meet the challenges of a dynamic business environment

To meet the challenges of a dynamic business environment, PMOs must evolve as technologies evolve and adapt to offer more than one methodology. http://www.intuategroup.comThe “one size fits all” approach will no longer suffice. As big data projects kick off, they will need to tailor delivery to meet the needs of these complex initiatives. Most likely, project practitioners will be required to move to a more business-driven and iterative delivery technique such as agile, which is more aptly suited than waterfall to deal with dynamic, complex and ambiguous projects.

Some will argue that big data projects are just projects like any other, and the big data aspect is just a technicality.  Yes, it is fascinating, and yes, the processes and requirements will need to take this into consideration.  But as for methodology, should we not already have multiple methodologies for different scales and complexities of projects? Is that not something that a successful PMO already recognises and provides for?

Do you know what big data is, and more importantly its significance to your organisation?

• Do you know what big data is, and more importantly its significance to your organisation?
• Do you know the associated technologies related to big data? Do you know the value proposition of these technologies and when to employ them?
• Are you aware of the required resource types and skill sets required to support these initiatives?
• Are you proactively addressing the skills gap?
• Can you identify the common reasons for failure for these projects?
• Do you know which methodologies would be most suited for delivering successful big data projects?
• Have you begun developing a strategic plan to enable successful management of these types of projects?
• Have you revised your standard operating procedures and methodologies to support this emerging technology trend?
• Have you already delivered big data projects? And if so, were they successful?

Intuate Group named as Noble’s top EMEA partner

South African owned integrated solutions specialist, Intuate Group, has been presented with the “Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Partner of the Year Award 2013” by Noble Systems UK, a global leader in unified contact centre technology solutions.

The new award recognises the top EMEA-based Noble Systems partner that has excelled in advancing Noble sales into new territories.

“Qualifying partners are nominated by their customers and also recommended by the Noble Systems business development director,” says Sian Ciabattoni, marketing director for the EMEA region at Noble Systems.

Left to right:
Mark Edwards, director and CTO, Intuate Group
Colin Chave, General Manager EMEA, Noble Systems.

Why projects fail

The top most common project pitfalls are:

1. Lack of communication, including progress reporting;
2. Unclear project objectives;
3. Failure to adequately identify, document and track requirements; and
4. Failure to set and manage expectations.

Lack of communication

Once a project is in full swing, a common issue is communication. Most project teams use e-mail to communicate updates about their projects and tasks. The problem here is that project communication resides in each individual’s inbox. So, if a new resource joins the project, there is no centralised view of the project history.  Similarly, should a team member hit “reply”, rather than “reply all”, then valuable communication may not be properly dispersed.

social media as a recruitment tool

Historically, it used to be enough to have an online presence on the internet, via a company website for example, for the one-way broadcasting and distribution of information. Today, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are driving new forms of social interaction, dialogue, exchange and collaboration. Social networking sites (referred to more broadly as social media) enable users to exchange ideas, post updates and comments, or participate in activities and events, whilst sharing their wider interests. From general chit-chat to disseminating breaking news, from making a date to following election results, from humour to serious research, social networks are now used for a host of different reasons by various user communities.  

Social media are increasingly blurring the boundaries between work and play, and leveraging them as a recruitment tool is the latest leap in their usage evolution. Today, instead of using job sites, companies and recruitment agencies are filling openings faster by relying on new tools that scour social networks and target workers – some of whom aren’t even looking for jobs.

Intuate Group - a complete storage solution

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Intuate Group has the unique ability, through our product agnostic approach and impressive partnership list, to offer organisations a complete storage solution that delivers the required capability at the appropriate levels of economy.

Intuate Group architects and supplies the latest storage arrays, for NAS and SAN environments, that offer the latest technological advances in this sphere, namely, virtualised and unified storage platforms with dynamic tiering and thin provisioning capability. In addition, Intuate Group ensures that the storage solution architected into your IT landscape will provide scalability both in terms of capacity and performance, availability, reliability and flexibility.

Intuate Group is cognisant of the fact that the backing up of data is indeed a means to an end for most organisations and, therefore, concentrates on applying its knowledge and best practices around data stewardship to ensure efficient and effective data restorability. The company possesses the necessary skill and is well versed in the implementation and management of a myriad of backup tools that best suite physical or virtual environments, remote or centralised.

