UMT Consulting chief bestowed top honour

Johannesburg, 13 Feb 2012

UMT Consulting SA CEO, Pieter Meyer, has earned the recognition of Stanford Who's Who as a result of his outstanding professional career. Stanford Who's Who recognises executives, professionals and entrepreneurs around the world for their personal achievements.

Stanford Who's Who recognises successful individuals in multiple industries by providing a forum for networking, consulting, exposure and credibility to broadening their future success. As the CEO of UMT Consulting SA for the past six years, Meyer has routinely exhibited the passion, vision and dedication necessary to be considered among the best.

UMT Consulting SA is a project, programme and portfolio management company that specialises in consulting, training and outsourcing. It aims to continuously improve its clients' project, programmes and portfolio management through the creation of synergy between people, processes and systems, in order to actively transform and deliver performance benefits and value; provide world-class solutions; and mange time, cost, quality and risks.

Meyer is responsible for managing all major aspects of the business as well as overseeing the daily operations. He is a certified meeting professional who possesses extensive expertise in portfolio management, technology training and property portfolio management. During his collegiate career, Meyer also attended the University of South Africa.

He is overwhelmed by the recognition. “Stanford Who's Who was founded on the idea that personal achievement is deserving of recognition, exposure and reward. With a wide network of professionals, executives and entrepreneurs from every industry and walk of life, Stanford Who's Who has created the perfect global platform for our members to market themselves and their business.

“The power of forming business and professional relationships is crucial today, more than ever before. Stanford Who's Who has created numerous resources that its members can use for a multitude of reasons. We have access to thousands of professional biographies of individuals in over 100 different industries. These valuable relationships extend beyond the membership programme,” he concludes.

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

UMT Consulting SA

UMT Consulting SA is the largest project, programme and 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 Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT Consulting SA) was formed through the merger of Fulcrum Business Solutions, South Africa's leading provider of enterprise project management solutions, and UMT Portfolio Management SA, the leading portfolio management organisation.

Since 1989, both UMT and Fulcrum Business Solutions have pioneered the field of project and portfolio management and devised unique methodologies that, when combined with effective project management, enable an integrated link between strategy formulation and execution. UMT Consulting SA contributes to its clients' success by linking business and IT strategies to execution through day-to-day activities leading to improved performance and tangible projects delivery results.

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

UMT Consulting SA solutions 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 strategy through effective project, programme and portfolio management.

UMT Consulting SA has achieved a Microsoft Gold Competency for Project and 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 and 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-based delivery management methods will become very important in any organisation to ensure return on investments in their project delivery space.”

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UMT Consulting chief bestowed top honour

CEO Pieter Meyer joins the prestigious ranks of Stanford Who's Who.