Organisational Strategy

Short Training Courses

Organisation Re-design

and Key team Composition

Integrity

Trust

Originality

Completion

Organisational Effectiveness

Culture, Team and Individual

Development

Human Resource

Strategy and

Repositioning

Leadership Development

and Coaching

 

thinking fusion was established in 2004 and is a Level 2 B-BBEE Contributor. The owners and directors of thinking fusion have brought together complementary expertise to provide consulting and capacity development services to the public and private sectors in Africa. It designs and delivers customized value propositions for clients utilising its products, services and its well-established intellectual property.

The vision of thinking fusion is to develop a significant firm that offers a comprehensive range of services and products comparable to globally recognised firms.

At thinking fusion we are passionate about ideas, knowledge, development and implementation. The experience of its owners span more than fourt years in specialist, consulting, management and executive roles.

The business has a proud track record. Amongst our clients count major private sector corporations, the public sector, medium and small enterprises all of whom we serve with equal commitment.

Our thinking models and frameworks on strategy, organisation culture, change, organisations, people and teams challenge conventional thinking. Our implementation frameworks and models are based on sound applied knowledge. The thinking fusion difference lies in applying these thinking models and changing the way that people do their work. We create change capacity.

 

   The thinking fusion purpose and reason for existence is to create change capacity in organisations,

teams and individuals.

The promise that stands behind our brand is that we create value through thinking and

implementing.

We are anchored in our core values of:

Integrity: We embrace professional standards

Trust: We value confidentiality

Originality: Our work is fresh and imaginative

Completion: We only leave when the job is done

We retain more than 25 professionals as facilitators, expert consultants and project managers.

STRATEGY We specialise in organisation strategy at corporate, business unit and functional levels.

The thinking fusion strategy framework is comprehensive and challenging. It has evolved over many

years of business experience and has been validated in small to large organisations in the private and

public sectors. Strategy-making capacity in teams is built through application and can further be

enhanced through dedicated strategy training in the thinking fusion model. It can be applied in full or

in part to suit the demands of an organisation such as market re-positioning, strategic market

development, competitive strategy or organisation alignment including organisation structure. We

also undertake the facilitation of complex strategic issues resolution including scenario development.

ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

thinking fusion specializes in operational implementation and turn-around solutions. We conduct

process analysis and mapping, develop operational teams while we do the analysis, provide dedicated

training for improved performance and implement continuous monitoring and improvement

processes. We then mentor leaders to embed improvement in order to deliver on our core

organisational effectiveness purpose i.e. Translating strategy into sustainable operational

performance.

Through these improved strategically-aligned processes applied by people with deeper operational

competence, focused by and managed to clear performance metrics, and inspired by robust leaders

of adaptive change: ‘We change the way that people do their work’

 

ORGANISATION RE-DESIGN AND KEY TEAM COMPOSITION

We are engaged by the CEO as an extension of the executive team to critically review and re-design

the organisation structure, key roles and the key talent profile of the organisation to deliver on its

strategic aspirations.

Major market changes, mergers or the drastic redirection of an organisation requires a critical

review of the delivery capacity of the operating model as well as that of key leaders. The appointment

of a new CEO often also often sparks this need. An external expert and objective view in this regard is

then often considered essential.

We do the tough work from providing the insights, the designs through to high-level implementation in

such difficult redirection and turn-around conditions.

We typically use our own specialists i.e. we work independently of internal HR units during the analysis

and design phases other than obtaining information from them. During initial organisation re-design

and key team composition turnaround work, we would partner with the internal HR Executive in

respect of risk management, governance as well as internal communication as required.

Once the desired structure is in place and key roles are filled, we design the implementation

programme including a change leadership plans for further rollout of the structure. We then leave

the subsequent implementation to the executive team.

HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY AND RE-POSITIONING OF HR

We also work with HR teams to redefine their role in organisations as strategic players. Our view is

that HR functions and HR leaders should not only focus on HR alignment strategy, but should also co-

define and directly influence the direction of an organisation. This view is derived from the new

realities of the fierce competition for talent, the importance of employee engagement and the

competitive differentiation that can be unlocked from planting and growing a desired organisational

culture.

We conduct rigorous people practice reviews within the strategic context of the organisation in order

to develop a roadmap for people practice development. The roadmap is aimed at delivering the profile

of people practices that gives the organisation a competitive advantage. We conduct the work using

our thinking models on people in organisations, people practice development and mapping,

performance development, high-performance organisations, organisational wholeness, personal

wholeness and organisational change amongst others.

We selectively undertake HR practice development flowing from the above practice reviews and HR

strategy work.

Our HR work is fully integrated with our research data as we use a set of diagnostics that has been

validated in large organisations.

 

CULTURE, TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT

We re-invigorate organisational culture and leadership teams to deliver a high-performance culture

through a process that takes executive, operational and functional teams to new levels of team and

individual performance over six to nine months. The results yielded are exceptional as the process

truly integrates individual performance with team performance and organisational culture. The

process, CTID, can be delivered in partnership with the internal OD practitioners of an organisation

who by agreement could be trained and licensed as CTID facilitators.

The culture development thinking model utilised in the CTID process has been tested against

established science and best-practice. The process is fully supported with culture, team and individual

diagnostics that allow organisation-wide analysis and interpretation when implemented on this scale.

This is action research in action.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Our programmes, Leading- (a programme for Senior Managers); Leadership in the Connection

Economy and Creating Leadership and Personal Capacity in Women, are unique in design and

implementation and are presented over a period of 7 months (15 contact days). These programmes

have an exclusive leadership focus and more than 1 500 leaders have benefited from it. Customised

programmes of 5 months (11 contact days) are also offered. All these programmes are CHE (Council

for Higher Education) accredited.

Our Self-Leadership programme is 3 months in duration and has 6 contact days. This programme

guides participants to redefine themselves in their personal lives and at work. Participants take

personal responsibility for their work, their work relationships and for improving their work

performance. It is a life-changing development experience for many people in their work and personal

lives.

LEADERSHIP COACHING

Our coaching is aimed at senior leaders who need to increase their impact in organisations and

advance their careers. The thinking fusion framework blends conventional leadership coaching with

uncompromising advice to build personal and leadership capacity. This capacity building is shaped

around the four zones of influence of a leader being self-leadership, one-on-one leadership, leading a

team, and increasing influence within a leadership team. Dedicated learning is embedded in leaders

through rigorous engagement. We also do individual and group communication coaching given that

this critical leader skill is often lacking in most leaders as they often work in their second language

 

SHORT COURSES

We also offer the following custom-designed short courses:

• Communication and Persuasion

• Strategy

• Diversity

• Feedback

• Change insight and change engagement

• Thinking

• Followership

• Personal wholeness

CONTACT US

Dr René Uys (Director) on 082 888 9702, rene@thinkingfusion.com

Motshoanetsi Lefoka (Director) on 073 634 4098, motshoanetsi@thinkingfusion.com

Harry van der Merwe (Director) on 082 655 4027, harry@thinkingfusion.com

Madelaine Posthumus (Operations Executive) on 083 231 0048, madelaine@thinkingfusion.com

Office (011) 955 1003,

Website: www.thinkingfusion.com