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.
What’s with the coffee thing?
Right from when we were first in business, our work was fuelled by our unashamed coffee habit – and not just for its welcome inspirational qualities! Our business model has been to have lower financial risks, and be more flexible for clients and for our team members, by the simple expedient of not having business…
2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards
The Strangers’ Dining Room of Parliament House was the scene this week for the 2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards, which saw a fantastic variety of women recognised for their professional, personal and community endeavours. Women who had been nominated as a Local Women of the Year by their Member of NSW Parliament were…
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….
Is your organisation organised?
Before making organisational design decisions that will be productive and sustainable, enabling sound planning for the future, the organisation needs to be able to articulate its current state clearly. Already cringing? This is more than just consultant-speak or HR waffling: it is as simple as knowing where you are so you can work out…
Channel 9 Melbourne: ‘Cash lure’ for older workers
This report was the lead item on the Channel 9 6pm news bulletin in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The article drew on ThinkEvans research into the changing nature of working life, including the dramatic rise over the last decade in workforce participation by women 55-64 years. The ThinkEvans analysis looked at data from…
Good news, bad news … & 6 o’clock news
ThinkEvans’ research on the changing nature of working lives has had spawned discussion right around Australia this week – after an article on page 4 of the Sydney Morning Herald* on Tuesday, 10 April, quoting our research. (Read more about the research) Radio stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Perth interviewed Managing Director Carolyn…
Women vote with their feet to top up their super
Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall talk about how the changing nature of working life in Australia shows how women are rethinking super Women in the “transition to retirement years” are voting with their feet to top up their super. In the course of conducting research for our “Fair Enough?” report submitted recently to…
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…
(No) Coffee on the road … in Japan!
Congratulations to our long time office support chap, Alan, as he leaves today for a scholarship semester at the Hijiyama University in Hiroshima, Japan. Alan, who has more recently become our adviser on languages, will study several subjects to complete a major in Japanese language as part of his degree programme. The innovation of having…
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…
Coffee on the “road” … in Timor!
We really aren’t kidding about our whole coffee thing! This time around Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Creative Consultant Roslyn Hull have been experiencing the roads all around Timor Leste – no longer the most recent member of the United Nations but still awaiting their 10th anniversary of membership. Discovering “cafe Timor”, the local brew,…
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,…
Testing
Perhaps the biggest challenge for any writer is when they actually hear their words spoken by another – and the first time particularly so! So when Roslyn’s play The Test was chosen as one of the top 110 plays in the Sydney Short + Sweet Festival, we were all on the edge of our seats in sympathy…
The mystique of franchising holds past the (latest) GFC
Does franchising look more than ever to be the new black for small business? asks Tanya van der Wall and Carolyn Evans. Revisiting a paper developed originally for our client, the Australian Business Foundation, the team reviews signals that franchising is becoming a business model in itself, not just a vehicle for growth or a phase…
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…