MEA Sept 2017 cover- ALUPCO

16 MEA MARKETS / September 2017 , Siyakha Consulting is amarket leading transformation consulting firmwith specialist divisions that focus on, transformation services and people services. Following their success in achieving the Best Enterprise Transformation Consultancy 2017 accolade, within the South African Business Awards, we invited the firm’s founder and director, Dionne Kerr to profile their areas of expertise. Achieving True Results Siyakha Consulting’s areas of expertise include tailor made and solution based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) advisory services, consulting and other services to support both compliance and long-term sustainability. The key differentiator for Siyakha lies in our ability to implement. It makes sense that you cannot implement a strategy, that doesn’t exist so the formulation of one is included in our scope of work, however where a strategy exists our differentiator lies in our ability to partner with your business, co-located to implement the strategy. We focus on the provision of services that support application of best practise and achievement of local relevance in South Africa and across Africa in development, people services and transformation. With a culture of positive, proactive, solution-seeking we support your organisation through the provision of people services, incorporating: Executive search services; • Human resources; • Diversity and disability programmes and; • Learning and development. Transformation services, incorporating: • Environment and Sustainability programmes and; • Black Economic Empowerment Advisory. Development services incorporating: • Rural development; • Supplier development; • Management team and; • Methodology. BEE services Our experienced BEE Team will work with you to apply BEE as a business strategy, increasing internal competencies. The vastly experienced BEE Team works with our clients, to apply Black Economic Empowerment, as a business strategy to increase internal competencies and external operating efficiencies. Our emphasis is on using the legislative framework, to achieve best practise business standards in terms of supplier development, business competitiveness and market positioning. Our team has worked for more than 10 years with firms all over the world, to create ROI from transformation activities and are active participants in the official industry body and our COO is the current chairperson. Our differentiator is our level of expertise to define the strategy, which is combined with a strong implementation team that delivers projects on the ground, in more than 13 districts in South Africa. Our advisory team have supported business across most business sectors and provided such services to investors, from more than eight countries looking to invest in South Africa. Enterprise development Our enterprise development team is the leading implementer of such solutions and rural development programmes, across South Africa. From supplier development, to helping communities to feed, educate and sustain themselves, this on-the-ground team teaches communities to manage themselves and remains committed to making development happen. Market development, commercial business services and social enterprise are part and parcel of enterprise development. In SA170019 addition, it encompasses finance, entrepreneurship development, investment, that ranges from enabling the start-up of small businesses to providing business skills development through training, mentoring and coaching. Our enterprise development model focuses on developing and delivering a clear, integrated development strategy for the small business sector, with the direct benefit of growing and developing the economy and maximising both job creation opportunities and sustainable economic growth. Using our model, we have successfully implemented enterprise development projects, since 2002 in all provinces of South Africa. We believe that enterprise development is only successful, if it leads to a sustainable business that can offer job creation, income generation and community development. Siyakha Consulting are currently engaged in over 20 enterprise development and rural development projects, throughout South Africa and are working in Gauteng, Limpopo, North West, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Kwa-Zulu Natal