‘Tsebonian’ Bouwer Kleynhans Publishes the Definitive Book on Facilities Management in South Africa
As Managing Editor, Tsebo Facilities Solutions Senior Solutions Manager, Bouwer Kleynhans is the driving force behind The South African Facilities Management Handbook the only book to be published that deals specifically with the South African Facilities Management market. So much of the information, we receive in South Africa is from overseas, from the UK, USA […]
TEARS Foundation Develops Medi-App to Detect Child Abuse
On this Human Rights Day spare a thought for those victims of abuse, in particular, our children. Child abuse is rampant in South Africa, with statistics like 1 in 3 children being abused before the age of 12. TEARS Foundation has developed Medi-App software which enables medical professionals to track & record suspected abuse of […]
‘Vested’ Thinking – 5 Steps to Performance-Based Outsourcing
Despite savings in excess of 50% whilst still maintaining end user satisfaction, results show that neither the buyers nor the suppliers of traditional cost focused outsourced Facilities Management (FM) services are truly satisfied. In other words, many outwardly successful FM outsourcing deals and relations in the current market neither satisfy the buyers or the suppliers- Why is […]
Charlotte Mabela wins Top Student Award
In a glittering and rising star-studded graduation ceremony, Charlotte Mabela, TseboFS internal Auditor on the Barclays account, won out over all of her fellow students from the entire Tsebo Group to take the coveted title of ‘Top Student’ for the 2015 Tsebo Senior Management Program. Charlotte said “I was absolutely honoured to be part of […]
The Role of Facilities Management in Employee Engagement
Amongst the myriad of issues, any business has to deal with today, employee engagement is a very important outcome and success based indicator. The impact of higher or lower levels of engagement of the workforce can be tremendous, and range in effect from productivity, customer service, innovation, cost management, and ethical behaviour (including fraud and corruption). […]
TseboFS “The Best Outsourced FM Provider”
TseboFS are exceptionally proud to be recognised by our national Facilities Management body SAFMA as the “The Best Outsourced FM Provider in South Africa” at their annual awards ceremony held on the 15th of February. This now means that both PMR and SAFMA have recognised TseboFS as the premier outsourced provider in South Africa . […]
Tsebo FS Director Andrew Mason on FM TV
This week’s blog post is a little different. Tsebo FS director Andrew Mason recently gave a 30-minute Interview on FM TV which is the YouTube Video channel for the Premier Facilities Management information resource in South Africa. In the interview, Andrew conveys his thoughts on the Facilities Management industry in South Africa, its challenges as well as […]
5 Key Steps to Achieving Collaboration
In last week’s post Why Co-Collaboration is the Future of Facilities Management Outsourcing, I wrote about co-collaboration as being the way forward in terms of delivering real value in outsourcing. Having written the post it occurred to me that I had taken for granted that we all have a universal understanding of the word ‘collaboration’. […]