Category: News articles
Innovation day an opportunity for Pragma employees to come up with innovative ideas
November 1, 2012
Pragma will be hosting its annual Innovation Day on Wednesday, 7 November 2012. The day provides Pragma’s employees with the opportunity and time to innovate and present back to their peers the ideas that they come up with such as process improvements, new products, features in On Key and more. Silja Bake, System Development Manager […]
Critical Success Factor model of physical asset management services
Physical asset management (PAM) is the way of the future for companies wanting to remain competitive, improve their performance and increase their bottom line. For companies to survive, they need to make physical asset management part of their future strategic and competitive drive. According to Wyhan Jooste, ACC Pack Development Manager at Pragma, the demand […]
Risk comes in many forms shapes and sizes
When Tiger Woods was standing in the bar contemplating another encounter I bet he didn’t consider the full implications of his actions. It’s only another text message (or secret rendezvous), Elin will never find out… Just like most disasters it is never a single act that ends in disastrous consequences, but a series of unfortunate […]
Pragma to contribute to the development of sustainable communities
The journey toward social, economic and environmental communal liberation is a global responsibility and one in which everyone can play a role.Pragma in partnership with ERWAT and other social partnershas launched the Unite for our Future initiative, which will start this coming Friday, 26 October 2012 in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni. Says Billy Wilson, Divisional Academy Manager: […]
Pragma team assists in bringing electricity to the people
Over the last decade Pragma has proven its consistent added value to Local Government service delivery five metropolitan municipalities namely Ekurhuleni, City of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, UThungulu and eThekwini. Pragma’s engagement with each Municipality started with either a detailed asset management maturity assessment with the development of a comprehensive asset management strategy, or […]
Pragma rated best engineering company to work for in SA
At the recent Deloitte Best Company to Work for Survey awards function, Pragma was confirmed as the 8th best small company (50 – 300 employees) to work for in South Africa. Pragma is also still the holder of the “Best building, construction and engineering company to work for” title, first confirmed in the 2009 survey. […]
Pragma Client Day Presentations
Thank you for making the Client Day 2011 a huge success – the biggest ever! The figures prove that you truly are organised and committed Physical Asset Managers. Even though economic times are tough, you still made the time available to attend. We hope you have already started to implement the quick wins and value […]
Pragma awarded contract in Indonesia
Pragma, a South African-based group of companies which partners with its clients to optimise the management of their physical assets, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract in Indonesia. “Pragma Acuity has been appointed to implement asset management structuring across the generation operations of PJB Power (based in Jakarta) throughout Indonesia,” says Dean Griffin, Partner […]
Pragma aiming at creating a culture of sustainable asset management in SA
In a recent interview with Adriaan Scheeres, CEO of Pragma, he answered some questions about himself and Pragma. Why did you start Pragma? I did my final masters project in asset management, which sparked the idea of starting a consulting business in asset management. In June 1990, Arnold Botha and I founded Pragma. Today Pragma […]
Pragma Acuity broadens the Pragma scope of services
Pragma Acuity, a dedicated asset management consulting company within the Pragma Group, was launched on 1 October. Acuity will deliver asset management improvement and advisory projects to asset intensive industries as well as support multi-national companies utilising the Pragma ACC service. Gerrie Olivier, MD of Pragma Acuity explained that sustainability is top of mind in […]
