The Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) is a non-governmental organisation that mobilises transdisciplinary skills for specific research and capacity development projects by tapping available expertise in the national and international higher education sector. CHET coordinates a network of higher education researchers and provides a forum for dialogue between the different structures, stakeholders and constituencies in higher education. A non-hierarchical, flexible management style combined with modern information technology and outsourcing expertise within academia and steering committees affords CHET the unique capacity to respond to higher education needs with only a limited number of full-time staff.