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      Technology-Enabled Business Transformation

      Faced with increasing pressure from competition and stakeholders, it is important to adapt and use measures that fit a company’s individual situation. This is where Management Consulting comes in.

      KPMG professionals work with clients, bringing a level of knowledge and skill together with deep experience in management consulting services that materialize in actionable insights to help drive innovation. KPMG professionals harness constantly evolving technologies that can connect and power businesses forward – building trust and creating and protecting value, while bridging the gap between past and future.

      And not just any future…

      A productive and sustainable future that aims to provides continuous opportunity and wide-reaching benefit.


      Unlocking insights: addressing market trends and industry challenges

      Operational efficiency & cost optimization

      Many organizations struggle with rising operational costs, inefficient processes and limited visibility into performance. We address these challenges by identifying cost-saving opportunities, optimizing workflows and leveraging automation and analytics to improve efficiency.

      Our tailored solutions streamline operations without compromising quality, and we help embed a cost-conscious culture to sustain long-term impact.

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      Workforce & Change Management

      Organizations often face resistance to change, unclear communication and capability gaps when undergoing transformation. We address these issues by aligning leaders, engaging teams and building the skills needed to navigate change effectively.

      Our tailored change strategies, based on proven frameworks, ensure adoption, sustain momentum and embed a culture of adaptability across the organization.

      Digital & Business Transformation

      Rapid technological change, legacy systems and rising customer expectations often leave organizations struggling to keep pace. We help bridge strategy and execution through scalable architecture, smart sourcing and cloud-enabled platforms.

      By aligning digital initiatives with business goals, embedding AI and elevating customer experience, we deliver sustainable and future-ready transformation.                               

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      Regulatory compliance & risk management

      Shifting regulations, complex risks and reputational pressure challenge businesses across all sectors. We help embed compliance into your operations through smart frameworks, GRC platforms and automated controls.

      By integrating governance, audit and third-party oversight, we enable proactive risk detection and stronger accountability – empowering your organization to stay resilient, aligned and future-ready.                                      

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      Digital & Customer

      Digital & Customer focuses on front office transformation that drives revenue growth, customer loyalty and commercial performance. We help clients redesign how marketing, sales and service work together, while improving customer journeys, enabling teams with the right tools, and building digital capabilities that support growth.

      Our work spans front office strategy, customer experience, and enabling technology. We support clients in shaping customer and growth strategies, designing front office operating models, and improving the processes that underpin sales and service performance. We also help organisations create more seamless end-to-end customer journeys, using customer insight, design thinking, and service design to improve experiences across channels and touchpoints.

      In addition, we help clients enable their front office through technology. This includes CRM implementation across sales, service and marketing, CRM adoption and capability build, digital product design and delivery, and specialist services such as digital identity and payments where these form part of the customer and commercial agenda.

      We bring together expertise in front office strategy, operating model design, customer journey design, UX and service design, sales and service transformation, CRM delivery, and change enablement. This allows us to support clients from strategy and design through to implementation, adoption, and value realisation.

      Our work is strengthened by alliances with leading technology providers including Microsoft and Salesforce, helping us deliver front office solutions that are practical, scalable, and aligned to client needs.

      Liesl Slabbert

      Partner

      KPMG in South Africa

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      Functional Enablement

      Functional Enablement focuses on improving the effectiveness, efficiency and resilience of core business functions. We help clients simplify and modernise how these functions operate by combining functional transformation, operating model redesign, process improvement and enabling technology.

      Our work supports organisations in building scalable, insight-led functions that are better aligned to business strategy, able to respond to change, and equipped to support long-term performance and growth.

      We work across functional and enterprise-wide transformation agendas, helping clients redesign and strengthen the capabilities that underpin day-to-day operations. This includes finance and HR transformation, ERP and functional modernisation, cloud foundations, process mining, managed services, and broader IT transformation.

      We support clients in improving efficiency, reducing complexity, strengthening control and visibility, and creating more effective operating models. Our work may involve modernising core platforms, redesigning functional processes, enabling better decision-making, or building support models that allow functions to operate more consistently and at scale.

      We bring together experience across finance, cloud, IT strategy and operations, project delivery, and managed services to help clients move from strategy through to execution. In addition to functional transformation, we also support CIO Advisory Services, including IT strategy, IT cost optimisation, cloud strategy, and enterprise architecture.

      This allows us to help clients not only redesign core functions, but also shape the technology, governance and operating environment needed to sustain transformation over time.

      Where relevant, we work with leading alliance partners including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft to support ERP, cloud and functional transformation. These alliances strengthen our ability to help clients implement solutions that are practical, scalable and aligned to their broader business and technology priorities.

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      Fritz Dannhauser

      Partner; Management Consulting

      KPMG in South Africa

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      Infrastructure

      Infrastructure underpins economic growth, social development, and the effective functioning of modern societies. This includes both physical infrastructure — such as water, roads, rail, ports, energy, and utilities — and digital infrastructure such as broadband networks and data centres.

      Our Infrastructure team works with clients across the infrastructure lifecycle to help them make better strategic decisions, structure and deliver major projects, raise project funding, improve asset performance, and unlock value from infrastructure investments. We combine engineering, commercial, operational, financial, and transformation expertise to support better outcomes across complex infrastructure environments.

