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ITCORP Company Profile

ITCORP Services Offered

·                    Strategic and Business Planning

·                    Risk and Project Management

·                    Integration of People

·                    Performance Management

·                    Integration into Systems

ITCORP Newsletters

ITCORP Contact Details

  

ITCORP Company Profile

Background

ITCORP has beentrading as a company since 1989. It has its origin from handling a major re-engineering project and has developed a best practice in project management.

Future

ITCORP’s future positioning is to enable our clients to develop a global understanding for business risk and how through sound practices ensure improved shareholders value.

 Philosophy and Values

ITCORP’s business philosophy and values are driven by improving, or assisting ITCORP clients to improve their quality of life.  Improving quality of life could mean many different things to different people and that is exactly what we try and help organisations and especially their people to achieve.  We see this being achieved by continually improving their business position and stakeholders return.

 Best Practices and Value-Add

ITCORP achieves this by sharing and assisting clients with value-add services and products, supporting them and their stakeholders with proven best practices.  ITCORP have adapted and aligned sound worldwide best practices, principles, frameworks and methodologies and are able to customise to suit client’s business needs.

 ITCORP will add value by providing the following outcomes to clients:

·         A facilitated enterprise future state with supporting strategies, business scenarios and plans.

·         The capacity to transform your enterprise from the current to a future state using best practise risk and project management frameworks.

·         Your people with new paradigms integrated into the enterprise future state

·         Your strategies, plans, milestones and final end state measured by an effective performance management system using tools like PSO’s, Balance Scorecards and Dashboards

·         All of the above integrated by effective IT support systems

 Market and Client Base

We are primarily supplying services to the corporate business sector and have achieved successes with our clients in various business sectors, of which the biggest areas are within the following:

·         Automotive industry [BMW SA and Ford Motor Company of South Africa].

·         IT and related areas [Eskom, Arivia.Kom, Pretoria Technikon].

·         Service and Security industry [Bidvest-Prestige, Secureco]

A more comprehensive list of clients is available on request.  To obtain this list, click on the link below.

 Client list and references 

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Strategic and Business Planning

 Back ground

What makes ITCORP’s approach to strategic and business planning different to the normal planning sessions?

 Risk Paradigm and Future State Thinking

Our approach to strategic and business planning is through a risk paradigm with future state thinking!  A Risk Paradigm is to anticipate the hazards and constraints that will stop you from achieving your future state.  Future State Thinking enables stakeholders to approach planning sessions with a mindset of output based, rather than from aligning the Current State [Input based].

For a comprehensive explanation of a risk paradigm refer to ITCORP Newsletters.

To enable clients to move into and stay in this mindset, ITCORP use a set of unique approaches and experiential learning techniques to trigger, lock-on and sustain this approach during and beyond strategic and business planning sessions.

 ITCORP Models and Frameworks

ITCORP have sets of models and frameworks that are used as templates to populate the information gathered in a planning session. These models and frameworks help to structure sessions in delivering defined outcomes and identified projects for more effective and efficient execution.  This will ensure the attainment of enterprise goals and targets.

These models and frameworks include:

·        Financial Feasibility models

·        Merger & Acquisition models

·        Business Case models

·        Business Scenario planning models

 Performance Management

Setting up a control cockpit with Key Performance Areas, Indicators and Metrics at the time of initial and strategic planning ensures clarity of business destinations, role clarity, project and action plan success criteria.

This cockpit is contained in the Business Balanced Scorecard and linked through to Tactical and Operational performance contracts [compacts], performance criteria, evaluation and measurement.

 Effective Facilitation

Years of practice, effective frameworks, approaches and methods, supported by a wide diversity of business competence, ensures optimised participation and results. [Output-Based]

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Risk and Project Management

 Background

As mentioned in ITCORP Company profile, we are focussing on assisting ITCORP clients to understand and manage business risk to maximise shareholders value.

This is best achieved by applying an Enterprise-Wide Project Approach operating within a Risk Paradigm

 Enterprise-Wide Project Approach – Risk Paradigm

Global business risk is considered when the Future State is defined during Strategic and Business planning.  Defined projects with specific deliverables [Charters], time and resource plans are concluded from this Future State.

This is supported by the following services, training, tools and frameworks:

·        Managed Projects [In partnership, On-Off Site management, Retainer services, etc.]

·        Risk & Project Management Training, Development and Coaching [On & Off Site]

·        Project Management Tool training [MS Project]

·        Planning Workshops, Monitoring support, Progress monitoring & Audits

·        Project Culture, Awareness & Orientation Workshops for Enterprise-Wide understanding and application

·        Practical and Experiential Learning Workshops and On-Site Simulation

 Risk and Project Management Frameworks and Models

ITCORP offers a series of frameworks and models coupled to support ad-hoc situations and to enhance the services in the previous heading, all based on sound world best practices and PMBOK principles:

·        Assistance in establishing Project Support Offices

·        Financial evaluation models based on standard financial principles [NPV, IRR, Discounted Payback, etc]

·        Establishing integrated Risk Cockpits [Control Panel/Dashboard]

·        Business Case evaluation

·        Project Mandate Proposals

 Seminars, Conferences, Guest Speakers & Meeting Coordination

ITCORP offer services in organising, participating and coordinating generic, as well as In-House seminars, conferences and meetings on Risk and Project Management.  This service covers the following:

·        Short seminars and integrated workshops [Off-Site as well as In-House]

·        Supplying Guest Speakers on associated subjects

·        Assist with the optimisation of Project and/or review meetings [Optimise value of time spent in meetings and forthcoming results]

·        Assist with problem and issue resolution meetings & workshops 

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Integration of People

 Background

Over the past 12 years of business our clients and we, have experienced a great many transitions and change.

