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STRENGTHNING AFRICA’S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Skills and enabling industries
A presentation by
Dr Namane Magau
September 2004
Strategic Environment
Africa
Political Drivers
Social Drivers
Economic Drivers
Technical Drivers
Demographic Drivers
NEPAD OPPORTUNITY
ContextContext
Strategic Environment
Demographic Representative Attraction, Retention
Innovation Networks
Shared:
•Knowledge
•People
Customised Deliverables
Self-drivenApproaches
DR GERI AUGUSTO:
Challenges and opportunities of continuously changing local and global environments;Increasing focus on customers and shareholder value;Impact of information on increased demands for better quality services and products at competitive costs and shortest time;New organisational designs needed to facilitate flow of information and capital across institutions.
Government Perspective
Financial Institutions
Business Perspective
Labour Perspective
Institutional Perspective
Knowledge Management
New Challenges for Productive Human Capital Building InterdependenceInterdependence Organisational designOrganisational design Leadership challengesLeadership challenges People developmentPeople development
Organisational Transformation for Knowledge Management
Key challenge: COLLABORATION to meet the Key challenge: COLLABORATION to meet the demands of good governance, capacity building and demands of good governance, capacity building and economic reformeconomic reform
The tools needed are:The tools needed are:
Effective networks that provide a Effective networks that provide a
learning system for innovationlearning system for innovation
Flexible organisational systemsFlexible organisational systems
Collaboration…..How?
Co-operative networks between organisations
Sharing:
-information
-technological solutions
Becoming:
-networks of learning
-networks of innovation
New Roles in Society...
GovernmentEnablingFacilitatingRegulatingSupporting
IndustryProducingExchangingDiffusing
SETIsTechnological solutions
Higher EducationEducatingDiffusion of knowledge
CommunitiesNeedsCapacitiesIndigenous knowledgeUniqueness
Emerging Challenges Skills geared for ongoing development to face needs of changing economySkills geared for ongoing development to face needs of changing economy Need for increasing partnership between public and private sector to enable Need for increasing partnership between public and private sector to enable
economic environment and increased participation of people in the economyeconomic environment and increased participation of people in the economy Fusion of science and technology in addressing human development issuesFusion of science and technology in addressing human development issues Need of responsive and innovative ways to use new developments to create new Need of responsive and innovative ways to use new developments to create new
jobs and business opportunitiesjobs and business opportunities Focus on INNOVATION Focus on INNOVATION Cross-boundary thinking and doing, emphasising interconnectivity, Cross-boundary thinking and doing, emphasising interconnectivity,
transdisciplinarity, collaborationtransdisciplinarity, collaboration Good governance in Knowledge Creation and LearningGood governance in Knowledge Creation and Learning Linking education and skills developmentLinking education and skills development Increased investment in capacities for Knowledge Creation and LearningIncreased investment in capacities for Knowledge Creation and Learning Recovery of local, indigenous knowledge, linking cultural diversity, institutional Recovery of local, indigenous knowledge, linking cultural diversity, institutional
power, and knowledge creationpower, and knowledge creation
The Knowledge Management System
Knowledge Management for Human Development
Knowledge Creation and Learning(RD&I, Education, Training, IKS)
People Capacities
(Knowledge, Understanding,
Skills)
Institutional and Physical Capacities
(Infrastructure)
Knowledge Creation and Learning
KnowledgeCreation and
Learning
Communitiesof Practice
Local Knowledge
KnowledgeManagement
LearningNetworks
Social Capital
Social Studies
User Groups
The needs of the automotive industry
CompetitivenessImprovement
Human ResourceDevelopment
Research andDevelopment
Design, Engineering & Testing
Supplier development
Technology transfer
SME development
Industry logistics
Systems and component design and development
Manufacturing process design and development
Localisation services
Vehicle and component testing
Research in material science and technologies
Research in process technologies
Research in manufacturing technologies
Research on automotive technologies
Low level skills training
Shop-floor training
Technical skills training
Automotive engineering
Managerial skills
Assistance in local procurement Identification of suppliers Supplier development Project management Etc.
Assistance in local development
Identification of opportunities for local development Identification of development partners Project management
Assistance in establishing in S A Investment incentives Location analyses Infrastructure Etc.
Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR
Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR
Skills for Competitiveness & Empowerment Automotive engineeringAutomotive engineering
Industrial and process Industrial and process engineeringengineering
Component and systems Component and systems designdesign
Project managementProject management Managerial skillsManagerial skills
Supervisor trainingSupervisor training Communication and Communication and
interpersonal skillsinterpersonal skills Entrepreneurial skillsEntrepreneurial skills Management for global Management for global
competitivenesscompetitiveness Second language trainingSecond language training
Low level skills training• Literacy and Numeracy• Communication and
interpersonal skills• Work “ethics”
Shop-floor training• Statistical process control• Maintenance• Quality• “Japanese” manufacturing
techniques • Multi-skilling
Technical skills training• Modern welding
techniques• Tool making• Paint-shop technologies• Plastics technologies (e.g.
bonding, painting, etc.)
Other Hr development issues
HRD in competitiveness improvement programmes
Human capacity development through automotive projects delivered through the AIDC networks
Capacity building, from design and testing to capacity for real R & D projects
HR development in SMMEs in the automotive sector
Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR
The AIDC Network
NON-EXCLUSIVE LIST OF SERVICE PROVIDERS
CSIR
University of Pretoria
Motor Industry Cluster
Others
Gerotek
Land Mobility TechnologiesMechanology Design Bureau
Mobility
Eurotype Test Centre
Others
SABS
CSIR
University of Pretoria
Technikon Pretoria
Soshanguve Technical College
Others
Technikon Northern Gauteng
CSIR
Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering
Ergotech
LGI
University of Pretoria
Vickers OMC
Others
Comp Imp HRDR&DDE&T
Dr H Maree
Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR
SMME’s in the Automotive Industry
SMME Development Technology & Needs Driven
Production Supply ChainNational
Priorities and
Imperatives
AutomotiveIndustry
OEMs & 1st Tier
Suppliers
“World Class”
SMME’s
Existing SMME’s
Start-up SMME’s
Opportuni-ties
for SMME’s
Global Supply Requirements
4th Tier Supplie
r
3rd Tier Supplie
r
2nd Tier Supplie
r
Non-Production Supply Chain• Non-Line Services
• Non-Line Supplies
• Service Provision
Aftermarket
Component Manufactur
eCustomising &
Replacement
Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR
Summary
New business challenges present new challenges to the composition and content of human capitalEvery organisation in the country is accountable for human capital formationNo-one can go it aloneWe need to share, take hands to build the productive capacities needed in SA and the continent.