BEE

Member of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Consortium  - Sinazo IT Group  (Sinazo - "Meaning we have the skills")  

• Current Member Companies: Poised and Precision Networks

All members of the Sinazo IT Group believe that the creation of a strong black middle class through tools such as BEE is vital for the future economic welfare of South African society, and successful organisations of the future need to be at the forefront of this transformation. 

For example the DTI's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Strategy document identifies "accelerated skills and advanced professional skill development" as one of the major goals of BEE. Likewise the development of skills in the ICT sector is identified as one of the major catalysts for transformation in this sector as defined in the ICT Charter.

But to successfully achieve skills transformation, you need people with the right skills to transfer, and the willingness to transfer them! We at Precision Networks have significant experience and qualifications working for several leading edge, hi-tech companies in South Africa and abroad, which means that we have the skills and experience that the ICT talks about. 

Hence we believe the formation of smaller professional IT BEE consortiums, such as ours, is the way to achieve this much-needed growth in the IT sector of our economy over the next 5 years and beyond. Precision Networks and Poised have combined our expertise and skills as equal partners to provide professional IT services to larger organisations. We believe this is the way forward for doing business because:

• Larger organisations will get professional IT services while helping to bring smaller companies into the economy, as envisaged by the government in its economic vision for the future. This is good for the economy and job creation. 

• Forming coalition and equal partnerships by white and black-owned IT organisations for different projects as our BEE consortium has done, is a good way in which all our collective skills and expertise can be harnessed together as a professional team.

• By working together we are able to learn from each other and transfer ICT skills, as designated by BEE. Smaller “white-owned” organisations such as Precision Networks, which are not fully compliant according to the ICT charter but have much-needed skills, can be part of a fully empowered infrastructure according to BEE. And that is also something that is needed in South Africa .

As consortiums such as ours grow, it will create dynamic and professional expertise in the IT and networking industry over the next few years. Other examples of where Precision Networks is using this experience and skills to become compliant include:

• Procuring project IT equipment through BEE compliant companies

•  Outsourcing auxiliary jobs to BEE compliant IT organisations