1. STRENGTHNING AFRICA’S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Skills and enabling industries A presentation by Dr Namane Magau September 2004

2. Strategic Environment Africa Political Drivers Social Drivers Economic Drivers Technical Drivers Demographic Drivers NEPAD OPPORTUNITY

3. Context Strategic Environment Demographic Representative Attraction, Retention Innovation Networks Shared: Knowledge People Customised Deliverables Self-driven Approaches

4. 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

5. New Challenges for Productive Human Capital Building Interdependence Interdependence Organisational design Organisational design Leadership challenges Leadership challenges People development People development

6. Organisational Transformation for Knowledge Management  Key challenge: COLLABORATION to meet the demands of good governance, capacity building and economic reform  The tools needed are:  Effective networks that provide a learning system for innovation  Flexible organisational systems

7. Collaboration…..How? Co-operative networks between organisations Sharing: -information -technological solutions Becoming: -networks of learning -networks of innovation

8. New Roles in Society... Government  Enabling  Facilitating  Regulating  Supporting Industry  Producing  Exchanging  Diffusing SETIs  Technological solutions Higher Education  Educating  Diffusion of knowledge Communities  Needs  Capacities  Indigenous knowledge  Uniqueness

9. Emerging Challenges Skills geared for ongoing development to face needs of changing economy Skills geared for ongoing development to face needs of changing economy Need for increasing partnership between public and private sector to enable economic environment and increased participation of people in the economy Need for increasing partnership between public and private sector to enable economic environment and increased participation of people in the economy Fusion of science and technology in addressing human development issues Fusion of science and technology in addressing human development issues Need of responsive and innovative ways to use new developments to create new jobs and business opportunities Need of responsive and innovative ways to use new developments to create new jobs and business opportunities Focus on INNOVATION Focus on INNOVATION Cross-boundary thinking and doing, emphasising interconnectivity, transdisciplinarity, collaboration Cross-boundary thinking and doing, emphasising interconnectivity, transdisciplinarity, collaboration Good governance in Knowledge Creation and Learning Good governance in Knowledge Creation and Learning Linking education and skills development Linking education and skills development Increased investment in capacities for Knowledge Creation and Learning Increased investment in capacities for Knowledge Creation and Learning Recovery of local, indigenous knowledge, linking cultural diversity, institutional power, and knowledge creation Recovery of local, indigenous knowledge, linking cultural diversity, institutional power, and knowledge creation

10. 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)

11. Knowledge Creation and Learning Knowledge Creation and Learning Communities of Practice Local Knowledge Management Learning Networks Social Capital Social Studies User Groups

12. The needs of the automotive industry Competitiveness Improvement Human Resource Development Research and Development 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

13. Skills for Competitiveness & Empowerment  Automotive engineering  Industrial and process engineering  Component and systems design  Project management  Managerial skills  Supervisor training  Communication and interpersonal skills  Entrepreneurial skills  Management for global competitiveness  Second language training uLow level skills training Literacy and Numeracy Communication and interpersonal skills Work “ethics” uShop-floor training Statistical process control Maintenance Quality “Japanese” manufacturing techniques Multi-skilling uTechnical skills training Modern welding techniques Tool making Paint-shop technologies Plastics technologies (e.g. bonding, painting, etc.)

14. 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

15. The AIDC Network NON-EXCLUSIVE LIST OF SERVICE PROVIDERS CSIR University of Pretoria Motor Industry Cluster Others Gerotek Land Mobility Technologies Mechanology 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 ImpHRDR&DDE&T Dr H Maree Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR

16. SMME’s in the Automotive Industry SMME Development Technology & Needs Driven Production Supply Chain National Priorities and Imperatives Automotive Industry 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 Supplier 3rd Tier Supplier 2nd Tier Supplier Non-Production Supply Chain Non-Line Services Non-Line Supplies Service Provision Aftermarket Component Manufacture Customising & Replacement Drawn from a presentation by Dr J H Maree, Director, M&Mtek, CSIR

17. Summary New business challenges present new challenges to the composition and content of human capital Every organisation in the country is accountable for human capital formation No-one can go it alone We need to share, take hands to build the productive capacities needed in SA and the continent.