Strategic Thinking

Is your management team loyal and hardworking, operating with the best of intentions but so tied up with today that they fail to plan strategically for tomorrow? This is a very common leadership problem – the failure to provide strategic leadership, and to create and communicate a future Vision for the organisation. Read more...

Improved Planning and Managing Risk

Too many organisations, both public and private, still pay lip service to the development of integrated strategic and business plans, tested by an ongoing strategic and operational risk management process that produces continuous improvement and guarantees a sophisticated level of corporate governance. Read more...

Leadership: The Missing Link

Modern management and corporate governance require levels of leadership far beyond what is being practiced in most organisations - both in the public sector and in the private sector. Too often, we are led by super clerks who have grown by seniority alone into higher level managers. There is a vital, missing link, and that link is Leadership. Read more...

Managing Strategic & Operational Risk

Managing risks is an integral part of the management-leadership requirement for effective corporate governance. Risk management will improve your bottom line and can be implemented cost effectively across the whole organisation.

Our strategic and operational risk management program is based on the Australian/New Zealand Risk Management Standard 4360, which has been around since the early 1990s. We have improved it, strengthened it, added a monitoring and reporting program based on an Unacceptable Risk Register and have implemented it in Australian, Malaysian, Singaporean and Hong Kong companies. Read more...

The Simplicity of Objective, Strategy & Action

Planning is the primary contributor to good corporate governance and it is a fundamental building block upon which the organisation's success depends. Keep the plan flexible, simple and practical. The effective plan changes with the environment.

There are many planning methods and terms. Planning can be done at a corporate, usually strategic, level or lower, by business unit, department, division, branch, or work area. It can focus on marketing, operations or the whole organisation. Read more...

Family Business & Succession

Corporate governance issues and the role of the Board are complex, critical and often very difficult when the company is owned by a family and moves from one generation to the next. The successful transition through generations, from founder to siblings and on to cousin consortia can be successfully managed and governance established by some simple structures. Read more...