Environmental Wellbeing is Human Wellbeing; A Healthy Environment produces a Healthy Society.

At KBW- SiAP ESG is the cornerstone of our daily practice.

About SiAP.

SiAP is a fully functional Business Ecosystem; a “Functional Leadership” led driven business; each cluster is fully autonomous and untrammeled. However, all new investments are planned, guided, and endorsed by the Management Executive Committee reporting to a lean Special Executive Committee. “Leadership and Leaders” as in those taking the lead in each business cluster. There are ten (10) key business clusters; each operates as a “profit entity”. On one hand, each business cluster is totally independent of each other in developing, pricing, and marketing their service products on the other hand they are encouraged to give priority and support their peers’ business at agreed time and cost.

Each SiAP unit is led by three senior partners, overseen by a rotating Chairman, guided by an Independent Advisory Board, and assisted by an Independent Professional Board. These Clusters are operating as BwB (Business-within-Business).

The Clusters:

1. Branding & Marketing

2. Commercial & Financial

3. Environmental, Social & Governance

4. Exploration & Mining Management

5. Human Artificial Intelligence Resources

6. Information Communication & Connectivity Technology

7. Legal

8. Risk Management

9. Strategic Management

10. Value Chain Management (Supply Chain)

*The business clusters above are listed in alphabetical order and not in order of importance.

These ten (10) business clusters are led by their respective Functional Directors recognized in his/her fields of specialization with proven knowledge in practice. Their priority is to provide superior services to their clients in their area of specialization. They are also obliged to nurture their respective team with unparalleled experience & knowledge and inculcate high professional ethics.

Team SiAP : The tangible differences between SiAP and top international consulting firms

“A consulting or consultancy firm is a business of one or more experts (consultants) that provides professional feedback to an individual or an organization for a fee”. “Consultancy firms target company executives and provide them with consultants, also known as industry-specific specialists and subject-matter experts, usually trained in management or business schools. The deliverable of a consultant is usually advice or a recipe to follow to achieve a company objective, leading to a company project”. (an extrapolation from Wikipedia). 

SiAP consulting and management services are delivered with tangible differences:

1) People the Foundation of All Matters: Team SiAP places a high emphasis on ESG (Environmental & Social well-being and Corporate Governance), hence, all SiAP programs come with strong ESG features built-in.

2) Progressive Knowledge Leading The Business: SiAP's continual investment in the MTRID, carrying out research, innovation & development with Academia, Professional Institutions & Associations locally as well as tapping on our international network thus placing SiAP at the forefront of applied knowledge. Ultimately benefits our Clients in multiple spheres; sharpening their competitive edge and helping them to make wiser decisions.

3) Sustainability is the New Gold: The profits generated from the holistically designed & well-managed projects thus ensure the Business continues to thrive and do what it aspires to do. SiAP's "micro-to-macro" methodical approach is designed to examine the industry trends and to better understand the broad macroeconomic forces affecting business strategy and public policy.

4) Committed to Succeed: SiAP does not transfer the knowledge from our past projects to our customers nor hold our customers’ hands to get things done; instead we put them through a dedicated comprehensive ETC Program design to help them realize their desired needs, identifying the management tools required and strategize their implementation. SiAP does not relieve us from the success responsibility upon the completion of the project implementation for we see “Success is very much a positive journey, not a passive destination”. SiAP prepares and stays ready to serve our Customers at their next progressive level with their new needs.

5) Institutionalized the SMM: SiAP IDAK will undertake the design and execution of the training curriculums, Mei Jia will undertake the design and production of the newly structured “institutionalized” Systems, Methods & Management (SMM) for wholesale implementation for the customers. The customized SMM is designed to enable effective and efficient adaptation and empower the Users to prudently amplify the most successful outcomes.

Specialists and SiAP Practitioners are subject-matter experts engaging Clients from the bottom up and top down. Team SiAP possesses holistic business management experience, industry-specific technical & operational skills, and a good grasp of the entrepreneur’s traits. They also possess intimate knowledge of the locals & their culture where they operate in as much as they appreciate the clients’ target markets thus making them more efficient and effective partners.

SiAP believes no two businesses are alike, the business augment products offered to our Customers may carry the same products’ title the content & delivery are unique to each Customer.

SiAP Capability Profile

Specialty Brief Narration

Human & Artificial Intelligent Resources – Human needs give birth to business; HR is the single indispensable resource to make any business a success. AI is an enabler; it is empowering humans, adding strength and efficiency in almost every sphere of the business when properly employed. HaiR program is designed to enrich the users’ knowledge and their practical know-how to manage a smarter partnership within the business, with the external parties, strong fostering of AI, and aligning the HR & AI to achieve impactful harmonious economic results. It also encompassed HRCID subprograms and the core of HR mechanics attuned to meet local legal compliance.

