{"id":696,"date":"2018-06-28T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tt100.co.za\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-06-28T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:54:18","slug":"ssg-consulting-steven-golding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tt100.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/ssg-consulting-steven-golding\/","title":{"rendered":"SSG Consulting &#8211; Steven Golding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the Management of Innovation award for 2017, category for medium enterprises<br \/>\n<strong>Project overruns need not be the norm<\/strong><br \/>\nProject overruns are notoriously common in South Africa, where power stations and high-speed trains have been built at significantly higher cost and over longer timeframes than originally planned. But it\u2019s not just in South Africa that infrastructure and construction projects often drag out and cost more. Globally, overruns in costs and time range from 27% to 200%, according to Steven Golding of SSG Consulting.<br \/>\n\u201cThe software used is obviously ineffective,\u201d says Steven, a mechanical engineer (and triathlete) who, after observing time and cost overruns on virtually every project he encountered in his 20 years in the construction industry, decided to do something about it.<br \/>\nHe founded Pretoria-based SSG Consulting in 2008 \u2013 smack-bang in the middle of the global financial crisis \u2013 and started developing KEY360.<br \/>\nIn a nutshell, KEY360 is a cloud-based and web-enabled platform for managing large-scale projects, on time and within budget, which it does by neatly integrating 140 different business systems and processes, with unlimited global access, data validation and real-time reporting.<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t long before SSG Consulting was doing well enough to move out of Steven\u2019s Land Rover (\u201cThat\u2019s where I started\u201d) into proper offices and later into a Pretoria East property that is also a horse farm.<br \/>\n\u201cWe do things very differently from the norm,\u201d he says. \u201cEver since we started out as an organisation, innovation has been part of what we do. We have a passion for developing new stuff and for helping organisations to develop their own innovation programmes.<br \/>\n\u201cAlthough we started in project management as a core business, and this indeed still is, KEY360 has so many Enterprise functions that we now service many other industries.\u201d<br \/>\nRecent innovations include the KEY360 app, called KEY30 10X, which provides mobile access to the KEY360 platform from a phone or iPad and speeds up business processes by 10 times. \u201cWe have the data to prove it,\u201d Steven says.<br \/>\nHe adds that it\u2019s \u201ceasy\u201d to innovate in an industry such as project management, precisely because there are so many problems to deal with.<br \/>\nOne surprising aspect of SSG Consulting\u2019s approach to innovation is that patenting innovations such as KEY360 and the KEY360 app are not priorities. Steven\u2019s explanation is simple: \u201cWe\u2019re not worried about anybody being able to do what we do. Our approach to challenges and to the required tech solutions is so unique and often subtle that it is not necessary to patent \u2013 thousands of ideas and innovations are built into the system. We are fundamentally different.\u201d<br \/>\nEnds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the Management of Innovation award for 2017, category for medium enterprises Project overruns need not be the norm Project overruns are notoriously common in South Africa, where power stations and high-speed trains have been built at significantly higher cost and over longer timeframes than originally planned. 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