Diagnosis
and resolution of business issues and problems so that clients
can realise greater efficiencies in their organisation and increase profits:
Accountability
management.
HR
solutions.
Recent consultancies include:
Business process review for buoy mooring and tidal works processes for Maritime Safety Queensland (Brisbane region).
Designed and developed accountability maps for the Executive Team of the Department of Mines and Energy.
Development of integrated performance dashboard for the Human Resource Branch of Queensland Transport to enable enhanced monitoring of business plan effectiveness and performance.
Designed and developed accountability
maps for the Executive Team of Information Directorate in Queensland
Health resulting in their incorporation into the performance agreements
of the executives concerned.
Developed,
negotiated and implemented a programme of activities for strengthening
human working relationships across Workshops Group of QR resulting
in enhanced collaboration across the Group.
Assessed
the strategic and operational performance of the Mt Isa Rail Corridor
for QR resulting in an approved action plan that when implemented
achieved improvements in on-time performance, reduced derailments
and increased profitability for the corridor.
Client comments include:
"Astute Consultants' business performance management skills and experience coupled with their relationship skills allowed us to conceptualise a reporting framework, develop the key performance indicators for our business, analyse the relevant data and develop a simple, elegant, pragmatic and useful reporting scorecard."
"We needed someone to critically analyse our operation. Astute did that from a number of dimensions. They reviewed the strategic, operational, business efficiency and relationship effectiveness of our operation. The recommendations of the project were all approved. Astute provided a significant value-add by helping us implement some of the key recommendations. I can honestly say that we saw the performance of the corridor improve within months."