Overview | TPI Africa

The Value Proposition

TPI is a leading provider of value-driven ICT services. We work in partnership with our clients in achieving the realisation of sustainable and measurable business value from ICT investments, underpinned by world-class risk management and ICT governance frameworks.

TPI Heritage

Two senior IT outsourcing executives who had a common vision to provide world‑class IT outsourcing, investment and process management expertise into the South African market, from within a local skills base formed TPI in August 2000.

The TPI team has a rich history of innovative process management, outsourcing and business consulting expertise built on the core disciplines of strategic consulting, operational expertise, commercial know‑how and the proven ability to manage multiple suppliers. The founding members of TPI have a combined total in excess of 45 years experience in the IT outsourcing industry. The organisational core competencies have been developed during the course of designing, developing and implementing solutions for several high profile local and international organisations. Since launching, TPI has delivered a number of high value added services to leading South African companies.

TPI Differentiators

Throughout its history TPI has adopted a revolutionary business-driven top-down approach to identifying the cost and business-value drivers within an organisation or industry sector. TPI’s fundamental standard is to ensure that operational delivery is structured to facilitate the achievement of stated strategic and business goals. This principle is applied to all TPI assignments.

Strategic and Operational Integration

TPI’s unique functional decomposition and process deconstruction models allow us to understand the root causes of both value-add and cost. By applying TPI’s intellectual property and proven models, our clients are able to map and measure the direct business value generated through their ICT spend, and develop strategies for ongoing, continual improvement.

Unparalleled End-to-end Sourcing Expertise and Skill-set

Whilst the combined IT and outsourcing experience of the TPI management team exceeds 35 years in total, more important is the unique blend of proven skills resident within the team. These skills cover the following key disciplines, and have been proven across multiple industries:

Commercial.
Financial engineering.
IT strategy development, implementation and management.
Strategic product development.
Technology investment services.
Outsourcing advisory services.

TPI has the distinctive proven ability to bring ‘best of breed’ skills to deliver an end‑to‑end solution.

TPI Risk / Reward Pricing Model

TPI believes that the greatest impediment to achieving sustainable business advantage is the absence of risk for either of the parties involved. It is a fundamental business imperative that all participants have sufficient incentive to ensure the successful conclusion of the engagement within the desired timeframe and within the specified budget constraints.

The TPI philosophy dictates that an organisation should only spend money once to get the job done. As a result, TPI utilises the TPI Risk / Reward Pricing Model wherein a portion of the TPI fee is placed at risk dependant on the successful achievement of the stated business objectives.