Benefits Assessment

Provide a process of how you can assess and plan benefits from programs and projects and then monitor their achievement during the development and implementation phases

Business and Operational Risk Assessment

Assistance with assessing risk and developing a process for undertaking this activity in your organisation. This may involve the recognition of a need for Business Continuity and Contingency Planning 

Feasibility Studies, and Business Cases

Review, develop or assist with studies or cases for your organisation which may include working with or establishing processes and templates for business cases.

Framework for Managing Strategic Initiatives

Develop a framework for your organisation to identify and launch strategic initiatives utilising portfolio and program management

Bid Management Services

Streamline, manage or advise of the process to develop bids or proposals to minimize the cost and disruption of bids and maximize the likelihood for success

Change Management Planning

Identify organisational environment, personnel and process impacts, design communication and education programs allowing change to be achieved in real terms.

Portfolio Planning and Management

Facilitate Portfolio Management and master control processes to ensure effective communication with the business and integrating business impact and benefit awareness at the highest levels.

Business Metrics and Controls

Review, identify and align the key performance indicators for the business from the strategic goals and vision to the individuals, and establish effective monitoring and control procedures.

Business Practice Reviews

Reviews business practices and operations across functional areas or business units to determine potential improvement as well as the degree of consistency of business practices across the organisation.

Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain

Assess strategic sourcing arrangements and opportunities (including outsourcing), supply chain principles and optimize work flow (to minimizing cost of goods on hand) through effective supply chain management.

Organisation Project management capability improvement

Planning the implementation of improved PM practices in the organisation. Review organisation maturity and align an appropriate competency model.

Develop Project Management methods, structures, culture and management controls suitable for the organisation

Project Management for Executives

Designed for Executives and Managers, this course provides an understanding of the benefits and approaches to using Project Management to achieve strategies, improvement or change within an organisation

Managing Risk in Business Decisions

The basic foundations of qualitative and quantitative risk management: - establishing a risk management process, planning and identifying risks, performing risk assessment, developing and implementing risk responses

Feasibility Studies and the Business Case

How to evaluate and justify a project: structure of a business case, business vs technical evaluation, quantitative cash flow methods, non-quantitative methods, specialist analysis tools, what-if (sensitivity) analysis

Making the IT Business Case

Covers the entire process involved in preparing a business case or feasibility study for an IT project, linking the technical justification to the expectations of the business users and executives who will approve it.

Bid and Proposal Management

How to plan for and deliver bids in a tight timeframe, roles and responsibilities in the bid team, commercial issues to be considered, risk analysis, proper costing of bids, and developing solutions that meet client needs

Client Management

How to work with Clients in win-win approach to ensure that Clients are satisfied with services or product delivered by the Supplier

Managing Supplier Relationships

Detailed coverage of complete procurement life cycle, from initiation to contract administration, including tendering process, contract development, negotiating and techniques for sharing risk with Suppliers

Establishing Effective Project Management Offices

Roles & responsibilities of Establishing, Managing and Leading Project Management Offices. tools and techniques including repository & framework, making changes to organisation culture, on-going development of PM practice, monitoring project portfolio

Developing Organisation Project Management Competency

Organisation PM maturity components, Project Governance, Organisation culture including learning, implementing suitable organisation model for managing projects

Managing Strategic Initiatives

Provide a Framework for Portfolio Management and Program Management that links Projects to Business strategy, Project selection and monitoring, Portfolio and Program Management tools & techniques including implementation issues.

Business Process Innovation

Using business process design and change to innovate the approach to business. Topics include background to processes, process architecture, templates and techniques for developing processes, implementing processes, practice workshops

Business Ethics and Policies

What are ethics in business and how do they relate to the organisation, key policies for the organisation, behaviours and professionalism in the workplace, business etiquette, cultural sensitivities and working with different cultures.

Knowledge Management

How to leverage knowledge within multi-location organisations.  Topics include explicit and tacit knowledge; intellectual property (IP); knowledge as networks; communities of practice; information repositories and systems; sponsorship and rewards, and how knowledge management is evolving in the 21^st century

�        Commissioned book “Byte into Project Management”, Tertiary Press due May 04 (CP, HA, JF)

�        Council Member on International Council for Project Management Advancement (CP)

�        Designed, established, managed and delivered Project Management Universities throughout Asia Pacific for Digital / Compaq (now Hewlett Packard). Now adopted on world-wide basis.(TQ)

�        Presenter at PMI and other Project Conferences in Australia or Singapore (TQ, HA, CP)

�        Teaching at Sydney University’s Masters of Project Management Course (CP, HA, JF)

�        Executive involvement with PMI Chapters and SIGs (CP, TQ, JF)

�        Presenter Enterprise Project Management Seminar, 2001, Program Management 2002, Portfolio Program and Project Integration 2003, Program Management 2004 (CP)

�        Presenter CPA Conferences, 2000 & 2001 (HA)

�        Member, Chartered Secretaries Professional Development Committee, 1999-2002 (HA)

�        Written various papers for publication in business journals (HA)

�        Conducted in-house workshops for managers (HA)

�        Establishment of a Bid Management Group for Australia Post NSW;

�        Consulting on requirements of enterprise project management systems in several industries;

�        Intrapower Saraburi Power Station Development (Thailand) for Transfield–Siemens Consortia;

�        Establishment of Project Management Offices for Road Services Association, Indonesian Software House, NSW State Government Department, Computer Equipment Distributor

�        Managed RFP bid, issue and selection process for major electronics and electrical goods manufacturer, Australia

�        Improved methods for managing external suppliers in division of large bank

�        Developed and implemented a model for assessing organisation maturity in PM

�        Developed improved process for management approval of projects

�        Justification and development of electronic banking software package project for large Australian Bank

�        Melbourne City Link for Transfield-Obayashi JV;

�        Maintenance Management Planning and Systems

�        Tantanoola Pulp Mill for consortium Transfield-Waagner Biro of Austria;

�        Australian marketing strategy development for US network software company, Network General

�        Strategic Plan for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar

�        Sydney 2000 Olympic Games for the Organising Committee

�        Review of CRM project for major Malaysian Bank

�        Review of project portfolio for NSW Government Department

�        Worked for several IT services companies to improve their management control processes

�        Review of IT strategy and organisation for a large University

�        Review of E-learning software project at Macquarie University, Sydney

�        Development of PM software and management processes for systems integration projects for major US computer hardware supplier