AIX Systems Administrator wanted

Exciting opportunity available for a skilled AIX Systems Administrator within a young, dynamic IBM Business Partner.

Job Title:	AIX Systems Administrator
Location:	Gauteng
Key Responsibilities:	Implement and maintain AIX solutions. Plan and execute major platform software and operating system upgrades and maintenance across a multi-LPAR environment. Manage the planning, implementation and upgrade of OEM packages. Proactively manage system resources to assure maximum system performance and appropriate additional capacity for peak periods and growth. Plan, configure and implement features on the AIX platform that improve availability, response time, and monitoring of key system metrics.
Minimum Requirements:	Minimum of 3 years solid AIX / UNIX skills as an Administrator / Engineer / Architect with the following: Systems Management and Administration; AIX / UNIX Systems and Application Integration; System Backup and Recovery; Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning; Configuration Management and Change Management Best Practices; Clustering and High Availability; UNIX security and scripting experience.
Recruiter Name:	Lynette Pollock

Project Manager (Data Migration)-13 month contract

Our client is in the government sector.

Job Title:	Project Manager
Location:	Pretoria
Key Responsibilities:	Our client is looking for a Senior Project Manager with Data Migration and cleansing experience. This project manager will be responsible for managing a project that will include data analysis, data profiling, data cleansing, data mapping and data transformation.
Minimum Requirements:	Appropriate Degree or Equivalent in Computer Science, or Informatics, or Engineering; PRINCE2™ Foundation; PRINCE2™ Practitioner Certification will be an advantage; Project Management Professional (PMP) Certificate will be an advantage; 10+ years in Project Management; 7+ years in the ICT industry
Recruiter Name:	Diana le Roux

Looking for a Net Solutions Developer

My client is a well-established IT software company that services the insurance industry. They are a young and dynamic company that offers excellent growth opportunities.

Job Title:	.Net Solutions Developer
Location:	Weltevreden Park
Key Responsibilities:	They are looking for a vb.net developer who will be providing support to various clients telephonically and face to face. This person needs to be able to provide support on the IT software that they provide to their clients on the database side.
Minimum Requirements:	3 years vb.net development experience; MS SQL Server 2005 experience; SQL experience; Own transport essential
Recruiter Name:	Diana le Roux

Delphi Developer needed at Intuate

My client is a well-established IT software company that services the insurance industry. They are a young and dynamic company that offers excellent growth opportunities. They are looking for an experienced Delphi Developer to design and develop software for their clients in the insurance industry.

Location:	Somerset West-Cape Town
Key Responsibilities:	Minimum 3 years Delphi development experience
Minimum Requirements:	Minimum 3 years Delphi development experience
Recruiter Name:	Diana le Roux

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Intuate Group - The Evolution Of Thought

Specialised Integrated Solutions Integrated contact centre solutions and services Complete storage and Data solution Project Management People Solutions Specialised recruitment requirements

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1. Business Analyst
2. Java Developer
3. Server Administrator
4. Business Development Manager (FMCG sector)
5. JD Edwards
6. Tester
7. Junior Project Manager
8. Senior Test Analyst

Should you require more detailed information on any of our top skills, please click here to send us an email.

If you believe that you have what it takes to be a member of this highly successful and driven team, then apply for a vacancy. 

Intuate Group is a privately owned South African organisation

Established in 2000, Intuate Group is a privately owned South African organisation based in Sandton, with satellite offices in Durban and Cape Town.Intuate Group's approach is holistic to ensure that all processes, technologies and people requirements are harmonised in the architecture of the solution. This ensures successful implementation, deployment and ongoing operation. The company was founded as a professional project management company and today, Intuate Group leverages these skills to ensure that solutions are managed and implemented successfully in a controlled manner.

any downtime is disastrous.

