These project summaries will give you a feel for how we have helped agencies resolve complex issues in order to deliver initiatives and enable organisational change.
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Strategic
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Projects
Commissioning consultancy projects
Successful consultancy projects and new initiatives rely on specific and realistic outcomes being clearly specified in Terms of Reference or other commissioning documents. Where the nature of some assignments mean outcomes cannot be clearly specified at the outset, a different approach is needed. Time pressure and capability gaps can mean a lack of focus at the beginning of external consultancy assignments can lead to sub-optimal outcomes or project failure. Read More
Establishing a framework for negotiating CEAs
Collective Employment Agreements (CEAs) are the single biggest determinant of costs in most departments or government agencies. It is therefore critical that the executive leadership team participates in the decision-making process around pay rates, terms and conditions. Read More
Mitigating the financial impacts of COVID-19
In a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for some services may drop. Public sector organisations which charge fees or levies for those services can find themselves short of funds. We were asked by a Crown Entity which relies on levies for nearly all of its funding to estimate the impact of COVID-19 and to develop mitigation options. Read More
Organisational change
Providing advice to Ministers on possible reconfigurations of an existing Crown-owned organisation requires robust identification of options, analysis and assessment. We were asked to estimate and compare the transitional and operating costs of proposed options to re-configure two business groups. Read More