Gweshe Lameck - Harare, Zimbabwe

1. Our business outline
Seven Columns (Private) Limited is a product development company that was created in the year 2010 with a mission to develop products/businesses that provide game changing solutions to our chosen markets.
Our mission is to develop ICT based products that significantly bring convenience to business and people’s lives through a combination of the use of ICT and simply re-engineering business processes.
Our vision is a market where customers benefit from customer focused products that are developed from continuous innovation.
We are passionate about identifying gaps in the market and developing products that bridge those gaps, re-engineering business processes and using information technology to change the landscape in which businesses operate and in which  

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people live. Our values drive this passion.

2. Our vision, values
2.1. Our Vision – To be the leading provider of game changing solutions in the markets we choose to operate in.
2.2. Our Core values
2.2.1 Innovation – we continuously strive to introduce relevant products for our clients’ benefit and peace of mind.
Innovation is core to our strategy. We use innovation to develop new ideas into commercial products that positively change the business landscape we operate in. Whilst our solutions are game changing, we aim to deliver them in a simple and user friendly way.
2.2.2 Balance – we balance our profit motive with client value added services. We balance our staff work and family requirements.
Balance means a lot of things to us. We maintain a work-life balance. Our solutions are state of the art, but delivered simply. We seek to provide a lot of information to our users, but delivered concisely. Our employees are given lots of creative space to work individually, but deliver as a team.
2.2.3 Accountability – we are responsible for our actions that impact on all our stakeholders.
Even though some of our solutions involve working with third parties, we have made ourselves accountable to our customers for service provided by our strategic partners. We insist on our strategic partners living to our high standards of customer service.

3. Our products
3.1. Medical Insurance
Seven Columns (Private) Limited are the promoters of a self health insurance project called InvestMed Healthcare Fund. We are registered with the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (M.o.H.C.W.) to run a medical insurance company aimed at closing a gap that has been identified in the plus 1.1 million policyholders currently medically insured in Zimbabwe.
3.1 Online market exchange
Seven Columns (Private) Limited have engaged a technology company based in the British Columbia, Canada to develop an online Request for purchases (RFQ) programme. The product automates the sourcing of quotations by corporate buyers, thus reducing procurement time whilst promoting transparency.