Ian Beaton

Ian has over 30 years’ experience within the Information Technology sector and has demonstrated his competencies in major organisations in South Africa. Ian has built and managed three successful consulting teams.  Ian has strong leadership and negotiation skills in conjunction with good business acumen and proven people development skills. 

Ian brings his experience to bear through Insight2Future.com and has delivered projects for clients in the following sectors:

• Professional Services

• Public Sector

• Financial Services

• Levy collection

• Information Technology

Insight2Future - Director

 Projects undertaken in this capacity are:

• KPMG – Solution Architecture, Oracle license review, Enterprise Solution Architecture, Strategic solution development, Business case preparation, strategic support regarding approach and board approval.

• UNISA – Oracle License Review

• Botswana Government – Oracle License Review

• Kgori Holdings Botswana – Provision of a revenue collection system. Outsource provider of collection system, in it’s entirety, business process design, system design and build, run.

• AIA – IT strategy – Social Housing Registration Authority

•  AIA – Enterprise Architecture – National Research Foundation

• SHRA - assessment of the SHRA ICT environment, ICT infrastructure and ICT services. 

• SHRA - IT Review

• Oracle South Africa - Graduate programme - Consulting Skills

• SHRA - Strategy execution assistance

  • • Provide input to stabilise the environment

    • Prepare terms of reference for Managed Service provider. 

    • Manage the creation of a stable and reliable Disaster Recovery plan to address the current risk and provide time to migrate services in a structured fashion.

    • Lead evaluation of On-Premise vs Hosted/Cloud options for hardware refresh.