same answer. Our approach creates enough structure to move forward—and enough flexibility to respond to what we learn along the way.
We Listen
We start with the people, pressures, and possibilities shaping the work.
We Focus
Together, we identify what matters most and define a practical way forward.
We Build
We work alongside your team to create tools, habits, and progress that last.
Built for partnership
Alongside you,
not above you.
We believe the best consulting relationships are candid, collaborative, and grounded in respect. You bring the context. We bring the questions, structure, and steady momentum to help your team find its best way forward.
Curiosity over assumptionsProgress over perfectionPeople at the center
Who we are
John W. Duncan, Jr., MBA
Founder, CEO and Managing Partner
John founded Lanakila Solutions Consulting to help organizations connect strategy, enterprise technology, and execution.
John is an SAP and Information Technology professional based in the Greenville / Spartanburg / Anderson area of South Carolina. John is a leader and client advocate focused on systems design, cross-functional team leadership, and delivery excellence with organizations large and small. He maintains consulting excellence for organizations concentrating in the Manufacturing, Fashion, BioTech, Consumer Products, and Pharmaceutical areas of SAP S4 HANA On-Premise, Private Cloud and Public Cloud.
Highlights of his broad professional experience and organizational leadership:
- SAP S4 HANA Implementation
- SAP S4 HANA Design and Thought Leadership
- SAP S4 HANA and SAP ECC Assessments
- SAP Configuration, Development and Implementation in the following modules: PP, IM, MM, EWM, SD
- SAP Organizational Change Management
- SAP Hypercare Planning, Implementation and Support
- Solutions Experience and Management Reporting with RICEFWs and building out RAID logs for projects
- GxP experience in Pharma, BioTech and Life Sciences — Adaptation to SAP Business Processes
- IT Project Management: Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid Approaches
Start here
Want to move forward with more clarity?
Let’s start here and make “Lanakila” work for your organization and teams!
Tell us what you’re navigating. We’ll start with a focused conversation about where you are, where you want to go, and whether we’re the right partner to help.
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