The consulting arm of the Business School is MANCOSA Consulting. This division offers a range of management consulting, research and executive management education services to private and public sector organisations across the African continent in the following ways:
- Utilises highly qualified and experienced academics, researchers and other expert practitioners that have been vetted by quality assurance bodies and are well-known in their expertise.
- Offers a strong physical and intellectual infrastructure that straddles across sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.
- Brings cutting-edge tools, approaches and knowledge to clients.
- Meets client expectations in terms of quality, costs, time and outcomes.
MANCOSA Consulting offers the following management consulting services:
- Business Strategy: Crafting and implementing strategy that unlocks value in an organisation.
- Human Resources: Designing human resource systems, policies and procedures to maximise employee performance.
- Business Processing: Engineering business systems and processes to increase productivity.
- Industry Value-Chain Analysis: Value chain mapping, costs analysis and benchmarking to improve industry and organisational competitiveness.
- Organisational Development: Driving change and development to improve organisational performance.
- Policy Analysis and Development: Analyse effectiveness and efficiency of different policy options.
- Training Programmes: Provide customised training programmes to enhance skills of the workforce.
MANCOSA Consulting offers the following research services:
- Labour Market Research: Conduct labour market research for government, employer and labour organisations.
- PESTEL and SWOT analysis: Undertake environmental scans, SWOT and firm-level studies.
- Impact Assessments: Conduct feasibility studies and impact assessments.
- Skills Audits: Skills profiling of workforce.
- Market Research: Undertake market research for firms.
- Foresight Studies: Provide future ‘scenarios’ for an industry or firm.
- Occupation Specific Studies: Research key occupations that add value to a sector.
- Tracer Studies: Undertake longitudinal studies to determine return on training investments.
Short CoursesThere are a variety of short courses available that allows participants to improve their skills and career opportunities.
- Expose participants to cutting-edge business tools, approaches and practices
- Contextualise learning in the situational realities of organisations
- Alternate cycles of action and reflection emphasising deep discussion of business issues
- Foster critical thinking and business analysis
- Use expert practitioners in their respective fields
Short courses are offered at regular intervals at MANCOSA offices in Durban, Johannesburg, Polokwane and Cape Town, These courses can also be offered to individual organisations or consortium of organisations off-site. Detailed information on short courses is available from MANCOSA Consulting.
MANCOSA Consulting also develop customised training interventions designed to address the unique needs of individual organisations and departmental units. Creating a customised learning intervention includes several steps, all of which we undertake jointly with you to ensure we are addressing your specific training and development needs.