Archive
2009
The IQ Business Group Announces Appointment Of Adam Craker
2 November 2009The IQ Business Group, the privately-owned consulting and outsourcing company, today announced the appointment of Adam Craker to lead its consulting business. Adam also takes executive responsibility for IQ’s strategic alliance with The Hackett Group Inc, the NASDAQ-listed global strategic advisory firm. The alliance utilises IQ’s presence to provide Hackett’s industry-leading benchmarking and business advisory programmes to organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.
The IQ Business Group Announces Strategic Alliance With The Hackett Group
21 October 2009The IQ Business Group today announced a strategic alliance with NASDAQ-listed The Hackett Group, Inc, a global strategic advisory firm. The alliance utilises IQ’s presence to provide Hackett’s industry-leading benchmarking and business advisory programmes to organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Not Only About Wildlife
10 October 2009The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is all about “Conservation in Action” and work on the ground is our hallmark. With this comes the realisation that all our fieldworkers’ efforts would come to naught if they did not have community buy-in. The EWT’s Riverine Rabbit Working Group (EWT-RRWG) aims to ensure the survival of the critically endangered riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) in its Karoo habitat. Dr Vicky Ahlmann manages the Group and employs members of the community to work in the first-ever Karoo indigenous plant nursery, which she and project coordinator Reda Potts have established with the aim of re-vegetating degraded riverine areas of the Karoo, the specific habitat of the riverine rabbit. The community is extremely impoverished and Vicky has taken a number of orphans into her home. In addition, she feeds and clothes other children from the community whose families are too poor to make ends meet. This she does entirely out of her own pocket.
Workplace Learning Programme For Industrial Engineers Gathers Momentum
2 August 2009A workplace learning programme set up by The IQ Business Group in association with the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is making a meaningful contribution towards building capacity in the non-manufacturing/services industrial engineering sector.
That’s according to Emily van der Veen, Talent Manager at IQ, who says there is an enormous shortage of industrial engineers in South Africa – only 225 were registered in 2005.
More to municipal governance than financial governance
15 March 2009Governance within local government goes beyond financial governance: it goes to the core of the raison d’etre for municipal structures which is service delivery.
However, the local authorities’ ability to manage its finances properly – to collect rates, taxes and service charges and to spend funds appropriately and accountably – directly impacts its ability to deliver services effectively and sustainably.