Project Management

Most projects will fit within a small number of fundamental phases:

• Identify objectives.
• Determine business requirements.
• Budgeting and implementation planning (including risk and quality requirements).
• Approvals.
• Formation of the delivery team
• Delivery, tracking and reporting.
• Completion, sign off and handover.

CB Consult specialise in the planning of complex whole of business projects, their coordination and delivery.

Our experience in working on a range of projects from the design and fit out of commercial office and warehouse space, through to the establishment of new private businesses and entire divisions within international Corporations means we have the breadth to develop and implement a solution that is appropriate and cost effective for the size and complexity of your business.

Our approach is to scope and agree each project into a series of distinct stages. This will typically involve an initial requirements gathering and development of an overall project plan, followed by a reduced, even part-time presence throughout the project as permanent staff are able to be put in place.

This approach reduces the overall project cost, transfers ownership as quickly as possible and enables your staff to become fully engaged with project process and outcomes. CB Consult often engage in on the job coaching to bridge skills gaps with your staff during a project, so your future reliance on external support is also reduced.

Interim Business Management

The majority of organisations, be they private, government or not-for-profit bodies are generally unable to employ specialist executives across every department.

As a result a range of value added projects are left unattended as staff focus on the demands of the current operations. The result can be a reduction in business performance, but most usually significant commercial or operational potential remains unfulfilled.

CB Consult was established to bridge this gap and provide your organisation with access to skilled management resources for defined requirements and periods, reducing overall costs and adding maximum value.
Additional services include a 1:1 business coaching facility with an at call advisory service.

Strategic and Operational Planning

For a fixed fee, CB Consult can:

• Compile market research including identification of strategiccompetitive threats, develop detailed or long term business strategies with appropriate implementation plans.
• Complete an operational due diligence for shareholder reporting or acquisition requirements.
• Complete management performance appraisal and reporting.
• Develop business performance management and reporting systems as part of an integrated KPI management system

We have found over a number of years that significant commercial and operational benefits are generated from even the simplest strategic and marketing plans, as management and staff are able to readily align their conversations, actions and decisions to a single set of outcomes.

Customer contact is also enhanced as you and your staff are able to relate a single, clear and consistent purpose and message about your business all year round.

Business Start Up

We have experience in the building of local, national and international businesses ranging from private companies with turnover of less than $1m to the launch of national and international airlines with multi million dollar budgets.

CB Consult can develop complete business plans, budgets and project plans, support your management team during roll out or directly manage the implementation phases.

By utilising our resources only as needed and in varying amounts during the development and launch process, costs can be more easily controlled and workload is able to be dynamically transferred to permanent staff at the most appropriate times.

Transition and Change Management

Our Transition and Change Management services can take the following forms:

• Review and development of employee engagement strategies.
• Development of business transition plans where operations are relocating or undergoing restructuring.
• Integration of acquisitions, mergers and management of the divestment process for both capital assets and staff.

These services are focused to ensure staff attrition through necessary business change is minimised, productivity is maintained and staff are engaged with your evolving business, maintaining or even building on your competitiveness advantages.

We have extensive experience in the development and implementation of change management programs in complex and dynamic businesses including; Qantas Airways, Optus Communications and NRMA Insurance.

CB Consult are able to work with you to design and deliver a range of team building and change management workshops that can be run prior, during and as follow up exercises after the project to ensure ongoing success.

Implementation Planning and Delivery

Key to the success of every business plan or strategic initiative is its ability to be cost effectively implemented into your organisation.

Larger consulting firms will develop significant packages of research and recommend any number of approaches for you and your staff to wrestle with over the following months or even years.
For all of our services, CB Consult iteratively develop business plans and solutions with you, working in your business, so you finish with the one solution you need to take your business forward with appropriate management support through the implementation process.
CB Consult can also step in to support the roll out of strategies which have already been developed.