Resourcing services with a difference

Johannesburg, 03 Apr 2012

UMT Consulting SA has introduced a value-added resource placement service within the project, programme and project portfolio management (PPPM) and enterprise project management (EPM) space. This unique offering enhances current gaps between rapid resourcing, contract placements and permanent placements.

UMT Consulting SA CEO, Pieter Meyer, points to ever-growing skills shortages, especially in the mining, engineering, construction, manufacturing, IT, banking, telecommunications, government and insurance sectors. “There is an ongoing demand for subject matter experts to be placed on a contracting and permanent basis within our industry.

“We are highly recognised due to our existing database for our ability to source the best suited subject matter experts, general skills and support staff for the abovementioned sectors. UMT Consulting SA does support these resources with intellectual property (IP) and the necessary tools and methodologies. We take responsibility and undertake to replace resources at our own cost if necessary,” he explains.

“Our resource service offerings evolve in line with market trends, working in close co-operation and as partners with our clients. We deliver best-practice and leading-edge solutions, providing only the best skilled resources available in today's candidate-driven, professional-skills marketplace.”

UMT Consulting SA also specialises in consulting, training and outsourcing. It aims to continuously improve its clients' project, programme and project portfolio management capabilities through the creation of synergy between people, processes and systems, in order to actively transform and enhance project delivery performance to gain benefits.

To ensure that the abovementioned services are performed, UMT Consulting SA provides cost-effective services for all its clients by adopting a right-first-time philosophy. It also provides expertise within the project portfolio office, programme office and the project management controls office environments.

Meyer says UMT Consulting SA regards professionalism, integrity and dedication as the key to its success. “We perform skills transfer, mentorship and coaching to place resources or current staff within companies. More importantly, we create and foster healthy working relationships with local and international associations of similar interest in order to share skilled resources within the marketplace.”

The company's major differentiator is that it supports all its placed resources, contract and permanent resources, and provides its own methodologies and best-practice templates with no additional cost to its clients.

“Each of our business units within the company is led by a highly experienced industry-related manager, supported by skilled senior consultants, and our directors have many years' practical experience to guide and support resources with knowledge and direction,” he adds.

“We are never complacent and continually seek to improve our service offering, not only to exceed our own potential but that of our employees, clients and suppliers. In addition to being investors in a 'Peoples Company', we are compliant and qualified, proving our ability to supply skilled, competent, workers to your company as a whole,” he concludes.

For more information, contact UMT Consulting SA on (012) 345 3518, e-mail info@umtsa.co.za or visit www.umtsa.co.za.

UMT Consulting SA

UMT Consulting SA is the largest project, programme and project portfolio management solutions implementation partner in South Africa and has serviced more than 100 of the country's leading organisations with its offerings. UMT Consulting SA recently concluded a BEE transaction whereby the Notsi Group owns a 25% shareholding in the ordinary share capital of the company. The company is equipped with sound staff values, capacity to deliver on its promise, practical knowledge and it has a BEE partner that actively participates and contributes to the company's success.

UMT Consulting SA's methodology, training, mentorship and coaching approach assist organisations successfully to deploy practical and essential project, programme and project portfolio management processes, templates, systems and governance solutions across their multi-disciplinary divisions or departments.

UMT Consulting SA provides enabling solutions in the projects delivery space that consistently help its clients build capabilities that support effective business decision-making and enhance business delivery performance. Its objective is to assist its clients in ensuring the operational delivery of their strategies through effective project, programme and portfolio management.

UMT Consulting SA has achieved a Microsoft Gold Competency for Project and Project Portfolio Management in the Microsoft Partner Network, the highest competency level obtainable through Microsoft, and was awarded Microsoft's Partner of the Year award in Project Portfolio Management in October 2011.

According to UMT Consulting SA CEO Pieter Meyer, the time has passed to just improve on your delivery processes but to introduce a new way of collaborating between team members, programme and project managers, senior managers and executives. “Organisations need to enable and revive their processes by introducing a responsibility, accountability, consult and inputs (RACI) formal governance framework to their projects environments and to use workflow that will manage the governance outputs. Role-base delivery management methods will become very important in any organisation to ensure return on investments in their project delivery space.”

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