Keops Isis has announced the launch of a new consulting division. The new consulting division, launched during the fourth quarter of 1999, is projecting a turnover of close to R4 million for the year ending February 2001 and a projected pull-through revenue of R20 million over the next three years.
The new division has already successfully secured consulting projects with major petrochemical, platinum, chrome, heavy minerals and zinc producers in Southern Africa.
According to Pieter Theron, manager of the new consulting division, management is "extremely bullish" about prospects for the next three years, adding that he expects a lot of pull-through business for Keops Isis as a whole, thanks to the set up of the consulting division.
"Consulting projects are often the first step towards the initiation of larger medium term projects. If Keops Isis`s consulting division has a foot in the door at the initial consulting and planning phase, this obviously augurs well for our project management team," he said.
"The consulting division differentiates itself from larger business consulting houses such as the big five in a number of ways. It focuses on the primary value adding activities in a manufacturing concern, such as the operational transformation process where raw materials are converted into final products.
"The aim is to add value to the business by increasing operational effectiveness and efficiency through the redesign of operations management practices, business processes and systems, while at the same time providing conceptual solutions for the integration of current and future IT architectural building blocks."
Through its affiliation with international bodies such as the AMR Research, unbiased recommendations are ensured and designs are not governed by what a specific package can offer as is many times the case in business consulting houses.
Benefits cases are therefore an essential part of a project to ensure that the client can justify its Return On IT Investment - as is the case with other capital expenditure.
Keops Isis, overall, is projecting a healthy turnover increase of 25% for the year ended 28 February 2001 after the reshuffling of the management team during the latter part of 1999.
The company is also anticipating a 40% increase in its staff head count during the next financial year.
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