Management Technology, Research, Innovation, and Development - This program covers critical management technologies and nurturing research, innovations & developments aiming at growing the Customers’ competitive edge that is not easily duplicated. The delivery comes in two folds: a) drawing the management blueprint, executing and implementing, and b) the continuum: including but not limited to creating solutions to unforeseen problems and running with unexpected opportunities using creative ideation techniques. At the heart: Team SiAP excels to help Customers excel with its highly scalable finished solutions.

Information Communication & Connectivity Technology – One must be tacit: communication is never a connectivity. 

This program dwells on empirical statistics run in REAL TIME; resulting in sustainable high consistency & productivity with a positive impact on Corporate Governance, Compliance Management, Company Economics, and the Checks & Balances for the Customers’ business. Customers may piggyback on SiAP ICCT infrastructure to jumpstart while SiAP helps to build their ICCT Systems. SiAP’s focus in this case is on building the content of substance and designing the systems, methods, and management concepts for the ICCT. SiAP Management Technologist and Data Analyst will leverage the data; the Customers can gain insight analytics in real-time.

Project Management Material Evaluation & Procurement - This program is designed to augment Project Management; working in tandem is the Material Evaluation & Procurement. We provide a seamless platform and ecosystems for SME Mine Owners to go downstream and subsequently help them to IPO where appropriate. Our program may include but is not limited to consulting, advisory, management, and facilitating in various spheres of the project. Some customers may prefer a complete Turn-Key project. Team SiAP remains with the Customers till the conditions change and bring a new future to life.

nucobets® - A Universal Salient Communication System, Methods & Management Concepts designed for institutions and industries applications. nucobets® practical solutions are applicable to the mining industry, from minerals processors to logistics & warehousing sectors where space, time, scale, range, and physical risk management are crucial. nucobets® is also used to manage and tighten the hygiene security in the F&B processing industry, or healthcare institutions where hygiene and sanitation are of paramount importance. nucobets® is designed to complement and harness the Customers’ existing management and is not supposed to replace their existing management systems.

Institute of Development & Applied Knowledge - Building tomorrow's needs and wants today: Preparing business to flourish in the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) business environment and assisting Individuals to excel and advance their careers. IDAK is making every conscious effort not to duplicate any academic courses in existential. IDAK curriculum is designed for the mining and minerals beneficiation, as well as the commence sectors helping the industry professionals, specialists, and practitioners seeking to elevate & expand their skills and knowledge to perform effectively and better prepare them for transitions to new practice or technology.

Mei Jia® Program (MJ): The Key Success Factor is in Mei Jia’s APPROACH methodology; shifting the old paradigm and creating a new one to help customers achieve their economic and social objectives. MJ is a comprehensive program in building the Universal Corporate Values & Identity (or UCVI in short), with special emphasis on ESG in a broader sense, and dwelling deeply in its formulae, implementation, management, and sustaining the returns of such investment.

SiAP’s Delivery – The Strategies Implementation

SiAP is designed to serve SMEs with a focus on the mining, minerals downstream, and commerce sectors. SiAP’s five defined groups of customers:

1) The Zenith Customers Group (ZCG): These customer groups are more ready; they have developed a certain growth culture necessary to gear them for the leap growth. This group is usually characterized by their readiness to invest for longer-term returns. Their ability to embrace and manage certain sophistication after the change is top notch.

2) The Creative Customers Group (CCG): These Customers are “Idea owners” who need complex structural help to turn their ideas into substance of reality. They are a pro-change agent who has the courage & determination to learn and are ready to embrace new technologies to realize business and social objectives.

3) The Gazelle Customers Group (GCG): This group of Customers has high top lines growth of at least 20% per annum for several years. They create lots of jobs but may not result in a corresponding bottom line and lack qualitative growth. They may get tired slow down and lose control of their enterprise due to the burdensome size and complexity of the growth generated. That is when some Gazelle businesses began to experience net loss. Their business still has high redeeming values and needs exigent help.

4) The Micro Business Group (MBG): This is a massive group with shooting stars amongst them. As part and parcel of the SiAP Corporate Community Commitment program; we have the provision made to render our TA (Technical Assistant) to the MBG via formal recommendation and/or referral basis. Such services rendered to the concerned MBG will be on a pro bono basis.

5) The Social Enterprise (SE) Group: SiAP Programs include the promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in every new project we undertake. The Social Enterprise project should not be mistaken as CSR and SE is never intended to replace CSR. SiAP believes a well-understood SE program will be well-supported. SE will effectively within a short period of time elevate poverty and create more new jobs relative to their strength. SE is a very meaningful and sustainable program; SiAP will lead and carry out such programs together with the SiAP Community.

