Consultants

Strategy and Capability Development Consultants
We work with mid-market and large consultants to assist and support them on their strategy- and capability development assignments.
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The challenges our clients face

  • Need for higher-level independent thinking to catalyse internal knowledge with fresh external perspectives.
  • Strategy development is confusing to many, and they do not have the internal capability to run a strategy development process.
  • The aspirations are clear; however, they lack a clear execution plan with well-conceptualized value definition.
  • Understanding the capital and resource capacity required for the defined strategy and how to balance the allocation.
  • Justifying a project activation with quantified benefits and costs.
  • After defining a winning strategy or innovative idea, the challenge of Execution sets in.
  • Leaders who need visibility of measurable performance and clear accountability for results.
  • Business leaders who need an X-ray view of their organizational capability and the state thereof.
  • The need for project progress visibility across all strategic projects and how much value they contribute towards each strategic objective.
  • Balancing the need for a well-functioning project delivery capability; however, it does not justify running their own dedicated in-house PMO.
  • The lack of accountable traction and stakeholder alignment for high-benefit projects.
  • The flexible nature of project demand impact on skilled project resource capacity when they do not have strong internal capability.

How we help

  • Future thinking brought to actionable modular engagements that return value in short bursts.
  • Future thinking distilled to simplified actionable frameworks that everybody understands and can own.
  • Simplified modular engagements to extract strategy without boiling the ocean.
  • Convert ambitious strategic objectives into a measurable execution plan with clear accountability.
  • Aligning benefits, capital, and resource allocation to the defined business strategic objectives.
  • Enable prioritisation into a capital investment roadmap.
  • Balancing capital and resource allocation aligned to defined strategic objectives.
  • Developing conceptual and detailed business cases with quantified benefits for productive decision-making.
  • Mobilizing projects by aligning stakeholders, defining objectives, and creating execution traction.
  • Colab develops a simple dashboard to measure the key metrics that drive business performance and the surrounding management system to enable accountable delivery.
  • We extract an X-ray view of both business process and leadership structures that results in leaders' role clarity and on which business process areas to focus attention to innovate.
  • An integrated Project Register of all active projects with the state of their progress, benefits, and governance, visualized in a report or our PMO-in-a-Box Platform.
  • Our "PMO-in-a-Box" solution includes project and PMO frameworks, methods, governance standards, and structures deployed on our PMO reporting & collaboration platform for the duration of the programme or period required.
  • Mobilizing strategic programmes in a way that brings clarity, alignment, and traction fast.
  • Access to no-nonsense, outsourced project delivery resources that drive project execution for strategic programmes and match the peaks and valleys in demand.

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“Collaborating with Colab on a strategic project was a truly rewarding experience. Their team’s expertise and dedication were instrumental in driving the project’s success at our client. Colab brought exceptional value through their innovative approach and seamless execution, ensuring that every milestone was met with precision. Together, we achieved remarkable outcomes, transforming strategic visions into reality. The synergy between our teams was outstanding, and we look forward to future collaborations that continue to deliver exceptional results. Mornay Vivier – CEO of MetaPerformance
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Are you and your team optimizing your time to drive value for your company?

Awarded project with misaligned internal scope, yet expected to deliver success.
Need for modular consulting support in strategy development.
Consultancy success dependent on client-managed project environment.
Need for neutral facilitation of executive-level strategy discussions.
Require alignment and adoption among stakeholders lacking a change management culture.
Enable yourself, your team, and your business to thrive with our support. Our South African-based team combines the benefits of world-class skills and expertise with a unique work ethic and our signature Best Practical™ approach.
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Our Services

Colab provides our clients with innovative strategy consulting, project delivery and execution services, comprehensive project portfolio management and tailored talent solutions, all supported by our unique Best-Practical™ approach.

Strategic Thinking, Strategy Development and Execution Planning

Colab assists you in thinking through your ideas, connecting various elements of your core ideology, business model, value creation model, operating model, financial model, as well as your capital funding model at business, team, and individual levels.

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Strategic Capability
Development

Colab utilizes data analysis, surveys, interviews, and capability inspections to create an X-Ray view of capability. This X-Ray is then evaluated in the form of a blueprint heatmap, indicating the health status of each component and where to focus.

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Strategic Project
Delivery

Colab focuses on delivering project benefits by emphasizing key attributes that have proven successful since 2008, across more than 600 projects. We are uniquely positioned to take on tough projects. We bring in our own PMO environment, deploy strong resources, and create structure and traction to achieve project success.

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Project and PMO Consulting
and Services

Colab can create a new PMO, refresh an existing one, or retrofit components as needed. Our PMO-in-a-box offering, or tailored designs, can help you gain traction with your PMO and portfolio of projects.

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Project Team
Augmentation

Colab offers highly skilled contract and permanent project professionals who seamlessly integrate with your team dynamics. This flexible execution capacity allows you to scale effectively and achieve strategic outcomes with ease.

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Offshore Project
Resourcing

Colab offers highly skilled project resources to execute projects in the EMEA and South African time zones, using a remote model for organizations with a portfolio of projects and a functional PMO capability.

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“At Colab, we cherish our partnerships with Strategy and Capability Development Consultants. These collaborations are mutually beneficial, where Colab supports on components of content and provide much needed structure and order to stakeholder management and project delivery management.

