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When good becomes great

By IT Public Relations
Johannesburg, 27 May 2010

UMT Consulting SA, the foremost project, program, and portfolio management solution provider in South Africa, has announced its intention to penetrate the market even further by moving from 'good to great'.

In spite of the global financial crisis, the company has shown exceptional growth over the past financial year. Not only did it grow in capacity by tripling its staff complement, but it also increased its annual revenue threefold, and its profit six-fold for the year ending 28 February 2010.

UMT Consulting SA CEO Pieter Meyer ascribes the success to his highly skilled and competent staff. “Our people are our biggest asset. We invest substantially in our people by providing them with the necessary skills and training to be the best and this shows by the high standard of service delivery - we had zero failures during this period.”

UMT Consulting SA's extensive experience and pioneering attitude has seen the development of matchless project and portfolio management systems and protocols. The methodologies it has architected, combined with its remarkably effective brand of project management, allows for an effective link to be established between strategy formulation and real-world execution.

Pieter points to the company's new mission and vision statement, namely to stand as the leading project, program and portfolio management and consulting and outsourcing company in southern Africa, through the application of best practices and the deployment of highly qualified and skilled professionals.

“Our new mission is to continuously improve our customer's project, program and portfolio management environment from good to great, 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 manage time, cost, quality and risks,” he says.

Furthermore, the company prescribes to a set of values that it actively applies to all aspects of the business. From the complex to the commonplace, these values guide and motivate all its business activities, and can be seen as the heart of the organisation:

* Ownership and accountability motivates personal excellence and reliability.
* Trustworthiness ensures the virtues of honesty and integrity are always upheld.
* Respect promotes the establishment of positive, meaningful, and beneficial relationships.
* Innovation and growth encourages extraordinary thinking and the development of new ideas.
* Diversity safeguards the embracement of differences and the expression of the individual.

Meyer says he, the directors and management are proud to be part of a company that moved from good to great in the last three years. “Contributing to our success is our signature ability to integrate business, product, and IT strategy with day-to-day operations, translating directly into enhanced performance and measurable results. Not only will UMT Consulting SA benefit from our offering, but the country and the economy as a whole.”

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UMT Consulting SA

UMT Consulting SA is the largest project, program and portfolio management solutions implementation partner in South Arica and has serviced more than a 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, UMT Consulting has 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 methodology, training, mentorship and coaching approach assist organisations successfully to deploy practical and essential project, program 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, program and portfolio management.

UMT Consulting SA is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Portfolio Server implementation partner.

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, program 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 work flow that will manage the governance outputs. Role base delivery management methods will become very important in any organisation ensure return on investments in their project delivery space.”

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Ivor van Rensburg
IT Public Relations
(082) 652 8050
ivor@itpr.co.za