Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Our confidential logistics project -involving a significant series of detailed functional reviews and the associated labour standards – has motored on to a new series of activities in the first half of 2022. Even as the world is trying to “learn to live with COVID”, keeping a keen eye…
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Corona coffee: back to the future
Deep into the Delta wave of COVID-19 – which for those of us in Sydney means pretty hard core lockdown – we’ve run out of interesting new craft projects to fill in the hours, so are reduced to doing the long-overdue filing, and cleaning out the bottom drawer of the office cupboards. Sad stuff really,…
Best of basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Our confidential logistics project -involving a significant series of detailed functional reviews and the associated labour standards – is now set for the first half of 2021. In a world of such COVID-induced uncertainty, we are delighted to be able to provide strong foundations for this client.
Building on the basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd As the coronavirus continues to richochet around the world, in second and third waves, spot fires, and a scramble for a vaccine, the opportunity to address the fundamentals of better work process for our key logistics client also continues. Taking great care to comply with all government requirements, that…
Back to basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd As we saw in the 2008 GFC, the presence of a global impact on business tends to focus the mind – particularly those of board members and senior executives – on how to deal with the fallout. Then we saw a huge surge in our business as boards tried…
Once more with feeling
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Harking back to the early career of our Technical Director, Glenn Evans, as an aeronautical engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force, he will be the lead contributor from ThinkEvans in this collaborative work with other former RAAF colleagues at Hadrian Logistics Solutions. The confidential project involves a significant…
Sabbatical postcard – no time to wish for coffee
A self-confessed cynic about process improvement, which too often fails from want of a clear objective, I am delighted to report a customer service experience that seems to shine as an exception. It was so fast and efficient there was no time to wish for a coffee while waiting in line for service! The early indications…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Coffee on the road … somewhere in Peru!
When we say we are multi-lingual in coffee, we really mean it! The latest item in our repertoire came from two weeks in Peru for Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Principal Consultant Tanya van der Wall, on the road for one of our not-for-profit clients. Putting their bodies on the line for the team, they…
Inside the Innovation Matrix
Client: the Australian Business Foundation Subtitled ‘finding the hidden human dimensions’, this book is a compendium of expert papers from academics and business leaders that probe into the process of innovation to better understand the intricacies involved. Carolyn Evans, Managing Director of ThinkEvans, led this project on behalf of our client, the Australian Business Foundation….