What we do
As practically focused management consultants, what we do is quite simple.
We help deliver your business and technology projects. Whether the project is a strategy project, a system implementation project, a process reengineering project, or a project review our goal is clear. To deliver the project as passionately and as simply as possible.
Never mind the degrees and deep experience. Though that does help. What we aim for on every single project is delivery. Like clockwork. On time. In budget. What you asked for. With real value attached. And to underline our commitment to delivery, we insist on making our fees contingent on getting the job done.
What this makes us then, is a consultancy focused on the delivery of business and technology projects.
We are proudly South African, with a level 3 B-BBEE recognition and 110% contribution level. We work across industries, with a focus on sectors where our people have strong experience, such as financial services, telecommunications, and the public sector.
Our client base includes blue chip companies topping their sector, as well as smaller companies that occupy less time in the press. We look to partner with clients that ha ve a sincere desire to do well and to aim to do even better.
Our history
When we started out more than 5 years ago, our goal was quite straightforward. To simply and effectively deliver business and technology projects, leveraging the hardcore management consulting skills and industry experience our people had built up at multi-national management consultancies across countless projects. This philosophy has remained intact since those early days, helped by a number of blue-chip clients that have bought into our practical, experience-backed, approach to delivering projects.
Why us
Our simple consulting philosophy and practical tools are key to us doing a good job on your projects.
But the value we deliver would not be possible without the passion and experience of our people. Redflankers have typically earned their consulting pedigree at a blue chip management consultancy, and/or their industry stripes at senior levels of companies leading their sectors.
We hire the best people to roll up their sleeves delivering your projects. And our highly experienced project managers and industry specialists ensure that the strong people we assign to your projects translate into great project delivery.
Lings has 18 years management consulting experience, including 6 years as a director at Redflank and 11 years at Accenture, where he was responsible for the South African Insurance Practice from 2004 to 2006.He has led and contributed to more than 50 projects, across the financial services, resources, FMCG, public sector, and ICT sectors.
Lings has worked on research, strategy, systems, process, and organisation initiatives at large corporates (e.g. Absa, Caterpillar), medium-sized companies (e.g. Department of Science and Technology, Bosch) and smaller organisations and startups.
BSc.Honours (Comp.Sci., Applied Maths)(Natal); BCom. (Business Management)(UNISA)
Alkesh has 16 years experience designing, building and implementing business applications across South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, West Africa, North Africa and South America.He has extensive experience in the ICT industry, and is one of South Africa's leading telecommunications and cloud computing specialists.
Alkesh has worked on package and custom-build systems implementations, through the full systems development life-cycle at large corporates (e.g. MTN, Cisco) as well as smaller organisations (e.g. Orange Cameroon, iTalk).
BSc (Comp.Sci., Information Systems)(Natal); BCom.(Business Management)(UNISA)
Matungoe has 10 years experience working on research, strategy, operational, organisational and systems change projects.His experience includes 3 years at Redflank, 2 years with the Resolve Consulting Group, and 5 years managing business and technology initiatives at a leading SA insurer, where he was Manager: Innovation and Projects.
Mat has extensive experience in the financial services, ICT, and public sector industries.
BCom (Accounting)(Wits); PDM (Business Administration)(Wits Business School)
Valerie has 22 years quality management and CRM projects experience. As Accenture's Global Quality Programme Director for the EMEIA region she managed the quality programmes required to ensure successful delivery of client projects.Her accomplishments in leadership roles at the SABS includes the estalishment of the Services Industry Assessment Division and at BMW the delivery of a number of industry leading CRM initiatives.
Advanced Management Diploma (SA Instit. of Management); GCSE (University of London)
Grant has 26 years consulting to and working in the systems engineering and manufacturing industry.He has occupied senior leadership positions at Denel, Armscor, Simera, Atlas Aircraft in business development, programme management, operational management, systems engineering and manufacturing.
Grant has worked on projects involving strategy formulation, product development, public-private partnerships, operational improvement, and monitoring & evaluation.
BSc.Engineering(Electronics)(Natal); BCom(Economics,Quant. Mgt)(Unisa); MBA(Henley)
Teresa has 18 years business and technology projects experience, covering strategy development, research, systems integration, and operations implementations.She has played the role of researcher, business consultant, systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, and IT manager, at Portnet and at Redflank.
Her technology experience spans infrastructure to applications, and the full systems development life cycle. Teresa's technology specialisation includes SAP and Oracle.
BSc.(Computer Science,Mathematics)(UDW); BCom.(Accounting, Ops Research)(UNISA)
Richard has 34 years experience working in and consulting to the public sector. He has consulted to government in the areas of organisational development, human resource development, skills development, strategic and business planning, research, and monitoring and evaluation.Richard has occupied leadership positions at NEHAWU, EPDT SETA and the National Union of Public Employees (UK) and consulted to national government (e.g. various SETAs, National Treasury, Departments of Education, Labour, Home Affairs) provincial government (e.g. Gauteng, Mpumalanga) and local government (e.g. Ekurhuleni).
Masters Degree(Public and Development Management)(Wits); Management Diploma(Unisa)
Pankaj has 34 years of senior leadership experience, including positions as independent director on various Boards and executive leadership positions at a number of companies.He was Executive Head: Insurance Services, a business unit at Santam comprising forty percent of the company’s staff complement.
Other leadership positions include executive directorships at Standard Bank and BOE Insurance Company; non-executive directorships at Bank of Athens and Juta; and senior management positions at Anglo Alpha, JCI, and Coopers and Lybrand.
CA(SA); H. Dip BDP(Wits); MBL(Unisa); Graduate Diploma in Company Direction(Henley)
Redflank is a proudly South African company, sincerely committed to corporate transformation and to broad-based black economic empowerment. The National Empowerment Rating Agency of South Africa has accredited Redflank as a Level 3 B-BEEE Contributor with a 110% Recognition Level. We are majority black owned, with significant black representation at management level.
We believe in empowering our people with career progression, learning and development, and strong mentorship support – a core focus for us at Redflank. Whether on the job or through formal training interventions, we provide our people with various opportunities to develop and enhance core consulting and industry skills. We have an active social responsibility program, focussed on providing SMME business planning and business turnaround support. Click here for more details.