Our Story

Who We Are

Founded in 1994, we draw on many years of innovation to provide leading services that help our clients accelerate the execution of their strategy and sustain results.

We focus on improving execution capability; often a gap between strategy development and product delivery.

We help our clients build the capability to:

Grow

Accelerate revenue growth; the largest contributor to value creation.

Digitise

New business models or creation of new products or services through digitisation and Artificial Intelligence.

Optimise

Effectiveness and efficiency of existing business and products/service delivery.

Many consider execution to be a greater challenge than generating ideas or preparing a strategy. We agree.
We believe that execution capability can be a competitive advantage for your business.

How We Got Here

Research and client needs led to three generations of innovation – governance focus for optimal portfolio management and Executive/Board advisory, delivery focus to address technology-enabled project challenges, and then a digital focus to optimally automate operations and customer services.


Our approach and tools have received global awards and recognition from academics and analysts.
Our highly experienced advisors practically support both Executive and delivery teams

Executive Teams

Board advisory

Executive and sponsor advisory
Portfolio and value optimisation

Business case optimisation 

Governance facilitation and Vendor oversight

Delivery Teams

Program Management
Operating Model Design
Business Process Simplification and Automation
Organisational Change
Product delivery sequencing

Our Guiding Principles

All our work is fast, fact-based and fad-free. Our guiding principles help align teams.

Outcomes > Outputs

Desired customer or business outcomes are understood to optimise the delivery of products and other outputs.

Capability > Capacity

Developing execution capability leaves a sustained uplift in practices, and is less expensive than increasing capacity.

Performance > Compliance

Better performance requires stronger capability since utilising standards provides no competitive advantage.

Change > Products

Outcome driven change programs that are governed to encourage and enable higher-cadence product delivery.  

Our Team Leaders

Our team leaders are distinguished by their repeated success through multiple organisations.

MATT DICKSON

Matt is an accomplished CIO and transformational leader with over 25 years of experience in driving change to deliver top-line growth and maximise technology investment.

Known as an authentic and passionate leader who has built high-performing teams at Metricon Homes, ERGO, Toll Group, Australia Post, AMP, ANZ, Telstra, and BHP.

Matt’s executive management experience extends across business and technology functions, both internally and as a consultant, covering strategy development and alignment of business and technology teams to program execution and operational excellence.

Skilled in leadership and management of large business transformation programs, including establishing new business products and functions enabled by technology, Program Assurance, managing financial risk, and IT turnarounds.

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Our Partners

Blue Ridge Partners

Blue Ridge Partners operates globally to help clients drive profitable top-line growth.  Clients include Fortune 500, middle market companies and over 130 private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Other Specialists

We work with a variety of specialists to complement and build our clients’ teams. We understand the importance of the right skills at the right time; to get it right the first time. These typically include industry or research parties, deep functional specialists, creative agencies, business software developers, and technology resource providers.