Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar is an industrial engineer by background with further qualifications in business administration. His area of specialisation is operations management with emphasis on business process design and implementation. He has successfully managed consulting and implementation assignments in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, heavy engineering, vehicle manufacturing, packaging and retail. Francois works regularly in conjunction with multi-disciplinary teams integrating inputs from strategy, marketing, finance, human resources and information systems with operational and business process considerations. An illustration of this kind of integration lies in his work in the field of activity based costing, combining in-depth client understanding of activity based cost structures and the reconfiguration of management information to make these cost structures and their drivers apparent.