Together, we seamlessly drive transformative change, enhance organizational capabilities, and ensure sustainable success. We are passionate about fostering these synergistic relationships, where shared knowledge and expertise lead to extraordinary outcomes.
Barend Cronjé – Founder & CEO of the Colab Group

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you engage with your clients?
We offer a range of engagement options tailored to your needs. Options include modular consultant-led engagements, managed strategic consulting service, project delivery services, as well as project resourcing services for the South African and EMEA business communities. These engagement models can easily be combined or tailored to suit your needs.
Our team is based in South Africa, which aligns closely with EMEA. We align our team’s contractual working hours to that of our clients.
Colab has embraced remote working since 2020. Our aim is to become a natural extension of your team, which works best with regular and real-time communication. This can be through email, Microsoft Teams, phone calls, or other forms of communication that suit you and your team. Additionally, having a consultant who works remotely offers the benefit of increased flexibility and access to a broader talent pool, ensuring you get the best expertise regardless of location.
While our client delivery team is based in South Africa, we regularly visit EMEA to meet with both existing and potential new clients. We always welcome the chance to meet face-to-face, as it helps us build stronger relationships with our clients, in addition to helping us better understand how we can serve you.
We take confidentiality and conflict of interest very seriously. Our employees are bound by individual confidentiality agreements and declarations of interest in their employment contracts with Colab. Additionally, we recommend that our clients have Colab resources sign non-disclosure agreements during their onboarding process when they join the client team as contract resources.
The Colab Best-Practical™ approach is our trademarked framework, and is characterised by simplicity value extraction and light governance suited to the client environment. We take best practices and tailor them to practical use, while we skilfully facilitate the best solution for our client’s needs.
Yes, certainly! We assist you in thinking through your ideas, connecting various elements of your core ideology, business model, value creation model, Go to Market (GTM), operating model, financial model, as well as your capital funding model at the business, team, and individual levels. We employ short, modular engagements to diagnose the current situation, analyze data from existing practices, and co-create conceptual solutions, ultimately generating traction to move the idea to implementation.
Yes, absolutely! Colab specializes in helping businesses to break down their overall strategy into manageable chunks, using our Best-Practical™ prioritization approach and innovation frameworks. Furthermore, Colab will help you execute and deliver the projects and programmes following from the strategy, as well as track the performance of the strategy execution.
For sure! Setting up strategic benefit realization roadmaps, capital funding roadmaps, resource capacity plans, project progress registers and prioritizing projects that will deliver the most business value, is our forte. Also, in addition to delivering projects, Colab also specializes in project performance tracking. We make your project investment performance visible.
At Colab we believe in our Best-Practical™ approach, which is characterized by traction, simplicity, and light governance. This enables you, our client, to execute your strategy faster and reach profitability sooner. Our facilitative approach enables us to lead our clients to unlock benefits as we partner with you through the transformation journey.
Colab was founded on the principle of delivering tangible project results, not just managing project activities. This ethos is embedded in our culture of taking ownership for outcomes, understanding our customers’ needs, being transparent, and caring for people.
We tackle the challenging strategic projects that drive significant organizational change. Our expertise lies in Business Transformation projects, ICT Projects, and Merger & Acquisition projects.
Colab is uniquely positioned to take on tough projects. We bring in our own PMO environment, deploy strong resources, and create structure and traction to achieve project success. This approach means we create some initial discomfort as we move the organization, but the benefits of our methods soon become evident in the integrated team.
At Colab, we use a structured, facilitated approach that sets up challenging projects for success within a month, incorporating all the essential components needed for successful execution. This method is the fastest way to transition a project from stagnation to productive momentum, reducing the lengthy and often painful planning phase.
Yes, certainly! Whether your need is for a large or small business, a strategic portfolio office, a large program office, or an operational project office, Colab can assist. We can create a new PMO, refresh an existing one, or retrofit components as needed. Our PMO-in-a-box offering, or tailored designs, can help you gain traction with your PMO and portfolio of projects.
In addition to specializing in PMO and Project Management roles, such as Programme Managers, Heads of PMO, PMO Managers, PMO Specialists, Project Planners, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Project Administrators, and others, we also specialize in various other IT roles, such as Business Analysts, Process Engineers, Data Engineers, Software Developers, Solutions Architects, Data Analysts, and the like. In short any role that a project needs for a period of time.
Utilizing contract resources allows you, as a business leader, to maintain a flexible, off-payroll workforce that can scale according to your demand needs. This flexibility enables you to focus on driving strategic results. Additionally, contract placements simplify recruitment and help reduce the risk of costly mis-hires.
We offer both contract and permanent placements, depending on our clients’ needs. We also offer a temp-to-perm option.
Our aim is to have a shortlist of top candidates on your desk within 7 days from date of enquiry, then it depends on your internal commercial and interview processes and the availability of the chosen resource. We have placed people within one week but typically it can take between 2 and 7 weeks to place a contractor.
No, Colab handles that for you. We take the stack of CVs off your desk and onto ours. After a thorough screening process, we use our proprietary matching model to send you only the top 3 CVs for the position.
Yes, that is the benefit of the temp-to-perm model. You can start by appointing a resource on contract, and if the individual is a good fit for your company culture and way of working, you can go ahead with a permanent placement.
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Contact us for the Best Practical™ solutions you need to enable you to achieve strategic goals, deliver successful projects, and scale project teams effectively.

We work with Corporate Strategy & Innovation teams, Business Transformation teams, Corporate M&A teams, Project Delivery and Execution (PMO) teams, and Strategy & Capability Development consultants seeking innovative strategies, project delivery, and project talent solutions in South Africa and EMEA.

Contact us today to discuss how our team can help you reach new heights.

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