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Barnstone was founded in 2004 by Pierre Tredoux, Steve du
Randt, Jacques Mulder and Conrad Steyn. In 2006 Deon Crafford
also joined the Barnstone team. Between them they have extensive
experience of managing large service organisations and providing
strategy, advisory, system implementation and outsourcing
support services to many leading organisations in South Africa
and Globally.
The Barnstone group focus on:
§ ERP application management
outsourcing services, mainly with an SAP focus
§ Business process outsourcing
services
§ Executive advisory services
§ Providing skilled resources for technology projects
§ Private Equity Investments.
What sets Barnstone apart is a tested partnership approach.
Working as partners with senior members of our client companies
enable us to provide dynamic management services, based on
knowledge and understanding, and delivered with pinpoint
accuracy. Partnerships also characterise our in-house
relationships – we actively recruit talented people who flourish
in an environment that encourages lateral thinking and diverse
views, synthesising these into unique solutions for unique
challenges.
Our goal is to help our clients elevate their business to
optimal performance through a careful blend of advisory services
and specialised outsourcing. Where we identify solid business
cases, Barnstone also invests venture equity using its own
balance sheet or with other appropriate shareholders.
Our business is based on our individual and collective
reputations. Jointly and severally, we have molded these skills
into a formidable team and we safeguard this asset with equal
determination.
Since 2006, Nokusa Investments a 100% Black owned company, has
been a 25,1% shareholder in Barnstone Corporate Services. This
relationship goes back more than 7 years and is built on sound
relationships between the people involved and a common value
system.
Barnstone Corporate Services is rated as an EME value-add
supplier. We are currently in the process of receiving an
official certificate from Empowerdex confirming that we are an
EME.
Areas of Speciality
Barnstone Resourcing supplies the following services to our
clients:
· Outsourced resourcing
· Contract placements
· Permanent placements
· Sourcing, training and development of ASGISA focus
skills
We provide the following types of resources:
· SAP consultants
· Project Managers
· Project Administrators
· Service Delivery Managers
· ITIL certified Support Centre Managers
Barnstone Advisory supplies the following services to our
clients:
· Supporting the formulation of strategy
· Robustness testing of already formulated strategy
· Facilitating leadership alignment and ownership of
strategy
· Designing and structuring programmes to execute
strategy
· Programme Management support
· Evaluation of strategy implementation outcomes
Barnstone Outsourcing supplies the following services to our
clients:
· Application Management Outsourcing (Support of SAP
systems)
· Payroll Outsourcing
· Training support (mainly SAP focused)
· Application upgrades (mainly SAP focused)
· Financial management support
· Business Process Outsourcing of Back office processes
· Technical health checks
· IT architecture design
· Evaluation of strategy implementation outcomes
In addition the holding company hosts two other companies:
Barnstone Investments.
Invests in companies where we have an active involvement in the
ownership, financing or management of the company. The intention
is that staff in the Barnstone Group will be offered
opportunities to participate in the equity that is build through
this vehicle.
Barnstone Capital
Provides Corporate Finance Advisory Services, Merger and
Acquisitions Advisory services and BEE Transaction Structuring
Services.
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