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Strategy Delivery Office

To be able to offer a complete service from setting a business’ strategy to executing the plan we have entered into a Joint Venture with project management specialist TenStep Inc in the USA. TenStep operates worldwide through a network of Global Partners with offices in 38 countries. The service that we have developed in cooperation with TenStep is the Strategy Delivery Office (SDO). The SDO is a fresh approach to delivering strategy and achieving goals combining the expertise of both partners, and applying visuals for optimal adoption and implementation in the organisation. Please visit the website for more information about the SDO: www.tenstepsdo.com.

We will be attending the TenStep Conference in Istanbul in October.


Become a VizPro® professional

The benefits of good business process practices need little explanation – it is the very essence of business. It is like veins are to the body, a vehicle to ensure the necessary oxygen and minerals get to each and every cell and organ to ensure healthy living. Read more...

VizPro® is our business process methodology, and Abelusi is now offering a VizPro® bootcamp to learn the basics of this methodology and apply VizPro® in your organisation. The bootcamp is specifically relevant to:
  • • Persons who are new to process mapping
  • • Those that need a refresher on process mapping
  • • Employees in organisations needing to apply process as a tool for business improvement
  • • Those wanting to apply process to delivery strategy
  • • Management Practitioners
  • • Business Analysts / Engineers
  • • Change Management Practitioners
  • • Risk Management Practitioners

The next course is running in Johannesburg, from 8-10 September 2008. Read more about the bootcamp at the Abelusi website or register immediately.




Business Achievers Award BWA


On the 19th of June the Business Women Association Cape Town recognised the most outstanding business women in a gala event in the Table Bay hotel. Michélle Booysen was a finalist in the Entrepreneur category, together with Jeanne Groenewald of Elgin Free Range Chickens, Caroline Mack of Staffing Direct and Silvana Burger of Overstrand Build-It. We congratulate Jeanne and Caroline who jointly received the Entrepreneur award!


Project Scoping

Source: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Third Edition)
For those not familiar with project management (yet): project scoping is where you need to say what the project is about and what it needs to deliver. To put a Project Scope Statement together, you use the following: Project Scope Statement - The narrative description of the project scope, including major deliverables, project objectives, project assumptions, project constraints, and a statement of work, that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a common understanding of project scope among the stakeholders. The definition of the project scope: what needs to be accomplished. Read more…

Offices

We have moved into new offices in The Colosseum, Century City:

The Colosseum
Foyer 3, 1st Floor
Century Way
Century City
Cape Town
Tel: 0861 PTNQUE (786783)
(international: +27 21 5260473)

You can download the directions from our website.


BPM Congress 2008

IQPC is organising the Business Process Management Congress Africa, taking place 2-5 September 2008 in Midrand, Johannesburg. Pétanque is participating and Michélle will present the SAPO case study 'Achieving Strategic Goals Differently - Does Strategy Follow Structure or Does Structure Follow Strategy?' with co-presenter Marietjie Lancaster, GE Group Strategy at the SA Post Office. Click here for the complete programme of the conference.