Efficiency and Effectiveness

Our Local Government team can assist your organisation with its Efficiency and Effectiveness in areas including sustainability, capital and operating expenditure, management reporting, performance improvement, change management and managing your infrastructure assets.

Sustainability and Climate Change

  • Are you aware of the benefits obtained performance and how can you identify
  • Have you determined the key climate
  • Do you know where to start when developing
  • Once you have established your carbon and become carbon neutral?
  • Do you know how to maximise the opportunities
  • Do you know how to accurately reflect financial accounts?
Sustainability and climate change continue for council planning requirements. For more information on Climate Change Services click here

Projects, Capex and Opex
  • Are you looking to improve the delivery of your capital works programme?
  • Is your procurement process as effective as it could be?
  • How do you gain comfort that your projects will be delivered on time and on budget?
  • Does your board have comfort that you manage your expenditure efficiently?
  • Do you have a process of ensuring your projects have delivered all the benefits promised?
Improving performance in the delivery of projects is an ongoing issue for councils. For more information on improving performance in the delivery of projects click here

Management Reporting
  • Are you maximising the benefits of synergies between your internal and external reporting processes?
  • Do your reports meaningfully integrate the financial and non financial elements?
  • Does the effort you put into producing your reports match your needs?
  • Are you looking for ways to effectively measure and report on your community outcomes?
Internal and external reporting requirements are often separately managed and accordingly lack the benefits of integration. For more information on Management Reporting click here

Performance Management and Improvement
  • How can you be sure that your costs and services are effective?
  • Are you organised appropriately to deliver on your commitments?
  • Does accountability for performance go right across your organisation?
  • Do your people, structure, processes and systems align with your strategy?
  • Is there a better way to manage your supply chain?
Continuously improving the effectiveness of an organisation is a bottom line chief executive requirement. For more information on Performance Management and Improvement click here

System and Process Management
  • Do you know how to develop an effective IT strategy?
  • Is your IT infrastructure effective and does it deliver value for money?
  • Are you confident that your IT systems are secure?
  • Do you have a process to ensure your IT projects deliver all the benefits promised?
Keeping up with the rapid and ongoing changes in technology creates a challenging environment within which to plan, develop and implement IT strategy effectively. For more information on System and Process Management click here

Human Resources and Change Management
  • Do you know how to develop an effective HR strategy?
  • If you need to transform the organisation, do you know if you have the best change management strategies in place?
  • Are you attracting and retaining staff with the right skills?
  • Do you have the right number of people with the right skills for the job?
  • Do you want to maximise the leadership capability of your management team?
Low unemployment is forcing organisations to continually seek ways to maximise the effectiveness of their key business asset, their people. For more information on Human Resources and Change Management click here

Asset Management - Infrastructure
  • Do your asset management plans provide the right type of information to
  • make decisions around replacement, disposal or retention?
  • Are you confident you have the optimal level of assets in your portfolio?
  • Are you making the most of your assets to improve your funding and financing plans?
  • Are you confident you are properly managing all the risks associated with construction projects?
Legislation in recent years has embedded best practice requirements around the appropriate management of assets throughout their lifecycle. For more information on Asset Management click here


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