Client: Board of Directors, Grand Pacific Health Ltd As part of further implementing the merger of two previous Divisions of General Practice, review current Board and committee charters and related documents, and propose a body of governance documents for Board activities. A Board policy manual was approved by the Board 30 May 2013 and an…
Category: Client Activities
ThinkEvans is a boutique management consultancy – we do a particular type of work, and make to measure outcomes for each client. So we don’t have a process that we cut and paste a client into, nor do we work by a 10 slide pack that looks not a whole lot different from one client to the next.
That gives clients many benefits in terms of knowing that what we recommend is really for them and not just any organisation that we work with. You’ll see from the variety of clients, and diverse things we have addressed for them, that whatever question your organisation may have, we can find the answer.
And because we are grownups, if that answer would better come from somewhere else, not us, we’ll tell you that too.
Inside out strategic planning
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local (operated by Grand Pacific Health Ltd) Following on from our earlier survey, ThinkEvans is providing a different lens for leveraging the outcomes as a strategic planning case study.
Survey results yield strong strategic directions
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local After garnering more than 90 completed responses to the survey of professional development needs from those working in primary health care, ThinkEvans continues to collaborate with CCCGPTraining to develop strategic insights from the results.
Assessing professional development needs
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local As part of a collaboration with CCCGPTraining, ThinkEvans has launched a survey of primary health care providers in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven area, to gather evidence for assessing professional development needs of those working in primary health care.
Productivity and Fair Work final report released
Client: the Australian Business Foundation The NSW Business Chamber has published online the final report of the project Productivity and Fair Work, an independent project led by the Australian Business Foundation Engaged by the Australian Business Foundation, ThinkEvans undertook research and investigation into how the Fair Work system impacts the productivity of businesses in Australia….
Changing to grow
Client: Good Grief Ltd Assist the Board of Directors and senior team with the annual strategic planning cycle, including how to embrace new business models and developing an agreed set of outcomes for the next three years.
Fair Enough?
Client: the Australian Business Foundation The team at ThinkEvans has today submitted its research report entitled Fair Enough? Investigating Productivity & the Contribution of the Fair Work System. The report is the outcome of investigations conducted as part of a project by the Australian Business Foundation, Productivity and Fair Work. “After conducting nearly 70 interviews with…
Planning Horizons
Client: Institute of Sisters of Mercy in Australia As a final assistance to the Institute which has now folded into the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, we have provided the leadership team with an implementation plan for 2011-2015. This is the culmination of several years of work asssisting the…
Day Tours Revisited
Client: AAT Kings Australia 23 January 2012: The focus of this project was to refresh the reporting structure for those those involved in the day tours business for AAT Kings in the current business environment. In addition to desk research, a significant number of interviews with relevant staff members were conducted in the second half…
Fresh Horizons
Client: The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea was inaugurated today as the culmination of years of thought and consultation amongst 14 Congregations of Sisters of Mercy in Australian and the Autonomous Region of Papua New Guinea. After working with the Sisters on…
Is it Fair Enough?
Client: The Australian Business Foundation Fair Enough? A study of Australia’s productivity performance and the Fair Work system ThinkEvans has been retained by the Australian Business Foundation to investigate and report on Australia’s productivity performance. The particular focus of this independent study is the extent to which characteristics of the Fair Work System may promote or…
Future Balance
Client: Victoria Province of the Brigidine Sisters Planning the care and support of Brigidine Sisters in the Victoria Province to 2020 and beyond, including using demographic modelling. A report to the Province Leadership Team, Victoria Province of the Brigidine Sisters.
Sustainability: shaping the future as well as the now
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph The final report on a review of the sustainability of six not for profit enterprise operated under the auspices of the Congregation, including the application of a bespoke analytical framework and assessment methodology as the basis for advising on how to take these entities into the future….
Update JADHE* 3.1
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force JADHE* reporting is a synthesis of justice and discipline information that reflects the health and effectiveness of the military justice system of the Australian Defence Force. This edition is the report to the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force for the year ended 30 June 2011. The package includes analysis of…
Briefing on sustainable nonprofit enterprise
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Culminating a year of study and review of not for profit enterprise operating under the auspices of the Congregation, this presentation provided the analytical framework and assessment methodology for advising on how to take these entities into the future.
Preliminary sustainability briefing – Timor Leste
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Second preliminary briefing on sustaining projects in evolving circumstances – Timor Leste Following on the recent trip to Timor Leste to see first hand the projects under way there and assess the microeconomic climate for achieving sustainable capacity development, the team will make a preliminary…
A new category of travel
Client: Inspiring Journeys (part of AAT Kings in The Travel Corporation Group) Launched in February 2011, Inspiring Journeys is well on the way to becoming a leading tour operator in Australia, specialising in experiential touring with journeys that focus on discovery, exploration, learning by doing and relaxation. The ThinkEvans team has made a variety of strategic contributions…
Board challenges in nonprofit enterprise
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart A seminar was presented for over 70 board members from various not-for-profit enterprises working under the auspices of the Congregation. A variety of issues in good governance, board performance and succession planning will be addressed, in particular re-examining the purpose of the enterprise,…
Preliminary sustainability briefing – Peru
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart First preliminary briefing on sustaining projects in evolving circumstances – Peru Following on the recent visit to Peru to see first hand the projects under way there and assess the microeconomic climate for achieving sustainable capacity development, the team have made a preliminary debrief…
Sustaining projects in evolving circumstances
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Following on from series of papers developed for the NSW, SA, New Zealand, Queensland and Victoria Provinces to address issues of sustainability in institutional ministries, this work will now be extended to the works under the auspices of the Congregation.
Planning for major change
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia Following a decision to bring 15 Mercy congregations into a single religious institute, ThinkEvans will be developing a plan to bring the new organisation to fruition by late 2012. ThinkEvans core advice is that implementation should be the first year of a five year plan that…
Sustainability in nonprofit enterprise
Client: Provinces of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart A series of papers have been developed for the NSW, SA, New Zealand and Victoria Provinces, with Queensland now also under way, to address issues of sustainability in institutional ministries. These organisations are not-for-profit enterprises that work in education, aged care, community services…
JADHE* 2010 – measuring military justice
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force JADHE* v3.0 updates and extends the documentation of performance and outcomes of the military justice system in the Australian Defence Force, incorporating a descriptive status to provide “at a glance” summaries. *Justice And Discipline Health and Effectiveness
JADHE*: Extending military justice feedback
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force Adding Inquiries to the military feedback facility Extending the feedback facility for the Australian Defence Force military justice system, an additional element of the JADHE* project, was today added by ThinkEvans. This element allows Defence personnel and others involved in Commissions of Inquiry to provide feedback on…
Military justice feedback facility extension
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force As part of the JADHE* project, the online facility by which Defence personnel can provide their feedback on military justice processes has now been extended to encompass inquiry processes. Already open to all personnel who have experienced either a trial or a complaints process, the facility has…
Pioneering the next 100 years
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart The paper was presented as a seminar at a national gathering of the Congregation and Provincial Leadership groups in April 2010. Following an earlier paper in April 2009, this session was prepared to assist the national leadership group of the Sisters of St…