Practical advisors, not suits, who are driven to deliver real results for your business.
Good advice means nothing if it never leaves the whiteboard. We work alongside you to put ideas into practice in your business, not just hand over a plan and walk away.
Many advisory firms stop at the advice part, hand over a report, and leave. We hold everyone accountable for delivering results, including the business owner, not to judge anyone but because getting it done is what actually moves the business forward.
Plans and processes only go so far. In the end it is people who get the job done, and great people do their best work when they know what matters and why.
We help you get clear on the things that really drive your business, share that with your team and give them real ownership of it. The result is a team that thinks for itself, holds itself to a high standard and does not need to be chased.
After Delta separated from Aurora, a member of the collective reviewed its stalled ERP project and then stayed on for two years to lead the technology function. This included a technology transformation that replaced SAP with NetSuite ERP and NextService Mobility for 350 field workers, covering scheduling, project management, performance monitoring and billing. The programme also delivered a new payroll system, Boomi integration, a move to Office 365, new networks across 12 sites and a refreshed managed services model. ICT governance was put in place so the team could keep delivering good service once the projects were finished.
A member of the collective researched and presented the business case for a new human resources management information system, which the board approved. This was followed by project management of the SAP SuccessFactors rollout (Project Soar), replacing an internally built system that had been in place for 20 years. The work also included the case for digitising bedside patient records, cloud migration plans for South Island DHBs, and helping the IT team adopt the Prosci change management framework by assessing five live projects and piloting it on two.
BPAC is a Dunedin based clinical software company with global ambitions. A member of the collective stepped in as interim COO and supported a restructure, a product strategy review, sales team development and customer research to prepare the business for growth overseas. The company had outsourced IT infrastructure in three countries with three different suppliers. After researching the options and running a discovery of their workloads with Microsoft and a leading provider, the recommendation was to move to Azure. The forecast saving was over $400,000 and the board approved the project. The engagement also covered the scoping and implementation of a digital patient referral solution linking primary and secondary care.
Over five years a member of the collective led a series of engagements for ORC.
Pioneer’s board endorsed a restructure so investors could invest in any one of three companies, Pioneer Energy Renewables, Pioneer Energy Group or Ecogas. A member of the collective ran Project Heifer from April to July 2024, coordinating 64 tasks across 12 business groups including contracts, finance, governance, people and IT. The work delivered the charter, stakeholder analysis, communications plan and change impact assessment, with reporting to the steering committee through to closure.
Working alongside Datacom, a member of the collective ran design-thinking workshops to map agents’ and farmers’ journeys. The project team then recommended a simpler architecture and a mobile app that moved information to farmers and captured their responses back into SFF systems. It went live nationwide, now serves 17,000 customers, grew into a $2m+ programme and earned a Microsoft innovation award.
A member of the collective delivered a digital strategy for the Otago Daily Times publisher that brought marketing automation and CRM together so data from every advertising channel could be put to use. The work also included a new subscriber CRM with a digital paywall, newspaper distribution planning, and selecting a new network supplier.
A member of the collective carried out a COBIT-based maturity assessment of the Digital Services function, delivering findings, an improvement plan, and an assessment tool so the team could track progress over time.
Prosser Communications is a leading New Zealand tender and bid specialist that helps civil contractors and other organisations in New Zealand and overseas win work and deliver it. A member of the collective is leading a business development programme to grow its client base and incomes.
Good advisory work comes down to mutual respect and genuinely getting on, not just capability. One conversation is usually enough to work out whether we're a good fit for each other.
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