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Infinite.org.za  was founded in 1995 and registered as a closed corporation in 2002 with zero capital no overdraft or loans. Business has been conducted on a cash only basis since it’s inception and continues to do so. Initially, an advisory service only was offered using Edgar Schien's "Process Consultation" approach where the client is assisted to find and implement the solution himself, maximising knowledge and skills transfer. The formal definition of Process Consultation states:

"Process Consultation is a set of activities on the part of the consultant that help the client to perceive, understand, and act upon the process events that occur in the clients environment in order to improve the situation as defined by the client" (Schein 1988a: 11).

It soon became quite clear that a major problem existed with the training of project managers as traditional methods were based on the transfer of knowledge only, but what was required was for skill to be transferred as well. This presented an opportunity to develop our first training course "Practical Project Management" which was authored by Dr Andre Van der Merwe (as were all the training courses that followed) which used procedure and simulation to teach competence. Practical Project Management proved to be very popular and our unique guarantee that students WILL be able to manage a project on completion of the training has resulted in more that 1300 students completing the course with only 3 delegates experiencing difficulty.

In 1998 Practical Project Management was audited by Ernest and Young for TRANSNET the South African transport authority, and found to be the "preferred approach to managing Y2K life critical projects".

Clients to whom we have been of service in South Africa:

Anderson Consulting

Anglo American Mining

Denel Aviation

Edgars Group

ESKOM: Small Business Development, Procurement, Feness project, Electrification project, Transmission Group and Distribution Group Generation Group: Duva, Kriel, Lethabo, Koeberg (nuclear), Vaal, Highveld, Hendrina, and Komati power stations

Gauteng Provincial Government: Office of the Premier, Corporate Informatics, Housing, Health Care, Education Finance and Tender Board

ISCOR: Corporate Information Systems

KPMG

Motorola University

Mpumalanga Province: Department of Welfare, Department of Prisons, Tender Board

Municipality of Port Elizabeth

National Government: Department of Welfare, Department of Prisons, Department of Communications, Department of Education, South African Qualifications Authority

North West Province: Department of Education, Department of Health, Department of Works, Department of Information Technology, Tender Board

POLIFIN,

Pretoria Portland Cement

Siemens Telecommunications

Technikon South Africa: Police Management Program, Business Management Program, Public Management and Development Program, Centre for Courseware design and Development, Goldfields Library

TRANSNET GROUP: Y2K Project, Properties department, SPOORNET: Corporate information systems, Human resources, Metro Rail, PORTNET, South African Airways

University of the Witwatersrand: School of Public and Development Management, Faculty of Information Technology and Information Systems

Western Districts Council

In Africa we have advised and worked on projects in:

Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Maputo, South Africa, Sudan and Swaziland

Internationally we have advised and worked on projects in:

Albania, Denmark, England, Hungary, India, Moldavia, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, USA and Yugoslavia