Dongo Consulting
Dongo Consulting Pty Ltd was conceived in May 2020 on the background of the global pandemic and the devastating effects on safety and productivity for businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the global economy into an unprecedented crisis with both business entities and human capital fighting for survival. The GDP of South Africa is expected to decline sharply as a consequence of the economic fallout from the global health pandemic. In the "new normal" during and after the pandemic, businesses are challenged to adopt and learn new strategies at a rapid pace to keep up with the demands presented by the sudden change. The new business operations have to incorporate measures to mitigate risk and to incorporate surveillance for health-related risks in their daily operations. Furthermore, various regulatory and legislative measures impose upon businesses to make adjustments to their operations to mitigate for the health-related risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is a myriad of challenges faced by businesses, including changing channels of doing business, changing products, changing business infrastructure and repurposing existing infrastructure. Some of the new adjustments may include remote working and adoption of digital business strategy and technology for some businesses. In contrast, some businesses may not be amenable to remote working due to their resources and capabilities and due to necessitating organisational design and infrastructure adjustments. Depending on the type of product and services, some businesses may have to adjust existing business infrastructure, operations and strategy to be aligned with health-related risk management and prevention.
The impetus to undertake the responsibility to save lives and livelihoods as mutually inclusive imperatives cannot be overemphasised. Leaders in business and organisations are challenged with the task of ensuring business continuity plans in a profitable manner while protecting their employees and clients. The depth of recovery, length of recovery and the gradient of recovery will dictate both the economic recovery outcomes and human capital outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic. A balance ought to be met between economic recovery and human capital recovery.
What are the vexing questions facing business leaders today?
- Should you adopt a digital business strategy?
- Should you consider adopting teleworking?
- What are the implications of returning back to normal business operations?
- How to safely return to normal business operations?
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses and organisations:
- Is your business exposed to the extreme volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity associated with health and technology-related adverse effects?
- Does the research and development aspect of your business require the support of an independent medical advisory?
- Are you facing a dilemma of reopening your business while at the same time contending with the risk of exposure to COVID-19?
- Is your company well equipped for the challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic
- Does the technology adopted by your business increase the exposure of health-related risks?
- Is the technology adopted by your company aligned to humanity and trust required for sustainable business operations in the future?
Value proposition
Our tailor-made offer is aimed at maintaining and improving productivity for our clients while mitigating for health-related risks. Our focus on evidence-based interventions will help build the trust of clients, customers and other stakeholders, including shareholders on sustainable business continuity. Furthermore, the overarching principle of our advisory solutions will be the relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks. Our unique position in expert healthcare and medical advisory services gives us a sustainable advantage in offering our clients cutting edge niche services in the field of healthcare consultancy. This stems from more than 15 years of practice in the healthcare industry across the public and private healthcare sectors. This includes collaboration with multiple stakeholders from different fields and different industries on healthcare-related matters. Thus, the focus on specialized services pertaining to health and medically related matters that affect SMME's in all industries and healthcare facilities are supported by previous exposure to multiple and diverse industries on healthcare-related matters.
Our approach is supported by a combination of medical expertise and knowledge with experience from the public and the private healthcare sectors. This is further reinforced with extensive exposure to the private healthcare business, including an understanding of the regulatory and legislative framework for the healthcare and medical industry. This eliminates the need to outsource services that relate to aspects of healthcare management, regulation, legislation, technology and medical expertise. In addition, our intangible resources in the form of experience in private practice and competence in core skills and knowledge aspects of business management give us the perfect synergy of business and health-related matters required for understanding business and health-related challenges. Dongo Consulting Pty Ltd’s existing organisational systems, processes, and structure in private healthcare are well aligned with the imperatives of delivering prompt, reliable, relevant, and scientific data-driven medical healthcare advisory service that is compliant to the existing regulatory and legislative frameworks in the healthcare sector. Our business strategy leverages on our unique strengths to exploit available opportunities, while also mitigating for our weaknesses and the prevailing threats.
Lehlohonolo Dongo
Lehlohonolo Dongo did his undergraduate medical education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he obtained his MB ChB degree in 2004. He worked as a medical intern in Helen Joseph Hospital in 2005 and subsequently did community service at the Germiston Hospital in 2006. He then joined the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital as a Registrar in 2007. Following the completion of his training, he was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of South Africa in 2012, and he also obtained the Master of Medicine degree in cardiothoracic surgery. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and an MBA degree from the Wits Business School. He is currently a practising specialist cardiothoracic surgeon in private practice. He has special interests in the following:
- Research, evidence-based clinical guidelines, health policy formulation, regulations and legislation.
- Medical and healthcare technology in the areas of telemedicine, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Biomedical ethics.
- Healthcare funding and access.
- Organisational design and development of medical and healthcare infrastructure.
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