QBeta: Techno-Financial Solutions

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SOLUTIONS

REAL GENIUS  lies in making Complexity . . . Simpler . . .  & thus better understood.

Business Development - Strategy - Management Consulting

Professional Engineering - Project Management

  Business Planning - Technical & Commercial Due Diligence - Capital Raising

QBeta Services

QBeta provides a comprehensive range of Professional Business Development, Professional Engineering, Technical, Professional Project Management & Financing Support Services to Business-Owners & Business-Funders.

Few other service providers can provide such a comprehensive set of new business solutions.

Our Approach

Business schools would have you believe that there are simplistic, one size fits all solutions to developing businesses, and solving business and production problems . . . but if this were true, then all businesses should already be thriving !    The reality is that professional review, analysis, consideration and custom solutions are what work best.

QBeta takes a flexible approach, taking the time to understand the unique needs of our clients with a view to delivering customised solutions that works for them.

QBeta is managed by a professional team with diverse and proven experience in new business development, technology implementation, and engineering solutions.

Our Solutions

QBeta's Professional Services include:

• Business Development Support
  

• Management Consulting and Strategy Development
  

• Capital Raising Assistance

• Technical & Engineering Support

• Project Management Services
  

• Specialised services for Financiers

QBeta Equity Partnerships

• QBeta engages in High Level Equity Participation as Virtual-Directors of companies that we have an interest in and where a mutually beneficial partnership may be formed.  Members of our senior management team are members of the Institute of Directors.
  

More about the QBeta Team

The Senior Members of the QBeta Team are Graduate Professionals with over 19 years work experience each. Jointly, they have varied & proven experience in 

• Engineering,
  
• Merchant Banking,
  
• Project Finance,
  
• Business Assessment, Planning, and Development,
  
• Strategy Formulation,
  
• Product Idea Assessment,
  
• Product Development,
  
• Process Development and Work-Process Development,
  
• Management Consulting and
  
• Project Management.

Some of Our Clients

• Numerous Private Clients in the following industry Sectors.

• Process Plants in the following industries:   Industrial Gases, Liquefied Petroleum Gases, Cryogenic Gases, Medical Gases, Edible Oil Refining, Biodiesel, Liquid food product packaging, Soap Production, Glass making.

• Manufacturing Plants in the following industries:  Canned Beverages, Furniture, Beds & Mattresses, Food Products, Precious Metal Jewellery, Diamond Cutting and Polishing, Dimension Stone production, Complimentary Medicines, Metalworks.

• New Product Innovators.

• Farming Operations: Chicken Farming / Cotton Farming

• Retail operations: Fuel Service Stations / Petroleum product trading

• Service Entities: Developmental Financiers.

• Biotechnology: Medical Device Manufacturers.

• SME Finance Companies:
  

All manner of product design & development, business planning, financial planning, engineering, facility design, project management, cost reduction, marketing and strategic advisory services.

• Development Finance Institutions & Business Support Entities, as well as their numerous clients engaged in product development, technology commercialisation & manufacturing activities.

• The Department of Trade & Industry's Support Program for Industrial Innovation (SPII).

• The Department of Science & Technology's Innovation Fund.

• The Department of Minerals & Energy.
  
• The Council for Geosciences.
  

• The Umsubomvu Youth Fund.

• The South African National Manufacturing Advisory Centres Countrywide.

• National Productivity Institute

• Department for International Development (DFID, British)
  
• Spin-off ventures of the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research
• National Enpowerment Fund
  

Business assessment and Engineering / technical review services, business and technology commercialisation planning, facility design,new product design & development, production process design, production de-bottlenecking.

• Other Large Scale Entities.

• The Gauteng Department of Education Facilities Development Unit (as clients Project Manager for 9 new Schools)

• The City of Johannesburg (as a subcontractor to another consultancy - assessment of disability access constraints).

• The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (as a subcontractor to another consultancy - business process modeling).

• The Central Energy Fund (CEF) (Professional business plan review and economic feasibility study of a large scale Biodiesel proposal)
  

Engineering Project Management, Legislative compliance assessment of facilities, Business process modeling.

• New Business Development Financiers and their numerous clients engaged in manufacturing and technology commercialisation.

• The Industrial Development Corporation

• The Gauteng Economic Propellor
  

• The National Business Initiative's Enterprize Annual Business Plan Competitions (As Juror & Judge).

Business Assessment & Engineering / Product review services, Business consulting, Strategy consulting,  Business Valuation.

Our Values

At QBeta we subscribe to the ideal that work should

• Enjoyable.
• Meaningful.
• Challenging.
  
• & Rewarding.

We further subscribe to the ideal that our staff & subcontractors should be

• Treated with dignity.
• Recognised for their efforts.
• Coached and motivated.
  
• and where required, disciplined in a manner that is proactive, constructive, fair & equitable.
  

We also subscribe to the ideal that our clients should be

• Provided with outputs that are class-leading, and above the norm.

Our Professional Memberships

Members of the QBeta Senior team have professional Memberships with the following organisations:

• The Institute of Directors
• The Project Management Institute
  
• The Engineering Council of South Africa
• The Institute of Mechanical Engineers 
• The Institute of Marketing Management
• The Licensing Executives Society International - a global organisation engaged in facilitating the global transfer and licensing of engineering and technology related intellectual property 
• The Australian Institute of Company Directors