Local technology solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has formed a strategic partnership with the world leader in uptime assurance for critical business operations, Stratus Computer Technologies, ensuring that a broader dissection of South African businesses have access to “absolute availability” within their data centres, through Stratus Fault Tolerant Servers (ftServers). “In environments such as stock exchanges, air-traffic control, finance, credit card authorisation, public safety, emergency services, healthcare, ATM backbones, process manufacturing and telecommunications, any downtime is disastrous. For this reason, Intuate Group is proud to offer Stratus’ world-class true fault-tolerant solution, meaning there is absolutely no interruption in service,” says Mark Edwards, director of product and services at Intuate Group. According to Pieter van der Merwe, availability solutions architect at Stratus Computer Technologies, high availability, by definition, means a recovery from failure as quickly as possible, which means the customer will invariably experience an outage. “To make matters worse, this outage may result in data loss or corruption. Depending on the complexity and nature of the solution, the recovery time may take a few minutes, or much longer if data corruption occurred. Should this happen, the impact on the bottom-line could be devastating. “With Stratus ftServers, the customer experiences absolute availability. This means that an outage or any data loss or data corruption when a hardware failure does take place is completely avoided. “Time is money,” he adds, “and downtime can cost an exorbitant amount of money. The Stratus solution means that clients are able to protect their most business-critical applications against downtime as well as protecting the integrity of their data.” Intuate Group and Stratus view their partnership as a mutually beneficial relationship. One of the reasons for this is that Intuate Group’s unique call centre offering is the ideal application to be underpinned by Stratus ftServers. “The group’s solution, combined with Stratus’ technologies, can open up an entirely new marketplace for both parties. Another big advantage, for Stratus specifically, is the strong relationships that Intuate Group has with key customers and the way in which Stratus can deliver further value to these businesses,” says Van der Merwe.

Intuate Project Management

Intuate Group has experience in the following industry sectors: retail, banking, insurance, supply chain, mining and ICT.

To enable our resources to deliver projects that are technically sound and of an exceptional high quality, we ensure that they are proficient with the "Intuate Group management methodology", which offers best practice guidance on project management and is based on the principles of PMBoK. The methodology acknowledges the existence of established product life cycles and our project managers can therefore seamlessly tie it into existing project lifecycles for the successful assessment and completion of any project.

Unique to our methodology is the fact that we have introduced what we term the "product methodology", which encompasses all of the templates, checklists and other intellectual capital we have assembled through our years of experience. Our product methodology is customised to suit the various types of projects undertaken and is updated regularly.

Contact us with your specific project management requirements.

Intuate Opportunities

Opportunities

Junior Research Executive: Cape Town

A research and training company specialising in online and call-centre-based telephonic surveys is looking for a Junior Research Executive. They are looking for a Junior Research Executive who wishes to gain experience in marketing research, as well as learning the processes involved in project execution.

PHP Developer

An exciting opportunity exists within one of our clients in the Customer Experience Solutions company. This company is an award winning company which services big clients. They are looking for an experienced PHP Developer who is independent, a strong team player and who is motivated by innovation and development.

AIX Systems Administrator

AIX Systems Administrator required to join young, dynamic IBM Business Partner

Storage Engineer

Exciting opportunity exists for a diverse and skilled Storage Engineer

Intuate People Solutions

Intuate Group's People Solutions division prides itself on sourcing top calibre IT and business resources for a number of South Africa's largest organisations and blue-chip companies, as well as for our own internal requirements.

What distinguishes our recruitment process, aside from our 12 years of experience in this sector, is the depth and professional skills of our consultants and candidate base. This maximises delivery capability into areas of specialisation within these broad markets and focuses on recruitment for all IT and business related resources.

Our recruitment team is standing by to assist you with your specialised recruitment requirements.

Applicants: If you believe that you have what it takes to be a member of this highly successful and driven team, then apply for a vacancy by following the links below.

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Intuate Group has a new look

Intuate Group (Pty) Limited provides specialised integrated solutions that bring real benefit to our clients in support of their strategic and operational objectives.

Intuate Group's approach is holistic to ensure that all processes, technologies and people requirements are harmonised in the architecture of the solution. This ensures successful implementation, deployment and ongoing operation. The company was founded as a professional project management company and today, Intuate Group leverages these skills to ensure that solutions are managed and implemented successfully in a controlled manner.

Intuate Group has in-depth knowledge - extending across processes, products and technologies - within a number of sectors, including the financial, insurance, banking, retail, mining and telecommunications industries.

This knowledge and expertise has been retained, documented and instilled within our staff members since inception, enhancing their skills and leveraging past experiences for future solution designs and implementations.

At Intuate Group, we succeed when you succeed.