In SiAP: the customer group type does not dictate the priority, but their urgency does. SiAP does not deliver our service products by pulling out from the shelf since no two businesses are alike even if they are from the same industry and operate in the same location. Instead, we assimilate into their environment and work with them to understand & identify their unique progressive needs. 

SiAP is always respectful and sensitive to the Customers’ DNA, any recommendations and/or proposals to change will go through a prudent tedious step-by-step process to introduce, execute, and implement the well-defined strategies. SiAP Success Buttresses: Coordinated approach from top-down and bottom-up, building resilience and operational flexibility, and a holistic approach in each step. Each process is embedded and HaiR, MTRID, ICCT, and PMMEP, embrace the relevant level & types of technology: nucobets, IDAK and Mei Jia.

Building Clients’ Capability: To start with; SiAP is an SME, hence, we have much in common with our target Customers, and we appreciate the limitations and constraints of another SME better. The global and local markets behave, respect, and respond to one common value: The Universal Values. 

The market is an even level playing field the same cannot be said for all businesses on their capability and capacity. It is the competition that caused the uneven playing field; resulting in the “Ables” outperforming the least prepared when both responds to the same market dynamics. SiAP will avoid bridging the gaps but instead, equip our Clients with the progressive technologies and add strength to propel their growths.

Beyond one Genetic DNA: Running one business without renewing its homogenous capability or embracing new ideas will become too emotive and risk falling behind. SiAP capability is heterogeneous, and SiAP products are montage in concept; thus, allows the business and its processes to be swiftly and easily repurposed as business competition evolves. Upon our commissioning by Clients, SiAP’s team will gear into the Clients’ business structure. Team SiAP will work alongside, lead, advise, train, and coach the Clients.

IDAK’s Strategic Roles: IDAK (Institute of Development & Applied Knowledge) is a very crucial part of the “SiAP Nerve Centre”. The IDAK community is made makeup of SiAP’s Clients and Employees, the shared mission is driven by a shared purpose: to make a better world through the IDAK ETC (Education, Training & Culturing) program.

The training curriculums are designed to help SMEs and their employees to develop a deeper understanding of the evolution of the mining, downstream & Industry Users’ applications. IDAK also covers the macro context of the global economy to better prepare the SMEs to “internationalize” their business.

IDAK lectures and workshops are practical fact-based with ingenuity and full of drive. All training conducted in IDAK embraces the ETC principles. IDAK ETC designed programs are the proprietary products of KBW & Associates for the exclusive use of SiAP Federations. Up to 85% of IDAK courses are purpose and custom-designed for each Client. The training courses are facilitated by local Specialists, Practitioners as well as visiting Experts and Professors with multi-national experience specialized in their respective majors.

IDAK students can expect to benefit from a diverse team of professors, lecturers, facilitators, and trainers to help them elevate their knowledge, unlock their hidden talents, stimulate their creativity, and expand their innovation horizon to stand up to constant changes.

IDAK courses/workshops aim to help the customers to develop strategies suitable for their organization not borrowed strategy from another business. Suitable strategy is defined by how well they supports & drive the changes, and how well they align with and support the organization's larger context of vision, mission, roles, and goals.

The MTRID (Management Technology, Research, Innovations, and Development) Nerve Centre housed the ICCT (Information Communication & Connectivity Technology) Hub working in a “synchronic fashion” whereas the MTRID works leaning toward the “diachronic approach”. The final products produced by these clusters are highly scalable and impactful.

The MTRID & ICCT project teams are led by SiAP Senior Members, supported by a group of senior fellows including Members from SiAP Chapters around EAPR. The teams draw upon their experience and engage intellectually into the core to understand the root of the problem and design solutions to resolve it. 

The team also gets to draw on SiAP's multinational network of partners for their industry and management expertise and empirical work. KBW and MTRID Council also contribute articles to IDAK on a regular basis. The Council’s roles as well as the MTRID Communities will contribute to shaping the Group research agenda, leading high-impact research, and disseminating the findings to SiAP Stakeholders. Such fact-based information thus contributes to the client’s decision-making on their long-term investment, their critical management, and company policy issues.

At the heart: SiAP is committed to helping others to excel, SiAP will stand by our clients until the conditions improve and bring the vision to life, especially with our Social Entrepreneurship Programs. SiAP also nurtures her internal clients with unparalleled experience & knowledge and inculcates valuable work ethics at all levels. It is a value SiAP and her Partners live up to Clients’ expectations.

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist” Kenneth Boulding.

Our Pioneers: Our Economics Heroes

KBW – SiAP acknowledges the contributions in the building of our modern economics today by our early unsung heroes of yesteryears…

The critical contributions of these “pico-businesses” are misunderstood by society benefitted from their indispensable roles in our nation-building today.

Talk to one of our Social Enterprise Specialists to participate in one of our future Social Enterprise Programs.

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