--- title: "People Archives" description: "People" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/people/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/people/.md last_converted: 2026-10-23T02:28:20.685Z --- # Tag: People ##### Outsourced Asset Care for Small & Medium Enterprises June 15, 2022 Proper and consistent maintenance can make or break businesses. The headline in a local newspaper, Business Day – dated 13/06/2022, reads “Poor performance and degradation of rail and port infrastructure have seen SA’s coal exports drop 20% from about 80 million tonnes in 2017 to about 64 million tonnes in 2021”. All around us we [...] ##### Tags Asset Care Plan Asset Care Service Business Process Cost and Risk Reduction Asset Management Maintenance management People Technology ##### Combine Facilities & Asset Management to Save Millions December 2, 2020 Julia Phala, Head of Sales and Client Relation Management Are you a manufacturing business struggling to contain the cost of production and upkeep of your physical assets such as buildings and equipment? In challenging economic circumstances, such organisations are usually under pressure to save costs to meet bottom-lines. Traditionally asset management and facilities management are [...] ##### Tags Asset Managemen Bottomline Buildings Business Processes Cost of Production Facility Integration Julia Phala Operational Efficiences Processess Productivity Savings Assets Equipment Facilities Management Maintenance Manufacturing People Physical Asset Management Technology Work Planning and Control ##### Proactive Enterprise Asset Management & Human Potential An opinion piece by Kolosa Madikizela, Managing Director Pragma Enterprise asset management Proactive enterprise asset management is more than just infrastructure and equipment. As humans, we drive the cultural values and behaviour needed to implement maintenance strategies and action the activities required for peak asset performance. Yet, the role humans play in proactive enterprise asset [...] ##### Tags Asset Performance Business Performance Financial Management Human Capital Infrastruture Maintenance Strategy Managing Assets people-focused Proactive Skills Shortage Training Facilities Enterprise Asset Management Equipment Kolosa Madikizela Managing Director for Pragma Africa People Strategy Training ##### Digital Future Readiness in the South African Fuel Retail Sector November 24, 2020 South African Fuel Retail companies need to remain competitive and future-ready, be able to tackle current low economic growth, Political / Regulatory and social challenges and make use of new growth opportunities and optimise the scope for digitalisation. ##### Tags case study Culture Digital Environment Digitalisation Fuel Retail oil and gas Strategic Business Transformational Asset Management ecosystem Manufacturing Partnerships People SOuth Africa ##### Developing a digitisation road map February 20, 2018 We stand at the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitisation should be high on the agenda of organisations that strive to remain relevant and competitive. In this fourth industrial revolution, we must embrace a range of new technologies that combine the physical, digital and biological worlds. This cyber-physical world, where the management of [...] ##### Tags Asset Management Asset Managers Cyber-physical World Digital Maturity Digitisation Digitisation Process Digitisation Strategies Fourth Industrial Revolution Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Industry 4.0 New Technologies People Physical Asset Management Specialist Process Roadmap SAAMA Conference Technology Thought-leaders Transformation