From this we have learnt to position ourselves and develop processes and support frame works to facilitate the integration of people into new, redesigned and the ever-changing business processes and structures.

 Transformation and Change

Transformation and change of business structures are not particularly difficult to plan and organise, however when it comes to getting the element of people to coincide, a great many things go wrong and issues surface.

It is in this field that we have positioned ourselves with a very unique approach supported by a toolkit and frameworks to assist organisations, business leaders, managers and most importantly the people in the organisation to make it work smoothly and with lasting effect.  ITCORP offers the following:

·        Generic change management competency development workshops

·        Change leader/agents identification and development interventions and workshops

·        Team leader and member development

·        Personal, Brain profile, Bodystat [Physiological] analysis with interactive understanding and application workshops

·        Developing critical mass in new paradigms and approaches

·        People counseling

 Break-Away and Experiential Learning Workshops

ITCORP organise, run and facilitate breakaway and experiential workshops, which are customised to attain specific and predetermined outputs and/or behaviours.  These can be arranged at specifically equipped venues or in-house facilities, depending on the required outcome, results and budget.

 Business Competency Models and Human Resource Development

ITCORP has standard generic business competency models with associated people development, which are categorised into various levels of the organisation and can be specifically customised for your organisation.  ITCORP can also cater for any computer competency development.

ITCORP have available the entire spectrum of development packages [practically oriented] to meet the model in each of the following areas:

·        Strategic management

·        Tactical management

·        Operational management

·        Operational execution

Typical subject areas like the following are covered in relation to the spectrum above:

·        Financial management [Non-Specialists]

·        Team Interpersonal & Behavioural [Facilitation & Team leaders]

·        Risk & Project management

·        Transformational & Change management 

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Performance Management

 Background

Linked to Strategic and Business Planning the effective establishment of performance contracts, with measurable and balanced scorecard linked criteria and metrics are paramount for optimum business management.

Often this important part is done in isolation or in exclusion of the strategic planning process.  This results in disintegrated and often counter-productive efforts and energies spent in organisations

 Link to Strategic process and Balanced Scorecard

In order to ensure flawless execution of your mission and business objectives set in strategic planning, each effort and energy of the resources applied in the organisation should be directed and linked to driving the results of the Business Balance Scorecard.

This is only achieved by taking a two-pronged approach:  Firstly, establishing metrics to measure performance ensuring business results; and Secondly linking each output and effort to a set of criteria and metrics that will measure results in accordance with strategic goals.

 Services, frameworks and tools to support performance management

ITCORP have available a support infrastructure to assist, in each of the areas of Strategic, Tactical and Operational management, with the following:

·        Project Support Offices [On & Off site]

·        Development of a Balance Scorecard cockpit & dashboards to measure performance

·        Facilitation in the definition & development of output indicators and measurement metrics

·        Self assessment:

o       Developing ability to assess

o       Tools for assessment [developed models]

·        Capacity building workshops for managers and employees in applying the principles, models and tools 

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Integration into systems

 Background

Our experience has identified the need for integrating the learning and application as well as frameworks and tools into current business systems.

This is the formalisation of and inclusion into policies, procedures and business application systems, for continuity and measurement.

 Integration into Business Systems

As mentioned in the background it is essential that all new, changed, enhanced and/or discontinued processes, learning, application, methods, frameworks and tools are integrated into the way the business is operated.  Failing, leads to a number of symptoms that cause frustration, time and money wastage:

·        Loss of effect after short period of time

·        Resorting to previous paradigms and ineffective approaches and methods

·        Inability to sustain high outputs, focus and motivation

·        Inability to transfer to new incumbents into organisation

·        Erratic and pitchy performance results [High initial with fast tapering off]

·        Attitude of “it was a nice breakaway, now let’s get back to normal”

·        No reference to what caused the successes, when further redeployment is needed

ITCORP and its business associates have, or can assist with the integration requirements into your current business systems.   You are only a click away from an integrated solution.

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Thank you for taking the time to tour with us through a sure solution to your current business issues and/or undesired performance and results.

Regards from the ITCORP team 

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Company Address and Contact details

 Head Office

ITCORP

PO Box 74448

Lynwood Ridge

0040

Telkom telephone

+2712 349 1349

Facsimile number

+2712 349 1352

 

ITKORP (Pty) Ltd

Reg No 89/01713/17

 Other Contact Details

You can contact us telephonically at the numbers in the left column, where our able and friendly office and admin assistant, Trudie will help and guide you, else we are available via e‑mail at the following generic address:

admin@swartech.co.za

If you would like to pay a visit to our offices, we are situated in:

PERSEQUOR TECHNOPARK [Opposite the CSIR – Pretoria]

Building C – 1st Floor in Southern Life Park  -  41 De Havilland Crescent

If you wish to contact one of the executives directly:

Leon Swart               CEO/Chairperson                             leonswart@swartech.co.za

Johan du Preez         Executive Operations/Support           johan@swartech.co.za

 

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Regards from the ITCORP team 

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