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Our Mission

"To be a trusted and respected research and advisory partner by providing our clients with valuable information, strategic advice, and dependable assistance to help them implement those strategies effectively"

History

A pioneer in business-to-business commercial and industrial research, BMI was founded in the late 1970's. BMI-TechKnowledge Group was established as a separate company in 1990, to focus on researching the rapidly emerging South African 'high tech' industry.

The company widened its research expertise to include other African markets, and developed a focus on specific vertical markets, in particular the financial services sector, where the historical database of primary research stretches back 19 years.

While retaining its research roots, the company has grown substantially to provide a sophisticated set of client-oriented services, based on the provision of high-level information, expert advice and shoulder-to-shoulder implementation assistance.

BMI-T has successfully completed over 1000 projects for blue-chip clients - a feat unequalled by its peers.

BEE Track Record

BMI-T was a pioneer of BEE in South Africa when it started its BEE programme in 1997. Major enterprise development projects include the creation of Forge Ahead-BMI-T, a majority owned black ICT Research and Events company. BMI-T now has a BEE partner with an equity stake of over 30%.

Privacy

At BMI-T, we are committed to protecting your privacy.

Directors


Brian Neilson	Director Brian is a co-founder of BMI-TechKnowledge, and is currently the research director and head of telecoms consulting in the company.
Denis Smit	Managing Director Denis Smit is the Managing Director of BMI-T with over 21 years direct experience in the telecommunications, IT and electronics industries.
Mandla Kuzwayo	Director Mandla Kuzwayo is a business consultant with extensive experience in business development in the information technology and telecommunications (ICT) space, where he has been active for over 28 years.
Archie Dhana	Financial Director

Our Service Areas

Investment Due Diligence Services

BMI-TechKnowledge conducts market due diligence studies in support of investments in telecoms operators across Africa.

Market Strategy Services

BMI-Techknowledge provides strategic and tactical consulting supporting both the development and implementation of your business strategy.

Customer Satisfaction

The continued growth of any organisation will be determined by its ability to deliver superior customer value.

Tender Support Services

BMI-TechKnowledge can provide support services to companies involved in tendering processes

Public Sector Services

BMI-T's Public Sector Expertise Centre's core purpose is to inspire, inform and educate the public sector by offering them strategic support, services and information to enhance their decision making, enabling them to fulfill their mandate to the citizens of their country, and make them globally competitive.

Competitor and Stakeholder Intelligence

Understanding your competitors and stakeholders is essential to actively and successfully enter, grow and maintain market share in markets today.

Know Your Customer

A market related example of KYC (Know Your Customer) is the due diligence and bank regulations that financial organsiations and similar companies must conduct in order to identify their clients and ascertain crucial information before conducting financial business with these organisations.

Custom Events

From end-user conferences to product announcements to press briefings and multi-country roadshows, we are able to organise essential communication for your company.

Lead generation

The objective of the Lead Generation program is to bring you closer to your end users, understand them and enable your sales and marketing teams to focus on bringing relevant solutions to the end user.