      We support clients from the earliest stages of infrastructure planning through to long-term asset optimisation and investment realisation. At a strategic level, we help organisations define infrastructure priorities, structure projects for development, improve performance, design target operating models, strengthen governance, and align data, systems, and workflows to broader service and infrastructure goals.

      As projects move into development, we help clients structure commercially and financially sound opportunities and create value for money through feasibility studies, business cases, financial modelling, fund raising, procurement support, PPP frameworks, bid support, negotiation, and commercial close. During delivery, we support major capital programmes and projects through programme and portfolio services, project controls, construction contract performance, risk and compliance assessments, maturity benchmarking, staffing analysis, PMIS enablement, and lifecycle support from initiation and planning through to design, construction, and closeout.

      We also help clients improve the performance and resilience of existing infrastructure assets through asset management transformation. This includes support with asset management strategy, governance, ISO55000 readiness and certification, capital planning, decision-making, forecasting, resilience, systems, and performance improvement. In the investment space, we support clients in maximising value across the secondary market through investment strategy, due diligence, deal structuring, refinancing, valuations, regulatory review, restructuring, and post-transaction value creation.

      We bring together capabilities across strategy, organisational performance, project and programme development and delivery, commercial and financial advisory, asset management, governance setup and reporting, and investment support. This enables us to work across the full infrastructure lifecycle, helping clients connect long-term strategic intent with practical execution and measurable value.

      Our approach is focused on improving decision-making, strengthening delivery confidence, enhancing performance across existing assets, and supporting infrastructure investments that are sustainable, efficient, and commercially robust.

      Where relevant, we work with alliance and technology partners that support infrastructure planning, delivery, and asset performance. This includes experience with platforms such as SAP Primavera P6, Microsoft Projects, PowerBI, etc which can help enable stronger project controls, asset visibility, and infrastructure-related planning and management processes.

      We also enable the integration of commercial and financial management of programmes and project into the ERP systems of the business to create a robust project control environment. 

      Chris van der Merwe

      Partner

      KPMG in South Africa

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      Strategy & Operations

      Strategy & Operations helps organisations drive growth and transformation through data and AI, strategy, and operational excellence. We support clients in translating strategy into practical action by improving how organisations operate, make decisions, and create value.

      Our capabilities span enterprise strategy, data and AI, sustainability, supply chain, and operational transformation. By combining strategic insight, technology, and practical delivery, we help organisations unlock value, respond to change, and build more agile and resilient operations.

      We work with leadership teams to define strategy, transform business models, and align their organisations for sustainable growth and improved performance. This includes supporting sustainability and ESG initiatives, post-deal transformation, enterprise modernisation, and operating model redesign.

      Data and AI are at the core of our approach. We help organisations establish trusted data foundations, define data and AI strategies, modernise decision-making, and implement AI solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and business performance.

      We help clients adopt AI responsibly through governance frameworks, risk management, and trusted AI principles that promote transparency, accountability, fairness, and regulatory alignment.

      Our data and AI capabilities span advanced analytics, machine learning, predictive modelling, forecasting, and AI-driven insights, enabling organisations to make better decisions and anticipate future outcomes. We complement these capabilities with AI strategy, governance, use case identification, generative AI, intelligent automation, solution development, change management, workforce adoption, and enterprise implementation.

      From focused AI use cases and adoption programmes to enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, we help clients realise value from their data and AI investments while building the capabilities needed for long-term success.

      We support organisations from AI strategy and roadmap development through to implementation, operating model design, workforce enablement, AI centres of excellence, and benefits realisation, while also driving end-to-end operational improvement across procurement, supply chain, and business processes to help organisations work smarter, respond faster, and deliver measurable outcomes.

      We bring together capabilities across strategy, data and AI, procurement and supply chain, and enterprise architecture to help clients solve complex business challenges, unlock new opportunities, and move from vision through to implementation.

      Our integrated approach enables organisations to make better strategic decisions while delivering the operational, technological, and workforce augmentation required to realise lasting value. By combining strategic thinking with practical execution, we help clients deliver transformation that is scalable, sustainable, and aligned to business priorities.

      We work with leading technology platforms and implementation partners to support data and AI transformation, application development, systems integration, programme delivery, and operational performance.

      Our experience spans Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry), Microsoft Fabric Azure OpenAI, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Power BI, Power Platform, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. We also work across PostgreSQL, SQL Server, enterprise CRM and ERP platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP S/4HANA, and Oracle, as well as tools such as Celonis, Alteryx, Oracle Primavera P6, and Microsoft Project.

      Our teams deliver generative AI applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge solutions, custom web and business applications, API and enterprise-system integrations, CRM and ERP integrations, data platforms and pipelines, business intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, process mining, and intelligent automation. Our technical capabilities include Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, C# and .NET, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, MLOps, and CI/CD.

      Shamit Govind

      Partner and AI Lead for KPMG One Africa

      KPMG in South Africa


      Meet our expert

      Kalani Rampai

      Partner; Strategy and Operations- Technology & Innovation

      KPMG in South Africa