Outsourcing internal audits likely to have far-reaching benefits

EVERY day of the week there’s an invite to this conference, that summit or another workshop.

But all too often the energy, resolve and commitment felt in that room dissipates the second you turn your phone back on and you’re confronted with the reality of all those e-mails and messages.

Two weeks have passed since we met with Pravin Gordhan at our annual IQbusiness growth conference.

At this conference we sounded a clarion call to South African businesses and the country’s civil society – get involved in effecting sustainable inclusive growth in South Africa.

We called for an efficient, effective and Agile government and proposed that the government adopt Agile principles.

So, we will open up two places in every single one of our Agile training programmes for the next 12 months to government employees directly involved in executing the NDP.

When it comes to education, we will not only improve our in-house training programmes, we will also expand our support for Partners for Possibility.

Our contribution to improving enterprise development will kick off with publishing the full details of all our Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD) partners on our website, and we encourage other South African corporates to do the same.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are critical to South Africa’s growth. And in the pursuit of their clean bill of health, we believe that the IQbusiness-led campaign to compel SOEs to outsource internal audits will have far-reaching benefits. ADAM CRAKER CHIEF EXECUTIVE, IQBUSINESS